rhymeswithcycle

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by rhymeswithcycle 15y ago
Two million bucks is the great dividing line between middle-class comfort and worry in America right now. Is this irony or just staggering cluelessness? A family net worth of $2 million puts you in the top few percent. (From http://www.f
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by rhymeswithcycle 16y ago
... if you're getting the checksum from a trusted source that is separate from the package distribution server, or if the checksum is cryptographically signed. But I've never seen people get up in arms about someone publishing, say, a githu
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by rhymeswithcycle 16y ago
How is this the slightest bit different than faking a site and altering the binary/source package on the other end of a regular old Download link? (edit: Oh. You're doing user-agent sniffing for curl. Fair enough, but this still isn't any l
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by rhymeswithcycle 16y ago
I've always used the browser RSS button precisely in order to add feeds to Google Reader -- I feel like that's the button's main use case. It's an immediate, standard way to see whether a page offers a feed, and to quickly save the feed in
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by rhymeswithcycle 16y ago
Can anyone share their experiences with this? My understanding is that the TN will let someone with a CS degree take a "Computer System Analyst" job, but you have to show that the job consists of requirements analysis and architecture rathe
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by rhymeswithcycle 16y ago
The author achieved a big speed increase with a faster disk, more RAM, adding indexes, and rewriting slow queries. The relevant skillset is "knowing a thing or two about databases", not "full-stack programmer".
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by rhymeswithcycle 16y ago
Nope, the governor signed the bill and said he wouldn't veto it.