raylu

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by raylu 14y ago
Would you have not chosen an ad hominem attack if he had prefixed his opinion with "in my opinion?" Would you demand that everyone post that way?
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by raylu 14y ago
No. He's annoyed that a company tried to automatically detect whether or not he was reading the e-mail and got it wrong . The only thing worse than having to manually do something is to have it automatically done wrong for you.
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by raylu 14y ago
There are a lot of other tools that use hjkl. Most commonly `less`, but also pentadactyl ( http://5digits.org/ ) and a lot of tiling window managers.
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by raylu 14y ago
Managing configuration on multiple computers is a pretty easy problem to solve. http://git.raylu.net/dotfiles/tree/
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by raylu 14y ago
Have you considered swapping Esc and Caps Lock instead? Caps Lock is not very useful so tossing it into the corner makes sense to me.
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by raylu 14y ago
It seems you're making an argument of the form "it's too difficult to collect real evidence. In fact, here's an example of a way to collect real evidence that is ridiculously difficult. Since we cannot collect real evidence, we need not
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by raylu 14y ago
From the beautified app.min.js: function a() { e = e || Q("number_of_seconds"); d = d || Q("searches_count_num"); f = f || Q("searches_count_unit"); var a = ~~ (((new Date).getTime() - h) / 1E3 % 86400)
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by raylu 14y ago
This might be because it's ambiguous which submodules you want to update if you have nested submodules. In other words, git knows "exactly where that is" by searching parent directories until it sees a ".git". Unfortunately, submodules also
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by raylu 14y ago
It would be pretty annoying if I ran a search or a follow (shift+F), thought it was taking too long, and hit Ctrl+C right after it finished. Ctrl+C doesn't mean "end this program." If you want that, consider Ctrl+\.
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by raylu 14y ago
No. If something is wrong with the current network config, don't automatically muck around with it so that I can't troubleshoot the problem myself. It's important to understand the current state to figure out how you got into that broken st
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by raylu 14y ago
I don't think anybody expects to build a great product during just the hackathon and I'm not sure where you got this impression.
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by raylu 14y ago
I felt it was dishonest when I got to "good fat camp to lose my Groupon 40." It seems he tried really hard to inject humor and trivialities into the letter.
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by raylu 14y ago
The sensible config syntax is the reason I still use lighttpd. http://wiki.nginx.org/IfIsEvil
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by raylu 14y ago
What is the point of the "Better Browsers" section on that page?
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by raylu 14y ago
I don't think this is regulatory capture at all. Regulatory capture is when those charged with making rules meant to limit the powers of a group are in bed with that same group.
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by raylu 14y ago
Minor point: GitHub wiki's have git access. https://github.com/[user]/[repo]/wiki/_access
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by raylu 14y ago
Where'd you get those numbers?
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by raylu 14y ago
I've had the opposite experience, similar to http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5209207 . I'm using a VPS so I'm not really looking for support. On a few occasions, the machine has gone down because of some maintenance or some issue that
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by raylu 14y ago
Different cameras and software will do different kinds of automatic white balance correction but nobody will screw it up so bad that you can't differentiate black from white.
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by raylu 14y ago
JavaScript uses camelCase; the C functions use_underscores. Mixing and matching the two has been a complaint about the entire PHP library for a long time.
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by raylu 14y ago
The "being a burden to his family" bit really stuck out to me. That is something that has been deeply embedded into east Asian culture for a long time and would not be at all strange for an Asian to say. On the other hand, it's not somethin
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by raylu 14y ago
Yes, but GitHub makes a lot of money by hosting something that is open-source: git.
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by raylu 14y ago
I think github.com is the best example of #2.
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by raylu 14y ago
http://hackingdistributed.com/2013/02/14/whats-nosql/
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by raylu 14y ago
Actually, that's the only one that smells like BS to me. The others have clear meaning and goals.
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by raylu 14y ago
And the fact that, unless you identify as "bot", you get disconnected for inactivity and reconnecting spams your logs with repeats of conversations. Oh, and the fake roster pushes, gibberish names for guest users, and the fact that you can
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by raylu 14y ago
I suspect he has given up on collecting.
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by raylu 14y ago
While I agree CloudFlare handled this poorly, there is this reply on the blog from Matthew Prince (CEO of CloudFlare): Both enabling "I'm Under Attack Mode" or routing the traffic direct are both supposed to generate an automated message to
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by raylu 14y ago
I suspect you are not part of his target audience.
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by raylu 14y ago
and sometimes even 'case' to denote the case-insensitive version. To be fair, that's copied from libc (and a lot of the other naming in the string library too): http://linux.die.net/man/3/strcasestr

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