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by robomc 10y ago
And a huge pile of cash, right?
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by robomc 11y ago
Water pumps.
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by robomc 11y ago
Only ones with a presumed irreversible tipping point.
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by robomc 11y ago
Yeah, if only modern humans had a rich, widely understood, system for presenting strings of data visually, which we spend millions of dollars each year teaching everyone we can, and which is already a pre-requisite for using 95% of all onl
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by robomc 12y ago
He's definitely meaning something along the lines of 'plausible' - 'the possible' here means 'what we consider possible'. I think the quote makes that obvious though. If you hammer everyone's parse er
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by robomc 12y ago
> Do let me know where it goes. :|
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by robomc 12y ago
True it would make it difficult to do third-party tracking across multiple sites (unless there was server-side information connecting your accounts, like an email address). And leaving aside browser fingerprinting. That could also just by a
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by robomc 12y ago
Seems like anything a server could do via cookies, they could also do via your client-generated session id. Servers which currently drop lots of individual cookies on you now, would just start dropping that data in the server-side session d
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by robomc 12y ago
Anyone have a link where I can read about these 'client controlled session identifiers'? I can't picture an approach to web app sessions which isn't essentially equivalent to a cookie (in terms of privacy, and ability of
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by robomc 12y ago
Why not just.... not use Uber? That seems like a massively inconvenient workaround to use a service which really only offers a mild convenience (over, say, a regular taxi).
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by robomc 12y ago
That's a little bit hyperbolic. I bet if you took the last 12 months, the average petty criminal has done more genuine experiential damage to people's lives than even the most intense nerd/hacker.
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by robomc 12y ago
There's really no analogy there at all.
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by robomc 12y ago
All laws contradict someone's freedom. So the issue is always more nuanced than that.
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by robomc 14y ago
I agree it's self righteous, but yeah, basically. Most businesses in the world focus on products, customers and profitability, not trendy lines of funding (and the non-tech "startup" scene has notably better rates of success - no googles, j
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by robomc 14y ago
Tend to think the issue here is that start-ups are putting funds into hiring random people because they think it will help them suck up to celebrities and pseudo-celebrity investors, instead of concentrating on building worthwhile products.
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by robomc 14y ago
Leaving aside the fraud question, my gut says if you hire someone as a consultant because you saw them in a bunch of photos with celebrities, or because you heard they went to xyz corporate parties, you deserve what happens. Don't make lazy
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by robomc 15y ago
Why is domain name supplier a community matter... does the community vet decisions on data-centres or server software?
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by robomc 15y ago
> and many startups, such as Reddit Can you call a 6 year old site, sold to a major media conglomerate, with some of the highest traffic on the net a startup?
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by robomc 15y ago
Yeah, this is a stubborn hipster design decision, which the post author is trying to propagate through hero worship.
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by robomc 15y ago
Still can't decide if Vim is actually worth all this trouble, or if it's a cult.
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Emerging trends in web development, 2011(robmcgrail.com)
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by robomc 15y ago
So, would you have solved it by a more readable form of metaprogramming? Seems to me it's either that, or copypasta. (Could still be me being a noob, but I can't see some other architectural means of avoiding a choice between either duplica
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by robomc 15y ago
Worth noting though that this can go too far the other way. I've definitely written things where, in my refusal to repeat myself, I've made a hard-to-read mess. Here's an example from when I was very first starting out with ruby: http://pa
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by robomc 15y ago
Right, I guess that sort of rewriting of CRUD situations would be nice in some cases. Although in real applications, most of your methods are complex enough that you'd want them to be multiline blocks, at which point it would start to get r
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by robomc 15y ago
Anyone got a 'why not Sinatra' for this?
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by robomc 15y ago
Yeah see what you're saying. I guess my angle is that the original Heroku (before they had cash and time to add more support) had a tight limited costly scope - it concealed the complexity of deploying a rack app, and charged $50-100 a mon
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by robomc 15y ago
Exactly, and Heroku isn't simple. It's just simple for you, because it places you in an actual end user role. (Which you pay for). Heroku is no doubt complicated as hell for the people who developed it. So if the argument is that developing
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by robomc 15y ago
He mentions things in that rant that I have no idea about, but I can get plenty of stuff done on Debian (as an example) - coding command line apps, creating services, deploying webapps... I mean, it sounds like he's doing some pretty fiddly
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by robomc 15y ago
I've been using datamapper recently - I like it, but would be interested to hear what makes you like it so much over the others (which I haven't used, except for a smattering of ActiveRecord).
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by robomc 15y ago
If you're making something run linux that didn't run linux before, then you're a hacker, in the classic sense.

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