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by billybob 14y ago
Glad to see this, and kudos to the team. Ever since I heard that they were taking code cruft seriously ( http://people.gnome.org/~michael/blog/2012-01-09-unused.html ), I've had high hopes for LibreOffice.
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by billybob 14y ago
Oh! I see. I would never do a `git reset` of any kind if I hadn't committed or stashed. Yikes!
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by billybob 14y ago
I've been using Git for a couple years now, and I don't think I've ever lost any work. Even if you do `git reset --hard HEAD~5`, "throwing away" your last few commits, they aren't actually discarded yet. You can do `git reflog` to see them
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by billybob 14y ago
I would have liked your comment better if you hadn't given away what kinds of cars you like and made them guess.
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by billybob 14y ago
> 1) ones that give you what you want > 2) ones that drive demand A big part of Google's success is that #1 is much easier to prove than #2. "People bought our product more because they had become familiar with it over the last mont
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by billybob 14y ago
Do they also sue people for word-of-mouth referrals?
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by billybob 14y ago
This may be one of the strongest arguments for stopping this. US companies will certainly not want their business to be compromised by competitors because of this rule.
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by billybob 14y ago
Cory Doctorow's talk "The coming war on general computation" is a very interesting take on that: http://craphound.com/?p=3817
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by billybob 14y ago
Our reactions to the thought of armed drones firing on American citizens on American soil should not be very different from our reactions to using these against our enemies. American politicians often said, after 911, that the attacks were
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by billybob 14y ago
I don't know, I think this sounds disturbingly doable in the near future. Both your problems are essentially "opportunities to strike are few." But the point of drones is that they're cheaper than humans. If you can afford to tail someone w
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by billybob 14y ago
What about assassinating rival mob leaders who are cutting in on your drug business? Plenty of money in that.
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by billybob 14y ago
Dang, I don't give two craps about controversial language--but overtly violent sexual language, expressing contempt in a way that sounds like rape? Poops on that.
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by billybob 14y ago
I think Facebook will decline for a much simpler reason: whim. Facebook was cool when I was in college and it was only for college students. Now my dentist wants me to "like" him on Facebook and get entered in some kind of drawing. Lame. "I
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by billybob 14y ago
"What I'd really like is a single online notification service..." Everything you say about this sounds exactly like hosted email to me. How is it different? To me, the problem with email is the time it takes to manage it: filter, mark as re
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by billybob 14y ago
"Github as resume" is about transparency. If everything you've written is useless, showing it off is not going to help you.
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by billybob 14y ago
Then again, if customers are annoyed enough by them, firms not using them will steal customers from firms that do. So the free market has a counterbalance. In the real world, this back-and-forth is always happening. I think the average resu
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by billybob 14y ago
Why does "talent" have to mean "incredible geniuses"? Lots of companies need programmers who are "pretty good," whatever that means to you.
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by billybob 14y ago
I've heard him make the same statement and had the same thought. Is there any downside for them to add a BitTorrent option? Maybe it's just that they can't track the number of downloads? If that's all, it seems like a small price for drasti
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by billybob 14y ago
It depends on what's considered an API, and that would be a question settled by courts. If a judge decides that someone owns RESTful APIs, every Rails app on the planet will infringe that. Even if you're right, and the copyright applied onl
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by billybob 14y ago
If I had to explain the issue at stake here, I'd do it this way. Imagine you go into a fast-food restaurant. "I'd like a burger," you say to the cashier. You get a burger. The next day, you go to a different restaurant. "I'd like a taco," y
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by billybob 14y ago
It's a huge gray area. To expand on your point, if you're a socialist Buddhist and I'm a libertarian Muslim, there's nothing legitimate about that difference that makes me unable to code alongside you. We might not hang out, but we can deba
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by billybob 14y ago
Was excited to see this, as some friends and I independently invented this game on paper once. DoodleOrDie is fun, but jerky/stupid players are really the biggest downfall for me. I don't want to write an elaborate, funny caption and then b
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by billybob 14y ago
'It's not OK to fire someone because of their gender, race, sexual orientation, religion, etc; but firing someone because they are "shy" or "introverted" or "not a people person" seems to be perfectly acceptable and legal. Shouldn't that be
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by billybob 14y ago
CS Lewis said that ""All language about things other than physical objects is necessarily metaphorical." I can't find the examples he gave, but from your sentence: we must "discover new means of interaction that take advantage..." "Discover
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by billybob 14y ago
That's possible, but only if they're stupid. They'd be losing someone who can knows their business and could automate their next manual process. I'd suggest he say this: "hey boss, I think I can automate this process, increasing accuracy an
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by billybob 14y ago
If I understand you correctly, your problem would occur if, say, you were maintaining 1.0 and 2.0 branches of a product and needed to apply the same bugfix to both; you can't merge, so you cherry-pick. Surely this is something that the Linu
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by billybob 14y ago
Authority is my new Rails authorization plugin. Why another one? Some things that make it different: - 100% ORM neutral - No new DSL to learn; just plain Ruby methods - Authorization logic goes in authorizer classes, so any inheritance patt
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Show HN: Authority: ORM-neutral, OO Rails authorization(github.com)
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by billybob 14y ago
I have joked that I might change my name to Sample User, develop a piece of land in the country, and name my road Example Avenue, taking address 123. This would make me impervious to datamining, because my results would always be thrown out
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by billybob 14y ago
Is there something specifically wrong with the concept of password haystacks? I understand it as "force the attacker to search an extremely large potential keyspace." The tool I linked to simply calculates the keyspace that a given candidat

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