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by sc68cal 15y ago
Indeed. Myself, it took me too long to pair down my site. First I went from Wordpress+MySQL down to a Bottle+Redis ( https://github.com/sc68cal/homepage/tree/bottle+redis ) based site. This article then inspired me to go a step further and
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Apple's failure to update GNU software was actively impacting the security of OS X. Charlie Miller made mincemeat of OS X because of the sorry state of security of 3rd party utilities ( http://rixstep.com/1/20080422,00.shtml ). As Charlie M
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Excellent - thank you for clearing this up!
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Let's be blunt: Amazon is just another department store, except they have no physical storefront. But lack of a physical storefront doesn't mean they won't suffer the fate of all the unwieldy, poorly managed department store chains that ha
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I personally did not care for the article ( http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3552363 ) because it was not technology related, at all. The only link it had to anything technology related was where the author worked. If you don't like to d
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HN discussion of OS X dhcp fast resolution: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2755461 While it works, and works fast, many people raised concerns about the implications. A broad summary of the trade-offs are here: http://news.ycombinat
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Thank you for providing some revenue information about Tarsnap. I am very happy that Tarsnap is doing well financially, for my entirely selfish reasons: 1) This means I can continue using this great service. 2) I hope revenue from Tarsnap h
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I actually prefer grinding just before brewing coffee. It's a $20 investment, and well worth it. http://www.amazon.com/Black-Decker-CBG100W-Coffee-Grinder/dp...
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Right now, though, notes Levin, America is focused too much on getting "average" bandwidth to the last 5 percent of the country in rural areas, rather than getting "ultra-high-speed" bandwidth to the top 5 percent, in university towns, who
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I would argue that is an indirect beneift - the fact that my food arrives fresh and to my grocer. When I said direct benefit, I meant more along the lines of driving my car on those roads, which I do rarely. Still, excellent point.
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Secondly, go read the actual source cited by that Economist blog post. It's another blog post: Yes - I'm quite aware of the original source, I went and found the Economist piece after finding the GreaterGreatWashington post, because I fel
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This is another poor basis for public tax policy - the classic "I don't use it so I don't want to pay for it." First - part of living in a society is paying for things that others use that you may not, but which improves society for all. Se
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>The GOP wants to zero out Amtrak because it isn't cost-effective; it would have been bankrupt but for tens of billions of subsidies. Do you think that toll roads wouldn't go bankrupt, if not for the gas tax subsidy that they receive? I
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Because we haven't made it a priority. We've spent our resources fighting abroad and cutting taxes at home, leaving little money left over to repair our current infrastructure, let alone fund any ambitious public works projects. The Americ
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The GPL explicitly disallows revoking the license. It has occurred , however, that a company (Mattel) purchased a GPL copyright (cphack), revoked the entire copyright, went to court, and prevailed [1] This may not be entirely accurate. Ba
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That would be Objective-C
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I love that it's written with Bottle! I think that the other devs will get a kick out of that.
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>I learned this the hard way: you shouldn’t start with a huge .vimrc file that you copied from someone else nor should you install every single plugin that seems useful at that moment. This is probably the most valuable piece of advice
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Indeed, this is good news - there have always been a pull request or two on the Django GitHub mirror that would need to be closed and redirected to the Django project bug tracker, where they would need to generate a patch. This always slowe
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>Some of the complaints about skill shortages boil down to the fact that employers can't get candidates to accept jobs at the wages offered. That's an affordability problem, not a skill shortage. A real shortage means not being able to
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>So the statement "In this way the bank could artificially jack up the new company’s price," is the opposite of the truth You're taking issue with at what point Goldman Sachs takes their 6-7%, while totally ignoring the main point: Gold
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Anyone thinking about buying Groupon stock - check LinkedIn's after November when the lock-up agreement expires. LinkedIn, like many IPOs, had a lock-up agreement. That means that insiders and venture capitalists (or investors who bought th
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I might be foolish, but being able to say that you were in intense negotiations to have IBM acquire your app is still a HUGE deal. Even if it was not successful, it is a great story and demonstrates great potential. Congrats on your failure
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> In order to become a truly independent platform, Hulu needs to beef up its offerings so that the loss of any individual content partner would not be a big deal Absolutely correct. The main thing is that the only viable independent pla
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>Utilize your new hire to the max to offload some of your work and give him a trial by fire to catch up This is an excellent suggestion. Thank you!
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You make a great point. Being selfish for a moment, I also hope that his enthusiasm re-energizes me as well. Thanks for the insight, it is appreciated!
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Ask HN: What factors influence your hiring decisions?
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Indeed - this also indicates files that have deletion pending. A UNIX greybeard warned me about this as I was exploring the getdirentries() syscall.
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While the differences between the Android fork and upstream Linux will introduce pain points during the merge, Linus takes the long view and rightly points out that the Linux project is poised to inherit a huge amount of code that has gone
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>You know who else is extremely involved in politics? The Koch brothers and their companies seem to be doing just fine. Indeed, they've carved out a very large market for their enterprises, which has freed up time for them to dabble in

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