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by mekoka 14y ago
The one thing that puzzles me above anything else about this whole thing is: "Linode uses ColdFusion". I mean, you have this Linux company that's pretty much an open source champion to us Linux guys and then... Adobe ColdFusion. Really? I k
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by mekoka 14y ago
I agree with questioning their choice of ColdFusion, but I have some reserves about your proposed alternative to use Django. I don't know how secure Django is, but I know it's big. And my perception is generally that anything that big is bo
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by mekoka 14y ago
It's not for them, it's for users. It helps to know which of your CCs is going to be charged.
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by mekoka 14y ago
You seem to be making some assumptions based solely on the fact that the author didn't like the sales people he was working with. He never elaborated on the reasons. But I can foresee many. For instance, it is possible that the culture in t
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by mekoka 14y ago
I can agree with him on that specific point, but beyond that there's the issue of people he calls pseudo-scientists (who are actual scientists that do actual academic research on the topic), that are linking degenerative diseases and grain
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by mekoka 14y ago
The diet represents a significant change in my eating habits. I would have to look really hard to find a different cause. I significantly reduced bread, rice, potatoes, pasta, legumes in the last 2 weeks. That's extremely unusual for me. In
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by mekoka 14y ago
>> You're getting all this the wrong way round. When people make claims that stuff we've been eating for thousands of years (bread, cereals, grains etc.) are actually really bad for us, the burden of proof is on them. I'm not sure i
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by mekoka 14y ago
Disclaimer: I started reading on the paleo diet about a month ago, after friends recommended it as a support for my strength & conditioning routines. I've been loosely following the guidelines for the past 2 weeks. I do see an improveme
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by mekoka 14y ago
Interesting approach. I first learned Flask, built a small project with it, then later took the time to get familiar with wsgi. I don't feel that I missed out. My first project didn't use any middleware, but was easy to understand and maint
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by mekoka 14y ago
Saying that he's out of line or amoral implies that you have an intimate understanding of the situation and that you've weighted that he doesn't have the moral grounds for doing this, which you might agree is disputable. In my opinion, the
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by mekoka 14y ago
Second: the buck stops at the top. Testing procedures should have caught the bug long before being seen in the wild so apparently linux still has some catching up to do there and that's a lesson that Linus should be learning here rather th
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Ask HN: Where are all my saved stories?
2 points by mekoka 14y ago|1 comments
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by mekoka 14y ago
So, does this mean I can register an account on Math StackExchange and ask for help with an alias, which is possibly a fellow student's actual name and that person will be penalized for my cheating?
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by mekoka 14y ago
I've used kde and Gnome on ubuntu since 7.04. When Miguel de Icaza wrote his piece on the death of desktop Linux a few months ago, discussions on Unity as the "doom" of Ubuntu crept back up and I got curious about it enough to give it a try
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by mekoka 14y ago
I'm not complaining on the use of the ampersand, but unlike many people seem to believe, it's not semantically equivalent to "and". Beyond just joining two items in a phrase, the ampersand marks an association between them and emphasizes it
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by mekoka 14y ago
Thanks for this post, there were some nice tips in there. Although, I do have some nitpicking about your writing style. Maybe it's just me, but I found that your use of "+ve" instead of just saying "positive" and of "&" instead of "and"
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Shepard tone(en.wikipedia.org)
99 points by mekoka 14y ago|34 comments
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by mekoka 14y ago
Every couple of months, I recharge my Themeforest account (html templates), as well as my Moniker's (domain names). I pay and they credit my account, which makes it easier to buy goods, without the hassle of a payment process. The thing is,
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by mekoka 14y ago
I think I (sorta) understand your reasoning, but it doesn't make much sense to me. When I write some application that makes it easier for my clients to do some previously complex tasks and I ask them to tip me, I don't expect them to tell m
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by mekoka 14y ago
As people from various backgrounds get the opportunity to mingle, some obviously have a hard time with how to handle these encounters. They harbour an uneasiness when faced with the differences based on some false assumptions that they've m
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by mekoka 14y ago
I've been using it for 5 years. When I install a program via apt-get, it does ask for my permission to install certain dependencies. At which point I just have to say yes or no and it will proceed or abort. I don't see how that's a proble
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by mekoka 14y ago
I agree, maybe OP should have just posted this thread instead. After reading this I'm wondering if Miguel de Icaza is not in fact equating Gnome to Linux Desktop . One may be dying, doesn't have to mean that the other will follow suit.
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by mekoka 14y ago
> I think Canonical had a chance to make a real impact here but they essentially blew it. I keep seeing claims being made, and mostly by (former?) Linux superusers, that Canonical and Ubuntu are "doomed". Could someone point me to som
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by mekoka 14y ago
You're one user. I've been using the same System76 laptop at work and at home for 3+ years. Still works flawlessly (fn keys and all).
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by mekoka 14y ago
I wouldn't say that it usually means, but rather that it could mean "Yes, but later". Usually , "No" means "No".
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David Foster Wallace's Kenyon College commencement address (2005)(moreintelligentlife.com)
1 points by mekoka 14y ago|0 comments
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by mekoka 14y ago
Rather off-topic, but why is the module's name "Queue" and not "queue"? That kind of things just rubs me the wrong way.
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by mekoka 14y ago
From all the cities I've been to I can only remember 1 or 2 that approximately fit the description and then again, only at a certain time of the day. In most others, the goal of a public transit service is to get you to destination eventua
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by mekoka 14y ago
> Not until we can push data across distances faster than the speed of light. Ok, how is that possible? I genuinely am curious about the science. Feel free to provide links.
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by mekoka 14y ago
An important aspect when using stories to convey lessons, whether they'd be true or fictional, is to stay faithful to patterns grounded in reality, not simply theory. That usually requires a solid life experience or at the very least some c

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