Live data from Hacker News

Viewing profile — al_form2000

al_form2000

HN member
Joined
Fri, Mar 29, 2013, 1:51 PM UTC
HN karma
215
Public activity
85 items

About al_form2000

No profile information was provided.

Recent public activity

  1. comment
    Comment #23455968

    So how does one audit this Behemoth?

  2. comment
    Comment #22264375

    Tl;dr: "Sell your customers what they want, make them pay what you say, be sure they're rich enough." Best paradigm busting advice in business after "If you can secure just 0.1% of…

  3. comment
    Comment #22083687

    So what year are we in, again?

  4. comment
    Comment #22020609

    Shallow piece. Tl;dr: haters gonna hate.

  5. story
  6. comment
    Comment #21920995

    For verly large values of one hour.

  7. story
  8. comment
    Comment #21884256

    The analogy between coding and music is actually quite flawed.

  9. comment
    Comment #21884110

    If school is currently teaching this, it is seriously failing its mandate. This does not mean that using sort(3) as a solution to a sort assignment should be acceptable.

  10. comment
    Comment #21682800

    > "hacking" aka "going fast and breaking things" is so glorified The two sides of your equation do not equate at all.

  11. comment
    Comment #21681568

    > Y not? > That is what made it fun.

  12. comment
    Comment #21400373

    The RCE bug appears to be restricted to fast_cgi: https://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=78599

  13. story
  14. comment
    Comment #21353722

    That was what came to my mind, actually.

  15. comment
    Comment #21353706

    That (cultural differences in thought patterns) is indeed an interesting take (I'd like to hear what Larry Wall has to say about it). I do think it would be best addressed at the b…

  16. comment
    Comment #21353626

    Assuming there is merit to the idea that the Latin charset gives unfair disadvantage for people from other cultures (I think not(1)), then a language should be formed from a cultur…

  17. comment
    Comment #21353521

    You're not barred, you have to learn relevant combinations of 26 symbols. If you cannot do that, I doubt you'll become proficient in programming anyway. OTOH,knowledge sharing in t…

  18. comment
    Comment #21353491

    Non native speakers would'nt be able to take those jobs anyways if names were untranslated and in local script.

  19. comment
    Comment #21353246

    As I remember, they had also localised symbolic "constants" so a format spec fed to (some date function) was 'dd/mm/yyyy' for english locale, but 'gg/mm/aaaa' for the italian one .…

  20. story
  21. story
  22. comment
    Comment #21314339

    I remember writing the title as ALL_CAPS => sudo all_caps So it appears something did actually change it.

  23. comment
    Comment #21314311

    As mentioned above, you don't need to retype: $ foo bar baz ^P^A u $ FOO bar baz As for ^T, I'd wholly forgotten about bind, inputrc and all that- but of course both your proposal …

  24. comment
    Comment #21314070

    $ foo bar baz ^P^A u $ FOO bar baz That's three keystrokes less - even for the history (!!) version. :-)

  25. story