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Introduction by Lessig - final paras:

I don’t know Stallman well. I know him well enough to know he is a hard man
to like. He is driven, often impatient. His anger can flare at friend as easily as foe.
He is uncompromising and persistent; patient in both.

Yet when our world finally comes to understand the power and danger of code—
when it finally sees that code, like laws, or like government, must be transparent to
be free—then we will look back at this uncompromising and persistent programmer
and recognize the vision he has fought to make real: the vision of a world where

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#!/bin/bash -e

export RBENV_ROOT=/usr/local/rbenv
export PATH=/usr/local/rbenv/shims:/usr/local/rbenv/bin:/usr/local/bin:"$PATH"

APP="<%= @options[:app].application.name %>"
APP_PATH="<%= @options[:app].path %>"
RAILS_ENV="<%= @options[:rails_env] %>"
UNICORN_CONFIG="/etc/unicorn/${APP}.rb"
CUR_PID_FILE="${APP_PATH}/shared/pids/unicorn.pid"

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var io = require('socket.io');

var http = require("http"),
    url = require("url"),
    path = require("path"),
    fs = require("fs"),
    port = process.argv[2] || 8888;

var server = http.createServer(function(request, response) {

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Boring Bugs.

When hunting a bug it is less fruitful to consider it an outlier, but more exciting.

By the time you're at your wits end and you discover it's a mundane, trivial issue
you experience great, rewarding relief that the fix is so simple.

The more fruitful approach - assuming every bug is mundane - is boring, because 
you're forced to trudge along checking elementary things.

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[root@localhost data]# service postgresql start
Starting postgresql service:                               [FAILED]
[root@localhost data]# cat pg_log/postgresql-Sat.log
LOG:  could not open configuration file "/var/lib/pgsql/data/pg_hba.conf": Permission denied
FATAL:  could not load pg_hba.conf
[root@localhost data]# ll
total 136
drwx------ 7 postgres postgres  4096 Mar 12 23:19 base
drwx------ 2 postgres postgres  4096 Mar 12 23:20 global
drwx------ 2 postgres postgres  4096 Mar 12 23:18 pg_clog