BMorearty

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by BMorearty 5y ago
Yeah, search the preferences for the word “Sponsored” and uncheck anything you don’t want to see.
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by BMorearty 5y ago
Why is there so much argument among power users about a default setting that you can easily change?
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by BMorearty 5y ago
I recommend having “Startup: Restore previous session” checked in your settings.
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by BMorearty 5y ago
Click the gear icon on the New Tab page and turn off Sponsored Shortcuts.
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by BMorearty 5y ago
I just tried it. It worked. Are we doing different things? 1. Clicked in the URL bar. 2. Started typing something. 3. Arrow-keyed down to one of the entries under “Firefox suggest.” 4. Tapped Shift+Del. The entry was gone and didn’t come ba
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by BMorearty 5y ago
I recently switched from Chrome back to Firefox after the news about Google forcing people to stay logged-in to Chrome for tracking purposes. I’ve switched in the past but always ended up switching back for one reason or another. This time
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by BMorearty 5y ago
The Airbnb service’s API is implemented over HTTPS. Falcon is built on top of Async. As its README says, “Each request is executed within a lightweight fiber and can block on up-stream requests without stalling the entire server process.” S
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by BMorearty 5y ago
Yes, Ruby’s HTTP client supports timeout. As I mentioned, we weren’t using Ruby’s HTTP client, we were using Airbnb’s HTTP client with some additional capabilities. But it also supports timeout. The issue here was that I don’t think it woul
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by BMorearty 5y ago
This gem had a huge impact in May of this year on one of Airbnb’s Ruby services. Last year when I was still at Airbnb I did the research and foundational work to make Airbnb’s HTTP client gem compatible with the Async gem and Falcon server.
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by BMorearty 5y ago
Excellent counterpoint about Java requiring an IDE because it’s so verbose. In fact when I complain about Java’s verboseness, Java fans tell me “who cares, just use your IDE’s ability to auto-generate code!” But of course that doesn’t help
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by BMorearty 5y ago
It definitely does not take “no” additional time to read verbose boilerplate code. As for prior knowledge, that argument doesn’t fly. A lot of the verboseness of Java could be addressed VERY easily with clear syntax that doesn’t require a l
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by BMorearty 5y ago
Being verbose is one of the biggest negatives a programming language can have. When you’re working on a team with other programmers and reading someone else’s code, verbose code takes much longer to read and grok because you have more boile
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by BMorearty 5y ago
“It’s extremely busy and verbose” were the reasons. I agree with those reasons and I’ve always felt Java sucks because of them. When Java first came out I was a C/C++ programmer and was excited to learn it. Very quickly became disillus
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by BMorearty 5y ago
I had never seen that episode of Star Trek TNG. Thanks so much for mentioning it. I watched it just now and loved it.
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Microsoft Confirms It Signed Malicious ‘Netfilter’ Drivers(pcmag.com)
1 points by BMorearty 5y ago|0 comments
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by BMorearty 5y ago
I’m disappointed to hear Firefox is deteriorating daily. I disagree about DDG’s search quality. I tried it for six months and that was not my experience. Eventually went back to Google.
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by BMorearty 5y ago
Clarification on my last sentence: it’s not that managers code in languages like Java. It’s that managers have different priorities, such as hiring. In my experience those priorities lead to different technology decisions.
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by BMorearty 5y ago
This question reminds me of a story about Yahoo! Stores, which came out of Yahoo!’s acquisition of Viaweb, cofounded by PG. As he has frequently mentioned, Viaweb was written in Lisp and he felt they got an inherent advantage by using Lisp
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by BMorearty 5y ago
Very nice. Recently I was thinking about doing this myself. Now I don’t have to! Yay procrastination.
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by BMorearty 5y ago
> Wikipedia says Callan was founded by Dave Callan. That’s only partially correct. I think we know just the guy to edit the page.
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by BMorearty 5y ago
> it’s clear that the five books Fried and Hansson wrote lecturing other people about good management made them a lot of enemies… That’s a bad take. Everyone I’ve ever heard mention those books has talked about them in a very positive li
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by BMorearty 5y ago
Even in hindsight I think Rails was a good choice for Airbnb. It got the company to where it needed to be. If they had chosen something else, there would have been different trade offs. The early team really benefited from the productivity
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by BMorearty 5y ago
I always liked going to the office. Get to hang out and chat with some fun people and make friendships in ways that I can’t do remotely.
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by BMorearty 5y ago
This is fantastically creative. And the author does a great job of starting out by describing why this is useful. And then using SQLite to insert and update DOM elements? Holy cow, icing on the cake. Unlike the first part, there’s no explan
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by BMorearty 5y ago
Good to know. But he’s in California.
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by BMorearty 5y ago
What did they do with double quotes? (I googled it but couldn’t find it, haha)
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by BMorearty 5y ago
Seriously!
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by BMorearty 5y ago
Four months ago a friend of mine had his Google account suspended with a vague message about a terms of service violation. He escalated and appealed it with my help. It was no use. He lost everything. Files. Photos. Email. Calendar. Even hi
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Apple announces first East Coast campus in North Carolina(apnews.com)
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by BMorearty 6y ago
> When I was a kid it was essentially unheard of to own a second property for rent. Sorry but that’s flat-out wrong. Owning a second property for rent has always been a thing. How would you have known, you were a kid! Case in point: my f

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