raylu

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by raylu 13y ago
> I usually hear nice things about Arch That's because you're hanging out with too many Gentoo users. The Arch Way[1] is stupid. Less broadly, it's a poor, knee-jerk reaction to Debian maintainers' over-zealous patching of software. Tru
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by raylu 13y ago
Well, specifically running only free software. While Ubuntu falls short of that goal, OS X is not even in the same league.
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by raylu 13y ago
My real beef is how readily Ubuntu installs proprietary software (like binary drivers) while having this "bug" in its tracker. Yes, yes, if you want to get anything done now , you need those drivers. And a lot of users wouldn't use Linux a
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by raylu 13y ago
> there are web browsers written in javascript Really? Where?
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by raylu 13y ago
> That if something is not 100%, exactly, totally, purely aligned to your personal vision it's fucking garbage, or worse, evil and bad. > I'm not arguing any further, you're clearly a zealot
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by raylu 13y ago
> Whether or not you change the world is up to the gods. No. Take some responsibility (and therefore, credit) for your actions.
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by raylu 13y ago
What are the benefits of Secure Boot?
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by raylu 13y ago
And what is it doing with that calculation?
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by raylu 13y ago
On average, chances are pretty low that a particular startup will ever make even a hundred thousand dollars, so stop starting new companies! It's not for either your investors or your customers to tell you what to build anyway. And just nev
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by raylu 13y ago
Searching for "sign cla", it appears to be a Contributor's License Agreement.
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by raylu 13y ago
A lot of these aren't Linux/POSIX projects so mingw/cygwin don't solve the problem. It could be as simple as a python project that needs to be bundled in exe form or a .NET project.
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by raylu 13y ago
Binary downloads are often important for Windows projects, though.
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by raylu 13y ago
I suspect that a lot of that context (or "buy-in") was missing, as it was when you explained it the first time here, which is why you got the response you did. A lot of people show up in programming communities asking for help with their in
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by raylu 13y ago
Puppet/Chef is overkill for a site running a config this simple.
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by raylu 13y ago
On the off-chance this is not a troll, > but most could if they were pointed in the right direction Also, I could make a killing investing in this here penny stock...
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by raylu 13y ago
First of all, you have a cool service and I don't really think any less of you guys for one line on a blog post. That said, in my view, that's the entire point of your service. Every language has an SMTP library; the hard part - the thing
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by raylu 13y ago
And when you want something that isn't being built for you? You _can't_ build it yourself at that point because there's no text interface to consume. My complaint isn't so much against SaaS as a whole as it is against things that violate th
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by raylu 13y ago
I think that's true for most things that don't follow the Unix philosophy and try to do too much. "Everything just works all the time, unless this and except for that sometimes depending on this but you can that."
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by raylu 13y ago
"It’s a game of cat-and-mouse that we didn’t ask to play, but we can hunt when we need to." As an ESP, isn't that pretty much the game you chose to play, both as the cat and the mouse?
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by raylu 13y ago
How 'bout we just go with the unix philosophy and let you build these things yourself so that they have a chance of actually working? Yes, I'm saying you should use IRC.
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by raylu 13y ago
I think you misunderstand sunk cost. Sunk cost basically just says to always employ a purely-forward-looking strategy when evaluating costs and benefits. > vs how much some other endeavour will take to become profitable AND how much it
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by raylu 13y ago
It's impossible to prevent all cases of social engineering with a purely technical solution, this is true. But that doesn't mean that we should disregard how much easier phishing attacks are with the advent of HTML mail. The goal here is no
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by raylu 13y ago
I think he's saying we should instead have text-only e-mail, because that's both standard and has a tiny attack surface.
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by raylu 13y ago
But for their sources? Am I missing something or is that obviously not OK?
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by raylu 13y ago
Since when was it OK to even subpoena reporters?
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by raylu 13y ago
> Logically, it follows that there would be measurable degredation in society over time, as long as workers keep procreating. What? New workers enter the workforce.
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by raylu 13y ago
Well, it wasn't last settlement price, it was average. It's just that nobody traded in these items so completing even a single transaction practically sets the price.
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by raylu 13y ago
I don't think he thinks of cynicism as a bad thing (and I don't either). It's hard to prove causation in any of these.
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by raylu 13y ago
I agree with everything you've said here, but I'd like to add something about startup time. If it takes you 5s to start up your server, that's a lot of time you've added to each development iteration. Make a change, restart the server, wait
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by raylu 13y ago
But you still get to do step 3!

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