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by pweissbrod 9y ago
paulblyne fair enough I see your point. but what i find interesting is the willfulness americans will _permanently relinquish_ their rights and the rights of their descendants to the government in one case vs the other in the name of safety
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by pweissbrod 9y ago
:%s/sex trafficking/mass shooting/g :%s/gun control laws/internet censorship/g --edit: before you reach for that downvote button - im not conflating the two crimes they are both depreaved and horrible in their
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by pweissbrod 9y ago
:%s/sex trafficking/mass shooting/g :%s/gun control laws/internet control laws/g
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by pweissbrod 9y ago
> Is there cause for concern? Accidentally smoking your coffee and brewing your cannabis will make for a rough day I imagine
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by pweissbrod 9y ago
Have you ever used dbext? I dont understand your comment because it can handle multiple connections. Connections are referred to as named profiles. If you want to work with one connection at a time for safety sake you can use :DBSetOption p
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by pweissbrod 9y ago
having a consistent interface between local and terminal is ideal. being able to highlight any text in any buffer and say 'send this to DB and place results in new pane' is extremely usable. You dont see this sort of power in thin
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by pweissbrod 9y ago
This is a very nascent project but started by one of the best vim developers around, Tim Pope. As someone who has run into some of the rougher edges from time to time of dbext I applaud this effort and will closely watch progression
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by pweissbrod 9y ago
$35k is a number that sends a message. To me this message says "I dont really have a serious case. Let's keep things simple, you settle out of court and send me whatever you can afford" If someone sent me this sort of lawsui
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by pweissbrod 9y ago
It's interesting to wonder how crowds would receive Empire Strikes Back if it came out today. I wager it would get roughly the same praise about special effects in action and criticism about bizarre story as the most recent Disney epis
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by pweissbrod 9y ago
Maybe you work for a video game company? I find this standpoint unacceptable in environments that manage PHI PII or anything else involving people's privacy or financials. I get your point about the "I'm mature and experience
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by pweissbrod 9y ago
Totally agreed on this. Twice I've set out to develop DSls only to discover I've invented lisp again and again
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by pweissbrod 9y ago
Shipping early and working on stability later may work for something like a video game but not for a database my system depends on thanks
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by pweissbrod 9y ago
sarcasm aside this is a good point. there are a handul of features this tablet has above and beyond, say, a cheap notebook and kindle. it is a fair question to ask whom the difference in features (plus the extra hassle) is worth the differe
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by pweissbrod 9y ago
Adding the link to Doug Schifter's Facebook post before committing suicide in protest https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=1888367364808997...
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by pweissbrod 9y ago
That's fine. Right now I've seen several accolades on Hacker News which to a website that has pictures and videos of dancing lights and spinning paper with lots of hand waving around how all of this actually works. It's natur
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by pweissbrod 9y ago
Some of us are intrigued but can't pay a visit to the lab in person. I would love to see some videos that illustrate what you're describing and better understand how they would eventually synthesize into real life productivity
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by pweissbrod 9y ago
As I read it persona is more of an attempt at characterizing the mindset/psychology of the end user. Your description of persona is more like a user role serves as a grouping of use cases or user stories (which is still very useful!)
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by pweissbrod 9y ago
scary stuff ben_w look it up 3g support has been in the vPro line for the better part of a decade. call me a conspiracy theorist if you like but i'll bet you dollars to donuts wireless powerless remote management exploits exist in the
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by pweissbrod 9y ago
I didnt see mention of this in the article but I thought accessing a powered-off machine required usage of the 3G wireless support built in to the vPro line of intel chips.
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by pweissbrod 9y ago
transparent government is boring but highly desirable. you could dismiss sytem logs or open source kernels are boring but youre greatful for them when unexpected things start happening
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by pweissbrod 9y ago
Spycraft employed on innocent americans is where I start to have the problem. Maybe you're right that I'm being silly to hope this, but I aim to have more transparency on what level of surveillance I as an american citizen not (aw
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by pweissbrod 9y ago
> In response to questions from The Intercept on Tuesday, the NSA played down the alterations. Thomas Groves, a spokesperson for the agency, said: “It’s nothing more than a website update, that’s all it is.” ^^ Updating the wordage on
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by pweissbrod 9y ago
I just wanted to take a moment and write my appreciation for your fantastic work. Services such as duckduckgo are needed now more than ever. The fact that it is stable and responsive enough for me to depend on it 100% every work day is amaz
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by pweissbrod 9y ago
Agreed. If my goal is to trick people into not submitting claims it would be pretty naive of me to disable or hide the button. 'oh i'll just give up and eat the $X,000 charge because I cannot find the submit button?' Yeah rig
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by pweissbrod 9y ago
Im disappointed to confirm these are quite real. I've seen a particular case where a benefits enrollment page has a check box list where your selected enrollments at the top of the page _silently change as you edit fields near the bott
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by pweissbrod 9y ago
The monolith first approach has always served me well. Nascent projects benefit from portability because they need higher amounts of flux. As they mature let's assume they grow in scale and integrations and somewhere along the line it
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by pweissbrod 9y ago
I'm american. This time last year I had a minor bone break in my hand (not emergency, no severe pain). I have a preferred doctor who doesnt have an xray machine. Obviously getting an xray image is the first step before even talking to
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by pweissbrod 9y ago
Like you I have a handful of these I [push to github]( https://github.com/PeteW ). Like you I dont tout them publically ([well except one time]( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13271522 )) because: 1. I t
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by pweissbrod 9y ago
Quality spot for fixed price projects
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by pweissbrod 9y ago
Theyre similar to Perl in the sense that theyre extremely powerful and flexible but they tend to be highly customized to the business domain of their design. This type of languages enable a very small team of engineers to be profoundly prod

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