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by secstate 13y ago
Amen. You said it better than I did. Slashdot is not just an aggregation site, is was Taco's baby and reflected his ambitions to curate a meta-news site and a healthy community. The irony I find with the recent beta backlash is that Sl
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by secstate 13y ago
Announcing an intention to establish a Slashdot replacement seems like a pretty silly move. If you go back to the genesis of most news aggregation sites, rarely were they announced with pomp before being unleashed. Usually they're buil
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by secstate 13y ago
Come again? North Atlantic Right Whales are already functionally extinct. Fin Whales are still on the endangered list as are Blue Whales. No major whale population has been removed from the endangered list since being placed on it. And yet
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by secstate 13y ago
Fish farms are some of the worst pollutants in the ocean. Remote stretches of Patagonia are becoming cess pools of salmon shit as a result of salmon farming. Don't get me wrong, there are sustainable ways to farm fish and other seafood
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by secstate 13y ago
I imagine the discussion at these big companies goes thusly: Programmer: "I'd like to use Ember.js to build our new tablet app." Manager: "Who built Ember.js? Who supports it? Where did it come from?" Programmer: &q
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by secstate 13y ago
Not sure if I'm being an old fart here or not, but what the hell happened to writing? The title of this post makes reference to an existing ethics board at Google, and then the third paragraph, without mentioning anything about an ethi
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by secstate 13y ago
The short answer is, we don't know. The longer answer involves a lot of evidence that we can't hurt it that much. But then again, in the 1900's farmers were forced by law to dump their waste ag chemicals into the Atlantic oce
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by secstate 13y ago
I'm pretty sure Rails, et al, use a single point of contact because that's kinda what web servers do. I actually shivered a little bit thinking about an app where each url was in a new file somewhere. I mean, ack is only going to
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by secstate 13y ago
Ah, but there be monsters in that sea too. I used to subscribe to the many-focused-models camp, but depending on the relationships you're trying to model, that can become damn-near unmaintainable as well. I've actually begun build
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by secstate 13y ago
Well, maybe if they hadn't combined the US and Canada PyCons, folks excluded would have a better chance of attending one or 'other ( I kid, I kid). Seriously, it's a bummer that this apology took so long, but it says a lot ab
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by secstate 13y ago
Argh! But he just gave an account of how it's syntax is often contradictory, and it's primary implementation slow and prone to scaling issues. Just because some orgs can wring a production system out of it does not mean it's
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by secstate 13y ago
I never said Yale shouldn't be held to such standards as individuals are. I merely pointed out that, as much as we'd like to believe, and our laws try to contain, organizations of people are by their nature amoral. You can wish Ya
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by secstate 13y ago
An institution does not have emotions, just like a corporation does not have morals. It's not capable of being an asshole or your best friend. That's what they meant. In order to call Yale a dick, you'd first have to personif
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by secstate 13y ago
This here is the crux of the issue. Young, impressionable people believing what the school is selling. And you can argue till the end of the Earth about who's fault it is, but the reality is that the world is full of people who are in
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by secstate 13y ago
I agree that there's no reason to assume that Salt discourages the use of a feature that clearly required time to implement. But in the docs and videos I've seen of the new interface the words "way slower" come up over a
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by secstate 13y ago
Thanks for the great tool! I think the GUI and REST API a pay-for service was a smart decision and will hopefully allow you guys to keep building out the project while also making a living. Not sure where the confusion about Ansible being n
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by secstate 13y ago
Ansible playbooks read about a million times more obviously to me than salt config files. Probably that's just due to me putting in the effort to learn, but I think there's a thread of truth in there too. For one thing, Ansible ma
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by secstate 13y ago
I just spent a few days bringing a fairly old website on Django 1.2 up to the latest and greatest stable release and was surprised how, with good test coverage, you can just swap the new library in, fix broken tests and try running it, fixi
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by secstate 13y ago
Toss in a healthy dose of MIT becoming a shell of its former hacker-self, and Harvard being, well, Harvard, and I'd say Cambridge is the least exciting aspect of the greater Boston area. Besides the fact that Bostonians are most defini
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by secstate 13y ago
I couldn't agree with you more. I'm here reading hacker news in a rural town in Maine (a summer town on the coast, granted, but hey, it's winter ... ). I love your note about cities being stuck in the era they shine. That&#x2
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by secstate 13y ago
No, but you can do some pretty straightforward electrical engineering math to determine that 22-guage speaker wire will fail in that case. Show me the physics and math that show failure with a USB cable. One of the major issues here is that
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by secstate 13y ago
I stand corrected :)
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by secstate 13y ago
Haha ... funny to read about people scratching their head over Self. I feel like once you've wrapped your head around the Squeak version of Smalltalk, your about 50% of the way towards understanding Self. It's not a language the w
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by secstate 13y ago
I don't think I really understand the limitations we're talking about. No you wouldn't ever want to write an app that had real-time elements in pure Django, but isn't that what Celery is for? I bet with a solid messaging
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by secstate 13y ago
But you've just missed Alex's whole point. You're fine. 98% of PyPI downloads are not. That's a startling statistic, and argues that something IS necessary, rather than the status quo of shaming the top 1000 Python packa
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by secstate 13y ago
Snow overlay on an icon? Hacky and tacky all in one fell swoop. (slow golf clap)
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by secstate 13y ago
I find it funny how polarized folks seem, especially with regards to what Spotify is doing wrong. But I suppose when you mess with someone's music you're gonna tend to draw the ire when things don't work exactly as they are s
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by secstate 13y ago
I was supporting thenmar's conclusion that there are still things to recommend Spotify over Rdio. The HTML5 bit was my aside, given that one of the comments to thenmar was with regards to it's user-interface. And I suppose I shoul
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by secstate 13y ago
Um. Maybe you covered this, but have you ever just saved an album as a playlist? Actually, in this regard, I think Spotify discovered the post-physical-media world: An artist's latest album is just a playlist they put together with som
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by secstate 13y ago
I would also add that, sadly, rdio has not kept up with Spotify's library. It also seems built less around the user's interest and more to get new music in front of people. Probably great for the artist's reps, but when Drake

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