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Comment · 13 years ago
Does anybody know if Google plans to allow claiming a deleted account... ever? I'm hoping that since I was granted +MyName in G+ I will be allowed to recover (long story) [email protected]... (It was [email protected] and I wasn't happy... and let it expire...)
Comment · 14 years ago
Comment · 14 years ago
I think it becomes a relative path without the final/root dot. That is, "example.net" in the zone file "mydomain.com" will be understood as "example.net.mydomain.com.".
Comment · 14 years ago
Do you have this in audio/video? It would be nice to hear/see this exchange.
Comment · 14 years ago
That was my first thought. Will downloading tcpdump get you in trouble? What if it's "homemade"? Compilers will be next, since the enable the creation of these tools...
Comment · 14 years ago
Why would you want to run a browser as root?
Comment · 14 years ago
"Dummer code is easier to grep for and easier to maintain.

The more magical the code is the harder is to figure out how it works."

A nice formulation of the kind of advice I keep reading here in HN.

Comment · 14 years ago
Comment · 14 years ago
Comment · 14 years ago
I don't think Amazon is being dishonest, but you can see that, regardless the individual degree of paranoia, there are quite a few small developers who don't try AWS just to be safe.

My point is that it makes business sense for Amazon to lure this old-fashioned crowd, and it could do so by implementing a simple feauture such as spending control.

Comment · 14 years ago
Comment · 14 years ago
When we entered graduate school, the program director gave us this piece of advice:

  Success ∝ Ability * (Hard Work)^2 * Sqrt(Luck)
I think he was right.

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