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901.
by mnutt 15y ago
Yeah, I love nginx and its syntax is great for the most part but it's easy to fall into the trap of thinking that you're writing in a turing-complete language. Something as simple as using multiple conditions in an if statement and redirec
902.
by mnutt 15y ago
I'm only aware of php and javascript equating 0 to false. But at any rate in this case it's not equating 0 to false, it's comparing non-zero to zero and returning true. (as it should)
903.
by mnutt 15y ago
Maybe it's just coming from a dynamic language, but it appears that you've overridden the bool operators to always return true. (except when you pass in 0 and 0.0) If you redefine how two structs of different kinds are compared, who is the
904.
by mnutt 15y ago
I found that Meet Emacs from the PeepCode series was pretty good, and takes you a bit further than just the absolute basics. He also has a nice fork of emacs-starter-kit on Github. http://peepcode.com/products/meet-emacs
905.
by mnutt 15y ago
Depending on how secure you want to be, the existence of encrypted/non-encrypted information reveals things as well. Someone could infer something by just knowing that you turned on OTR at a certain time.
906.
by mnutt 15y ago
How about evented frameworks like Tornado (python) or Goliath (ruby)?
907.
LimeWire Founder Settles with Record Labels for $105M(online.wsj.com)
4 points by mnutt 15y ago|0 comments
908.
by mnutt 15y ago
"ex-DoubleClick exec" gives the image of some kind of ad executive or something, which is not what Dwight is. http://www.10gen.com/video/mongosv2010/replication
909.
by mnutt 15y ago
> I've never done this and have never understood why people think it's so important. I prefer to build stuff for paying customers. They're never bashful and are a great way to get really good really quickly. I'm not sure if you mean in
910.
by mnutt 15y ago
In this case I think it's a bit simpler. GroupMe was born at TechCrunch Disrupt Hack Day 2010, and is probably the biggest success story of that event by an order of magnitude. Hence, they got a lot of TC coverage early on.
911.
by mnutt 15y ago
I had the exact same experience. I worked for an open source company that had bounties and I think it was one of the major factors that completely killed the open source community around it. A few years later a friend of mine mentioned sh
912.
by mnutt 15y ago
Given a pile of cash, you can actually buy "github in a box": http://fi.github.com/ I believe it's JRuby-based.
913.
by mnutt 15y ago
Right. But in this case trusting WSJ to keep your anonymous submission secure as well as trusting their ability to run a leaks site would be a mistake: http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/05/06/wall-street-journal...
914.
by mnutt 15y ago
Bad coding does not mean "failed to innovate" but bad coding will certainly lead to failure to innovate. There are many, many companies that fall into that category but if you want a direct example of bad coding -> failure then look at
915.
by mnutt 15y ago
Bad development practices can and do kill companies, although in those cases the cause of death is usually considered "failed to innovate" or something similar. Accumulate enough technical debt and you'll be unable to move very quickly for
916.
by mnutt 15y ago
You have to trust their promise that their anonymous submission process is actually reasonably anonymous. Many whistleblowers probably couldn't tell between an anonymous process and a seemingly anonymous process that isn't.
917.
by mnutt 15y ago
I'll bet he could widen the target area while still retaining the original design.
918.
by mnutt 15y ago
It depends on the instrument, but most brass instruments require many hours a day of rote practice just to stay in shape if you're working professionally in a symphony. Also, many professional symphony musicians I know are in multiple side
919.
by mnutt 15y ago
Somewhat related: One RubyConf, zenspider and tenderlove hacked together Phuby on Phails, an abomination that allowed you to use PHP within Rails. It even translated instance variables from Rails controllers to PHP views. http://www.youtu
920.
by mnutt 15y ago
In the past I've found that if I installed packages that weren't in the main release I would sometimes run into gigantic dependency issues that I couldn't resolve without a clean reinstall.
921.
by mnutt 16y ago
Good point, I guess I knew a few people who wanted to quit and start a startup or work for a startup but their green cards hadn't quite come through yet.
922.
by mnutt 16y ago
Something that might be neat is if you could embed the JS part of the plugin into the product page so that people could play around with it on some pre-defined images to get a feel for how it works.
923.
by mnutt 16y ago
There might be legal issues with collecting money on another entity's behalf (while saying you're collecting it for them) without their consent. I'm not a lawyer and it's probably not a show-stopper, but it might involve more hoops to jump
924.
by mnutt 16y ago
This sounds like a good idea, but as someone who runs a website, why wouldn't I say that it's an app even if it isn't?
925.
by mnutt 16y ago
It seems like a good way to make a good chunk of change to fund your startup, but as someone living in NYC I don't see it actually done that much. I think once you start working for the large bank you get used to all of the perks and it ge
926.
by mnutt 16y ago
I don't understand your analogy. One case involves making yearly payments regardless of use, while the other involves only paying when you use it. But from here it looks like cloud is to colo as hotel is to timeshare (or purchasing proper
927.
by mnutt 16y ago
Sounds like the DMCA request was an accident. Maybe it's a form with a field "Company who requested file be removed: ". But it's amusing nonetheless. Are there other incidents of a company serving itself DMCA requests?
928.
by mnutt 16y ago
It depends on the browser. Safari 5 works, but Chrome doesn't, not sure about Firefox, and I suspect IE doesn't. I use it on my torrent-conversion bookmarklet on http://hid.im .
929.
by mnutt 16y ago
Downloading client-side generated files is possible using data-uri. However these are usually small; it would be very difficult to store a 1GB file in memory (in javascript) while you decrypted it and I doubt data-uris that large work acro
930.
by mnutt 16y ago
The canonical repo appears to be here: https://github.com/ajb/statuspanic

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