mvanveen

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by mvanveen 15y ago
The script grabs the domain of the uri in question, so it's effectively mapping the domain to the url. To answer your question more specifically, the freedom.txt format started in this thread: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3498505 ,
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DNS got you down? Share ip addresses with freedom.txt(github.com)
23 points by mvanveen 15y ago|12 comments
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by mvanveen 15y ago
I have a git repo up here: https://github.com/mvanveen/freedom.txt Included is a Python script which automatically generates a freedom.txt file. Please feel free to send pull requests. Add a separate line on locations.txt with your freed
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by mvanveen 15y ago
It just continuously refreshes for me (running chrome on os X), preventing me from scrolling up.
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by mvanveen 15y ago
Well, at least we can all agree that "it’s a dangerous and troubling development when the platforms that serve as gateways to information intentionally skew the facts to incite their users in order to further their corporate interests." H
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by mvanveen 15y ago
I was wrestling with calling it indispensable, and totally agree that it's all out there, but Wikipedia severely reduces the friction of finding the correct citations and often provides good starting points for great research. The quality o
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Ask HN: What are you doing to prepare for the pending wikipedia blackout?
6 points by mvanveen 15y ago|7 comments
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by mvanveen 15y ago
I do a lot of app engine at work. I'm aware of most of the sharp corners the platform has, but overall, I think it's a great offering for a wide-variety of applications. So, when it comes time to host a side project, App Engine is my go to
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by mvanveen 15y ago
Why is this awesome? I'm not sure why I should be excited about this. As far as I can tell, a few dudes tied to a standards committee met in a Google+ Hangout about using the WebDriver public interfaces as a standard, but I don't see anyth
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by mvanveen 15y ago
I say come january 18th HN should either black out, or focus discussion on SOPA entirely in solidarity with reddit. HN is a niche community with members who have a much greater capacity to influence the outcome of SOPA than a general popula
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App Engine Pull Queues(code.google.com)
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by mvanveen 15y ago
This reminds me of Suzuki's idiom, "Leave No Trace," found in the book Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind .
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by mvanveen 15y ago
I really like Dropbox. In fact, it's fair to say I love Dropbox. It's made so many use cases so much simpler. However, I am f *g sick of this perception that Dropbox is the silver bullet for every storage solution. This sort of sensa
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by mvanveen 15y ago
When I was growing up and learning about DNS, HTTP, protocols, and packets I really wanted to get my own domain, but being under 18, I had no easy way to pay a registar without a credit card. Namecheap was one of the first registrars to acc
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by mvanveen 15y ago
Excellent! Now go forth and MUL, ADD, & JMP.
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by mvanveen 15y ago
Open sourcing is always a good option. Etherpad ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EtherPad ) got sold to Google and the code was subsequently open sourced. It's since launched a number of hosting sites providing collaborative editing services
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by mvanveen 15y ago
Hey tekkub, Intonation and meaning is lost over the Internet, which is often frustrating. I think this is exactly that kind of incident. From my pov, when I come to a person about an issue and they respond with "as I noted in the other thr
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by mvanveen 15y ago
Having done support for my own startup, and now that I'm working at a startup where support is make for break for us, I totally agree with the pov of this post. But, ironically, I don't see any clear indication that GitHub sticks to this c
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by mvanveen 15y ago
I'm with you. Look past blame, and evaluate the causes behind the failure as a collectie in order to examine ways to ensure that the problems aren't repeated in the future. Blame perpetuates ego in group programming. Possessing an ego wh
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by mvanveen 15y ago
Upvoted because my boss is in the picture.
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by mvanveen 15y ago
We only have the new 27"'s at work. We're almost exclusively a mac shop, so sticking with just one configuration works really well with these displays. It doesn't matter where you're sitting. Just plug in power and the display port wherev
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by mvanveen 15y ago
Well, yes. You bring up good points. However, engineers like ourselves caught up in the goal of creating a One True System often run into the dilemma of pursuing the "MIT way" of doing things. I remember hearing that there was an MIT proj
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by mvanveen 15y ago
I know everyone's fed up with the bitcoin articles, but I still wonder what this means for mining. Is there a CE or architecture guru who might be able to speculate how this architecture would perform? The reduced power footprint could ma
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by mvanveen 15y ago
tl;dr Great library, thanks for helping the Pythonistas keep up with the rubyists, can't wait to try it. --- I've been developing a DSL for acceptance testing (not unlike Cucumber, but more pythonic and with further bias towards on web acc
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by mvanveen 16y ago
Ftfy: http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=ceiling+of+log2+%28+%28...
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by mvanveen 16y ago
I think what's neat about this guy's approach is he's morphed subreddits into a fully complemented, distributed algebra by letting you take intersections and unions of different "subcategories" of discussion. I suppose one could could argue
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by mvanveen 16y ago
Please don't make me create a new login account. I am the proverbial "on the edge of the back button" user right now, and this login button is a hurdle preventing me from making a comment about an interesting article. The energy potential
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by mvanveen 16y ago
YES. My Data Structures and Algorithms class was graded by benchmark (ECS 60, Sean Davis, UC Davis). Being graded this way was one of the most valuable collegiate experiences I've had (I'm a fourth year on the way out). Sean gives his stu
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by mvanveen 16y ago
Has anyone actually used this language? The Overview sounds interesting, but doesn't deliver any specific code examples...
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by mvanveen 16y ago
he just said that humans are, in general, better off. He claimed that life is no longer nasty, brutish, or short. This is simply not true for a large group of the population. While I happen to think that humanity is overall better off du

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