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by po 15y ago
My rule for customer facing interaction: when talking to a customer or client, always be one notch more 'formal' than they are. If they are in t-shirts and jeans, then a collared shirt with no tie is ideal. If they are in collared shirts, t
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by po 15y ago
I requested a pat-down two days ago coming in through Detroit while transferring and they said "sure!" and were pleasant about it. I was expecting a battle. Also, it's not that invasive a process. I think we hear horror stories about it b
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by po 15y ago
If you remove downvote, people will start to use 'flag' to censor people and you won't be able to trust it anymore. I think leaving the buttons but just separating the calculations is enough: mostly upvotes: keep it mostly downvotes: drop i
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by po 15y ago
You're absolutely right. Upvote and downvote should be separate dimensions not two extremes of one dimension. The opposite of up/down vote is apathy. By summing up and down votes, you are destroying data. There is no difference between a co
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by po 15y ago
This project is certainly not using Solaris which is now an Oracle product (and trademark) and not open source. It is based on Illumos (which originally came from an OpenSolaris kernel as you said) but my understanding is that OpenSolar
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by po 15y ago
They're really going out of their way to not use Solaris. SmartOS is comprised of the Illumos kernel (with ZFS, DTrace, OS-level virtualization and next-generation KVM) with BSD package management and a GNU toolchain. I used Solaris for
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by po 15y ago
It is definitely matter. The whole point of the article that we're commenting on is that it might not be matter. The root problem is that the observed doesn't line up with the expected. Is the problem with the observed or with the expecte
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by po 15y ago
I've always cringed at the name "dark matter". There is a discrepancy between what our models predict and what is observed and so we pick one of the possible explanations (there's some matter there that we can't see) and name it that. Then
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by po 15y ago
Just went through the slides... watching now. Very interesting. One thing that is a bit surprising is the diversity of key-value/caching technologies. I felt like there was a lot of overlap in capability between Varnish, redis, memcached, m
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by po 15y ago
When an post is only a few sentences of commentary and thousands of words of block quote, it's easy to mistake it for original content. Good article, thanks.
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by po 15y ago
Here's a link to the original instead of blog spam: http://www.voxeu.org/index.php?q=node/6851
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by po 15y ago
Because the email server (or application server or whatever is creating the text for that email) can access it to decrypt it. If that server gets hacked, then you can decrypt all of the passwords.
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I felt exactly this way until a few months ago when I tried Sublime Text 2. Love it; keeps getting better every build (which actually happen quite frequently).
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This reminds me of the recent video floating around the web (which I now can't find) of korean americans defending their stores in the LA Riots with guns and ad-hoc militias. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1992_Los_Angeles_riots#Riots_an...
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by po 15y ago
So one thing to keep in mind here is that according to NASA, the meteorite itself is generating these compounds: Thirdly, the team found these nucleobases -- both the biological and non-biological ones -- were produced in a completely non-
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by po 15y ago
I think you have that wrong. The virus travels up the nerve into the cell body. It stays there until the nerve (or you) dies. There it hijacks the cell's DNA machinery to create more virus. These new viruses travel back down the axion to be
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by po 15y ago
I suspect he was just way ahead of the adoption curve on that. I would expect the Dive into Python 3 book sales to pick up.
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by po 15y ago
What about a virus like Herpes which enters a nerve cell? My understanding is that nerve cells have extremely long lifespans so inducing apoptosis in them has the potential to destroy physical sensation no?
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Right that was my point... that the top 0.1% would probably have more. How did you arrive at the ~1k number you did? By extrapolating from general population incidence of sociopaths? That only works with even distribution.
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edit: Oddly enough Krugman just posted in his blog (I found it after posting this) about exactly this topic: http://krugman.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/08/04/wrong-and-right/
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by po 15y ago
That said, around 1,245 of the top 0.01% should statistically be sociopaths, which is a concern. Assuming an even distribution… which is unlikely.
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by po 15y ago
These are all great points. The White House has really done Keynesian economics a disservice by limping into it. Republicans are often labelled RINOs (Republicans in name only) by their own peers… Maybe we should start to use the (Keynesian
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by po 15y ago
With Patrick, you can do pretty well by just seeing what he's commenting on: http://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=patio11
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I'm getting excited about the ideas he is putting out there. ...the endgame that I'm trying to describe, is a future in which both "full stack" and "WSGI-centric" frameworks use a common protocol to provide their features to applications.
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WSGI, Web Frameworks, and Requests: Explicit or Implicit?(dirtsimple.org)
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This actually seems like a reasonable approach to me. WSGI isn't really friendly to application developers (because it's not the API they expect when they naively approach the problem) so mostly it's been wrapped by the various frameworks.
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That's what it sounds like… Unfortunately, we've been on the verge of understanding it for decades now and we're still spinning in place. Long-term good news is no help to those of us who are watching our loved ones die before our very ey
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by po 15y ago
I'm willing to accept that a rewrite might have fixed my issue and am willing to accept a close resolution until I retest and reopen. In this case it's, "nope, I don't believe you and you're up shit-creek until you can really prove it t
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The branch which attempted the defer keyword also had working code. The input was clean and the edge cases of what to do with return, try/catch, etc had been thought through. The stopping issue was twofold: Coffeescript cares about the re
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by po 15y ago
OK, now this is interesting. Like twisted or Node.js enabled a new class of web applications, this is offering a lot more than just another Rails/Django clone. I'm happy that there are so many frameworks to choose from based on your persona

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