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by mcmatterson 14y ago
I fear michael may be misunderstanding the depth / underlying intent / happy follow-on effects from the app.net proposal. I don't see it as a 'better Twitter' so much as I see it as an app-friendly social network touchpoint, basically OpenF
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by mcmatterson 14y ago
This article is depressingly spot on. What worries me most is an inability to set Nortel aside in the ongoing historical narrative of tech in this country. The seemingly inevitable decline of RIM may well put us over a tipping point in this
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by mcmatterson 14y ago
'Speed' is a good enough answer. I was mostly wondering if there was some fundamental difference that I wasn't seeing, or if it was just a better/faster implementation of the same thing.
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by mcmatterson 14y ago
I fail to see how this is different than virtual bridges (ie: br n interfaces in linux). Such interfaces exist within the host OS in a virtualized environment, support 802.1q trunks, and exhibit quite a lot of flexibility. They're also fas
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by mcmatterson 14y ago
This is already a busy topic, and this is as good of a chance as I'll have to get something off my chest, so here goes... There's an obsession verging on dogma in much of the hacker world that rationality is the only path to correct action;
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by mcmatterson 14y ago
I don't even pretend to understand what you're getting at with your second paragraph, and since this is HN and not reddit, I'll give you the benefit of the doubt that you mean no harm. That being said, I might caution you to choose your wor
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by mcmatterson 14y ago
As a parent of a child who was born with a near-fatal congenital disorder (malignant sacrococcygeal teratoma), I can attest that the decision to try for #2 is a difficult one that we're still wrestling with. On the one hand ours was a one-
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by mcmatterson 14y ago
You'll notice that later on my comment I said 'I'm not going to say you're objectively wrong on this'. I'm not begrudging the OP his/her opinion, I'm simply saying that without the mental reset that is parenthood, the OP simply does not hav
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by mcmatterson 14y ago
Balls to this. As your sibling commenter says, you simply don't get to pass judgement on this if you haven't had a child of your own. Sure, we're programmed to behave with an otherwise inexcusable amount of irrationality with our kids, but
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by mcmatterson 14y ago
It's shit like this, Apple. Sure, the cutesy "tee hee, aren't I clever" routine was cute when Siri first came along, but now that we're past that and moving into the real world of real use, Apple's self-serving editorialism undermines the w
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by mcmatterson 15y ago
Having just come off multiple months of our daughter being in the hospital in some very grim (at the time) circumstances, I can say that while visits from celebrities are many, visits from celebrities that actually care are few. I would hav
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by mcmatterson 15y ago
This is so wrong, I don't even know where to begin. The _entire_ point of URLs is that they're just that -- Universal. Requiring a specific application in order to consume a URL is just as asinine as User Agent sniffing to enforce an 'IE On
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Ask HN: Any experience with / opinions on the Titanium Mobile Platform?(appcelerator.com)
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by mcmatterson 16y ago
I highly recommend Charles Petzold's 'Code'. I originally bought it for my father, but soon ended up reading it myself cover to cover. It fills a lot of blanks in in my understanding; blanks that were also glossed over in my education as we
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by mcmatterson 16y ago
An excellent discussion about this exact topic came through HN yesterday. See http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2183415 , and in particular the comments.
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by mcmatterson 16y ago
Interesting -- I did not know about this one. Looks like it was implemented in OpenSSH 5.4, which isn't yet in Ubuntu LTS or OS X (the two environments where I spend most of my days), so it may be a little bleeding edge for general use ju
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by mcmatterson 16y ago
Small point: the syntax of .ssh/config doesn't use equal signs; the actual format of that stanza would be Host example.com User someweirduser Another subtle point about SSH config -- only the first matching entry (in top-to-bottom
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by mcmatterson 16y ago
As promised: http://www.longbeard.org/2011/02/05/Montell-Jordan-Has-Nuthi...
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by mcmatterson 16y ago
For reasons others on this thread have outlined, ControlMaster is often more trouble than it's worth for general-purpose SSH usage. However for use in automated tools, it's a lifesaver. I use it extensively in doo for that exact reason: ht
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by mcmatterson 16y ago
The key is in the name: agent -forwarding. ssh doesn't pass the key itself through to onward connections, it passes a connection to your local ssh-agent instead. ssh (the command) can access the material in your private keys in one of two
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by mcmatterson 16y ago
Shame on me for not reading that section in closer detail. The -t method of forwarding SSH through has a number of limitations, and isn't really the golden path for getting past gateway servers. What you instead want to do is add the follow
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by mcmatterson 16y ago
Good article overall, but there is one major problem with the section on public-key auth; it's rarely a good idea to use blank pass phrases on your private keys, for two good reasons: 1. The security implications. Without a passphrase, anyo
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by mcmatterson 16y ago
Oops, my bad. I mistakenly thought the 'db error' notice was for today. I retract the 'very' in my original parent comment, replacing it with 'usually'.
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by mcmatterson 16y ago
In future, they keep a very up-to-date status page at http://status.github.com/
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by mcmatterson 16y ago
I maintain a list of the apps I use (and a list of must not use apps) at http://www.longbeard.org/static/macapps.html
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by mcmatterson 16y ago
We wrote and use minicap ( https://github.com/well/minicap ) to help with this. The problem with capistrano is that it tries to abstract a bit too much of the underlying project and deployment environment away. minicap aims to fix that by p
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Git + capistrano + shorewall = filewall(longbeard.org)
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Tooling Impedance(longbeard.org)
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