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by phillmv 15y ago
Well… it's an arbitrary standard. We just call a day one full rotation of the earth, and we just happen to divide it into 24hr periods with 60 subdivisions. Theoretically, you could measure the rotation of the earth and call that a day, but
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by phillmv 15y ago
*inspects the page Yeah, you're right. That's not so bad. It just seemed like it was claiming a lot of precision that, from my own experience of javascript, browsers and network latency, seemed a bit over the top. (Granted, on the order of
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by phillmv 15y ago
Time is a surprisingly difficult subject to get right.
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by phillmv 15y ago
MY understanding of the issue confirms that you would basically need a js implementation of ntp in order for any of this to work. That's why I laughed when Time.is tried to tell me that my clock was off by 1.8 seconds. Barring the sentence
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by phillmv 15y ago
>as for Sequoia, it is pretty well known that the top tier VCs look after their own. Look through the Sequoia history and you won't find very many outright failures, it is a reason why entrepreneurs choose to work with them. Oh, I just
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by phillmv 15y ago
I feel like the story would've worked better had the pleading for your life actually been a part of the initialization protocol. The ones that don't cry for help as they're being disassembled actually do get disassembled - how else are you
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by phillmv 15y ago
I feel like that would follow the intent behind a BSD license, but not that of a CC-BY. Actually, what's the advantage of using a commercial, attribution license over a BSD?
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by phillmv 15y ago
Oh true that, I'd forgotten all about how SSH wasn't originally Free.
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by phillmv 15y ago
Pretty straightforward blog spam. Meh. I want to know how to prevent fork bombs, or runaway processes from hogging all the CPU. I want to know meaningful ways for determining which processes are attached to which file descriptors, and liste
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by phillmv 15y ago
Only two of those people are even on the same order of magnitude of influence.
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by phillmv 15y ago
Heh. So, I was rescuing an MS Access application that imperfectly synched from a MySQL instance powering the Rails app from which it got data, that had been exported to MS SQL that was running (surprisingly well) inside a Windows XP VM I wa
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by phillmv 15y ago
That's because they focussed on the most likely end-user experience: >While Motown shortened song to fit into radio time, the company also produced records specifically with car radio audio quality in mind. Motown recording engineers se
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by phillmv 15y ago
Of course there are. How easy it is to install and maintain. How performant it is. How good are the tools associated with it. I've yet to run into a situation where MySQL was holding me back. Since the only thing postgres has got going for
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by phillmv 15y ago
I can't speak for the MS SQL tools. I used one of them once? and it was extremely lame but I can't comment. Compared to every other RDBMS GUI I've used: It crashes very infrequently. It doesn't randomly slow down whenever I click on somet
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by phillmv 15y ago
Yup. You can create n-products and do whatever you want with them. *Nota bene: I work on ShopLocket.
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by phillmv 15y ago
Blargh. If only it were as easy as `gem install pg`. I would totally throw $20 at a kickstarter to pay someone. That's what, optimistically? Two weeks of work? How quickly could we scrounge up $10k? Shit. More like $100, now that I think ab
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by phillmv 15y ago
Serious question: Can't someone just add database drivers to Sequel Pro? It's far and away the best Database GUI I've ever used and its reliance on MySQL is actually keeping me from moving to PostgreSQL full time. (i.e. http://www.sequelpr
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by phillmv 15y ago
Rails bugtracker != notifying the people at github that they forgot to add a mass-assign protection.
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by phillmv 15y ago
Well… strictly speaking it's not a vulnerability in that you aren't inherently unsafe just because you use rails. It is a bug in that it's a usability issue; maybe it should be turned on by default, much like the auto escaping to prevent XS
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by phillmv 15y ago
He submitted it to… the rails bug tracker. Three days ago. That's not disclosing the issue to GitHub at all .
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by phillmv 15y ago
He registered a commit using his own account - so he either got the password of a rails admin or he must've found a way to add his keys to the rails github account directly. The comments on the commit mention he just raised an issue that f
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by phillmv 15y ago
Well… someone should! I'm frankly really tired of operating on cargo cult programming when it comes to my server packages. They're totally opaque to me, since they're huge pieces of software. Is MongoDB fast? What about Riak or Couch or w
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by phillmv 15y ago
>Why on earth is this disturbingly so objectionable? Ruby dev here with limited JS/CS knowledge. Are there any sections of CS where the semantic mapping to JS is not obvious? It took me about five minutes to figure out what was going on
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by phillmv 15y ago
>Well, you haven't learned it unless you memorised absolutely every aspect of it Oh man! I guess I don't know any programming languages whatsoever.
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by phillmv 15y ago
I'm kinda split on this. On the one hand, the kind of language employed makes this feel kinda of odious. I agree one hundred per cent on the idea that cultures are made, but this feels… it feels forced and reminds me that I'm an interchange
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by phillmv 15y ago
1) Meh on node. I don't really see the advantage of using node aside from specific and well defined performance requirements. It's ironic to be saying this coming from Rails, but it seems like Node's toolset is somewhat immature. Is there a
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by phillmv 15y ago
What kind of problems do you genuinely have with a dynamic language/duck typing? Like, that you've actually experienced and said "You know, I'm not saying this just because I'm not used to it. This bit right here is a design flaw". This i
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by phillmv 15y ago
I think a lot of people, for either environment or genetic reasons, just have crappy brain chemistry for succeeding in our modern, deep-focus oriented world. Back in the day, you work on the farm, you chat with people, you do your regular b
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by phillmv 15y ago
Well… The same 20-30 people control most popular subreddits. insert ominous music here On a related note, there's money to be made by being on the top of reddit, ergo there are a lot of people actively trying. I would not be surprised in
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by phillmv 15y ago
>(And, also, that if we want to help the poorest off, we need to pull some lever other than tax policy.) Yes, 100% true. I agree: the resolution obviously lies in pursuing redistribution more aggressively. I'm just uncomfortable with re

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