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by vec 12y ago
One of the main points of the article is that the only way to do Facebook-scale sites is to have an architecture that scales out horizontally without incurring any extra overhead, and that rails does so out of the box. So yes, you could qu
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by vec 12y ago
This is one of the more fun corollaries to Clarke's Third Law: "Any sufficiently advanced engineering is indistinguishable from wizardry".
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by vec 12y ago
> Would you prefer the alternative: a dark room full of defenseless victims? ...yes? Let's accept, for the sake of argument, that arming victims does in fact reduce or eliminate the ability of a mass shooter to inflict casualties.
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by vec 12y ago
> This is the problem, powerful people will be powerful and have an influence on society - through fame, money, etc. Absolutely, but that's exactly why the government needs to be large and do lots of things. Take minimum wage for e
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by vec 12y ago
Completely off-topic, but does the signature bug anyone else? > Skype: No way! That's nonfree (freedom-denying) software. > Use Ekiga or an ordinary phone call. "Skype is a closed-source, proprietary infrastructur
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by vec 12y ago
No, you need that 80k to argue that Groupon's proposed product would infringe your trademark. US trademarks are only good for the line of business I'm in. If I were to publish a software product called Mustang, for example, Ford
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by vec 12y ago
The things that beginners want are often diametrically opposed to the things experts want, and since everyone is by definition a beginner before they are an expert then they will tend to gravitate toward solutions that are beginner friendly
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by vec 12y ago
So what's the advantage of doing this over just using S3/CloudFront static hosting? In either case your attack surface is essentially that of AWS itself and S3 hosting seems like it would be much simpler (and almost certainly muc
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by vec 12y ago
Right, this. There's still a lot of experimental features that are implemented differently or not at all in one or more of the big three. But I can't remember the last time that I've had different browsers produce fundament
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by vec 12y ago
> You don't know me; and you almost certainly haven't seen the personal affects of depression up close like I have. I have, actually. The person I care about did not have any substantial pre-depression experience with mood alt
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by vec 12y ago
> Fast forward to that child as an adult; they have spent their whole life on behavioral modifying drugs and start to feel uncomfortable or dissatisfied with their lot in life. What are these "strange feelings", so off to the d
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by vec 12y ago
I can't speak for anyone else, but (almost) 20 years ago I was finishing off my public library's shelf of Hardy Boys books and starting to beg my parents for whatever the newest Star Wars novel was. I don't think anyone is s
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by vec 12y ago
Funny you should mention that. We've been using a plugin called Timber ( http://upstatement.com/timber/ ) that provides exactly this functionality. They have a starter theme, but since its a plugin it can safely c
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by vec 12y ago
I was curious about this myself recently and a conversation with my wife managed to clarify it a bit for me. She's very technically proficient but is not a hacker. She also uses Word for almost everything, which drives me crazy, but
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by vec 12y ago
I'm not a lawyer, so my reading of the licenses may be wrong. If so, please do correct me. As far as I understand, MIT-style license requirements can be satisfied by comments in the HTML or CSS whereas Creative Commons Attribution sty
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by vec 12y ago
> All icons are released under an Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International license. That's a bit disappointing. Adding a spot attributions to the page can sometimes be a nonstarter for a lot of the designers I work with. I really
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by vec 12y ago
I'm going to regret this, but here goes. > Oh, the same Anita that previously got caught with making fake death threat against herself Being accused of something does not equate to "getting caught" doing something. > th
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by vec 12y ago
He's obviously using the colloquial definition of the word "scam", namely "a completely legal and ethical enterprise with a business model that I, personally, disapprove of".
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by vec 12y ago
> They misinterpret this as a video series on "games that fail women and are therefore terrible", when she's just doing a series on "games that have these tropes." Except that I don't think she's even d
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by vec 12y ago
I'm starting to use Go as an arguably better Node. Very fast, easy (pseudo)concurrency, relatively nice HTTP capabilities in the stdlib. It wouldn't be my first choice for building a full library, but it works well as an interna
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by vec 12y ago
Not to mention that quite a few small companies don't have the ability to hire a dedicated sysadmin, IT staff, and/or customer support rep. These tasks falls to the engineers. Doing these tasks is almost certainly a suboptimal us
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by vec 12y ago
It's already happening. I've known about Exercism for a while and used it to teach myself Go. It was very effective and the feedback was immensely helpful, especially at first. But when I went through the Ruby track (a language
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by vec 12y ago
Based on personal experience, 5-10% of drivers. On my commute home from the office, there's a short stretch (about half a city block) between where I exit from a low-traffic residential street onto a main thoroughfare and where the roa
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by vec 13y ago
Inertia, largely. Postgres is more scalable and has quite a few nonstandard additions that are insanely useful from time to time, but it's not always a drop-in MySQL replacement. If you're just writing something simple like a bl
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by vec 13y ago
Yeah, but one of the big bullet points is that the tube should be at negative air pressure in order to reduce air resistance.
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by vec 13y ago
In this case the test was "substantive speech". IANAL, but my layman's understanding is that in order for some action to be protected under free speech laws it has to intentionally communicating some coherent message. So, fo
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by vec 13y ago
...and best practice is to omit it. Since PHP is a templating language any whitespace (other than a single newline) that comes after the ?> will be printed directly to stdout when the file is parsed, which is almost never what the autho
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by vec 13y ago
PHP files are all templates, and when used properly they're relatively good at it. The problem is that, since there's no built in concept of separation, you have to enforce it yourself. A lot of code written by beginners (myself
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by vec 13y ago
First, resist the urge to put code in your templates. Because the syntax is the same, it's very tempting to just declare a function or do a query in the middle of your HTML. You'll be happier in the long run if you don't ev
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by vec 13y ago
Needs more <frame>s! And I count a grand total of zero <blink> and <marquee> tags. C'mon people, if you want to party like it's 1999 you've got to step up your game!

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