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by pwaring 15y ago
I've never had a problem using Namecheap, their support tickets tend to be answered quickly and their prices are reasonable. They also used to charge $17.76 for a two year .uk domain registration, which was amusing.
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by pwaring 15y ago
I've found their recruiters to be polite, but they don't seem to do their research before contacting you. Explaining the "no, I do not want to live in London" angle to a US recruiter is also a bit tricky. :)
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by pwaring 15y ago
You can't claim copyright on a list of facts anyway, at best you might have a database right.
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by pwaring 15y ago
How many people actually do that though? GoDaddy's model seems to be like the banks over in UK - offer a great introductory rate (with a 'bonus' that expires after a year) and then allow customer inertia to set in. The fact that you can swi
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by pwaring 15y ago
I'm not a C expert by any means, but is there a need for another new version? Last time I checked, some compilers hadn't even got round to implementing C99 (e.g. Visual C++ doesn't support variable length arrays). Even gcc hasn't got everyt
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by pwaring 15y ago
It's how Facebook refer to their 'coders', and in many ways it's a better word because it suggests something more than just hacking [insert language] all day. For example, an engineer might be concerned about how their code fits into the bi
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by pwaring 15y ago
I don't know where you're getting this "massively increased hardware and hosting costs" from - we run our trading platform on bog standard x86_64 hardware, as has every other PHP site I've worked on (some even run in VMs with 500MB of memor
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by pwaring 15y ago
Because you can get a web application up and running quickly in PHP, then tune it later if and when your application needs to scale to 500 million users (which it probably won't, because only a handful of sites reach that size). There's als
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by pwaring 15y ago
There seems to be an assumption within the tech industry that startup == total dedication to the company, including 60 hour weeks and a lack of family time (which might put some people - male and female - off). I don't understand why this h
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by pwaring 15y ago
The comparison with CPAN was more to do with the abandoned modules - if you go onto CPAN you'll find lots of modules which were created years ago and then never updated, but they still show up in search results.
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by pwaring 15y ago
I think it's a bit unfair to suggest that all jQuery plugins have problems (I use the validation plugin and it is excellent for catching mistakes before a user submits a form and starts the backend processing). I see them as being in the sa
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by pwaring 15y ago
Some charities do employ their own staff, because they want greater control over the process and staff who know about the charity, rather than agency staff who might be 'selling' a different charity each week. Even if they're an agency, the
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by pwaring 15y ago
Do you have any figures to back that up? Most charities here in the UK publish their expense ratios (i.e. how much is spent on admin, fundraising, on the actual good cause etc.) and they tend to be fairly efficient.
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by pwaring 15y ago
Said I hadn't visited any of the sites, except HN (which is easy to guess since news.ycombinator.com will be in the HTTP_REFERER field...). If I re-run the test it still gets some sites wrong (says I haven't visited them when in fact I have
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by pwaring 15y ago
Looks pretty smart, I really hope this project succeeds because as an ex-academic I find it almost impossible to get hold of information about research, and particularly papers. One thing which could be improved though is the lack of canoni
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by pwaring 15y ago
The headline is technically accurate, but I suspect most people don't know the difference between x-ray scanners and millimeter-wave scanners and assume if a scanner shows underneath your clothes then it is an x-ray.
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by pwaring 15y ago
Not only are you being forced onto his schedule, but unless you've read his blog post you won't even know what his schedule is. If I go away on holiday, I reserve a few hours of my first work day when I get back to scanning through email an
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by pwaring 15y ago
"They just disappeared sometimes. Cause unknown." If the cause is unknown, how can you blame it on a given piece of software?
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by pwaring 15y ago
Herb Sutter, whose blog post is the subject of this thread, has written a few books. I enjoyed C++ Coding Standards in particular.
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by pwaring 15y ago
I've used it in the past to learn how a distribution is built from, well, scratch. :) Nowadays distributions like Ubuntu allow you to install a full system with just a few mouse clicks, which is great for usability but not much use if you w
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by pwaring 15y ago
Perhaps they use Automated Linux from Scratch? http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/alfs/ Although there's little documentation to speak of, so I can't tell whether it helps with upgrades. If you want to build from source and tinker with compi
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by pwaring 15y ago
I think the difficulty most people have is that Stallman is, or at least comes across as, an uncompromising idealist. Whilst there's nothing wrong with that (we need some people to stick to their guns), most of us are pragmatists who have t
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by pwaring 15y ago
Both are listed as valid pronunciations according to the Oxford English Dictionary: http://www.oed.com/view/Entry/251510
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by pwaring 15y ago
Well, it scales within projects (see Linux kernel for a good example of a distributed project run by a mixture of volunteers and people paid to work on it), it doesn't seem to scale as well to projects working together.
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by pwaring 15y ago
"community development simply doesn't scale" I think that depends on what you apply it to. Community development seems to work well enough for individual projects, but not in-between projects (see amount of duplication caused by LibreOffice
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by pwaring 15y ago
Bit late, I've already done that. :) Although I don't remember hearing any horror stories, other than an amusing anecdote about how his ultra-free netbook wouldn't connect to the wireless, whereas the proprietary Macbook worked perfectly...
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by pwaring 15y ago
I don't think it was posted to the mySociety list in order to criticise RMS, more a notification of what's in store for anyone who is thinking of organising an event where he is a speaker. You certainly wouldn't want to go ahead without hav
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by pwaring 15y ago
I don't know why, but it's a new one since 2008 (I hosted a RMS talk then and still have the rider).
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by pwaring 15y ago
Google will let you filter searches by date, it's there under the More Search Tools -> Custom Range option. If I choose Last Year, I don't see most of the Perl 4 stuff. The problem is that people looking for a basic Perl tutorial may no
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by pwaring 15y ago
There's a HTML version available (the build scripts are available on GitHub), so it could be readable on the web.

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