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by philjr 15y ago
Hate to fall into "Me too" category, but you know what happens with these things: some dev somewhere says "well that doesn't happen for me" and nothing gets done about it. Just want to help point out ... YES it is annoying and YES it does h
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by philjr 15y ago
I just knew someone else would have done this when I looked at the original story, that was the first thing I thought was missing - some context as to which ones are popular. Awesome!
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by philjr 15y ago
Unfortunately, you've just missed the hundred other cases where Jobs was correct and persevered. People will always be wrong, this doesn't show anything about good decision making or bad decision making because you can find examples of both
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by philjr 16y ago
ip accepts shortened versions of it's commands e.g. ip a can be used instead of ip addr Even shorter than ifconfig!
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by philjr 16y ago
There's that, but it probably fits better into their development model. If they're continually adding features and not breaking backwards compatibility on a "fixed" timeline, then the major version jumps that Firefox, IE do etc. seem more p
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by philjr 16y ago
All of the main "volunteer" Linux distribution websites are terrible in terms of design. Gentoo, Slackware, CentOS (ugh!) and Debian all leave a great deal to be desired. Every time I visit the CentOS homepages and have to navigate their ug
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by philjr 16y ago
Pleasanton, CA (East Bay) Dublin, Ireland Workday - ERP space - Hiring Infrastructure / Systems Engineers Working on some interesting problem sets, with large groups of data and some very progressive Java technology. All Linux (CentOS) base
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by philjr 16y ago
You're on Hacker News complaining about people talking about tinkering (hacking) devices? Yeh, people are gonna complain here - we're the people who like to break stuff open.
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by philjr 16y ago
Double 16 is most professional players favourite close out double because darts players tend to "line up" darts. Basically, they have a much better chance of hitting it on the second go if the first one was closer. Double 16 is most forgivi
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by philjr 16y ago
the old .ie TLD used to be run by UCD (a college here in Dublin) and indeed the ie nameservers, even now, list a variety of nameservers of 3rd parties, including Esat (a company acquired by BT) and netsource (which was acquired by Magnet in
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by philjr 16y ago
how is this different from real life?
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by philjr 16y ago
Genuinely not sure about that, but considering how this analysis was done, it's equally likely, that Thursday is the day that people would start talking about a restaurant ... i.e. looking for recommendations for the weekend or talking abou
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Lamson 1.0 released(lamsonproject.org)
5 points by philjr 16y ago|1 comments
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by philjr 16y ago
He's a few weeks away from getting his degree, I think he's probably made the right call here - Take site down. Get degree. Put site back up.
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by philjr 16y ago
Tech support truths, this doesn't suond like the realm of what I'd consider system administration.
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by philjr 16y ago
I'd concur strongly with this. I have a few teacher friends who I've mentioned this to who have been interested in the concept and have never heard of it previously.
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Ask HN: Sports footwear - distribution, shipping etc.
1 points by philjr 17y ago|0 comments
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by philjr 17y ago
http://www.lifesize.com/ for teleconferencing. Wicked kit, we've got four of them, connecting offices and they're a nice alternative to shelling out 6 figures for HD Skype.
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by philjr 17y ago
I used heroku with Google Reader previously to get them: http://hackernews.heroku.com/<username&#62 ;
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by philjr 17y ago
It would be nice if the languages in the sidebar on the left were in some non-abitrary order, preferably alphabetical :) apart from that, a definite improvement on the languages http://codepad.org/ supports Chromium and Firefox 3.5 on Ubu
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by philjr 17y ago
Here's my advice, as someone fully employed who did the working like a dog thing for my own business for a while, and then for someone else for a while, got half burnt out and stopped. 1. Treat yourself as your own business. If your busines
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by philjr 17y ago
Not US centric, but http://www.revahealth.com/
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by philjr 17y ago
The impression I was left with was that their p4 stuff was for kernel source only (i.e. for the 30 or so developers that are using it), so I'm not sure if I see the big deal in using perforce in that scenario.
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by philjr 17y ago
First of all, quite surprised Google is using perforce (woah!), but as the comments suggest, people internally are using a git-p4 bridge. Secondly the hooks to let them tie I/O requests back to specific applications sounds funky, is there s
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LWN - How Google uses Linux(lwn.net)
36 points by philjr 17y ago|11 comments
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by philjr 17y ago
Personally, I wouldn't recommend it. Unfortunately I can't give a better alternative, but I've done some hacking on MediaWiki since version 1.7 and while it's some of the better examples of PHP out there, it still leaves lots to be desired
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The nature of wealth(economist.com)
1 points by philjr 17y ago|0 comments
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by philjr 17y ago
Firefox 3.0 on Ubuntu - search box on the results page is a little off: http://www.finetuna.com/grqdxt
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by philjr 17y ago
Yup, they peer at local internet exchanges (e.g. LINX in London - www.linx.net / INEX in Ireland - www.inex.ie), cache locally where they can (uk.youtube.com / ie.youtube.com are what you get redirected to periodically over here) and I woul
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by philjr 17y ago
It's rounding my cash up / down to the nearest euro/dollar. Now while I could multiply by 100 to put in 751 instead of 7.51 ... I think it'd be great not to. Maybe that's the engineer in me :)

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