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theBabaon Ask HN: What would you preserve if the internet were to go down tomorrow?

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theBabaon Exa, a modern replacement for ls

It does the sane thing when it detects the output is being pipped and doesn't output the color controls.

> and I would add that the community provided recipes aren't very good either.

This is key. When I first got into using Chef, I assumed things would be no problem because all the services I used already had community recipes.

The community recipes are often wrong, don't work correctly on "clean" first-time installs and have a lot of baked in assumptions about the config and modules to use.

Clone these recipes into your repo, you will be modifying them. Blindly relying on the built in functionality to pull in and update the community repos will lead to pain.

Chef is a powerful tool, but it is also evolving rapidly and requires careful attention and testing.

theBabaon Guido van Rossum on PyCharm

I've found that using the "Nimbus" look and feel (Settings -> IDE Settings -> Appearance) and making sure "Use anti-aliased font" is checked (Settings -> IDE Settings -> Editor -> Appearance) do pretty well.

I am using an Oracle 1.6 Java on Ubuntu 10.10.

PyCharm and IntelliJ also seem to default to an "Alloy" look and feel on Windows, but changing that to the native Windows L&F vastly improves both the fonts and general appearance.

theBabaon Resources for learning Rails 3

I'll second this... I just used Hartl's book to jumpstart my Rails knowledge and I found it to be an excellent resource.

theBabaon Dropbox Founder on New Features and Global Expansion

I really like Dropbox - the ubiquity and ease of use are great.

There's one annoying hangup tho, and this is what so far has kept me from paying for a great service I would otherwise immediately sign up for a paid account:

When you share a file/folder in your Dropbox with someone the space used counts against BOTH your quota AND the other person's quota.

This means that even if I am paying $10/month for a 50GB account, if I share a folder that has 2GB of data with a coworker or friend that only has a free account, that share immediately fills their entire quota.

Dropbox's only answer to this problem is that you should sign up for "Dropbox for teams." This is $795/year for 5 users with a shared quota. Not really an acceptable solution in my opinion.

theBabaon Diaspora Considering Abandoning AGPL?

"Anyone that accesses your website is entitled to the source code you are using." - isn't this the point of the AGPL?