darkandbrooding

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by darkandbrooding 13y ago
I've never actually tried PC-BSD. I've read good reviews about it, but I wanted to do things the "hard way" because I was as interested in the process as the result. That's also why I spun up a separate VM for each
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by darkandbrooding 13y ago
I downloaded the 10.0-RC3 ISO and spent the day spinning up multiple vm images using Vmware Fusion. My primary goal was a tour of different desktop environments, but I decided to create and build out a separate VM for each. I used the &quo
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by darkandbrooding 13y ago
Your memory is correct. http://www.caucho.com/resin-web-server/ http://www.caucho.com/resin-application-server-2/
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by darkandbrooding 13y ago
If all you see are reports about people's rates going up, then you are in a filter bubble - just like everyone else who consumes a majority of their news through personalized online sources. There are people in neighboring filter bubb
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by darkandbrooding 13y ago
This past weekend I installed KDE 4.10 on a FreeBSD 9.2 vm using the new "pkgng" tools. Completely painless. KDE 4.10 is very polished.
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by darkandbrooding 13y ago
Tone is difficult to convey via the written word, and there is a tendency for the mind to supply it when reading. Read the parent paragraph aloud, and play with the inflection of key words. Your initial tonal interpretation was one of many
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by darkandbrooding 13y ago
Thanks for the clarification. Although the JQuery team didn't announce any end date for support of 1.x, I appreciate the ticking clock implicit in the major version bump. I suspect that a comment made by user Zangrief is right on the money
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by darkandbrooding 13y ago
Y'know, I hadn't even considered that your browser might already have a cached copy of JQuery because of a previous visit to some other site. Like the friend you mentioned, the idea of third-party hosting for a critical piece of infrastruct
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by darkandbrooding 13y ago
I've read through the 100+ comments that preceded me, and I must be missing something stupidly obvious. Thanks in advance to anyone who can enlighten me. Can't you just host your own copy of JQuery? If your web app needs version x.y.whateve
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by darkandbrooding 14y ago
Python's whitespace-as-logic means that, for any given project, every editor used by every developer needs to have the same the same definition of what a "tab" is, because mixing tabs and spaces can introduce logic errors. You can reasonabl
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by darkandbrooding 14y ago
You make a good point about the seasons. I took the passage of the seasons for granted while growing up. It was just "how the world works." A few years after moving out here I realized that my body didn't know what time of year it was. Th
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by darkandbrooding 14y ago
I grew up in the South West. I don't miss hundred-plus degree summers, burning my hands on steering wheels and the backs of my legs on car seats. I don't miss the asphalt being tacky because of the heat, or the sandy, sticky, salt-encrusted
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by darkandbrooding 14y ago
This HN link( http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4798791 ) introduced me to the knowledge that OpenBSD is commonly installed on networking gear, instead of (for example) Cisco IOS. So you could say "freebsd on your desktop and/or server
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by darkandbrooding 14y ago
I was tempted to reply to the original question because it implies that there is (only) one correct way to build an operating system, and once you've arrived at the correct answer any duplication of effort is pointless. I find that a quizzi
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by darkandbrooding 14y ago
I set up a monthly donation. I think the foundation would benefit from more marketing. Similar to other commenters, I wasn't even aware of the foundation prior to this HN post. Now that I know what to look for, the "Foundation" link on the
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by darkandbrooding 14y ago
I don't disagree with your exhortation to vote with your dollars. It's a principle that I constantly think about as a consumer. However, saying "Don't do X" is IMO not usually very productive. Saying "Do Y instead of X" has a much better s
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by darkandbrooding 14y ago
Thank you for both the correction, and the admonition. They are gratefully received.
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by darkandbrooding 14y ago
In my opinion Perl's culture is an exemplary one. Lots of very smart people being polite and helpful to one another. The CPAN is a tremendous tool. What makes Perl interesting to me is the philosophy behind the language design. "Since Perl
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by darkandbrooding 14y ago
What follows is a layman just "thinking out loud." (But isn't that what Sunday afternoons are for?) When I use the term "auditor" I'm implying "employees at a firm" rather than "a single individual." What App.net desires is for a trusted th
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by darkandbrooding 14y ago
I guess I'd fall into the "Unix as an IDE" camp, so I'm glad that by default Vim is "just" an editor. I think it's great fun to see how people have tricked out their Vim installations, but I confess I view those custom Vim setups kind of li
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by darkandbrooding 14y ago
Yegge's entire essay seems like an application of JWZ's regex admonition. "I know, I'll present my hypothesis using political terminology!" Now you have two problems. Political terminology in the United States is MASSIVELY warped by entitie
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by darkandbrooding 14y ago
I agree with you. Yegge's core mistake was to use political terminology as a descriptive tool for any topic other than politics. The political labels "liberal" and "conservative" are loosely defined, dependent on context, artificially limit
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by darkandbrooding 15y ago
As far as I can tell, the term "evolutionist" is not used within the scientific community. It does, however, seem to have found a home in the vocabulary of anti-evolution, creationist communities. This makes me suspect something of your pol
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by darkandbrooding 15y ago
I've been using duckduckgo for about a week now, and I'm very happy with it. I managed an in-house instance of Zimbra at my last job, and I remain a vocal, enthusiastic supporter of that product. If your organization's requirements list ali
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by darkandbrooding 15y ago
One of Apple's claimed differentiators is that they're a vertical operation. I'm confident an Apple rep would say that the iPhone was a prestige product because Apple produced both the hardware and software; that the "cachet and desirabil
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by darkandbrooding 15y ago
Cringely's predictions are occasionally fun to read, but I regard him as a fiction author whose genre is West Coast technology firms. Eric Schmidt's executive experience includes Sun Microsystems, Novell, and Google, and he spent time on Ap
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by darkandbrooding 15y ago
Thanks for the recommendation. I've been using solarized, but I like the slightly higher contrast that Jellybeans provides. Just updated my configs and looked through a several different file types (.sh, .rb, etc) and I'll be using Jellybea
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by darkandbrooding 15y ago
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Al-Ghazali "Ghazali has sometimes been referred to by historians as the single most influential Muslim after the Islamic prophet Muhammad.[6] Others have cited his movement from science to faith as a detriment
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by darkandbrooding 15y ago
After one-or-another of Dick Cheney's heart attacks, the news media spent some time quoting research about the way that life-threatening illnesses can change one's personality; how (of course) people react differently to such crises, but al
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by darkandbrooding 16y ago
"Apple is a religion." I find the "cult of apple" and "apple is a religion" memes amusing because, including myself, the majority of Apple users that I know are atheists. Personally, I think "spectator sports" makes for more constructive an

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