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by sunchild 15y ago
If someone kicks your dog, and then apologizes, it doesn't change the fact that they're an asshole.
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by sunchild 15y ago
I keep seeing this sentiment around HN this morning, and I find it slightly irritating. The point is that legislation like SOPA exists because corporate lobbyists introduced it. By punishing the companies that support the bill, we undermin
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by sunchild 15y ago
Google really ought to distance itself from GoDaddy. It reflects poorly on them, and I'm quite sure that Google has enough leverage to do whatever it likes in this case.
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by sunchild 15y ago
So what are the excluded departments using? Hosted Exchange? I'm going to go out on a limb and assume that whatever solution they're using isn't any more secure. Even if you host your own mail servers inside Fort Knox, and hire and vet
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by sunchild 15y ago
Namecheap, if you can.
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by sunchild 15y ago
While I would never use them for domains, I did buy a $12 SSL cert back when everyone else was charging hundreds of dollars for the same thing. Before someone points me to a free SSL service, this was for an enterprise class application th
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by sunchild 15y ago
Careful, they'll autorenew those at a much higher price. Mine went up to $100+ when it renewed last month. I'm kicking myself for being stuck with that cert, especially since the GoDaddy badge isn't exactly the mark of trustworthiness.
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by sunchild 15y ago
IAAL, and I deal with this stuff all day every day. The language you quote above is a very standard mutual confidentiality provision. You left out the definition of "Confidential Information", but I'll bet you it's along the lines of "stuf
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by sunchild 15y ago
Actually, it's not purely opt-in. Remember when our tax money "rescued" the banks because of their reckless lending/investments less than two years ago?
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by sunchild 15y ago
I think the target market in Brooklyn is leasing backup/DR cages for big banks.
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by sunchild 15y ago
You're comparing an intensive 5 month apprenticeship to getting a university CS degree. My personal view is that neither will prepare you for a job as well as just building stuff in your free time.
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by sunchild 15y ago
Once something is "put into a box", the "box" is just another attribute of that thing. I don't think it matters whether the user is classifying stuff arbitrarily, or the system is implying those attributes.
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by sunchild 15y ago
I can't argue with that. To be more precise than my original post, Google may not be the best example here, since it implicitly sorts based on the vague notion of relevance, which is where the magic lives. I'll amend my original point to
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by sunchild 15y ago
I was talking to a guy who owns a warehouse in Brooklyn a few weeks back. He said he was turning a relatively small part of it (a few thousand square feet, if I recall) into a residence, and leasing the rest. He started complaining about
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by sunchild 15y ago
Engineyard + support is pretty expensive.
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by sunchild 15y ago
In my opinion, Google put the search vs. sort debate to rest a long time ago. For large, multifaceted datasets, search with faceted filters is almost always the right approach (again IMO).
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by sunchild 15y ago
The source has a solid reputation, as far as I know: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foreign_Policy
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by sunchild 15y ago
I think what's missing (for many of the people with trails of broken dreams, including me) is the ability to rally support for what you're doing. The best test of a good idea is whether others rally behind it. It's a crucial skill for mak
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by sunchild 15y ago
The premise that a tweet set off the parliamentary rule enforcers is fun. Also, is there anything more boring than a tweet declaring boredom?
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by sunchild 15y ago
Even the most rudimentary trolls use car analogies to summon little tempests. It's right up there with religion and Hitler.
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by sunchild 15y ago
Look, my point is that for $35K, a newly-built commerce site should follow basic best practices. It isn't exactly hard to implement, esp. if you're worth $35K. It isn't about someone stealing my account info – it's about evaluating what h
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by sunchild 15y ago
The correct way to handle this is to email an authenticated link that prompts password setting on the store.
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by sunchild 15y ago
I was more concerned that he paid $35K for a paypal-powered commerce site that sends plaintext passwords by email.
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by sunchild 15y ago
Serves me right for relying on cmd-o.
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by sunchild 15y ago
I really hate ST2's handling of project-wide file system controls on the left. Renaming a file keeps the old buffer open and I've been caught a few times re-saving under the old name. I've yet to figure out how to open a project directory
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by sunchild 15y ago
TM2 seems to have a similar function. Haven't tried installing on the server side though. Edit: Here it is... http://erniemiller.org/2011/12/12/textmate-2-rmate-awesome/
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by sunchild 15y ago
The complexity has a lot to do with how a contract is structured. A good lawyer avoids internal cross-references. They're like the GOTO of contracts. On the other hand, lawyers treat "sections" the way programmers treat "methods" – each s
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by sunchild 15y ago
I've put many hundreds of hours into making my forms simple and to the point. I've considered dropping them into a public github repo, under a simple attribution license. I'd really like to have other people fork them and make pull reques
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by sunchild 15y ago
Isn't it more likely that they have an inside man at a defense contractor?
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by sunchild 15y ago
To be clear, I don't consider it a "bad experience". It's my job to deal with the guys across the table. Let me play out for you every ERP negotiation ever: Me: If the system fails to perform to spec within the anticipated implementation

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