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by pacemkr 16y ago
Thank you for sharing that. I've never heard of source mswin.vim. The standard copy paste shortcuts are platform agnostic at this point, hell, even my phone uses them (webOS). This is where I've found vim and emacs incredibly frustrating ou
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by pacemkr 16y ago
I'm just getting into Ruby and converting to vim as my primary editor, and I didn't even know that this is a "hip" thing to do. All of a sudden I feel trashy for making logical choices. I think the author misjudged why people like me choose
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by pacemkr 16y ago
I believe I was one of the people who requested this. Namely, a better explanation of why DDG not tracking your search history is a big deal. Implementation details aside, this page must exists and I applaud Gabriel for making it. Why? I mu
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List of facilities 'vital to US security' leaked(bbc.co.uk)
54 points by pacemkr 16y ago|95 comments
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by pacemkr 16y ago
I didn't realize that you were the original poster, sorry. I admit their product offering is a bit confusing. It does make sense though: You can install CrashPlan (the regular, free version) on any number of computers and set them up to bac
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by pacemkr 16y ago
I didn't say it was free... Neither did the OP ask for a free solution. So...
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by pacemkr 16y ago
I'd like to second and stress that CrashPlan supports client side encryption using a private key. This means that _nobody_ can ever get to your files without the key (not even you), no matter how much access is granted to the CrashPlan serv
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by pacemkr 16y ago
SendGrid - transactional and mass email PivotalTracker - daily todo FogBugz - customer support via email
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by pacemkr 16y ago
Fear and Loathing on the Campaign Trail looks interesting. Thanks.
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by pacemkr 16y ago
"Strong beliefs, weakly held." That hasn't failed me so far. What people have said here (other people) is plenty to make me understand that Gonzo journalism means something else. I'm not particularly stubborn when proved wrong. Do you see t
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by pacemkr 16y ago
This is probably true, the fact that you can't completely separate the author from the story. Where I disagree is going in "whole-hog." I consider it fundamental for a journalist to make her best effort to keep her opinion out of the story.
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by pacemkr 16y ago
I don't know anything about Thompson as a person, so I'll refrain from judging. I'm only glad that I'm finally able to put a term to what I despise most about journalism in our country (U.S.), evidently the term is "Gonzo journalism." "Gonz
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by pacemkr 16y ago
As consumers, we are not responsible for how a company intends to make money. If I buy something, I own it. If I license it, I explicitly know that it isn't mine. He bought it, its his. They don't get to say "this doesn't fit our business p
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by pacemkr 16y ago
"A manifesto is a public declaration of principles and intentions" - Wikipedia That's exactly what he did with that post. He doesn't have to convince anyone. He simply stated his principles.
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by pacemkr 16y ago
Twitter invented a problem and then solved. They just solved it in a way that made people feel self-important, hence the growth. I don't yet know what social media is. I just know that we're doing it all wrong.
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by pacemkr 16y ago
Random fact. All of these "Some say..." references are made in a car show called "Top Gear" [1] about their incognito test driver, "The Stig." [2] [1] http://www.topgear.com/uk/ [2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Stig
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by pacemkr 16y ago
Of course that means that you have to write the shell script, and then you have to maintain the box that runs that shell script, and then you have to fix that shell script when it stops working, then, inevitably, you end up rewriting that s
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by pacemkr 16y ago
Hiring someone just to make contributions in the name of your corp would be illegal, because that's using your company's treasury to make contributions to campaigns, which is explicitly forbidden by existing law. No matter how long I stare
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by pacemkr 16y ago
I do think that lobbying has a profound effect in Congress. However, lobbying is something that you can do as an individual by joining a special interests group and visiting your officials. In other words, investing your time where corporat
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by pacemkr 16y ago
Here is the document from FEC that explains how corporations can get involved in election campaigns: http://www.fec.gov/pdf/colagui.pdf It clearly states that corporations can't use their treasury to make contributions to campaigns. From
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by pacemkr 16y ago
No really, where is the proof that this is in fact happening?! Businesses, with current law, CANNOT make donations to campaigns! Only individuals can and the limit is $2,300. The whole thing sounds very sensational and juicy, but the FEC da
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by pacemkr 16y ago
I've recently tried to understand who funds the elections of my elected official. I immediately ended up on something like OpenSecrets.org or sites that feed basically off the same data (which in the end comes from FEC and you can download
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by pacemkr 16y ago
This statement is absolute nonsense. Why should a programmer hate himself so? I want to have beautiful and powerful tools. The code you write using an elegant language might as well be ugly. This shouldn't stop you from enjoying the process
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by pacemkr 16y ago
If the point of continuous deployment is to get rid of deployment pain, it fails miserably. I've tried to do continuous deployment for a smaller, one man, project and it was effectively impossible. It was too much infrastructure to maintain
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by pacemkr 16y ago
That would be one serious leak if a programmer had to even be aware of the difference between SRAM and DRAM, yet alone of their respective schematics. It just doesn't happen. When it does, it isn't a leaky abstraction, it's broken to the co
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by pacemkr 16y ago
I never said they did. In fact, I explicitly mentioned that I've explored other levels of abstraction. What I am saying is that low level thinking such as depicted in the article has little to no value to the programmer.
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by pacemkr 16y ago
Nonsense. What happened to abstraction? To suggest this as recommended knowledge to all programmers is actually making me angry. My education is in Computer and Electrical Engineering, while I mostly work with high level languages building
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by pacemkr 16y ago
I doubt there are many who would argue that Drupal is crappy software. And here's the shocker: it uses globals and most of it is procedural PHP! Let that sink in... Signs alone do not prove guilt. =P But -- just to be a hypocrite -- my numb
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by pacemkr 16y ago
Feels like they had a class discussion before each drawing. Its basically the same before and after theme. Before: white lab coat, glasses. After: 'normal' people. Not very scientific, excuse the pun.
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by pacemkr 16y ago
I use CrashPlan to achieve a similar result. I highly recommend you try it. CrashPlan will backup to your network (free), your friends (free), your external drives (free), and optionally to their servers (paid) all in parallel. Anywhere you

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