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My name is Trey Hunner. I help Python developers & teams level-up their skills.

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th··on Ask HN: please review my site
When middle-clicking on the "Upload Now" button on the homepage (to open the page in a new tab) the translucent overlay that says "Please wait..." appears on the current page and hangs there rendering the page useless.

I suggest either treating that link differently when it is being opened in a new window/tab or using something instead of a link to completely disable the "open in new window/tab" feature in the browser.

th··on Google reveals statistics on government requests of its data
The breakdown by the type of removal requests is somewhat more telling than the raw numbers.

Brasil: 75% orkut

Germany: 52% web search, 38% YouTube

India: 84% orkut

US: 57% YouTube, 20% web search

th··on Moral judgments can be altered ... by magnets
"In both experiments, the researchers found that when the right TPJ was disrupted, subjects were more likely to judge failed attempts to harm as morally permissible."

This statement is meaningless without knowing how much more likely the attempts were and what the error range was for the results.

th··on Ubuntu broke 'netcat' in Lucid
This only affects the netcat-openbsd package, not netcat-traditional. As stated in a comment on that page, this is also a problem in the netcat-openbsd package in Jaunty and Karmic. I'm surprised this bug wasn't caught earlier.
th··on Torvalds: git vs CVS
Complexity (in terms of the operations that need to be performed regularly). At least with Git, simplicity seems to be traded in favor of flexibility.
th··on Auto-closing ssh tunnels
Would compression help much for an ssh terminal connection? The only time I usually hear about compression is in the context of an ssh tunnel.
th··on Unemployment tops 20% in eight California counties
The data can also be calculated from the latest BLS statistics by county: http://www.bls.gov/lau/

The data is for January 2009 to February 2010.

th··on Htop - better top
I always have a screen session open with htop in one terminal. I take it for granted so much the lack of htop bothers me if I need to do any form of process management.
th··on Always remember the about page
This rings very true with me as a user. I know I've spent minutes hunting through a particular website's navigation system looking for the non-existent about page before abandoning the website entirely.
th··on What If The Very Theory That Underlies Why We Need Patents Is Wrong?
I think this shift in policy would require an enormous cultural shift. Currently, our society mostly trusts the drugs available on our store shelves. A deregulated market would require consumers to be much more critical in order to continue to function.
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