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by pizzeys 13y ago
Hm. I wonder how Amazon/other affiliates see this? I mean, it's obviously different from, but reminds me of, those malware operators/dodgy ISP's injecting their own referral id into links. Is there any precedent of sites
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by pizzeys 13y ago
Haha, that is the sort of argument I'd avoid having at work because it would lead to bloodshed.
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by pizzeys 13y ago
I disagree with this. By that logic, 404 pages should also return 200, because the error page stating that the content couldn't be found was indeed rendered successfully. The difference between your status.heroku.com example and this
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by pizzeys 13y ago
How do you know that 'no alcohol, drugs, coffee etc' has been good for you if you have no basis for comparison?
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by pizzeys 13y ago
I never understood this trick. Surely you could just mail an empty envelope ahead of time for the postmark, then put whatever you wanted to prove in it later?
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by pizzeys 13y ago
Just because it has certain desirable side effects does not diminish it's legitimacy as a 'medicine'. Opiates feel awesome yet you still use them when you break a bone.
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by pizzeys 13y ago
To add a little counterweight to the 'should you give cute names' discussion - there is at least one reason why cute names are a good idea. I work for a web host, and our servers are named after musicians. It's a lot more lik
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by pizzeys 13y ago
So is locking people up teaching our kids that locking people up against their will is OK?
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by pizzeys 13y ago
I wrote this for just me a while back, and everyone I talked to about it thought it was morbidly weird. I'm glad there are others who think it isn't, but that might be something a startup had to contend with.
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by pizzeys 13y ago
My personal opinion, which might not line up with anyone elses: GCC is a 'part' of GNU/Linux because of the goals/aims of GNU/Linux, which is to have a freely modifiable and distributable operating system. If you pu
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by pizzeys 13y ago
Oh balls, don't let the anti-ecig crowd hear you say that one, please! :D
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by pizzeys 13y ago
> One thing that really makes a difference is that the vaporized nicotine is actually somewhat hot, like cigarette smoke, when you breathe it in. Too hot, I found, with the first such device I tried - way hotter than cigarette smoke. W
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by pizzeys 13y ago
Is it trivial to block all DNS if your core business is serving records over DNS, though?
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by pizzeys 13y ago
Then you need some standardisation on what 'currency' is anyway, and if you use ISO 4217 you shut out Bitcoin.
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by pizzeys 14y ago
Is he more special than other people, or should we ALL have been informed properly?
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by pizzeys 14y ago
> I'd trust them more than the 16 yr old waitress at the local restaurant who is legally judgment proof and as a juvenile frankly has no punishment related reason not to rip me off. Every time I pay with a CC at a restaurant and don't g
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by pizzeys 14y ago
Do you have any sort of permission or support from Mojang? It might not be a good idea to invest a substantial amount of time in "A Minecraft MMO" without this...
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by pizzeys 14y ago
She didn't use the exact word 'sexism', but her blog post very much made it out to be a sexism issue.
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by pizzeys 14y ago
It's not all that mysterious - their CSS is just pretty bad for Linux users. For example, they specify Verdana with no fallbacks (not even sans-serif) so we get a nice unreadable (at their font size) serif font. :(
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by pizzeys 14y ago
Though I'm UK-based, not US, I'm a housebound agoraphobic (I don't leave at all, ever) - you'd be surprised how easy it is logistically in this day and age, actually. I have family members pick things up that are time critical (ie. my dumb
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by pizzeys 14y ago
The stable branch already exists - the latest vulns were patched for 2.3, which was released in 2009.
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by pizzeys 14y ago
If Ruby has had a bad time lately, then surely PHP has had a bad decade? It just seems odd to jump out of the frying pan and into the fire, is all.