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by secstate 13y ago
The end-game for this scenario is for the whole package to provide enough polish and other features that you'd be stupid to cobble together the OSS equivalents after you reached a certain level of affluence. And then it's the busi
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by secstate 13y ago
Haha, and then you wind up looking like the RIAA, suing your hoped-for audience. Only tone-deaf execs and greedy lawyers would sue their audience members. And before you say, "but they were stealing and so weren't going to be part
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by secstate 13y ago
Haha. I'm glad I'm not the only who did a double take when the Melbourne man, who we were led to believe completed the project, simply asked people for money and then hired a teen in Eastern Europe with peanuts to build the thing.
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by secstate 13y ago
But at that point you're hosting a file server, not just sending a 25mb file to a friend. Out of scope.
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by secstate 13y ago
A neat solution indeed, but for anyone capable enough to setup what you've concocted, why not just scp the files on a lowendbox.com VPS. You also benefit from an intermediary with a decent up and down connection for the person you&#x27
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by secstate 13y ago
Makes me want to go work on Self: http://selflanguage.org/ Also, flow based programming is just Self without an image environment like some Smalltalk dialects. Or am I missing something?
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by secstate 13y ago
It's ironic to me that your second to last paragraph is about the mentally ill not getting the help they need. That cries for help fall on deaf ears. Then you conclude with the idea that hate was the only thing that kept tribes of huma
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by secstate 13y ago
I would like people to appreciate that expecting 40% of your life to be spent on trivial entertainment and artificially introduced challenges is unreasonable and unsustainable. I would like the homogenization of culture reversed. I would li
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by secstate 13y ago
Haha, I was writing some flowery philosophical disagreement about Curtis' post, but this was way better. Note: I like a great many things he's written, but this just falls flat on its face. Makes me think of Paranoid Android. Fitt
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by secstate 13y ago
I couldn't agree more. The most apt analogy to explain this to non-tech folks I can come up with is how the automobile went from a hobby toy for the mechanically inclined to a tool people use everyday. There will always be a place in t
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by secstate 13y ago
__DBAs and Sysadmins (real ones, not these clowns who use nothing but chief or puppet and doesn't know how ./configure && make works) are becoming extinct purely from economical reasons__ As long as we're insulting pe
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by secstate 13y ago
Oh man ... flame war alert. The reality of course, is more nuanced. Rarely do absolutist statements like "Killing animals is wrong," bare fruit in the pragmatic reality of everyday experience. For one thing, freeing all livestock
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by secstate 13y ago
News flash, you do have a right to homeschool your child. Why wouldn't you abort a fetus if you knew it was going to be a fiscally bad decision as it would need help to breath it's entire life. We don't need loafers that can&
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by secstate 13y ago
And this is what I'm talking about. It's pure pseudo-science at this point and everyone involved has an emotional attachment to the cause. "Those assholes who don't vaccinate ... " "Those assholes who require m
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by secstate 13y ago
Nope. Very difficult to pick and choose vaccines. Hello, drug-resistant pertussis [1]. Wish we could leave that one out and not make things worse in the future. Also, really wish I could choose just measles and mumps and not rubella. Rubel
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by secstate 13y ago
Haha. Win-what? In my domain I am happily able to ignore almost all attributes of the Windows operating system. Well, except for IE <shakes fist of to the air>
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by secstate 13y ago
Why pip? pip uninstall psycopg2 or pip install --upgrade psycopg2 But I guess with easy_install you can fake it by running with -m and then deleting the errant egg files in lib and bin files. That's pretty easy, I guess. Oh but hey, yo
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by secstate 13y ago
That's all well and good, but the whole point of a scale is that students fall somewhere on it and it reflects work done in comparison to something. If not other students, then just patting ourselves on the back for a job well done. Wo
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by secstate 13y ago
At this point what is the logical argument for assigning grades during the four years of study, then? Why not simply rubber stamp a 3.9 GPA on everyone's curriculum vitae and call it a day? Oh wait ...
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by secstate 13y ago
Amen. And of course eventually we'll have something like a massive ecological disruption (or War with China) that will fuck everything up all over again and we wont have time to write asinine op-eds about "what's wrong with p
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by secstate 13y ago
Woah. That's the problem to a T. You hit it right on the head. You are not a special creature. There are approximately 6 billion other creatures nearly as capable as you trying to make a go of it right now, and a substantially greater
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by secstate 13y ago
The Elements of Style has been systematically debunked a number of times. White & Strunk frequently stated some crazy hard-and-fast rule and then broke it in their own usage of English in the next chapter. When you don't know the g
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by secstate 13y ago
While I agree with your statement on it's face, in the context of the OP, this is just whinging. The author is not just offering constructive criticism on a possible fork of NGINX, he's calling the NGINX business out for "wit
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by secstate 13y ago
Sigh. FOSS and NGINX as an example of FOSS have given us so much. If direct to syslog logging is what you're after, why not use Apache? As many people have pointed out before, Apache can certainly be hold a candle to NGINX if you put t
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by secstate 13y ago
I think the point about most other languages having package systems that exist independent of the compiler is a great analogy. It really is a bit funky when you consider how tied to Node/V8 all npm modules are. And as the OP said, Node
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by secstate 13y ago
Okay, cynic. Just kidding, I totally agree with your appraisal here. I think the real revelation, if you can call it that, is that there are certain sorts of projects that governments are inherently bad at. All you have to do is look at an
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by secstate 13y ago
A little off-topic, but I like how marketers trying to sell Win8 have to use fake application screenshots. Where are the actual apps that let you share blueprints? Oh, right. They're not sexy at all, and wouldn't benefit from a 4K
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by secstate 13y ago
Amen. I can't believe what people do for free, and that OSS has taken off at all. While there's room in this world for all kinds, my soul dies a little when someone comments, "wow, kids these days are so smart with computers!
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by secstate 13y ago
Not to be an ass or anything, but isn't there some irony in "Microlancer" criticizing orignality in marketing site design while his designer site epitomizes the currently very trendy flat style? Complete with high contrast co
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by secstate 13y ago
A fair point, and not condescending at all :) That is a major issue. Though I would argue that like many things in America, we have a false image of ourselves. Our school system is setup to be socialist, where everyone gets exactly 1 unit o

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