throwawaysnipe

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by throwawaysnipe 14y ago
Did Heroku make a mistake? Yes. Did they mislead and lie to their customers? Yes. But is it worth pursuing a class action lawsuit that could ultimately ruin them - if not financially, but force their mgmt team to focus on this damn suit ra
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by throwawaysnipe 14y ago
Some replies to parent dispute the 'police state' moniker. Decide for yourself: (Source: http://www.hrw.org/world-report/2013/country-chapters/singap... . Points below are all direct quotes) * Singapore's Internal Security Act (ISA) and
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by throwawaysnipe 14y ago
That OP is cherrypicking is obvious, but his web shop example is particularly brazen. Google for 'django consulting' also turns up on first page: http://www.comfychairconsulting.com/ http://tivix.com/ http://www.caktusgroup.com/
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by throwawaysnipe 14y ago
Linkbait with a main course of generalization and ample sides of selection bias. OP is a Python/Django shop -- if this is intended as a call to arms it is severely misguided. What does web design have to do with the actual languages? All
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by throwawaysnipe 15y ago
My bad, just realized you aren't e-mail writer or npm admin. Thrown off by gist author. Deliberately exposing anything to the web should come with lots of... wait for it... deliberation. The npm guy is a core community member; this incide
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by throwawaysnipe 15y ago
The e-mail heavily implies that the security breach was CouchDB's fault instead of those who were administering that Couch server. Deliberate passing the buck or accidental bad choice of words?
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by throwawaysnipe 15y ago
"Humans weren't meant to do that." You sound rather defeatist for someone who's on Hacker News . Here's a tip. Create a pattern of sorts, example follows: 1. Choose a keyboard sequence: say qwerhjkl 2. Pick 1 < 5 < N.
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by throwawaysnipe 15y ago
"Your posts in support of Apple are so breathless. I don't want to go all ad hom, but this is a little...much." At the time of writing, nirvana has written comments on this post totalling 3931 words , most of which defend either Apple or J
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by throwawaysnipe 15y ago
A biography is not a hagiography. If Gruber wants the latter, he can write one. He already has a lot of material for it.
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by throwawaysnipe 15y ago
You can watch The Daily Show on the site proper by setting the X-Forwarded-For header you send to '12.13.14.15'. For more details see http://www.reddit.com/r/videos/comments/onath/stephen_colber...
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by throwawaysnipe 15y ago
You're right, and the name has already been chosen: Protecting Children From Internet Pornographers Act of 2011 http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/bdquery/z?d112:HR01981:@@@L&#3... ;
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by throwawaysnipe 15y ago
And your vacuous optimism is any better?
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by throwawaysnipe 15y ago
Don't encourage the laziness of those who ask for tldrs. While your intentions are good, ultimately you're still an enabler.
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by throwawaysnipe 15y ago
Tools are just means to an end. The OpenBSD devs can write better software with punch cards than you can with a modern language. Take your hipsterer-than-thou attitude and shove it. tl;dr fed the troll.
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by throwawaysnipe 15y ago
note: submitter != OP