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herge

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    Comment #33274666

    I hit annoyances when using sqlite when dealing with some corner-cases. I wanted to implement a lock and share some small amount of data (who did what when) between two different l…

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    Comment #25360454

    > company luxury cars for the executives, a company home that they let the CEO live in, and executive compensation All those should be taxed like the equivalent of income for those…

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    Comment #24863138

    Does anyone know of a good KeepassX client on iOS?

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    Comment #21907896

    Provinces aren't states, but, for example, I live in a distinct nation to you (I assume, if you are under the "aegis of Britain" ;) There is no written constitution, but there are …

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    Comment #21906529

    Because it is unconstitutional for the federal government to but into commercial law that is not under it's purview?

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    Comment #20109376

    Yes, and slowly upgrade from bcrypt(sha1(password)) to just bcrypt(password) as uses reenter their password. Do the same when you finally upgrade from bcrypt to whatever is next. N…

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    Comment #19878503

    And if you really spend a lot of time in a python debugger, pudb ( https://pypi.org/project/pudb/ ) is a lot of fun. It includes a full curses debugger, it saves breakpoints betwee…

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    Comment #19782316

    One complaint about buildbot is that if you get too creative, your buildmaster.cfg gets very hard to maintain, but if you stay very diligent, just having python (and being able to …

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    Comment #19297067

    Maybe the spry takeaway is that you should write tests for things you want to make sure they will not break. Your UI being off by a pixel won't break your application, so if a test…

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    Comment #18576535

    > Audit FOSS and sell your audit guarantees in a contract Pay Redhat enough and they will do that. Although you will be limited in what you can use.

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    Comment #17587511

    Really? There are no suburbs in Canada? There were sure a lot of poor neighborhoods in Montréal near the downtown core in the 60's and a lot of residential development on the South…

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    Comment #17144388

    The VPN has as much a view in your traffic as your ISP or mobile carrier, for what it's worth.

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    Comment #16935970

    Inflation won’t do anything to your fixed-rate debt, but hopefully it will increase your wages to make the debt easier to pay.

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    Comment #16349700

    Then why not a contractor? If you trust nobody, at least you can protect yourself with a contact.

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    Comment #16349651

    I am sure everyone has stories about how awful their HR department it, but if you do not trust HR, then who do you trust in your company? Your boss? Nobody? And, assuming you are a…

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    Comment #15821050

    Pandemic Legacy is a real gem. Me and my friends are having a great time playing it. Even if you have played pandemic to death, the twists at every month make each game distinct an…

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    Comment #15474678

    Also have a very quick search, which beats any server based wiki.

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    Comment #15169370

    Berkley DB just stores byte arrays, so it is not 'typed' either.

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    Comment #15169361

    I'd just write protobuf "blobs" or other serialization format n in an sqlite text column. If you need to query across the typed data, you could build an index in another column fro…

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    Comment #14248750

    It's paid out of unemployment insurance funds from the government.

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    Comment #14125647

    I guess CDs were not a revenue source after all: "> If no OpenBSD CDs are going to be released, then probably it is better > to just send a donation to the OpenBSD foundation and/o…

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    Comment #13755611

    How's that working for reddit?

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    Comment #13568275

    Maybe if you take a drink or two, you'll cheer up!

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    Comment #13140801

    Well, the master password is complex enough to have to really guess at it, even if they had the raw keepass file. And I can change it regularly without affecting any other login. I…

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    Comment #13140433

    I keep a keepass file in dropbox, and Minikeepass/dropbox client on my phone. I memorize the keepass password, can access any password from my phone, but I can also access my dropb…