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by phillmv 15y ago
Cute! Looks good, etc. I'm just not sure this app is capable of telling you something you didn't already know :P.
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by phillmv 15y ago
I can't believe there are so many cheapskates in here. It's $60! WHO CARES! It's a tool you presumably use every single hour of your programming life . I refuse to accept that you feel personally violated over an idiot promise the author m
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by phillmv 15y ago
Fortunately, in this case we're clearly talking about people who understand what source control is and have a desire to use it ;).
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by phillmv 15y ago
>A developer job? It sounds like support/sysadmin. "Devops" is the way to go these days. Surely they must exist, but I've yet to encounter a <30 person company with a fulltime sysadmin. It's usually "Joe" or "Rackspace". Yes, this i
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by phillmv 15y ago
>Because if this is registrations, I thought they were a lot bigger already. No way. How many programmers are there in the first place? I bet you it's <100M, hell <50M. EDIT: Back of the envelope by other people put it between &
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by phillmv 15y ago
I don't understand why people think "objective news reporting" is possible within this universe. Anyone trying to sell you that line is lying to you; much better to at least have theses bias' be overt.
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by phillmv 15y ago
That's strikes me as being a bit naïve. Speaking truth to power has always been dangerous.
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by phillmv 15y ago
I think we both lost :P.
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by phillmv 15y ago
Yeah! Your joke library that appeals to a niche audience is really going to fill that second page of google results.
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by phillmv 15y ago
I interpreted it more as saying that their architecture allows them to parallelize all sorts of 'back end computations' across their infrastructure, such that their scarcity is in internet-facing processing and not processing as a whole.
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by phillmv 15y ago
Slashdot… just failed remarkably. Randomly assigning moderation points based on existing karma was clever but… somehow the same, SAME five memes kept getting (Score: 5, funny) and the interface made it actively painful to browse through the
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by phillmv 15y ago
I guess people be fuckin' all of the damn time.
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by phillmv 15y ago
Right. Well, with a digital camera you can probably figure out all of that on your own just by futzing around with the camera for a weekend. The difficult part comes in understanding light and understanding composition, neither of which the
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by phillmv 15y ago
I don't think it's going to make you a better photographer necessarily, but maybe you'll come out a better editor.
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by phillmv 15y ago
>While your point is true, it seems largely technical and irrelevant to real world actions. Hah! I think you're describing about 80% of content of sites like HN ;).
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by phillmv 15y ago
I'm fairly certain it was mentioned by a character in an issue of Neil Gaiman's Sandman. It's had reverberations across the geek ethos.
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by phillmv 15y ago
Right. I'm just not sure there's much to Ruby or Rails that ingrains shitty habits, but I'm biased. It does give you ample rope to hang yourself with, though.
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by phillmv 15y ago
That's a bit trite, don't you think? This is all a religious war, but at the end of the day something like Rails enables you to come a lot closer to "good design, good programming" than many other systems currently in use, i.e. your less th
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by phillmv 15y ago
I don't know about that. It clearly borrows/follows their house style. Besides, what else would you call it? Bootstrap Boilerplate? Twitter Boilerplate? Eh.
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by phillmv 15y ago
Ah! Novel cryptanalysis technique reduces practical AES key length by about 2 bits.
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by phillmv 15y ago
Yup. Makes HN tolerable, for a change - albeit I can't understand for the life of my why certain usernames are in green.
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by phillmv 15y ago
orly? http://i.imgur.com/ZVWxL.png
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by phillmv 15y ago
>What if you could pay for some kind of insurance product to protect against patent lawsuits? Heh. Programmers' malpractice insurance. The premiums would be ridiculous, though. >Or perhaps some kind of co-operative that owned a bunc
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by phillmv 15y ago
In terms of views, it did far better with this link than with the previous one. I was surprised, I only noticed when I looked it up on my analytics. A big part of the problem is that it's abysmally hard to search for previous links on HN.
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by phillmv 15y ago
That's the least of it. I edited out six full days where the whole page above the fold was an ad.
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by phillmv 15y ago
Can anyone tell me if homebrew still works on it? What about macvim, rvm, mysql binaries, etc? Waiting is always the hardest part :P.
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by phillmv 15y ago
>Curious if the person who captured these images had a browsing history for watches, or if that's what everyone witnessed? Alas, no. I used a webkit to jpeg generator that should, in theory, be pretty void of any browsing history. I'd b
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by phillmv 15y ago
I used http://code.google.com/p/wkhtmltopdf/ . It's an amazing project that I try to use as often as possible, especially whenever a client requires pdfs.
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by phillmv 15y ago
Ah, but the Dylan reference was TOO GOOD TO PASS UP.
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by phillmv 15y ago
That's a meaningless statement. The US holds debts denominated in dollars. If it can print money at will, by definition it cannot default. You would be correct if they held debts denominated in other currencies, like virtually every other c

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