tdavis

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by tdavis 17y ago
Hear, hear. I already have a general-purpose programming language that allows me to do most things relatively trivially. I want to know why I should add Haskell to my toolbox, not replace my perfectly good hammer with it. For instance, I le
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by tdavis 17y ago
Janitor
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by tdavis 17y ago
Everybody complains about the UI -- but it's domain registration! How often do you really use the UI? A couple times a year, maybe? GoDaddy is super cheap and reliable (for domains). Until somebody makes something better (and equally cheap)
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by tdavis 17y ago
As someone who beta tested this numerous times, I can tell you this is some ridiculously slick virtual meeting software. It reminds me of the Microsoft Surface a bit, the way you can manipulate stuff in and out of focus and so on. Very cool
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by tdavis 17y ago
I think you mean "across the board".
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by tdavis 17y ago
Because the code that generates HN pages was written in the laziest and least-accessible way possible.
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by tdavis 17y ago
Use iptables to limit access to it from only certain static IPs. Or just disable password logins entirely.
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by tdavis 17y ago
zsh is rather amazing. Only so if you are familiar with how it is better than bash (besides the fundamental ways) and how to configure it for maximum ownage! Much like complicated editors like Vim, it helps to try to dedicate effort to impr
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by tdavis 17y ago
I'd also take it on another site.
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by tdavis 17y ago
Oh, IS THAT ALL? Talk about living on the bare essentials! America isn't suffering from a recession, it's suffering from a populace that has no sense of responsibility or reality who just so happened to need a recession to point out their i
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by tdavis 17y ago
Yes, better to move further away from the fringes where they have experience and can actually be heard through all the noise. Moving into a crowded, commoditized industry with entrenched players where everybody sells the same shit is defini
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by tdavis 17y ago
Better than <insert sensationalist blanket statement to insight linkbait>. How about, Cloud Computing Making Dedicated Hardware Obsolete For Some . Was that so difficult? Took me 10 seconds.
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by tdavis 17y ago
I meant the good kind of lazy, so yeah, I wasn't really trying to insult you. Also, the idea that "some" people still do C therefore memory management isn't obsolete for most people is clearly flawed. As flawed as the absolute claim, "Clo
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by tdavis 17y ago
Your analogy makes sense, but it is as broken as the central idea in this piece, and they're both so for the same reason: Despite high-level languages, memory management is still very much a reality for many programmers. People still write
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by tdavis 17y ago
Christ, I'd rather pay the $400. A 2-year mobile brandband contract is practically useless for anything but very light usage, since the monthly limits are usually about 5GB. I don't really plan to buy a Crunchpad, but you'd think we'd been
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by tdavis 17y ago
I wish I had some ideas, I honestly do. All I know is that [I feel] the current system is woefully broken. How to fix it can be left up to smarter men than I.
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by tdavis 17y ago
That's a broken analogy. All domains start off costing the same. An apartment in times square always costs more than a 5-bedroom in Iowa, and for very tangible reasons. If I buy abc.com for a million dollars, it's not like that domain is in
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by tdavis 17y ago
I think a vast majority of the current problems would be fixed by auto-releasing squatted domains. There are no good domains left because they've all been squatted. They're hardly all taken up by actual sites.
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by tdavis 17y ago
Step 3: Install Keychain ( http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/keychain/ ), so you can actually use a passphrase like a smart person and not have to deal with ssh-agent and ssh-add nonsense.
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by tdavis 17y ago
Given that he went missing over seven months ago, I imagine somebody would have read the obituary by now. Or the missing persons report, or whatever.
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by tdavis 17y ago
The strategy of only doing it because you have to is one which probably allows for more sustained imbalance and lack of perspective (since the business is everything and must be done , etc.), but I think it is short sighted to believe
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by tdavis 17y ago
I found the only time this was remotely rewarding was when I noticed I hadn't checked HN for an entire day because I was just too wrapped up in work. Plus, I have way too many browsers installed for a Firefox addon to ever stop me. I don't
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by tdavis 17y ago
That wouldn't matter. After a voicemail is received, compare its attributes to recently missed calls. If there was a missed call from the same number that left the voicemail, chances are good the recent highlight can be removed.
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by tdavis 17y ago
This was my reaction (though not as strong as throwing away my phone ;) He could have stopped with the part about "don't use redundant dots" and I would've been all for it. The number is misleading, as is the annoyance of having to remove t
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by tdavis 17y ago
Xen
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by tdavis 17y ago
Since moving from private virtualization to the cloud, our site performance has degraded exponentially. So... it can always be even worse ;)
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by tdavis 17y ago
I'm convinced people don't even read what they write anymore. They just close their eyes, type some shit, and hit "Publish".
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by tdavis 17y ago
The "1984 take-back" was a huge blunder, but it didn't affect my copy of 1984, so the blanket statement that they're becoming "too powerful" seems a bit alarmist. The gay/lesbian book delisting was a clever hack and only made me laugh. I
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by tdavis 17y ago
Agreed. I only watched it for a minute or two, but I did see a couple that made me think, "Whoa, maybe everyone on the Internet isn't that stupid..." ;)
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by tdavis 17y ago
But that's, like, 6 characters longer! Better to further ruin the foundation of the Web by adding yet another URL shortener to the mix! P.S. I am convinced people just auto-submit all TC articles in the hopes that they'll get karma, because

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