phillijw's comments

phillijw | 6 years ago | on: GitHub blocked me and all my libraries

I am shadow banned. I think because of one comment I made many years ago that was heavily downvoted? I just don't log in anymore. I emailed PG at the time and he said there's nothing he can do.

phillijw | 10 years ago | on: Don't include configs in your Git repos

I don't fully agree with the config thing. In microsoft land you can transform your configs based on a build parameter. And if you're using MS SQL you don't even need to use a password login, you give the service account the permissions to access the database. It's pretty harmless and fairly standard.

phillijw | 15 years ago | on: Twenty Billionaires Who Started With Nothing

Doesn't everyone start with nothing?

phillijw | 15 years ago | on: Google and Microsoft Cheat on Slow-Start. Should You?

Interesting. But it really annoys me when people use "begs the question" incorrectly. Look it up!

phillijw | 15 years ago | on: Ask HN: Posterous 21.4M views, Tumblr 2.7B. Why?

The 5 times I've attempted to connect to a posterous page, I've had a connection issue or something went wrong. There are technical problems with posterous and they need to get fixed. And it's slow.

phillijw | 15 years ago | on: CSS Positioning 101

If only we could use this in emails

phillijw | 15 years ago | on: USPS sees $8.5 billion loss, warns Congress it'll be broke by 2011

USPS has become irrelevant

phillijw | 15 years ago | on: An umbrella designed using aerodynamic theory to withstand 100km/h winds

It may stand up to wind but it doesn't look like it keeps the rain off of you. If you have 100mph winds coming in from an angle you better expect the rain to come in at the same angle too

phillijw | 15 years ago | on: So you want to start a web startup?

Have you tried raising a flag out there for anyone to help?