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piton Pandora to Buy Rdio Assets for $75M, Rdio Files Ch.11, Will Shutter Service

How do you want it?

piton [dead]

What does "ð%C2%9F%C2%98%C2%9F" mean?

piton Ethical Adblocking

> Are you saying it's moral for you to read their content but circumvent their business model?

This is the best argument I've heard so far for not blocking ads. Thank you for putting it so succinctly.

piton Fuckit.py – The Python error steamroller

Vigil, the eternal morally vigilant programming language:

https://github.com/munificent/vigil

piton OS X 10.10.5 kernel local privilege escalation

Here's mine: https://gist.github.com/dad0731fc0373a9db858

piton OS X 10.10.5 kernel local privilege escalation

I'm running 10.10.4, and it just crashed my Mac -- the "A problem has occurred" screen -- followed by a forced restart.

piton Ubuntu One file syncing code Open Sourced

Completely agree. Compare to BitTorrent Sync, which is proprietary but works perfectly out of the box. [1]

[1] Okay, this is true for BitTorrent Sync versions < 1.4 -- more recent versions have been less reliable, particularly with regards to cross-platform syncing.

piton Show HN: Where is “Who is hiring?” hiring?

From what I've seen, it's more like "Hey, we're hiring an xyz! Know anybody who'd be interested?" with a link to a web page or email address.

piton Linuxbrew – A fork of Homebrew for Linux

Yes: https://nixos.org/wiki/How_to_install_nix_in_home_%28on_anot...

piton Cooking Patterns

Throwing spaghetti code over the wall?

piton Cooking Patterns

Michael Ruhlman's _Ratio_ espouses a similar philosophy: that recipes can be looked at as patterns which you can build on.

It's a great idea, especially because it encourages experimentation.

piton Gnome Foundation and Groupon product names – Updated

Maybe this is actually a really sneaky fundraiser for GNOME, sponsored by Groupon.

piton If money doesn't make you happy, you probably aren't spending it right (2010) [pdf]

Ah, yes. "If you can't spend dough, what [are] you hustlin' for?"

piton The Reddit Front Page Is Not a Meritocracy

Thanks! I love those chunky graphs, definitely going to play around with ggplot2 a bit.

piton IntelliJ IDEA 14 Released

I bought a license for IntelliJ IDEA 12 during their end-of-the-world sale, and I can upgrade to 14 for $99. What a great deal.

piton A clock that can detect tiny shifts in the flow of time itself

It's not running out, it's unwinding.

piton Show HN: Ruby Heap Viz – An interactive Ruby object graph visualization

And then, to save yourself:

    GC.start

piton A clock that can detect tiny shifts in the flow of time itself

> "But it can tick for billions of years without loosing a second."

Is it loosing or losing? Are both correct?

piton Tom Magliozzi, Co-Host of NPR's 'Car Talk,' Dies at 77

That's too bad, those guys were hilarious. Here's Leslie Lamport solving one of the Car Talk puzzles with TLA+:

https://github.com/fintler/tlaplus/raw/master/examples/CarTa...

piton Ask HN: ”Coffee date” etiquette

    - Shall I put rum in the coffee?
    - Sure.

piton Why I can't have conversations using Twitter

Word. I'm working on a SQL Server -> DB2 migration, which I expect to finish sometime in the next decade.

piton Building Good Docker Images

I hadn't even thought of pinning packages before I read the article; I'm kind of a sucker for apt-get update. I've been thinking a lot about Docker lately, and something in the back of my mind was like, "but what if you don't want the latest version of everything?"

piton Show HN: Run dedicated iOS Simulators in the browser

Wow, I thought I was super clever for doing that, and everybody else thought of it first!

http://cl.ly/image/2L3y0c3G2q0j

piton Building Good Docker Images

"Pin package versions" -- yes. One of the things that has been bugging me about Docker is that if you begin every Dockerfile with an `apt-get -y update`, you never know what you're going to end up with.

On the other hand, pinning every package that you install would end up being pretty verbose.

piton Show HN: Duckling – Open-source datetime expression parsing

Totally. I guess that was my point, that it's completely ambiguous, so I was curious to see which interpretation the algorithm picked.

piton Yahoo Hacked

Classic. "Thanks for pointing out this insanely serious issue, which is unfortunately not eligible for our bug bounty program." Maybe they'll send him a free hat.

piton Show HN: Duckling – Open-source datetime expression parsing

If you're having a big party

   tomorrow at three thirty people are coming over

you may be a half hour late.

piton Command-line file sharing

I didn't know about tty2gif (http://z24.github.io/tty2gif/) -- that looks pretty cool.

piton Show HN: Javelin Browser

Yeah, Stack is really interesting.

piton Docker is the Heroku Killer

Not to mention the fact that because intermediary containers are imaged, you don't have to worry about making a mistake in your script.

Sometimes (okay, every day) I find myself trying a bunch of different things to get something to work. With Docker, you've got a series of "save points" along the way. You can continue building an image from the last good point, and end up with a really clean image that represents the shortest path from bare install to "what I need to get done."

I was playing around with a Perl script about a month ago that would strip all the RUN statements out of a Dockerfile, convert them into a shell script and use that to bootstrap a Vagrant box. So what I'm saying is, if you don't know what you're doing (or just like to experiment with OSes), Docker is really interesting.