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by robmil 14y ago
For some (entirely irrational, I'm sure) reason, the idea of constant and automatic deployment of my dotfiles across all my boxes gives me the shivers. I like that extra bit of control I get from doing it with a git repo.
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by robmil 14y ago
They're owned by their members (hence the name), and operate pretty much exclusively as an old-school retail bank without any of the other banking activity that tends to at least wander into ethical grey areas.
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by robmil 14y ago
They have two thousand servers total; that includes database servers, memcached servers, regular backends, and load balancers. Peter Westwood gave a talk on WP.com's infrastructure in London in January; I've tried to find slides online but
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by robmil 14y ago
It's called HyperDB, and they did indeed release it: http://codex.wordpress.org/HyperDB
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by robmil 14y ago
Does anyone else think this is, well… a really hideous idea? One of the few not-terrible things about being in a plane is that it's one of the few places free from the cacophony of other people's phone calls.
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Boeing to add cell coverage to planes by 2013(news.yahoo.com)
1 points by robmil 14y ago|2 comments
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by robmil 14y ago
Stewart Lee has a brilliantly cutting routine about Joe Pasquale's joke-stealing, if anyone hasn't seen it: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0YE9Kthyaco
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by robmil 14y ago
There's also an interesting parallel with standup comedy. At least here in the UK, the stealing of jokes by mainstream comedians from alternative performers is — while not accepted — viewed by the victims of the theft as just one of those t
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by robmil 14y ago
The argument (which I'm by no means seeking to make) would presumably be that knockoffs don't necessarily have to capture the same spirit as the original in order to devalue the original — and, indeed, the very fact that they don't capture
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by robmil 14y ago
That's the big question, with a universal application: that tension between the fact that knockoffs have a diluting effect on the original, and the idea that if your idea can so readily be copied it's perhaps not worthy of protection.
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by robmil 14y ago
Especially interesting when viewed in the context of recent patent disputes in the tech world. To hear Teller talk and to hear his performances described conveys that ethereal, intangible quality that "the real thing" has and that knockoffs
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by robmil 14y ago
An alternative might be for the user to be able to request that the block is cleared, and for that process to send out an automated email; if the user clicks the link in the email, the block is cleared. It's no less secure than a password r
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Teller on theft in magic(esquire.com)
156 points by robmil 14y ago|77 comments
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by robmil 14y ago
Instead of freezing the account until it's unlocked by customer service, why not just lock it for increasingly longer periods of time? 2 seconds after the third failed attempt, 3 after the fourth, 5 after the sixth, 10 after the seventh, et
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by robmil 14y ago
Is this sarcasm? You clicked "Allow"; what would you expect of an application to which you granted access to your keychain, other than for that application to thereby gain access to your keychain?
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by robmil 14y ago
That's not what a double negative is: neither of those words are negatives. Pejorative, maybe, but it's not as though they cancel each other out like "not not" does.
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How and why to use social media icons(digital.bigfish.co.uk)
1 points by robmil 14y ago|0 comments
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by robmil 14y ago
I'm not sure if it is excessively literal, though; if Facebook disappears within 10 or 30 or 50 years, presumably all of the data on Facebook will disappear with it. Even ancient civilisations kept orders of magnitude more records than ha
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by robmil 14y ago
Since MD5 hashes and bcrypt hashes are recognisably different: when the user next successfully logs in, check if they have an MD5 hash; if they do, use the password they just submitted (that you know is correct) to generate a bcrypt hash an
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by robmil 14y ago
Also interesting is this collection of "poetry" generated by Racter after it was released to the general public: http://www.101bananas.com/poems/racter.html It's interesting how, long after one is aware of the complete randomness of outpu
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Racter: a 1980s, oddly (randomly) profound "AI"(futilitycloset.com)
1 points by robmil 14y ago|1 comments
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by robmil 14y ago
underscore-cli is utterly brilliant for this, even better — dare I say it? — than traditional log files with cut/grep/awk. Being able to treat logs as a dataset that can be mapped/reduced/flattened/grouped/otherwise analysed is life-changin
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by robmil 14y ago
Vintage mode is admittedly getting more complete every day, but as a regular Vim user the absences that exist are often a jolting distraction — attempting to use some command that doesn't exist jerks you out of your flow and it feels so ine
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by robmil 14y ago
Oh, not at all — but it does make the potential hubris of a rewrite (slightly) more understandable. When you have no time for a rewrite because competition is fierce, the question never really comes up; it's not necessarily the conscious av
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by robmil 14y ago
That, and a reflection of the ecosystem as it was when TM2 first started development; it's a lot easier to countenance a full rewrite when you're by far the dominant player in your particular market.
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In praise of TomDoc, or: why JavaDoc/phpDoc should die(digital.bigfish.co.uk)
1 points by robmil 14y ago|0 comments
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by robmil 14y ago
While that's true, is there any scope for attack through images? It's a generally interesting point though, that feeds into questions of what the general purpose of SSL is. This still has benefits for the end user — the café owner/hotel com
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Automatically avoiding mixed-content warnings when using SSL(digital.bigfish.co.uk)
4 points by robmil 14y ago|3 comments
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by robmil 14y ago
There's a great project for doing the actual lazy-loading, called Socialite.js: http://www.socialitejs.com/ You can work to whatever actually hooks you want (onscroll, onhover, etc.), and then just call Socialite to actually replace the l
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How to do SSL on the Rackspace cloud(digital.bigfish.co.uk)
1 points by robmil 14y ago|0 comments

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