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by wtracy 10y ago
I've never worked with PHP before, so basedir meant nothing to me. A minute with Google turned this up: http://php.net/manual/en/ini.core.php#ini.open-basedir I have to say, for all the general brain-deadness
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by wtracy 10y ago
The current YouTube app for Android still uses the iOS share icon rather than the Android one.
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by wtracy 10y ago
I'm inclined to believe the claim that "unlimited vacation" was originally a way to get around having to compensate employees for unused vacation days when they leave the organization.
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by wtracy 10y ago
If there's going to be a human being in the loop reading the comments anyway, why not take it one step farther: Community management as a service. I know of companies that pay salaries to full-time community managers. If you can't
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by wtracy 10y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eternal_September ?
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by wtracy 10y ago
>When someone flips it on the company then it's immature. First, it's hard to know when companies are doing this intentionally versus when things just get lost in the shuffle. (Never attribute to malice what can be explained by
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by wtracy 10y ago
> they'll sick an army of $1,000/hr lawyers on you They don't even need to do that. They just cheerfully agree to not scrape you, and wait for you to come back and beg to be re-instated when your search traffic plummets.
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by wtracy 10y ago
Any ideas how Facebook acquires information about things like home ownership? I don't recall filling that out as part of my profile. Do they perhaps match users' identities to public records? Is it possible to look up home ownersh
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by wtracy 10y ago
http://www.linuxonaposter.com/ (Excerpts of) the Linux source code printed on a poster you can hang on your wall. Not one sale to date. It's a niche market, and I haven't found a successful marketing strategy yet.
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by wtracy 10y ago
I agree 100 percent that recruiters prefer Word docs because they're easier to tamper with. (A recruiter once asked me over the phone if I had my resume in a format other than PDF, then said it was okay because he had a way to edit it
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by wtracy 10y ago
First, I believe that some anti-ad-blocker tools do something similar--the hosting site refuses to load until ad blockers (or ad blocker-like behavior) is no longer detected. Second, exactly how would you force them? Do you really want a l
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by wtracy 10y ago
Did you mean assassination markets, or does "assignation" have another meaning I'm not aware of?
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by wtracy 10y ago
It's worse than that. "You are running an outdated version of Internet Explorer." I'm on an Android phone.
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by wtracy 10y ago
>In a place that is not a known spam source? Examples? Shall we take turns guessing the names of these elusive spam-free providers? Your non-answer reads to me as, "Just don't use any providers that you can actually afford, and
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by wtracy 10y ago
The target was the oil fields, and the goal was to deprive the U.S. Navy of materiel (in this case, fuel).
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by wtracy 10y ago
The Aleutian Islands are not part of the North American mainland. If we were talking about talks on U.S. sovereign soil (is that what you meant?) we'd have to include Pearl Harbor as well. Also, this source gives American casualties as
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by wtracy 10y ago
> If there is no patent rider then there is an implicit grant which cannot be revoked. That contradicts everything I've ever heard on the subject. Can you cite any legal precedent?
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by wtracy 10y ago
For #2, on mobile I'm constantly down-voting when I mean to up-vote, and vice-versa. (Before HN officially supported mobile, I sometimes ended up voting when I was just trying to zoom in!) Taking a chance that people might not "th
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by wtracy 10y ago
Judging by the downvotes you're getting, I'm not alone in getting a "my job it totally harder than their job!" vibe from your post. (If you spend more of your professional time doing marketing than coding, saying so migh
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by wtracy 10y ago
Sure, two of them! :-) 1. Are you in California? If so, can you comment on how easy/hard it is to get Tilapia for a setup like this? I know someone living near Campbell who had trouble legally getting any of the Tilapia species that ar
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by wtracy 10y ago
If there are raccoons in your area, you really want netting over the pond. The standard advice for preventing fish loss to raccoons without using netting is: the water must be at least three feet deep (any less than that, and the raccoons w
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by wtracy 10y ago
What really matters is the surface agitation. Bubblers will do that, but so will any pump as long as the outflow is directed toward the surface. A better idea, I feel, is to just keep a layer of air between the water surface and the cover.
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by wtracy 10y ago
They probably expect to upload a new build every few days, anyway. Note the login credentials hard-coded into the executable. Presumably, people who take more than 48 hours to open their email were deemed an edge case not worth worrying abo
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by wtracy 10y ago
A more detailed post on the subject: https://rentes.github.io/unix/utilities/2015/07/27/moreutils...
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How to Take the Bias Out of Interviews(hbr.org)
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I think (maybe) you're arguing for using genetic algorithms for generating these things, which would be very cool. Unfortunately, modeling realistic requirements is generally harder than most programmers would think.
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by wtracy 10y ago
"...it's really hard to learn object-oriented programming (well)." You have no idea how desperately I wish more people understood that. I could swear that every introductory programming book produced in the last years was ei
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by wtracy 10y ago
To expand on this suggestion: Scala isn't big on purity (AFAIK the language has no concept of pure functions out of the box) but it is big on immutable data types, and mostly-pure functions arise naturally when you're working with
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by wtracy 10y ago
OTOH, he literally got Google to pay for hosting his essays (I've never seen an ad on a G+ page, has anyone else?) that tear apart Google's practices, which I find even richer.
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Would that be this book? https://landing.google.com/sre/book.html

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