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by ghiotion 5y ago
Old school quality shit posting all the way down. I appreciate you man.
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by ghiotion 5y ago
Exactly. I spent a decade plus in a job where emails came in routinely until 9-10 at night and often the CEO would send out something on the weekend. Even if I wasn't required to respond or the response was short, this is _absolutely_
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by ghiotion 5y ago
Haha. Fair. I've got this morbid curiosity about right wing authoritarian conspiracy fiction. Apparently Ben Shapiro has several novels in the same vein. Genuinely curious... why'd you read it in the first place? Are you part of t
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by ghiotion 5y ago
Oh goodness. Thank you for introducing me to Shadow Wolves. It sounds positively dreadful. I want to read it but I don't want to pay for it. Either monetarily or cognitively.
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by ghiotion 10y ago
Yeah, I think that's exactly right. And it's hard to reach for a weapon when you can't move your arms.
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by ghiotion 10y ago
It's a really interesting question. Jiu-jitsu unquestionably works in "uncontrolled" environments. I'd wager large money that if more police officers trained in grappling and submission techniques there'd be far f
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by ghiotion 10y ago
I earned a black belt in Karate last year, have messed around with TKD, Judo, and Kali, and this year got reasonably serious about BJJ by starting in a belted program. It's impossible to overestimate the role MMA/UFC has had on ma
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The Web site of the company that makes airport X-ray scanning systems(electromax.com)
1 points by ghiotion 13y ago|0 comments
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Penny Arcade, Geek Culture, and Hegel’s “Beautiful Soul”(threefingeredfox.net)
7 points by ghiotion 13y ago|3 comments
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The Last of Us – The First Non-Pornographic Video Game(notaprofessionalgamer.wordpress.com)
2 points by ghiotion 13y ago|0 comments
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by ghiotion 14y ago
Wow. That is really neat. I've always believed that spoken languages that are constructed/contrived are doomed to failure (esperanto, klingon, etc). I'm not saying that Korean itself is contrived, but it's fascinating that the alphabet wa
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by ghiotion 16y ago
That's really neat. Cool use of the twillo api.
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by ghiotion 16y ago
His issue doesn't seem to be with computers _per se_, but rather the interaction of all the junk that comes either on a new Windows system or via the default installation process for new software. Even a well maintained Windows machine acc
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by ghiotion 17y ago
What's one of the reasons? That Django makes it incredibly easy to write functional, interesting template tags?
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by ghiotion 17y ago
I'm not sure what the deal is with all the criticism on here. Yeah, it wasn't all that hard - but that's the point. This is a good test of a basic level of skills one needs these days to be a Web developer (Firebug, parsing HTTP headers,
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by ghiotion 17y ago
I'm a little embarrassed to admit this, but I've been quietly following you on the net for quite some time. You seem like one of the nicest people I've never met. Can I buy you lunch sometime? :)
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Ask HN: anyone else watching with horror/fascination as reddit turns into /b/?
8 points by ghiotion 17y ago|4 comments
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by ghiotion 17y ago
When to stop reading a Web page. When there's a next button at the bottom.
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by ghiotion 17y ago
I'll second this with one minor caveat. They're not necessarily "downmodding offenders" until proven as such by the data you're requesting. They're just the top 50 downvoters.
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by ghiotion 17y ago
That's a CMS, so long as you limit your definition of "content" to photos and video. Also, I find it poor form to expose the Django admin interface to your users in place of developing your own templates and view logic. Seems like a "srsly
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by ghiotion 17y ago
Your comment is great. Can you expand on your 3rd paragraph? Why will you never work with it again and what byzantine constraints did you find? I'm wondering if there's some aspect of Drupal that I'm missing and if I'm not doing myself (
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by ghiotion 17y ago
It seems like Drupal always gets dumped on for having a crappy codebase (see xinsight's comments as an example). Admittedly, I've not spent a lot of time in the Drupal codebase, but I've used Drupal extensively on a number of projects. I'
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Email Is Fucking Evil(tales-of-an-it-director.blogspot.com)
2 points by ghiotion 18y ago|0 comments
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MySQL v. PostgreSQL
2 points by ghiotion 18y ago|6 comments
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by ghiotion 18y ago
The Chinese also said their female Olympic gymnasts were 16 years old. I think it's a good policy to take what the Chinese say with a grain of salt.
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by ghiotion 18y ago
What the heck is going on in Minnesota? That's the one that really jumps out at me. Anyone know?
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by ghiotion 18y ago
Seth's blog seems to always make it pretty high on HN. Am I alone in wondering why? They usually have great titles, but are seriously lacking in content. I'm not complaining necessarily, but I admit I don't get it. Can someone explain?
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by ghiotion 18y ago
I'm running this on Hardy and it runs... OK. More of an interesting POC than anything else. However, I think it forcefully demonstrates one of two things: 1) Wine is amazing. 2) Wine is a mess. I dunno. Maybe both. I know, I know. It's
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by ghiotion 18y ago
I chose RoR over Python/Django for one simple reason: RoR's tight integration with the Prototype AJAX javascript library. Personally, I like Python as a language much better than Ruby. But if I'm going to code up a Web app, I want easy AJ
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by ghiotion 18y ago
Absolutely. I can't tell you how friggin' sick I am of inadvertently clicking on an "Experts Exchange" link in a google search set. The microsecond it takes my eyes to register an EE site and click back is one too many. I'm pretty sure E

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