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by singular 13y ago
Not to moan on every single dropbox thread but... I wonder whether the issues I (and others) encountered with large numbers of files would be a lot more likely to occur with a business account where that number of files is quite likely to o
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by singular 13y ago
On the docker without AUFS point - we also got docker working rpi using the device mapper instead, so it's very possible :)
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by singular 13y ago
Awakening from a nap to see something you worked on #1 on hacker news is quite nice :-) hope people get a kick out of this!
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by singular 13y ago
Would a malloc (alone) work? Doesn't it typically act as if the memory were allocated but not actually use physical RAM until the data is filled?
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by singular 13y ago
That guy seems to have been pretty stupid, to be frank. Used the same postbox for all letters, and didn't put enough stamps on some packages. I don't think this in any way suggests somebody with basic common sense couldn't be
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MacKenzie Bezos Writes Amazon Review for Jeff Bezos Biography(amazon.com)
255 points by singular 13y ago|157 comments
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by singular 13y ago
> To their credit, it sounds like you should have been using source control all along. I reply to this only so people don't think I am negligent enough to not use source control! Yes I use source control, but there are these periods
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by singular 13y ago
I don't want to belabour my points, so I'm deciding not to continue too much further in these discussions (I've come to find internet arguing is somewhat pointless regardless of the rights + wrongs of the issue at debate), ho
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by singular 13y ago
Ok, so just pop up a warning in this situation. It's been a year and a half at least they've acknowledged this problem, so prevent somebody from having a non-functioning product - wouldn't take much effort. The problem is t
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by singular 13y ago
Ok, that's fine, so what is there to stop dropbox from popping up a warning when this limit is exceeded? Or for there to be some means of deleting things from the server side without having to manually click through to delete N files a
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by singular 13y ago
I strongly dislike the strain of negativity that seems to be typical of hn these days, but... I don't think it's totally unrelated, as I always very much admired dropbox as a company and technically, and had the sense of them bein
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by singular 13y ago
As I said, very easy to achieve as a developer (I hadn't done anything crazy), and the symlinks were working up to that point. Even as a non-typical dropbox user (a developer, then), I think there should have been some kind of a warnin
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by singular 13y ago
Though they have been very successful, it's a pity that in my experience they have turned into something of a big co in the way they deal with customers and quite sneakily hide important technical limitations from hackers who might wan
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by singular 13y ago
Not to mention a number of incredibly nasty + negative posts I've seen on here on many occasions. I have spent time away from hacker news on 2 occasions just because I found the non-constructive negativity too much. Hacker News might n
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by singular 13y ago
Yeah, working now thanks!
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by singular 13y ago
Seems to be down :( getting a heroku Application Error
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Ask HN: Good Alternative to Dropbox?
2 points by singular 13y ago|1 comments
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by singular 13y ago
Yes, I tried the cocoa version and that's what I'm referring to. I recall having real issues in particular with ansi-term not having the environment correctly set + simply not being able to resolve that. I'm pretty sure I had
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by singular 13y ago
> There are other options, like Aquamacs, which are supposed to make Emacs more "Mac-like", but they're problematic in the long run because they're set up so differently from standard Emacs that it's difficult to
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Elaborate French Bible Rendered in XeTex(tex.stackexchange.com)
2 points by singular 13y ago|0 comments
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by singular 13y ago
When I first clicked on this I assumed it was over the blatant homophobia in Russia, but no it's over them giving asylum to a whistleblower because if he goes back to the US he will almost certainly spend the rest of his life in jail +
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Crowdfunding a New Strategy Card Game(kickstarter.com)
1 points by singular 13y ago|0 comments
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by singular 13y ago
I'd be interested to read about your issues with it. It is definitely weird , but I don't think it's for its own sake, rather it's adding a new layer of abstraction which will always come off as a bit strange until you
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by singular 13y ago
I have used both in my startup job and vastly prefer angular to backbone, however I think it's not quite an apples to apples comparison as angular provides a lot more than backbone. That isn't meant as a criticism of backbone pe
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by singular 13y ago
I think the creepy skype call to the guy's friend ups the probability that the guy is less than innocent. But it's not totally impossible.
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by singular 13y ago
I can understand (though find it ridiculous) that they didn't want to give his wife a ticket, but to propose simply leaving her outside the venue alone? What the actual fuck? Was there not a human-based moment of common sense here, or
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by singular 13y ago
Really fantastic hack. I love the fact you can interact with a piece of real-life hardware (and move it, too) from anywhere in the world with your phone, that adds a sort of emotional-rather-than-logical magic to it :)
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by singular 13y ago
Clearly here on hacker news criticising the blessed points of a high karma user like yourself is not permitted (it's costing me karma) so I ought to stop. It's obviously true you can say things about a publication without reading
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by singular 13y ago
Say 'Why didn't you just X before jumping to conclusions?' out loud and tell me it's not rude. It also presupposes that my only reasonable response would be to read the whole report and criticise its contents, whereas I
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by singular 13y ago
You assume the rudeness is in being told to read it, rather than the tone of that. Actually it was the way he went about it, like I said, without that preface to his comment it loses no content and gains civility. There was no need, and my

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