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by samdk 16y ago
I'm pretty sure that was intentional (or, at least, part of the joke), since there's this text right above it: Also you can get your own infograph done for about $150 bucks from "derri_hasmi at yahoo.co.id", although proof reading
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by samdk 16y ago
Linux has been doing this for a lot longer than Windows has. (Which I only actually know because there was so much FUD about Vista's pre-fetching when it came out.) edit: Sorry, getting prefetching and SuperFetch confused.
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by samdk 16y ago
The short answer: not a whole lot. A government or other entity with enough resources could probably compromise the anonymity of a significant amount of the traffic going through Tor. It's generally accepted that if an attacker controls the
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by samdk 16y ago
Creating a simple, inefficient Prolog interpreter (that has most of the core functionality) is pretty easy (as far as implementing languages goes), especially if you're using another functional language to do it. I think it can be done in
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by samdk 16y ago
There's a very big distinction between saying "I consider X harmful" and "X [is] considered harmful". In the former, it's very clear that you're expressing your own opinion. In the latter, it's implied that your opinion is "the" opinion, an
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by samdk 16y ago
The traffic graphs linked in this post [0] are an interesting addition to the "How often do you visit HN?" poll [1] that was done a week ago. From the graphs, it looks like there are about 10x as many page views as unique IPs. [0] http://y
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by samdk 16y ago
As other commenters have said, he meant the book was a commercial disaster. However, that's probably at least in part because Python 3 adoption has been really, really slow in general, in large part because it's backwards-incompatible and a
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by samdk 16y ago
I think it's just important to know a little about a wide variety of things as it is to know a lot about a few specific things. Breadth and depth are both valuable. I ended up doing something similar to what this author tried to do starting
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by samdk 16y ago
Yep, you're right that a single GET request has some problems. We don't right now (because we wanted to get feedback ASAP), but we will definitely be checking from multiple nodes (running on multiple different providers) by the time we're c
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by samdk 16y ago
Custom CSS/branding and an API are the next two big things we're planning on getting working, so that's good to hear. :) thanks!
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by samdk 16y ago
Yeah, the homepage definitely needs to be redone. I did that, did the rest of the site (in a completely different style), and haven't gotten a chance to take a look back at the homepage yet. Thanks for the feedback. (I'd also appreciate oth
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by samdk 16y ago
Yep, the custom messages/status overriding will be accessible through the web interface soon, and an API is definitely in the pipeline. We wanted to get something out the door quickly though.
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by samdk 16y ago
This is not so much for me, but if you have anything you didn't like about it, I think a lot of people would really like to hear about it. The most negative blog post I've seen on HN was something to the effect of "it wasn't the right fit f
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Ask HN: Review my winter break project (statusdot - hosted website status pages)
38 points by samdk 16y ago|21 comments
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by samdk 16y ago
This has been posted before, but is worth reading if you haven't. http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1195641 -> a few comments http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1476425 -> lots of comments
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by samdk 16y ago
Other than not being directly integrated, what's wrong with http://searchyc.com/ as a search engine?
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by samdk 16y ago
Agh. Here's me still thinking it's still 2010. Yeah, unfortunately things really haven't changed since the review: we're still on the same major version (2.6) that we were when the review was published. (Hence the comment at the end about
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by samdk 16y ago
The 8-bit color limitation issue is well-known and has been for a long time. The solution is GEGL ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GEGL ), which has been under development for a (very) long time now and is partially implemented in GIMP 2.6, t
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by samdk 16y ago
I read this comment, went to look at it, and still clicked on the header just because I couldn't believe it wasn't actually a button. Calling it "not very good" is a lot nicer than it deserves. It makes no sense to sacrifice functionality
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by samdk 16y ago
Once you get to doing real tasks, I think that this is very definitely true. However, from my experience TAing intro programming classes (2 of them, both targeted at non-CS majors) the syntax is still a huge roadblock for a lot of people wh
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by samdk 16y ago
2010 was, for me, the year of JS-related technologies. (I'm actually rather disappointed I haven't had more time to check out Clojure and to use Haskell and Scala more--I was doing quite a lot of front-end web stuff.) 1. Socket.IO ( http://
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by samdk 16y ago
Ruby on Rails ( http://rubyonrails.org/ ) ColdFusion on Wheels ( http://cfwheels.org/ ) DOS on Dope ( http://www.secretgeek.net/dod_intro.asp ) Haskell on a Horse ( http://haskell.on-a-horse.org/ -- site seems to be down) Cobol on Cogs ( h
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by samdk 16y ago
No, that's not the case at all. Tor does not claim (and never has claimed) to protect against attackers trying to do what's described in the article. Tor provides anonymity only, not full end-to-end encryption. If you don't want your mess
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by samdk 16y ago
I'm not really sure I understand your question. RVM is a tool that can do all of that for me, and it's used and vetted by a large community. I don't know why I wouldn't use RVM. RVM automates the compilation step. I'm not sure why I'd wan
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by samdk 16y ago
RVM is hardly a 'random hodgepodge of flavor-of-the-week deploy scripts'. RVM is widely used throughout the Ruby community and for good reason. I'm really not interested in getting into some back-and-forth flamewar about this. (There's been
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by samdk 16y ago
It really is very good advice, and installing Ruby/RubyGems through the package manager is almost never a good idea ( especially on Debian-based distros) for several reasons. Ruby is a language that moves very, very quickly. On "cutting-ed
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by samdk 16y ago
Thanks for all of the work you've put into this, Steve! It's been really nice to see someone as dedicated as you are working on Hackety Hack. I'm downloading it now, and I'm looking forward to checking it out later today if I get the chance
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by samdk 16y ago
Chat should go on the bottom. Why? People (at least people reading English) read top-to-bottom, and chat messages very rarely make sense out of context: when someone is reading a chat message, they're almost certainly reading a conversation
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by samdk 16y ago
This is linked in the article, but you can watch the author write this article here: http://ietherpad.com/ep/pad/view/somers-atlantic/latest It's really interesting to watch someone else's writing process and see how that compares to mi
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by samdk 16y ago
Google might be a very nice place to work, but there are plenty of reasons one might not want to work there. Google might be a lot more dev-friendly than most big companies, but it's still a big company. Even at Google, that means you have

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