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by pjbrunet 11y ago
Maybe all this "BTC blockchain as a platform" stuff is too tangential and undermines (no pun intended) the potency of BTC as a cryptocurrency. Maybe there could be a "Platform Test Coin" to beta test all these far out id
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by pjbrunet 11y ago
But factor in the value of 3 months. http://www.investopedia.com/terms/t/timevalueofmoney.asp
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by pjbrunet 11y ago
"They're all over the place, looking for you. You just need to be found or you can find them." Expanding your network on LinkedIn can help.
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by pjbrunet 11y ago
I was thinking X-Men. In the last movie, didn't they have robots to detect mutants underground? LOL.
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by pjbrunet 11y ago
If we look at the market adoption curve (Marketing 101) most of the money and most of the demand is in "old" technology. But extremely old tech, extremely new tech, either way there's going to be demand across the spectrum re
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by pjbrunet 11y ago
OK that makes a lot more sense, thanks for clarification.
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by pjbrunet 11y ago
"Anyone can use Android without Google" Really? Then why can't I uninstall Google Plus, Play Music, Play Newstand, etc? These are "system" apps. Remember when Microsoft made IE a system app? That didn't end wel
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by pjbrunet 11y ago
More important than maintaining WordPress, you want a secure server. Here's a not-comprehensive list... - Use a VPS. If you talk to Olly, author of "wpCop" http://wpcop.com/ and the VPSBible, he recommends Ce
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by pjbrunet 11y ago
I agree. I've been generally following WordPress news since 2004 (the beginning of its popularity) there's been no serious security problem in many years, as long as you had open user registrations turned off. Why you would allow
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by pjbrunet 12y ago
As long as you didn't need a user interface :-) Back then, you were lucky to get any Applet working without crashing the browser. From what I remember, GD was pretty much the only way to draw anything besides ASCII art. Oh and that Mac
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by pjbrunet 12y ago
Not if you're a sculptor ;-)
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by pjbrunet 12y ago
The way I see it, the top item on the menu is probably fresh and people like it. Or they wouldn't be in business very long.
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by pjbrunet 12y ago
This is how we did DOS VGA fonts ~1990. Draw the pixels right in the code (everything was monospace) and write that array directly to video memory. Mode 13 (320x200x256) video memory was sequential, easy to animate. Also you could do palett
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by pjbrunet 12y ago
Work and life purpose, not far from marriage and family in the hierarchy of things, depending on your beliefs.
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by pjbrunet 12y ago
LinkedIn blogs and news feed? That would be my guess.
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by pjbrunet 12y ago
That's one problem naming a business after a person. Still the domain is worth something. No sense "parking" a domain like that.
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by pjbrunet 12y ago
Repeated exposure to certain things cause an allergic reaction. Acne, fatigue, headaches, allergies come in many forms. I can't say for sure it was the sugar. All I can tell you is, I gave up sugar. (And other things, keep reading.) Yo
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by pjbrunet 12y ago
I thought the article was going to show brain scans ;-) I gave up sugar in high school because nothing else was working on my acne. It was difficult but you can replace sugar with maple syrup, honey and fruit. After a while the craving goes
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by pjbrunet 12y ago
Interesting point. Though universities allow F students in through loopholes. Fail HS, go to community college where the tests are open book, then transfer to a University which by law must accept them.
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by pjbrunet 12y ago
I agree we need extra careful people doing those important jobs. Most websites, they don't even want to pay for a failover server. So every market has different expectations.
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by pjbrunet 12y ago
Been writing code for 30+ years. I did devops for OS/2. I have seen stuff break, like when Media Temple had a cluster fail and their backups failed. Which is why you always do nightly offsite backups. I never trust a host's onsite
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by pjbrunet 12y ago
dnshistory.org: "A5: We aim to check every domain at least once per month and the minimum interval between checks is 24 hours."
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by pjbrunet 12y ago
That doesn't really refute the article. Anyone with access to the DNS server could change the email records for a few minutes to intercept mail. A hacker wouldn't have to wait for propagation in that case. And who would notice? Th
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by pjbrunet 12y ago
What makes me fast is I press Control-S and my code is live--working--in production. Clients love it. You have an idea--I make that idea work while we're on the phone. Slow devs have six layers of red tape between their code editor and
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by pjbrunet 12y ago
The Square app has easy email invoicing and you get the money in 48hrs. Freshbooks-Paypal combo is good too. Or just send the invoice as an email (no need for a spreadsheet) and ask for a check in the email--doesn't have to be complica
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by pjbrunet 12y ago
I don't hate LinkedIn. It's a terrific resource. For what you're talking about, you could also try Meetup.com
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by pjbrunet 12y ago
I can't remember where I read this but I think Google's new "gold standard" for load time is < 1s. A couple of years ago I think it was < 3s.
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by pjbrunet 12y ago
I wouldn't trust New Relic charts. Maybe that is the source of all this disinformation. Get in the actual code and time everything yourself. If PHP is actually slow, you should be able to isolate the problem, like a loop within a loop
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by pjbrunet 12y ago
In that example, I bet WordPress on its own would have spent less than 550ms without having to replenish your cache layer. Also how much of that time was actually PHP vs. PHP waiting for MySQL? I bet if you scattered microtimers throughout
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by pjbrunet 12y ago
I agree. And that's just fine for 99% of the bloggers that will never reach 1 million pageviews/month. Most of those queries are unnecessary. But rather than fix the root of the problem, we put the whole database in memory. Run o

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