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by vec 13y ago
No, but even read only access to private repos is a problem. A lot of that code belongs to my employer and I can't in good conscience grant access to it even if I want to. I'm not sure why having an empty account is something you
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by vec 13y ago
I think your github oauth request is a bit broad: The app Upboat will be able to: * Read your public information. * Read your private email addresses. * Update your public and private repositories (Commits, Issues, etc).
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by vec 13y ago
In other news, sky still blue. I just spent the better part of a week rewriting a traditional Wordpress plugin to be an AJAX backed AngularJS widget. I have never before seen a system work so hard to discourage you from doing the right thi
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by vec 13y ago
I'm guessing that it's stealing the small and large grids from Zurb Foundation.
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by vec 13y ago
I think "consistent" is the operative word there. On a desktop app, if I change something it changes the entire experience and only for me. On the other hand, if on my theoretical distributed github host I decide that I hate mar
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by vec 13y ago
So Github is a good example of why the traditional open/closed dichotomy falls apart on the web. The things that make Github really valuable are by definition closed. They own a well-known URL and have a ton of content behind it. I k
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by vec 13y ago
I got the impression that NYC's objection was less about revenue and more about the city's management of housing. New York has a pretty severe supply/demand discrepancy when it comes to housing, and they've taken pains for a long time to t
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by vec 13y ago
Yeah, but we're all geeks here. It can't be that hard to splice together some custom CSS to make hacker news look like whatever you want. Let me just click view source and OH GOD PG FOR THE LOVE OF ALL THAT IS HOLY WHY ARE YOU USING NESTE
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by vec 13y ago
I'd even go a step further. Do away with welfare, food stamps, unemployment insurance, minimum wage, etc. Instead, move to a basic income[1] system. Everyone (well, every citizen between, say, 18 and 67, when Social Security kicks in) get
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by vec 13y ago
Off topic, but it turns out that eagles don't actually sound anything like that. A real bald eagle cry is an amusingly unintimidating high pitched chirp[1]. [1] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hlq2kcYQcLc
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by vec 13y ago
325 EUR is a lot cheaper than I was expecting. I'd be curious to know how much of a premium they're paying for ethically sourcing their components. If the percentages are as low as that price point suggests, it gives me a lot of hope for
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by vec 13y ago
It's not an issue of feeling entitled to service. If there were no free email providers, or if the paid services were noticeably better on any of the axes I care about, then I would be happy to switch to a paid provider. But gmail exists,
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by vec 13y ago
Part of the "functionality" was UX. The start menu was designed to be easy to use with a mouse. The layout was compact, it was heirarchical and made heavy use of hover as a mechanic, and it tended to weight important things toward the bot
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by vec 13y ago
Exactly. Good two-factor authentication is not hard. World of Warcraft, for example, has had an excellent real-world implementation for years now. It's actually sufficiently not hard that I'm not sure there's really room for much innovat
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by vec 13y ago
I can't imagine users being satisfied with a solution that requires them to either use a specific machine or have a physical artifact with them to login. It just feels too much like a step backwards when everything else is moving toward li
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by vec 13y ago
> As the company sold 5,000 cars in the quarter, though, $13,600 per car was paid by other manufacturers, who are going to pass at least some of that cost on to buyers of their products. The article compares pollution credits to bribery
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by vec 13y ago
Yeah, feels like it's targeting the people who need this service least. Bay area is geek central, or so it's reputation suggests. I just moved to Albuquerque, which is beautiful and scenic and has no existing nerd scene. A tool like this
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by vec 13y ago
Plus since it's (kinda) supposed to be a prequel to NextGen/DS9/Voyager it has to cram itself into that thin wedge between more futuristic than now and noticeably less futuristic than we imagined a decade ago.
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by vec 13y ago
Generally the application itself. Listening on an http port or a unix socket is pretty easy in most modern languages. Then use a normal HTTP server like apache to listen to incoming connections and proxy them on to whatever port on localh
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by vec 13y ago
Yes, any half-decent PHP framework will have some solution for this. CodeIgniter, in particular, gets around it with a combination of .htaccess files in every root directory, index.html pages in every subdirectory, and a boilerplate `defin
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by vec 13y ago
Largely because with big business in general, and especially with medicine, modernization is more of a political and economic problem than a technical one. There's been medical records keeping software that's better than paper for 30 years
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by vec 13y ago
Of course you can, but most of the time you don't want /blog/index.php?slug=title-of-the-article, you want /blog/title-of-the-article. To do this in a CGI-style app (i.e. mod_whatever) you've got to mangle the URL in the webserver layer.
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by vec 13y ago
Because mod_php is one of the main things that said hackers don't like about PHP. 1 file to 1 url does not scale to even small blogs, and using mod_rewrite to handle routing is both more complicated and less powerful than port forwarding t
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by vec 13y ago
Speaking as someone who made this exact jump a couple years back, here's the big differences I remember. * The languages are very different, syntactically. Ruby's blocks and enumerators really don't have an analog in PHP, and they'll take
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by vec 13y ago
Off topic, but 5 words? I know external constraints force creativity and all that, but there's just not that much one can actually say in 5 words. Besides, wouldn't 130 characters (~20 english words) have been more in keeping with the spir
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by vec 13y ago
I've got to say "cool" is not the first word that springs to mind when I think about setting up shop that close to Sol.
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by vec 13y ago
One of my professors in college put it in a way that stuck with me. All source code has to be compiled by (at least) two different machines; the compiler and the programmer's brain. The machines have radically different parsers, but must
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by vec 13y ago
Status cats. http://www.flickr.com/photos/girliemac/sets/7215762840946712...
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by vec 13y ago
It's idiomatic to use the if so you can do this <?php if (have_posts()) : while (have_posts()) : the_post() ?>  <?php endwhile; else : ?> <!-- no posts found, show a de
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by vec 13y ago
The reason that many people think the WP loop is badly constructed is because it entirely works by side effects. A (very simple) WP loop looks like this: <?php while (have_posts()) : the_post() ?> <h2><?php

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