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by mpk 6y ago
PlantUML supports this https://plantuml.com/handwritten Add this to any diagram to get the effect you want, skinparam handwritten true skinparam monochrome true Demo: https://tinyurl.com/ycdu7owa
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by mpk 10y ago
The EU has restrictions on this kind of stuff - http://ec.europa.eu/justice/data-protection/data-collection/...
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by mpk 10y ago
Yes, that would be normal. During an acquisition the future is unknown so you don't have a reliable roadmap you can use to set or update development goals. Other activities that take away from development could be developers working on
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by mpk 11y ago
Ember is fantastic, the oldest projects I have are about 4 years old and have been (more-or-less) painlessly upgraded every now and again. Everything is ember-cli and ember-cli-deploy now. Time and time again it shows that Ember is a commun
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by mpk 12y ago
That works very well combined with RFC 6902 - JSON-PATCH for partial changes to JSON objects, which in turn works nicely with HTTP PATCH method, RFC 5789.
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by mpk 12y ago
Uh, Gates not a programmer? You might want to check your history. By all accounts he is, or was, an excellent programmer who definitely got his hands dirty. [edit add refs] Joel's Bill interview - http://www.joelonsoftware.c
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by mpk 13y ago
Needs an active FB session to read.
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by mpk 13y ago
Not to rain on anybody's parade here, but for first-time vim users I recommend not using any plugins and only selectively adding them one at a time after the basics (buffers, navigation, some ex mode, etc) are at least somewhat familia
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by mpk 14y ago
That depends on how long it's been in the codebase. As this case is covered in the Rails security guide _and_ the Ruby security reviewer's guide I'd expect it to be quite old and now being found because it hasn't been properly audited befor
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by mpk 14y ago
This article contains a number of fallacies. Storing sessions on disk? Over NFS? In the database? Please - no-one does that. And random MySQL bashing? What's that based on? MySQL is used by many high-volume shops to handle huge amounts of d
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by mpk 14y ago
I'd like to know too, but I'm not skeptical of the 200k figure. If this is going to work then it's not going to be a solo effort, so let's say one or two more devs and someone to do QA or support or design or whatever and this budget is loo
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by mpk 15y ago
If I'm on hacker news and I see the word cracking, I immediately hope this'll be some old school "let's open up IDA and see what's what here" article.
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by mpk 15y ago
"And a Basecamp user uploaded the 100,000,000th file (It was a picture of a cat!)" Aren't you supposed to treat user data as confidential and not examine the contents?
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by mpk 15y ago
example.com is protected by RFC 2606 ("Reserved Top Level DNS Names") for special use (with example.org and example.net - along the same lines as the reservation for 127/24, 192.168/16, etc). The domain is owned by ICANN and has no MX recor
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by mpk 15y ago
Actually you're both wrong and a little right. I think you both imagine that transfusions are 1 on 1. (1 donor, 1 recipient). In this case, the numbers you present kind-of work out. And sure, a risk of HIV (or whatever) infection versus cer
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by mpk 15y ago
This is a preview article that isn't even 2 paragraphs long and requires subscription to read the whole thing. How did this make the front page?
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by mpk 15y ago
I run FF on linux for dev work (not on FF itself, but for JS heavy web apps). Actually, I run a whole bunch of different FF versions with different profiles for testing a huge variety of things. My main gripe is that some of the extensions
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by mpk 15y ago
I recently started coding Obj-C in XCode and was very surprised that it's far less polished than what you expect from an Apple experience. That is mostly because an Apple experience is consumer-facing and much more time goes into making tha
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by mpk 15y ago
My guess is yes, they do. If you read a bit deeper into their announcements you'll notice that this is not just 'the government taking over'. The breach post-mortem was handled by a private sector security company (Fox IT) and the SSL cert
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by mpk 15y ago
> [..] it is a sure way of getting employment especially if one is studying a field in which employment is scarce outside of academia, say, philosophy. Just a random observation, but having philosophers with an educational background te
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by mpk 15y ago
I've done my share of cleanups in various languages. I don't agree that Rails code is "a special kind of horrible", but there are a few things that seem to be very common in Rails code. A lot of it seems to be written by inexperienced progr
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by mpk 15y ago
Journalism nitpick : Israel is in Western Asia. Just because they compete in the (shudder) Eurovision Song Contest doesn't mean Israel is in Europe.
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by mpk 15y ago
> [...] they accidentally infringe on a patent I hate to break it to you, but chances are that you infringe on hundreds, if not more, patents in the US. Nobody can tell you what or even how many patents you infringe on, thoug
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by mpk 15y ago
Following people implies at least a very basic interest in what they have to say. You can't follow more than a few hundred people and still keep track of what they're saying (and that's with a low average post count). If you're following th
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by mpk 15y ago
What always surprises me about lists like this is that there are people who follow thousands of others and they still get taken seriously.
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by mpk 15y ago
The Internet was alive and well before the web came along. It was certainly a different beast at the time but the author is spot-on when observing that the distributed, anarchic nature of ARPANET lies at its foundation. There is also an alt
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by mpk 15y ago
> Another option would be for me to learn about data structures and algorithms I wouldn't call this an option, but it also doesn't mean you have to spend the next year doing nothing but this. I would recommend spending a few days gettin
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by mpk 15y ago
I'm not a chemist, but from what I recall natural rubber is subject to (relatively) rapid corrosion by ozone and synthetic rubbers don't have this problem. The rubber used for tires on planes and cars is synthetic. I don't feel like doing t
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by mpk 15y ago
Yes, yes, yes, yes and yes. Learning about these domains allows you to talk to people in them. That allows you to educate people outside of the development group on the specifics of the product and get valuable feedback from them. This al
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by mpk 15y ago
Welcome to unix. Enjoy your stay!

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