ta0967

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by ta0967 10y ago
i like cooking my friends and my family. syntax is important! ;)
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by ta0967 10y ago
Just Say No (to mass media fearmongers). give your tv set to somebody you really dislike.
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by ta0967 10y ago
rxvt-unicode, "urxvtd -f -o -q" in my ~/.xinitrc.
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by ta0967 10y ago
you ignored the silver bullet criticism i don't think so, i simply refuse to have my arguments framed that way since i'm very well aware of the shortcomings present in what has so far passed for a "RDBMS". i consider
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by ta0967 10y ago
Pimply-Faced Youth :)
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by ta0967 10y ago
but we're not talking about silver bullets: we're talking about models which let you derive most information from your data. mathematics says you will get the most bang for your buck from the relational model. if you like hierarc
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by ta0967 10y ago
like the yesterday's submission of "Why you should never use MongoDB (2013)" ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12290739 ), this is all just plain sad because totally unnecessary: the failure of hierarchica
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by ta0967 10y ago
the manpage is very explicit about that: Use the file name "-" (a single dash) to use stdin instead of a given file. Alternately, the file name "." (a single period) may be specified instead of &qu
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by ta0967 10y ago
explain the presence of homosexuality in a population when the theory of evolution predicts that any such trait (which leads to much lower genetic fitness) would have disappeared a long time ago one's homosexuality may improve fitnes
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by ta0967 10y ago
do not use -X without having read the manual, it can break redirects and other things. from the curl(1) manpage: -X, --request <command> (...) Normally you don't need this option. All sorts
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by ta0967 10y ago
> normal conditionals are common in everyday life: "If they don't have a dark roast coffee, get me a medium roast." "They had dark roast so I got you nothing as requested." IOW, this program is either incomplete
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by ta0967 10y ago
this post says "remote" but the recruiterbox page says "Work from our amazing office at Kerkstraat 61 in the center of Amsterdam.
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by ta0967 10y ago
it's its
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by ta0967 10y ago
today. the various BSD systems all come without bash in their default configurations (and it's never in /bin). this should not be construed as an argument in support of /bin/sh.
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by ta0967 10y ago
403 - This request is blocked by Admin Tools. Please change this message in the component's options. same when going to http://portlandtribune.com/ what's up?
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by ta0967 10y ago
a mercenary is a professional soldier, the spin doctoring goes way back.
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by ta0967 10y ago
yes and no. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_patent_law > By the 16th century, the English Crown would habitually grant letters patent for monopolies to favoured persons (or people who were prepared to pay
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by ta0967 10y ago
yeah, that was really close, wasn't it? just imagine we had all these mature IP protections in place two thousand years ago! so much stuff we could have had by now! imagine no one but the chinese government having access to silk pro
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by ta0967 10y ago
> The patent system was designed to foster innovation. No, the patent system was dedigned to elevate Queen's friends above their competition.
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by ta0967 10y ago
they said "oh, React is one of the better documented frameworks out there" well, consider the ruby language: it is implementation-defined(!). i got a Rails job without knowing any of Ruby beforehand (and the other party was awar
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by ta0967 10y ago
anything from C. J. Date
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by ta0967 10y ago
give me a junior to flesh out my sketches, it'll be done in two weeks. ask me to go it all alone, see you in four months.
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by ta0967 10y ago
i've read you comment, and it looks to me like this is a fair rephrasing. can you offer better alternatives where i mischaracterize your position? * you are allowed to drive under the influence of alcohol and endager other people&#x27
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by ta0967 10y ago
have public tv "air this film"? of course, you need strong democratic institutions like said public tv.
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by ta0967 10y ago
my impression has been that node.js reached the top of its hip curve a few years ago, same with golang. not that they're disused, they're just not obsessive-compulsive topics. this is mostly based on what i (don't) see and
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by ta0967 11y ago
free software is necessary but not sufficient.
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by ta0967 11y ago
1. i don't think that a "free pass" was necessarily implied 2. how would you put it? "i can't review windows source code because it's a trade secret. but since i can't review GNU/Linux or *BSD sourc
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by ta0967 11y ago
platypus. that is to say: the teaching is still bad.
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by ta0967 11y ago
i'm a FreeBSD user since 4.3 or 4.4, and to me it reads quite fine. sure, the frustration shines throught, but he's got a bunch of valid points there.
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by ta0967 11y ago
which particular ksh features do you miss in zsh?

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