brutimus

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by brutimus 15y ago
Having spent a lot of time in a truck, I can tell you it's extremely difficult to cope on high-traffic roads. Most car drivers will crowd around you giving you no chance to change lanes, etc. Sometimes you have no choice but you just star
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by brutimus 15y ago
You're missing the fact that online publishing is only a small part of what the system has to handle. It has to integrate with the print design tools and publishing systems.
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by brutimus 16y ago
Commenting here because the post's comments are 6mo old. I've had good luck with a combination of what both the author and the first commenter said. Go a week forcing yourself to eat smaller portions, your stomach will shrink and it become
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by brutimus 16y ago
Is Gnome Do still alive? 0.8.3.1 was released in Dec 09 and I haven't seen any updates come across since then. I hope someone's still working on it. I love the project. (If I were less lazy and wanted to learn Mono, I'd take a stab at it.
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by brutimus 16y ago
You can sorta get what he's asking for with a bash feature. http://tldp.org/LDP/abs/html/devref1.html#DEVTCP
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by brutimus 16y ago
Las Vegas, NV, USA
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by brutimus 16y ago
It definitely has. Two years ago, I even had issues with some features of KVM/QEMU (live migration, for instance), let alone trying to run that on a distributed FS. It's amazing how fast these techs are coming along.
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by brutimus 16y ago
I've been using Gluster in a production environment for over a year now with an absolutely perfect track record. I use it for the "centralized" filesystem for a virtualization cluster (using KVM). Currently, I have three virt hosts setup
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by brutimus 16y ago
Viewing OpenStreetMaps through Bing requires Silverlight? That seems a bit contradictory to the "open" part. (Note: I've tried Moonlight half a dozen times and have had zero success with it on Bing or elsewhere)
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by brutimus 16y ago
I'm a Mootools fan myself. I use it over the seemingly more popular libs like jquery because very little of my JS code is actually touching DOM. I usually start my projects by creating all my "classes" (actually prototypes, etc, but class
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by brutimus 16y ago
"All check refund requests for wallet balances will be mailed to your shipping address no later than June 14th." Does this apply to web song refunds as well? I was just wondering what linux users could do since they obviously won't have a
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by brutimus 17y ago
This quote rubs me the wrong way a little... "The relational database tool chain is not evolving. It has failed for large scale, real-time environments." I've been a big user of Postgres for going on five years now and it has made giant lea
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by brutimus 17y ago
You mention wanting to be a NYT/CNN/etc competitor instead of competing with digg/reddit/etc. Does this mean you want to be a news producer instead of a news aggregator? Or are you just looking for intelligence behind how you aggregate ne
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by brutimus 17y ago
I think a couple of us have little blogs that we sometimes post snippets and short notes to, but nothing substantial. I haven't posted anything to my technical blog for over a year now. Since they are personal blogs, we try to not get too
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by brutimus 17y ago
The last thing I expect to see when I come to HN is a post about the site I work on every day (well... one of the sites). I would love to have some sort of semi-technical blog on our sites to showcase what actually happens behind the scene
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by brutimus 17y ago
That was my exact thought. I doubt his numbers are even close to accurate as Flash doesn't stress windows machines like it does linux and osx. And given that most NYT users are probably windows users, I'd bet the real statistic would be w
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by brutimus 17y ago
I don't understand the argument either.. I use multi-line lambdas with ifs and forloops all the time. f = lambda x:( x if ( x**2 > 10 or x**2 < 5 ) else x**3 )
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by brutimus 17y ago
The foodstuffs I received this year. Didn't get much outside of foodstuffs. http://www.flickr.com/photos/brutimus/4216683268/
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by brutimus 17y ago
This is actually a pretty decent list. I use a good portion of them on most of my Ubuntu machines. Also a few apps I had never heard of: Universal Applets and the brain stuffs.
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by brutimus 17y ago
FYI: Hawking is British and teaches at University of Cambridge in England. :-)
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by brutimus 17y ago
The highlighted response was bullseye hit of what I noticed going through college. The couple classes I remember it being most evident in were the very low level programming classes: Intro to Java/Javascript and a PHP class. These were th
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by brutimus 17y ago
Copy of article text: http://dpaste.com/hold/100477/
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by brutimus 17y ago
my username + @gmail.com
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by brutimus 17y ago
I've never seen such an article and in my own personal opinion, I don't see how such an argument could be made. I'm not a fan of Git in particular, but I love the "distributed" in DVCS. I use BZR on a daily basis and have never once fou
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by brutimus 17y ago
I'm all for distributed services, but only when practical. All services go down, heck, even Google services have gone down several times recently. So when your boss is screaming at you "why are we down?!", can you get by with just saying "
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by brutimus 17y ago
This reminds me of another home I've been obsessing over for the past few years: http://www.simondale.net/house/index.htm Now all I need to do is find some patch of mountains to disappear into and begin construction. Hopefully I can stil
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by brutimus 17y ago
In any situation like this I've been in and tried to attempt django, it's turned out to be a complete failure. You need an ORM that knows how to construct SQL properly and map existing tables. Go with your second option: SQLAlchemy. Use
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by brutimus 17y ago
The one place where the functools.partial failed me was in partialing on class methods. functools.partial actually gives you a callable class, instead of the functional closure that this example gives you (though I don't really consider th