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by rcoder 17y ago
> Added bonus: If you live in Vancouver, WA (north suburbs of PDX) and work from home > (or just in WA), there's no state income tax. Please, please, please don't suggest that more people take advantage of this loophole! The Vanc
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by rcoder 17y ago
Debian only "does too much" if what you want from an OS is a simple platform on which to build your own bespoke solution. The BSD operating systems, and OpenBSD in particular, abdicate a lot more responsibility for actual system management
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by rcoder 17y ago
Here's my quick back-of-the-napkin estimate: Given that the winning teams seemed to be running clusters of around 20-30 systems full-bore for >24 hours, the power draw would be something like 500 watts * 20 systems * 24 hours, giving us
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by rcoder 17y ago
Ruby bundles Bignum and BigDecimal libraries which provide arbitrary-precision math primitives in the standard library. Python similarly provides the 'decimal' module. Most other "dynamic" languages provided at minimum bindings to the GMP l
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by rcoder 17y ago
T-Mobile will sell you prepaid service at $100 per 1000 minutes/SMS messages, or pay-as-you-go for $30-40 per month without a contract. I have service for my G1 via the latter option, which costs me about $75/mo. with unlimited data and mor
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by rcoder 17y ago
Okay, just a few points here: 1. The Kindle is a GNU/Linux e-book reader -- it runs a Linux kernel + userland atop an ARM chipset. The only thing "proprietary" about the system is the actual GUI tools for browsing/buying/reading books, an
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by rcoder 17y ago
That assumes that it was simply an issue of royalty payments. Publishing agreements can have many more restrictions (only authorized content, limits to which markets can be served, editorial veto, etc.) that aren't just about paying $0.20/u
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by rcoder 17y ago
From what I saw on the Kindle forums, the publisher of these editions (MobileReference) mostly offers $0.99 downloads of public-domain texts. There's a $10 version of 1984 still available for purchase from Amazon here: http://www.amazon.co
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by rcoder 17y ago
Lua embedded inside Nmap? That looks like fun : http://nmap.org/book/nse.html
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by rcoder 17y ago
The cost to users (and especially developers) most assuredly is not simply 2x that of a single host. Planning for full replication and hot-failover from day one adds complexity, and can actually do more harm than good if your team and too
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by rcoder 17y ago
Actually, I think that most of these tips apply equally well to the pitfalls you might hit mid-process while refactoring. That being said, I think the basic points are obscured by the semi-random ordering. Putting the same core recommendati
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by rcoder 17y ago
I whole-heartedly disagree. It's important to take a stand against ineffective, borderline-illegal screening processes used by employers. People who frequent HN may not be subject to this problem as much, but in general, most of the power i
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Montana city asks for social network logins on job application(montanasnewsstation.com)
25 points by rcoder 17y ago|26 comments
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by rcoder 17y ago
I wonder sometimes if Silicon Valley really counts as a hyper-specialized region. True, much of the money in the area comes from businesses that are somehow attached to computer hardware or software, but within that sector, there's an incre
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by rcoder 17y ago
Plaintext is readable as-is, without any explicit conversion step. That being said, if you really want a code review device, you might want to look at a cheap laptop or tablet, for one basic reason: there's no direct text editing available
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by rcoder 17y ago
The similarities are really more between Beanstalkd and RabbitMQ, the backend message-queuing system used by Celery. Most of the interesting bits of Celery to me is in the response handling, which lets you get the result of a deferred job
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by rcoder 17y ago
I suspect you'll get the same answers that usually come up when laptop recommendations are discussed here: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=249579 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=268438 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=159153
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by rcoder 17y ago
My understanding is that CALEA effectively requires you to associate an identity with each active network node, so that requests for a "wiretap" could be addressed more or less in real-time, rather than after the fact. Being able to tap int
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by rcoder 17y ago
That's exactly what I meant -- they have to have the ability to associate an identity with an IP/active network connections, which usually means recording it at the time that access is first granted. (Doing otherwise usually indicates the t
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by rcoder 17y ago
Shame on me. Shoulda pasted the useful link, instead of the promo link in defunkt's tweet.
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by rcoder 17y ago
This is all the more critical when you consider how the usual web developer handles the complexities of chained certificate verification: namely, by disabling verification entirely, and instead trusting every upstream certificate as offered
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by rcoder 17y ago
Also posted here a few minutes ago: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=653144
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by rcoder 17y ago
This basically looks like an effort to clean up some of the warts of RubyGems, which have become especially painful in the era of the DVCS. GitHub has made forking of Ruby libraries easy, which is great for pace of development, but also cau
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Hello Rip(hellorip.com)
30 points by rcoder 17y ago|2 comments
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I would presume that most coffee shops have no idea that CALEA even exists. The airport question is a good one, though -- they've obviously pretty security-minded (however poorly they may implement said security), so I would assume they'v
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by rcoder 17y ago
More importantly, the Federal CALEA wiretapping law basically requires any ISP (including corporations, colleges, and other organizations that provide 'net access to their community) to record the identity of anyone given access to their
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by rcoder 17y ago
Have you checked out PubSubHubbub project? http://code.google.com/p/pubsubhubbub/ It looks like there's a lot of overlap with the feature set you need, as well as the advantage of some extra documentation + testing. It's a Python WSGI app
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by rcoder 17y ago
If you don't set up sessions for users working with wget, curl, etc., you'll also lock out a lot of legitimate users who want a scriptable interface to your site. This goes double if you don't offer any sort of official API. Refusing to ini
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by rcoder 17y ago
You can always test for nil explicitly. Compare: unless foo # ... foo can be false or nil to reach this branch end unless foo == false # ... this branch is reached unless foo == false end Since terseness is considered
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by rcoder 17y ago
Voila! I give you XMPP + threading: http://xmpp.org/extensions/xep-0201.html (last updated Feb. of last year) Wave is XMPP, with additional Google extensions for a variety of collaboration features. That is possible because the first le

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