Total_Meltdown

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Cfer: A toolkit for automating infrastructure using AWS CloudFormation(github.com)
1 points by Total_Meltdown 11y ago|0 comments
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by Total_Meltdown 12y ago
> They were, of course, uniformly non-white, non-Asian girls. > The poor students weren't poor students because they were female, or because they were non-white, but because they were unintelligent and/or uneducated. And why
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by Total_Meltdown 12y ago
The big problem though is that the pathological edge cases of our current system are much better than the extremely pathological normal cases of a system without checks on what people are allowed to do. I mean, anarcho-capitalism is basical
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by Total_Meltdown 12y ago
Do you accept pull requests? From Chapter 3, Exhibit 6: { "title": "Hey Jude" // <-- Missing comma "group": "Beatles", ... }
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by Total_Meltdown 12y ago
There isn't a line. We're talking about the human brain, these things are fuzzy. Some things will work better than others, and it'll surely vary between people, and you'll have no idea which are which until you try it. B
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by Total_Meltdown 12y ago
I totally agree. In these two specific cases, R53 + ELB wasn't going to work for us though, because of reasons. (I don't think I can go into specifics, but they're actual reasons.) Our workaround was reloading the configs (wh
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by Total_Meltdown 12y ago
I have run into this at least twice this week alone with both Nginx and HAProxy pointing at Amazon Elastic Load Balancers. Amazon occasionally rotates out IPs for ELBs, so everything's working fine for weeks and then boom , now we&#x2
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by Total_Meltdown 12y ago
I'm confused. What part of this is about bluffing or cheating?
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by Total_Meltdown 12y ago
Please don't be put off by the harsh tone of this essay. It's important information and based on this post and the resume linked in your HN profile ( http://resume.patrickcurl.com/ ), I think you would benefit from
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by Total_Meltdown 13y ago
It is open for debate. The question does not say cut "into thirds," it says "into three pieces." This - http://i.stack.imgur.com/kEjP0.png - is a perfectly reasonable answer which, assuming the rate of cutting is constant, would result in
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by Total_Meltdown 13y ago
#1 and #2 are in the order I noticed them, and #3 is so the whole post isn't just criticism. There's no deeper meaning than that.
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by Total_Meltdown 13y ago
1) How it looks on my monitor: http://i.imgur.com/iSjP8ae.png - might not want to repeat that title image like that. 2) I would really like to see if there are any mentors relevant to my interests before I have to make yet another account
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by Total_Meltdown 13y ago
I haven't used the official Twitter app in a long time, so my memory could be failing me, but I'm pretty sure I remember seeing sponsored tweets even on the old version. I thought that was the reason I stopped using it.
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by Total_Meltdown 13y ago
They seem OK with downloading to me... http://i.imgur.com/wVZCFLm.png Edit: And if it was a bug, they've taken their sweet time fixing it. I can still right click -> Save Image As.
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by Total_Meltdown 13y ago
There's actually a name for the phenomenon. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Streisand_effect I am 100% in support of such a plaque.
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by Total_Meltdown 13y ago
Oh, good point, I guess there's got to be some kind of semi-intelligent HTTP parsing going on in the background.
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by Total_Meltdown 13y ago
I wouldn't be so sure. They're barely even checking what browser you're running.
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by Total_Meltdown 13y ago
I honestly don't know anyone who actually likes Facebook. My group of friends and I continue to use it because there just isn't any better way for us to stay in touch at scale on a day-to-day basis, and nobody really cares enough to put up
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by Total_Meltdown 13y ago
I've actually been looking for something like this (specifically the 2D game support in C++) for a long time. What other options are there?
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by Total_Meltdown 14y ago
Yes. And in fact, you're the first person in these comments to mention the subject at all.
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by Total_Meltdown 14y ago
Well when you think about it pragmatically, I don't have the time - and I'm sure you don't either - to look at every single intellectually stimulating title on the internet. And frankly, when I'm browsing HN, I'm not exactly looking for the
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by Total_Meltdown 14y ago
Or to put it in a more socioeconomic context, consider a low-wealth actor that might prefer to avoid toll roads, versus a high-wealth actor that would rather pay a little bit to save some time. Those are the kinds of motivations I was hopin
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by Total_Meltdown 14y ago
I don't agree with your implication that finding math easy is somehow a prerequisite for high school programming classes. I found that most of my struggle in mathematics came from lack of any kind of practical application for it. By contras
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by Total_Meltdown 14y ago
Your part "b" reminded me of a robotics program I did in High School, FIRST robotics - http://www.usfirst.org/ . It's not an exaggeration to say that my success and passion as a developer comes almost entirely from this program. They give
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by Total_Meltdown 14y ago
Can we all please get over this ridiculous idea that we are perfectly rational agents in some free-market meritocratic utopia? People are irrational, biased, accident-prone, living things. That alone precludes unbiased judgements of another
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by Total_Meltdown 14y ago
Not true on mobile. I see advertisements for Samsung, Amazon, even Salesforce (what the hell?) right in between all the things I care about, just because my friends like them. Believe me, I can't express how much I don't want to see them.
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by Total_Meltdown 14y ago
(Disclaimer: I've only been to one school - a state university. Your results may vary.) I think we've forgotten that higher education is supposed to be an investment in a high-paying career (the return). As a current-student twenty-somethin
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An open letter to Waze: Fix your app before someone gets hurt.(blogus.arbi.trari.us)
2 points by Total_Meltdown 14y ago|1 comments
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by Total_Meltdown 14y ago
Your "rule of thumb" is a pretty rash generalization. I use Visual Studio because I have a Windows machine, and on this platform it's the best tool for the job I'm doing. I am primarily a C++ developer, both at my day job and on my own proj
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by Total_Meltdown 15y ago
Exactly. People - we computer programmer magicians included - understand new things by relating them to other things that they already know. I expect there are readers (or viewers) of the BBC or The Guardian who only know that programmers d

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