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by milesf 12y ago
I met Ezra back at RailsConf (2007) after a talk he gave. Scary smart, yet friendly and humble. The man left us way too soon.
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Ezra Zygmuntowicz has died
429 points by milesf 12y ago|69 comments
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by milesf 12y ago
What I've found to be much more successful are weekly Hack Nights. I gave a talk about it earlier this year: http://confreaks.com/videos/4140-cascadiaruby2014-cloning-th...
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by milesf 12y ago
Having wrestled with severe depression for many years, I've learned a few things. 1) There is hope! Don't give up. 2) Many people will not understand. That's okay. 3) Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) works. It's hard w
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by milesf 12y ago
Roads connect me to the entire world, just like the Internet. When I arrive at a destination, it is a separate dwelling than all the other dwellings. Make sense?
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by milesf 12y ago
Could the new team please review and censor some of the unquestionably evil subreddits? (ie: brutalizing women, dead babies, animal sex, etc). There's just no reason whatsoever such places ought to exist. Out of conscience, I chose to
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by milesf 12y ago
Fine. Let him take the credit. It's probably going to take the power of the Oval Office to make sure it sticks. The Internet has become too important to allow corporations to hijack it.
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The Best Investment Advice You'll Never Get (2008)(modernluxury.com)
151 points by milesf 12y ago|124 comments
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Aether: Anonymous, Open-Source, Uncensorable, Peer-to-Peer Forums(getaether.net)
2 points by milesf 12y ago|0 comments
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The Real Cyborgs: Should we stop them or join them?(s.telegraph.co.uk)
5 points by milesf 12y ago|0 comments
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Is WordPress Over the Hill?(evermo.re)
1 points by milesf 12y ago|0 comments
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by milesf 12y ago
Hmm. I've never heard of drweb.com before, and there's no instructions on how to detect the worm, but they want to sell me anti-virus software. This might be legit, but I'll wait and see if this appears anywhere else before I
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Bash should only evaluate environment functions with a flag(twitter.com)
1 points by milesf 12y ago|0 comments
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by milesf 12y ago
Narratives. Stories. Parables. Why are we all drawn to these? It kind of weird, isn't it? I've learned that an audience tends to have about a 10 minute attention span. To snap people out of drifting off, just tell a quick story, a
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by milesf 12y ago
The takedown notice is here: https://github.com/github/dmca/blob/master/2014-09-05-CraftB... Did Notch do this? EDIT: Apparently Wesley Wolfe did http://games.slashdot.org/story/14&#
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CraftBukkit Taken Down from GitHub Using DMCA(github.com)
2 points by milesf 12y ago|2 comments
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by milesf 12y ago
Hey, why don't they call it the Kin? Or PocketPC? </sarcasm>
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by milesf 12y ago
Let's just call it what it is: abuse. One of the most brilliant coders I've ever met had this to say: Dan Kubb: This is exactly what burned me out on DataMapper, ROM and other OSS projects. ~2 years later I still haven&#
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On OSS and the Individual(shk.io)
1 points by milesf 12y ago|1 comments
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by milesf 12y ago
The title of this post is lost on me. What's so painful about this discussion? It's not that I'm stupid, it's just that I'm ignorant and don't know.
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by milesf 12y ago
If I ever considered a transition into cryptography, this story just blew that idea up for me, forever. I can't imagine trying to solve this! You'd have to love puzzles with an insatiable appetite to endure this. Good job, team.
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Germany intercepts Hillary Clinton phone call(rt.com)
2 points by milesf 12y ago|0 comments
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How Animated Gif Selfies Fixed Our Team’s Morale(threechords.org)
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by milesf 12y ago
My advice will likely be laughed at, but I chose to follow Jesus Christ. Start with the Book of John. I'm 45 now, and have been following him since age 20. I have friends who are millionaires, and one who is close to a billionaire. I d
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by milesf 12y ago
I've mostly observed that in technical circles (ie: Vim vs Emacs vs flavour of the month). I don't think it's a religion thing. I think it's a people thing.
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by milesf 12y ago
Heh. No :) Remember that my main point here was simply an experience I had facing suicidal. I came to faith in Christ back in my early 20's after thrashing and lashing out severely at many different faiths. My illness came to bear back
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by milesf 12y ago
Uh... yeah. Jesus Christ has been mischaracterized as someone who talks exclusively about peace and love, yet the most terrifying words (I think) ever written are in the seventh chapter of the Book of Matthew. Here's a snippet: https:
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by milesf 12y ago
Agreed, which is why it is referred to as faith. I have examined the evidence surrounding the Christian claim that Jesus Christ was and is God and that He rose from the dead, but that does not constitute proof. It is, however, evidence and
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by milesf 12y ago
If I had believed what you are saying, I'd be dead. Would not have been worth pushing through what I went through. Just sayin'.
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by milesf 12y ago
Yeah, but how many folk tales do you know of have our calendar measured after the life of one man? 2014 AD or more fully "Anno Domini Nostri Iesu Christi". How many of those tales give you a single point of failure, that if you ca

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