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by poink 12y ago
I recently started a business that uses it. It was a good fit for the data I needed to store, and the nature of the product is such that even if I'm wildly successful I probably won't ever need more than one database server.
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by poink 12y ago
The only point made in this entire article is that Python 3 is "killing Python" because a lot of Python 2's libraries haven't been ported. Your quoted statement might not imply what I said, but this article damn sure d
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by poink 12y ago
Apparently the only measure of a programming language's worth is how many libraries it has. Alright, boys. Pack it in. We're all going back to C89. Don't try anything new, because you'll never catch up.
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by poink 12y ago
I'm pretty sure this fails to take into account DMX's rich canine vocabulary.
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by poink 13y ago
The webfont used for the boxes down the right hand side seems to render really poorly in Windows w/Chrome.
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by poink 13y ago
I think your tone is a bit condescending towards people who have names that don't fit our norms, but to some extent I agree with you. Let's be honest, for every person with five hundred characters in their real name there's g
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by poink 13y ago
This seems like the simplest answer. What about most modern large companies would inspire loyalty from their employees?
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by poink 13y ago
Hey look. More creepiness re: Snowden from ArsTechnica.
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by poink 13y ago
Being 6'5, my knees hate these numbers.
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by poink 13y ago
> I mean who would ever say "It's the most exciting thing I've done this year" for a site like this? A typical tech blogger.
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by poink 14y ago
There's no way to answer that question broadly, since it depends on which other sources of information law enforcement can consult in a given case. For what it's worth, unless you retain data forever, it's always possible to delete it the d
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by poink 14y ago
"One in every five page views on the Internet is a Facebook page. If you think the Internet is valuable, then you implicitly think Facebook is valuable, too." Holy logical fallacy, Batman.
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by poink 14y ago
This article could be republished verbatim in The Onion.
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by poink 15y ago
My takeaway from this post is that raganwald drastically underestimates the complexity of Enterprise Java FizzBuzz.
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by poink 15y ago
This is silly. The vast majority of yesteryear's kids didn't want to go anywhere, either. The Lost Generation were the youth of WW1. The Greatest Generation were the youth of WW2. More young people in the 60's went to Vietnam than have ever
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by poink 15y ago
I've never used Cloud9 before, but that just worked for me on a Xubuntu VM. As a Vim fanboy, I'll be giving it a shot.
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by poink 15y ago
There are ways around this. You can do pair programming with screen sharing and VOIP, for example. As a company/manager/lead you might have to enforce good practice, but that's also true in the office. (The less your team needs to worry abo
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by poink 15y ago
"readers who start picking up indie authors realize they need someone to sort through the dreck for them." Right, but you don't need a publisher to do that. Algorithms are great at it.
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by poink 15y ago
This is kind of like wanting a "toned down" PETA. People don't devote their lives to marginalized causes without either having or picking up a twinge of zealotry. If you want those people to stand up for causes you mutually believe in, you
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by poink 15y ago
I've shot myself in the foot enough times with "trivial" or even "one character" edits that everything goes through the normal source control + deploy process.
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by poink 15y ago
"If Airbnb pays for this incident, they effectively become an insurance company." If they don't, they very well might become a non-company.
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by poink 15y ago
It's better to be controversially beautiful than universally cute. Well done, guy.
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by poink 15y ago
Can't you just tell them to stop contacting you? Works for me thus far.
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by poink 15y ago
"Mashable has a pony!"
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by poink 15y ago
I have a big list of stuff I want to do or learn. I try to use my leisure time to tackle that list.
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by poink 15y ago
This has to be at least like 5 years old given that Michael Eisner is listed as the CEO of Disney.
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by poink 15y ago
I was going to say the same thing. I've been using Scala as a "better Java" for a while now, and the argument that Scala is too complex is kind of baffling. Take your Java code, remove almost all the type info, and add some nice syntactic s
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by poink 15y ago
In most non-casual games it's all about maximizing how many commands you can issue. WoW (and SC2) have interfaces for which a large part of the interaction is only efficient at all with the mouse. If you then depend on the mouse for other
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by poink 15y ago
This post seems ridiculous. Modernizr is "bad" because it depends on JS, but the alternative solution suggested is to go back to user agent sniffing and just do it on the server side. I'd forgive the author for not knowing why user agent sn
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by poink 16y ago
I think RMS's most likely response to this article would be, "If I hadn't been so crazy, you wouldn't have written about my talk at all." If I were in his shoes, I'd be crazy too.

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