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by mpk 16y ago
I've done both a fresh install and an upgrade to 10.04 and both worked without a hitch. I'm impressed. Ubuntu is a massive piece of software components that have to work properly on all kinds of random hardware. The release schedule that th
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by mpk 16y ago
He should tell them they're in a multi-episode story that's not in syndication and being broadcast over several weeks.
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by mpk 16y ago
I'd say that geeks tend to think about their environment a lot more than other people because geeks tend to think about systems in general. I have never encountered a rational argument for homophobia. Gay people seem to me to be just as lik
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by mpk 16y ago
I'd like that too, but if you're not finding them here, go to twitter. Save some searches tagged with #nodejs, #ruby, #lisp, etc and you'll find loads of links to new articles and developments related to your topic of interest. Here's a #no
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by mpk 16y ago
I don't think the legal intricacies are that complicated, though lawyers will undoubtedly make them so before this hits the courts. The phone was not the finder's to sell. AFAIK, finders keepers is not a legal defence. Gizmodo must have kno
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by mpk 17y ago
Technically this is very cool but conceptually there are just so many things wrong here I don't know where to begin.
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by mpk 17y ago
It requires iTunes to load content from local storage.
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by mpk 17y ago
Before you start categorising yourself or other people, you might want to read up on the Dunning-Kruger effect, The Dunning–Kruger effect is a cognitive bias in which "people reach erroneous conclusions and make unfortunate ch
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by mpk 17y ago
I've written a (non-OSS, so no link, sorry) lib in JS that I ported to Ruby, C# and Java. The API methods in JavaScript are all lower camelCase as are the Java ones. The C# ones are all upper CamelCase and the Ruby ones are all lower snake_
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by mpk 17y ago
It's just too bad that routergod stopped updating years ago.
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by mpk 17y ago
The book 'The four hour work week' mentions a case where the author eventually decided to cut all the customers that were taking up the majority of his time in support, hand-holding, etc and just went with the bulk customers that were happy
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by mpk 17y ago
Ladies and gentlemen, we have a winner! If you start using the filesystem as a datastore that requires concurrent access you open up a whole new can of worms. You need a locking mechanism - which you'll probably implement using (wrapped) na
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by mpk 17y ago
These articles are just link-bait with no content. The 'NoSQL' buzzword is as distasteful to me as, say, 'cloud', but that doesn't mean that articles discussing them don't have value. The flurry of 'NoSQL' articles often cover the different
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by mpk 17y ago
How will this affect upstream compatibility with Debian?
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by mpk 17y ago
Does Node.js really qualify as a web framework? Sure it comes with an HTTP lib, but it's really more 'JavaScript liberated from the browser and a CommonJS stdlib to boot'. Very useful for writing web frameworks, sure - but not a web framewo
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by mpk 17y ago
Nice Atlas reference.
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by mpk 17y ago
Filling a resume at your age (yes, making an assumption here)/level of experience is tricky, but one the plus side it's easy to stick to the 1 A4 rule. I'd strip the details of the courses you've followed - people reading the resume will pr
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by mpk 17y ago
Oh dear, well-meaning extremists. Scary bunch of people the lot of you.
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by mpk 17y ago
Some programmers are like that and they are horribly annoying to work with. Zealots always are, regardless of the environment you're working in. You can't have a civilized discussion with them so don't even try.
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by mpk 17y ago
As far as I'm concerned this is just another piece of opinion put online by a programmer. That's not a bad thing - putting things out there and talking about them is integral to the programming profession as a whole. Look at the body of wri
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by mpk 17y ago
Find a partner to work with. Another comment mentions finding a partner who can finish your work, but personally I think that's horrible advice. The main things are sharing workload and working as peers. Review each others code, do some p
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by mpk 17y ago
I really doubt you have blocked all Google domains. They own tens of thousands, probably much more. Also, Google provides public services by hosting assets such as Javascript libraries - are you blocking those as well? If you don't want Goo
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by mpk 17y ago
I probably am underestimating their resources, but I'd still like an answer that'll allow me to vaguely quantify those resources and how they'll be put to use battling the evil fiends Google seems to be having trouble fending off. And while
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by mpk 17y ago
Google is a massive company. By some reports 10% of 'internet traffic' flows over its private links. It has an army of smart engineers who know internet technology inside out and develop new systems at various layers on a regular basis. Why
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by mpk 17y ago
From the comments, You shouldn't be surprised, action mailer, active support, active record, action pack, active resource and rails itself are all separate gems. If they are separate gems, they each need their version numbers
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by mpk 17y ago
Also, from the headers, ASSIGNMENT OF A PORT NUMBER DOES NOT IN ANY WAY IMPLY ENDORSEMENT OF AN APPLICATION OR PRODUCT
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by mpk 17y ago
A mix of jewelry and electronics going mainstream is pretty unlikely. Jewelry tends to be expensive and retain value over very long periods of time. Electronics tend to be pricey at first (but cheap relative to jewelry) but become obsolete
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by mpk 17y ago
I have to disagree with esr on this. Using a handle is different from being anonymous. Personally I don't really care if the person I'm communicating with is calling themselves john or w4r3zd00d. What I care about is the communication itsel
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by mpk 17y ago
Well, an official spec for Ruby is in the works and there's already one for JavaScript (ECMAScript). Someone is bound to build a Ruby VM in JS at some point and then it'll be trivial to build a site like this. The performance will be horrib
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by mpk 17y ago
Rush is my new favorite. http://github.com/adamwiggins/rush A Ruby shell that allows you to do things like, local_dir = Rush::Box.new('localhost')['/Users/adam/server_logs/'].create servers = %w(www1 www2 www3).map { |n| Rush::B

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