thaumaturgy

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1. 1981.▲
   by thaumaturgy 13y ago

   I second this, too. HN has some very divided cliques.
2. 1982.▲
   by thaumaturgy 13y ago

   The HN leaderboard shows 100 users with > 15500 points, they mostly all seem to be active users, and the scores seem to be doing the usual long tail dropoff that such distributions tend to do. So I would expect there to be a ton of act
3. 1983.▲
   by thaumaturgy 13y ago

   I can't speak for other longtime HN users, but I wrote my own news reader and regularly browse threads that have disappeared off the front page. Anybody with an RSS reader or other similar thingy would do the same.
4. 1984.▲
   by thaumaturgy 13y ago

   This sounds like a feature, not a bug. :-)
5. 1985.▲
   by thaumaturgy 13y ago

   Thanks, I was missing quite a few. That list made me sad.
6. 1986.▲
   by thaumaturgy 13y ago

   Yeah. The TLD space has become pretty badly polluted recently. My registrar keeps sending me notifications of new available TLDs, and I have to update a piece of code in one of my projects every time. Here's a current (I think) list:
7. 1987.▲
   by thaumaturgy 13y ago

   Maybe they tried getting replication to work reliably on MySQL.
8. 1988.▲
   by thaumaturgy 13y ago

   I currently do 100% of my work on a 17" laptop (and right now I'm hanging out in a small town in the Sierra, watching a river flow by right outside my window). I'm not sure what you use, but I've found that just keeping
9. 1989.▲
   by thaumaturgy 13y ago

   > If it was unsafe or something like that then I could see the point. This is exactly the argument I've seen from EEs so far -- that Fluke meters are much safer than the knockoffs, and that the grey-with-yellow-trim color scheme i
10. 1990.▲
    by thaumaturgy 13y ago

    Wow, what an amazing and generous response from Fluke. I can't remember a better response from a company, ever, in a trademark / patent / copyright / licensing dispute. And it's all written in straightforward langua
11. 1991.▲
    by thaumaturgy 13y ago

    I've beaten 2048 (i.e., developed a general algorithm that consistently wins). Do you end up with game boards with more than one 128 tile, 64 tile, etc.? The game has a natural tendency to spawn multiple high-value tiles, and preventin
12. 1992.▲
    by thaumaturgy 13y ago

    I took a quick look at the IP data you just released. Extracted IPs then unique-sorted them and took a few random samples. Everything was Eastern Europe, Russia, or Nigeria. There are some broadband IPs and some pppoe (!) IPs in there too,
13. 1993.▲
    by thaumaturgy 13y ago

    If you're really actually in a bind, drop me a line (email's in profile). I'll give you a hand. If you're looking for advice on how to mitigate this yourself: - apachetop is a useful tool for this sort of thing, and sinc
14. 1994.▲
    by thaumaturgy 13y ago

    The end of the article raised a good point though: this is going to train people to click on links in emails that look like they came from their registrar. That's bad. The registrar is public information. The registrant's contact
15. 1995.▲
    by thaumaturgy 13y ago

    > In fact, the first 'problem' posted was also the first thing to be solved: a charity's website was running really slow and they needed help fixing it. That got fixed in 24 hours. That was also the first item I looked a
16. 1996.▲
    by thaumaturgy 13y ago

    Oh, bravo. That is nice. It took me a moment to figure out. For others: PHP allows you to increment strings, and if you try to do that, it follows Perl's habits ( http://perldoc.perl.org/perlop.html#Auto-increment-and-Au
17. 1997.▲
    by thaumaturgy 13y ago

    Hip developers are not allowed to acknowledge the existence of ... that language. Uttering its name is forbidden.
18. 1998.▲
    by thaumaturgy 13y ago

    Ken Popehat ( http://www.popehat.com/ ) might be worth contacting. Even if he can't help directly, he might know someone who can. He's about the closest thing the internet has to a folk superhero in law; he has a &q
19. 1999.▲
    by thaumaturgy 13y ago

    This is just a guess (and so a completely worthless comment), but I'd expect that http pipelining has something to do with it.
20. 2000.▲
    by thaumaturgy 13y ago

    For people interested in brutalizing their egos and learning how to think in some of the ways this article mentioned -- longer-term, more deliberately -- I cannot strongly enough recommend learning how to play Go ( http://www.brit
21. 2001.▲
    by thaumaturgy 13y ago

    But the article didn't talk about his values (because he wouldn't talk about them). It was just a tabloid exposé of a private individual.
22. 2002.▲
    by thaumaturgy 13y ago

    Thanks! I've bookmarked this and will try it in the future. But: as an experiment, I just turned off ABP and Google'd (heh) "yahoo support". One of the ads at the top was for http://www.aurasupport.com/em
23. 2003.▲
    by thaumaturgy 13y ago

    This is also a problem for search queries like, "yahoo phone support" or "apple phone support", both of which have bitten some of our customers in the past, directing them to call-in scams: "oh no ma'am, accord
24. 2004.▲
    by thaumaturgy 13y ago

    His lack of technical expertise is a very good reason to doubt his conclusions. We've consulted on a few local cases of suspected computer sabotage. (Hurray for small-town politics.) In only one did we find actual evidence of wrong-doi
25. 2005.▲
    by thaumaturgy 13y ago

    True. I was being maybe a little pedantic. Accidentally toggling Sticky Keys is fairly common, and also causes beeping on keypresses.
26. 2006.▲
    by thaumaturgy 13y ago

    (I have no idea what your technical expertise is like; please don't take offense to this.) Have you noticed whether the blinking cursor has changed from a vertical line to a block? If it has (or, maybe, even if it hasn't, dependin
27. 2007.▲
    by thaumaturgy 13y ago

    This is a pretty embarrassing piece; it reads like something you'd find on a conspiracy forum. 1. Keyboards don't beep. 2. There are lots of more reasonable explanations for text getting deleted than "state agency wanted to
28. 2008.▲
    by thaumaturgy 13y ago

    You would have to have a starter with quite a lot of torque for this to work. I have actually tried this before, in a 1972 J-4000 with a 258. The starter on that truck would make most other starters look like wind-up toys, but the truck wou
29. 2009.▲
    by thaumaturgy 13y ago

    I self-identify with this too. I am a decent juggler, auto mechanic, wood worker, gardener/landscaper, plumber, hiker, rock climber, group organizer, sysadmin, go player, and a pretty darn good programmer. I think generalists are the b
30. 2010.▲
    by thaumaturgy 13y ago

    Seems like that could be handled by your API, if you throttle requests by request domain. But, no worries, just curious.