derrickpetzold

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by derrickpetzold 15y ago
haha you crack me up HN. So I get downvoted but the self confessed moderating troll doesn't. That's awesome and for that I give you this http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=boh92DrYEWs
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by derrickpetzold 15y ago
Hi. Thank you for taking all the things I said out of context. I am going to try my best to do the same despite the fact that I believe this is what HN is trying to avoid, moderator. > My trivial point was that your claim about the down
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by derrickpetzold 15y ago
> Sigh... :-) I honestly have no idea what you mean by that :). > Are you really surprised about the down votes...? For that post of course not. For the others yes. I can only assume you are coming from this viewpoint "Please avoid
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by derrickpetzold 15y ago
To be fair I didn't think I was trolling but I can completely understand why you think I was. I could only talk about things I as knew them to be. Whether that makes me an ass or an idiot I don't care. I did want to hear a good argument as
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by derrickpetzold 15y ago
Thank you for the excellent reply. That was response I was hoping for. I don't know everything and I appreciate you talking on point and not just pressing the down arrow because someone said something you don't like. Regards,
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by derrickpetzold 15y ago
Oh my apologies I wasn't trying to convince anyone of anything if that's what you are thinking. I was only stating fact based on my experience but that's okay just downvote this and make yourself right.
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by derrickpetzold 15y ago
Just because you can do something doesn't mean you should...
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by derrickpetzold 15y ago
Thank you I did read the post. Python has pypi. Ruby has gems. I'm not going to google the rest but if they don't have one there is no reason why they can't. And FYI pypi is better than CPAN so all the other stuff in the that post is crap i
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by derrickpetzold 15y ago
lol so do all the languages mentioned above plus they are prettier.
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by derrickpetzold 15y ago
Oh my why would anyone want to lean Perl anymore? Unless you are working with a legacy codebase learn Python, Ruby, Java, C#, Erlang, Scala, Haskell... in other words run the f away from Perl if you can unless you are into S&M.
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by derrickpetzold 15y ago
I wrote a Pandora clone using django and last.fm for recommendations. Because of the licensing issues I plan on open sourcing it on github in the near or distant future.
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by derrickpetzold 15y ago
InnoDB. I understand your support viewpoint but both of those dbs are opensource thereby leaving support open. From what I understand when the support comes into play is when you can sue the other party for not providing the service expecte
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by derrickpetzold 15y ago
Can anyone say when Oracle is justified? I have yet to encounter a problem the postgres or mysql didn't support but alas I have not worked on everything.
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by derrickpetzold 15y ago
They should be if they are payed for by public funds the same applies to software. Of course that doesn't apply to defense or otherwise potentially dangerous software but the general rule should be to opensource government contracted develo
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by derrickpetzold 15y ago
I'm afraid there is no jump. If the US defaults interest rates will rise but they can't as the market is dependant on cheap money. That why interest rates have been at 0% for a long as long as I can remember and it is also why QE1 and QE2 w
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by derrickpetzold 15y ago
What's even more ridiculous is that they did it even though there is now a competitor with a better product. Yes they have a much larger installed base but I do believe G+'s non 140 char limit and other amenities will win out.
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by derrickpetzold 15y ago
To be fair without downvoting perhaps your insightful post wouldn't exist and some poor fool would be running around thinking he has two years.
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by derrickpetzold 15y ago
Really downvoters. You think we need more debt and to ignore the the housing crisis? Really?
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by derrickpetzold 15y ago
Wow I never looked at it like that before. Of course if the currency collapses the companies operating in it are f'd. We need to resolve the housing foreclosure mess and stop accruing debt.
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by derrickpetzold 15y ago
Well there are 7 levels of A rating. The US certainly doesn't deserve to the top most tier since there is active discussion of default. No I don't think it actually would but what is the point of these ratings if they are being used like th
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by derrickpetzold 15y ago
Sorry you are correct the debt is rated not the country.
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by derrickpetzold 15y ago
jellicle is correct the ratings are complete bs. If AAA actually meant something the US would have been downgraded years ago. AAA means there is no chance of default no whatever so ever. It should only be reserved for countries with little
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by derrickpetzold 15y ago
>It seems really ugly to store derived information in a commit I don't understand how generation numbers are derived information. They are used to find the position of the commit in relation to another. That makes them information that
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by derrickpetzold 15y ago
I was talking about the case where the timestamps are off. I don't think there is any way to fix that.
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by derrickpetzold 15y ago
I was wondering how they got along without generation numbers for so long. It was by comparing timestamps and those are unreliable because systems can be misconfigured. How they are going to handle legacy repos with that problem I still don
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by derrickpetzold 15y ago
That is not true. That is redistribution wealth. You are taking the money away from the people are are making and giving to the people that are spending it. That makes no sense. Savings is what drives the economy. Without savings there woul
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by derrickpetzold 15y ago
Oh my I'm afraid your understanding of economics is very poor. Infrastructure funding can only come from tax money. Tax money can only come from the private sector. The private sector makes by money by using capital (savings). That is how i
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by derrickpetzold 15y ago
Security through obscurity is never a good idea because it leaves a false sense of security. I know I am getting totally destroyed here by the down voting and I'll probably end up in negative karma for this but I standby all of it.
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by derrickpetzold 15y ago
That is fair enough and all your points were very good. However despite the down votes and everything else I stand by what I said. As a user I doubt most devs are as competent as the ones here and I would never trust a site with a password
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by derrickpetzold 15y ago
> So what? Just because other people don't do it doesn't mean you don't have to also. Fortunately for us, there are a lot of startup founders here who might read this and learn something. Yes I hope there are. > I disagree. I think

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