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by rit 17y ago
> Author: If you want to learn Python's real mantra, try typing "import this" in the interactive shell. One of the lines you'll read is "Explicit is better than implicit," which should give you a clue as to why there is no "implied this
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by rit 17y ago
> They look like ordinary bad keyboards. They aren't (in my opinion, and by basis of the construction thereof). The keyboards they carry are japanese imports most of which use Cherry switches. They also, unlike the Das Keyboard, have
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by rit 17y ago
Apple is already using something similar (if not this device) in their stores. I noticed last week in the 5th Ave. Apple Store in NY that the guy had an iPod Touch with a card reader/barcode scasnner as opposed to the windows mobile device
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by rit 17y ago
A few thoughts come to mind here for me. First ... So don't take a stereotypical coding job; whatever your definition of that may be. I've personally in general avoided big companies my whole career to avoid what I see as the stereotypical
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by rit 17y ago
Insurance companies regularly engage private investigators to spy upon and photograph people they suspect of fraud, or whom they just want to find an excuse to stop providing benefits to. Sadly, I don't know how controversial or different
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by rit 17y ago
Exactly my thought when I read this. IIRC he wrote one of the early TCP/IP implementations as well, which a lot of OS' still use a derivative of. And dns and mail rely upon. The wikipedia article links specifically to a sadly abandoned pr
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by rit 17y ago
All of the things you've tried are steps down the right path, but I hate to say the one thing I don't see you mention is a new KEYBOARD. The keyboard is a tool you use every day, during those 40 hours. A poor keyboard is guaranteeing murde
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by rit 17y ago
What is the actual likelihood of someone still happily running IE6 to install Chrome Frame? When forced to deal with frontend stuff, I have wasted more hours of my life than I care to count at least trying to get basic rendering in IE6.
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by rit 17y ago
Fair enough. In hindsight: - I'm at the point where my brain mostly parses out all the speculation crap, I come across it so often. There was good tidbits in there covering some of the contract issues, etc. - I think the "Good article" w
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by rit 17y ago
Unfortunately it sounds jus like a lawyer wrote it. He is obviously ( as he mentions in his preamble ) aware that this is going to be broadcast outside the walls of BYU. But he is incredibly circutous in his argument. He waxes philosphical
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by rit 17y ago
Good article. Once upon a time, I wrote a series of opensource iSync plugins for the sidekick/hiptop platform, back when Danger first opened up their XML-RPC Service. Then it came out that in order to run in "production" (e.g. on a phone wi
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by rit 17y ago
Add the complexity I dealt with last year in that I'm actually currently living in New Jersey (A punishment in itself). So I can't even get any extra benefits from the city, and Jersey tells me "Oh, you worked in NY, so you're their proble
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by rit 17y ago
Can we just point out that it was clearly a #BackupFail ? No matter WHAT the deployment mode was, the lack of backups is what has turned this into an issue, NOT the SAN or "Cloud" failure.
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by rit 17y ago
Oh, and you still have to take federal taxes out of that $405... Either New York State will do it for you ahead of time or you can file with your end of year taxes. Either way, I don't recommend a long stay in the unemployment line in New
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by rit 17y ago
The part that people may miss, as I don't believe the article mentions it: $405/week is New York State's MAXIMUM unemployment benefit. That's the equivalent of an annual take home of just under $20k. In 2008, New York City defined it's own
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by rit 17y ago
It's linked in the highscalability article but, for simplicity, the video of the presentation that Bryan from Basho gave on riak at NYC NoSQL is: http://bit.ly/riakNYC the slides are embedded through the video to help with clarity.
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by rit 17y ago
I ran the conference and have been shamefully behind in cutting all the video. So far I've only gotten the video linked in the article done. Working on more today. They should all be available on that vimeo page when all is said and done. T
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by rit 17y ago
Oh, I don't disagree MySQL's replication is a pain in the ass as well - but the barrier to entry is much lower and from the outward appearance (e.g. looking at it for the first time) it looks easy and functional. Slony on the other hand ap
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by rit 17y ago
Honestly the deal killer for me with Postgres has always been replication. I believe they're rolling out a replication package as part of the standard distribution soonish, but previously it was stated as "not a core feature". There were o
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Video from NYC NoSQL: Bryan Fink on the riak data storage system(vimeo.com)
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by rit 17y ago
Don't get me wrong - this is really cool, and looks great. But... The problem I think is that this stagnates Hacker News in many ways. I don't see an easy way from that page to upvote something. One thing I note is the lack of a downvote
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by rit 17y ago
I should also mention this is being held in the evening, starting at 6pm. Having never submitted before, I think I didn't realize links don't get hyperlinked in submission. The linked URL to signup/details is: http://anyvite.com/events/ho
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Tell HN: NoSQL NYC Meetup/Mini-Conference - this Monday Evening (Oct. 5)
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by rit 17y ago
Oh, not just the domain. The actual path of the article is: /2009/09/26/richard-stallman-smeared-for-truth/ Which makes me think he rethought his headline after originally writing it. Again, reiterating my earlier statement... If you want t
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by rit 17y ago
This is a fairly old article from the beginnings of Ximian (hint at it's age that it was still called Helix Code). And most of his points are valid - Linux had a LONG WAY TO GO at the point he wrote this. Ximian did a lot to change that.
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by rit 17y ago
Additionally, FWIW, the entire GUI is done with Interface builder rather than MonoDevelop. MonoDevelop fires up interface builder, and then quietly rebuilds the backing code when you're done editing. So they haven't completely reinvented
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by rit 17y ago
Tune out for awhile. I find shutting out everything I normally do (like watching TV, playing games, and especially anything work related) for a day or two, and reading a book helps a lot. If you need to, step away from your normal environme
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by rit 17y ago
This is a much more... reasonable explanation than "GitHub offers the largest free storage quota among the big SCM hosters, and we came to the conclusion that we didn’t want to subsidize that quota for non-Ruby developers.". Which had me ho
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by rit 17y ago
I'll be getting final details out this week, but there is going to be a mini-NoSQL event in NY October 5, in Chelsea.
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by rit 18y ago
When I changed jobs last year, I briefly was at a place where all developers were on Windows (After 2 years of having a Mac at work). I started digging around, and there's a Windows "clone" of Textmate which is built to also fully support

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