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by niggler 13y ago
The general rule of thumb is that if a trading strategy is successful, you won't find it in a book. Books are useful for understanding the general concepts, but I use books in the negative sense (if I find the idea in a book, I immediately
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by niggler 13y ago
Were they profane comments? Telling someone to fuck themselves isn't exactly the most appropriate thing to say
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by niggler 13y ago
In the spectrum of inappropriate things to say, this is far from the worst. My point was that 'Fuck you, Jason' is never appropriate. I don't think he would have been hell banned had he said 'screw you' or just omitted the three words, bu
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by niggler 13y ago
I've asked multiple times about adding subdomains to distinguish repos from blogs, but it appears that this is a workaround that no subdomain reporting would detect
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by niggler 13y ago
#node.js on freenode is pretty solid and, for such an active channel with many noobs, essentially troll-free.
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by niggler 13y ago
To be fair, though: "An additional fee is charged once per hour in which at least one Dedicated Instance of any type is running in a Region." So it's not like they are charging $10/hr/instance (so it amortizes over all of the dedicated inst
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by niggler 13y ago
sadly after 65 commits no one fixed the typo: https://github.com/sricola/socode/blob/master/socode.py#L5 # - Add a funtion with your github name as its name. that 'funtion' should be 'function'
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by niggler 13y ago
Is there any scale (like xlarge) where you are effectively the only VM on a particular physical machine (thereby obviating the issue with the small instances)?
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by niggler 13y ago
The comment that triggered the hellban was: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5399303 "I love how Jason Fried, the most self-important man in software (who can't code) is first on the list to diss the security patches. Fuck you, Jason.
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by niggler 13y ago
I'm terribly confused here. "continue to run Ubuntu in a VM on the MacBook with its relaxed HDD" Did he try with bootcamp on Ubuntu 12.04 (the LTS version)? I just tested on two macbook pros (mid 2011, early 2013) and both seem fine.
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by niggler 13y ago
It's easy to blame the tools. It's harder to admit that you don't understand the tools you are working with.
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by niggler 13y ago
"Another comment asks, why are we seeing so many articles about Excel?" There's a link next to posts. It's easy to reply to the person asking the question by clicking the link and typing a reply.
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by niggler 13y ago
I posted this the last time there was a discussion about CSV and excel: If you are generating the CSV yourself, save yourself some agony and just wrap the text in ="" $ cat test.csv ="12.34567890124312341234123412341234",="1-5"
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by niggler 13y ago
"I'll publish the deploy scripts and help you migrate." This might actually be useful sooner rather than later.
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by niggler 13y ago
"Have you talked to investors?" A great many companies are "bootstrapped", which means the founders kick their own money in initially (or scrounge from friends and family). Many big companies, a recent example being GitHub, were started th
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by niggler 13y ago
When GitHub is down, the thing I actually miss is the issues. You can't seem to clone them. Are there any public issue trackers that can be easily replicated?
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by niggler 13y ago
Recent versions of excel do warn you if formulas omit adjacent cells. I agree with your sentiment to some extent but with excel 2011/2013 you have to actively suppress these warnings.
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by niggler 13y ago
> where you are trying to catch the difference between SUM(A3:A12) and SUM(A3:A10) in a thousand different cells. Excel does a pretty good job in highlighting which cells are selected when you edit a formula, and it does a pretty good j
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by niggler 13y ago
I'm reminded of a similar situation involving treasury secretary Timothy Geithner and TurboTax. He initially blamed the software for underpayment of tax (or at least he said he used turbotax) and later admitted that he fudged the numbers.
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by niggler 13y ago
"But I still kind of hate to be That Guy. Even though it's important, it feels like I am trying to correct someone's grammar. I wish more people would step up and be That Person so I wouldn't have to be." I can assure you that this is proba
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by niggler 13y ago
"I've lost track of how many times I had to pass up on a good project on Github because of an unclear licensing situation." A situation many of us have experienced. Until today, I thought I was alone in my concerns regarding licensing. " y
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by niggler 13y ago
Is that an automated process or do people manually inspect proposed libraries?
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by niggler 13y ago
" automated tool to add a license file (by easily choosing from a list of existing licenses, of course)" I see the merits of that (it would be nice to see that option in the "Add Repository" page), but I worry that licenses would then be se
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by niggler 13y ago
A general tool would do that :) I try to use LICENSE for my projects.
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by niggler 13y ago
Added :) See, even for small things it's easy to forget. Hopefully someone makes a script to remind you for licensing gists.
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by niggler 13y ago
I don't disagree, but that's only applicable for node.js code. There's no tradition of using package.json for fortran or C. Although I do like the overall theme of developing a language-agnostic way of indicating licenses (because, as also
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by niggler 13y ago
"It would be a good idea if github enforced some convention to make sure the free repo's they provide for open source really are licensed under an OSI approved license." I wholeheartedly agree. Every once in a while you stumble upon a land
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Finding Unlicensed Repos on Github(aniggler.tumblr.com)
22 points by niggler 13y ago|27 comments
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by niggler 13y ago
"this argument is a pile of horseshit (according to me)." Which part? Do you think bitbucket is not a good service or that bitbucket has reached a critical mass for open source hosting or that github hasn't reached a critical mass?
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by niggler 13y ago
Valid point, comment submitted. I assumed the author submitted this to HN in the first place

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