ChrisArgyle

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by ChrisArgyle 9y ago
The author was a former VP at Rogers Communications, Inc, a Canadian ISP. https://ca.linkedin.com/in/kenneth-engelhart-591a204
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by ChrisArgyle 10y ago
The Mozilla Organization has a partnership with Yahoo! to make them Firefox's default search engine [1]. Firefox was created by the Mozilla Organization which was created by Netscape. Netscape was acquired by AOL in 1999 [2]. [1] ht
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by ChrisArgyle 10y ago
If you miss Ted Dziuba's writing at Unvoc you will thoroughly enjoy this article
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by ChrisArgyle 10y ago
Also the author seems to have missed that this char limit is changing. In Python, for example, an official style guide update in 2013 [1] allows for 100 char line length. [1] https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-00
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by ChrisArgyle 10y ago
I would have to imagine that a massive corporation like Amazon has automatic detection of issues with tier 1 services like search.
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by ChrisArgyle 10y ago
As a Bronx resident this sounds very exciting. As a jaded consumer of modern media this sounds suspiciously one-sided. What are the downsides? It doesn't seem to generate revenue or lower costs for the city. Why would a politician b
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by ChrisArgyle 10y ago
TL;DR Modern medicine is over! Get to the zombie apocalypse shelter! Not really though; everything scary in this article is either wrong, exaggerated or both. Ars Technica explains it expertly: http://arstechnica.com/scien
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by ChrisArgyle 10y ago
> While it is technically, theoretically possible that their system is open to the introduction of these biases but does not actually exhibit those biases in the aggregate, it is astoundingly unlikely. We're in agreement there. A c
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by ChrisArgyle 10y ago
I took "systematic bias" to have similar meaning to "systematic error" meaning that there is a constant shift on every data point. Admitting the possibility of bias is very different than admitting bias in every single
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by ChrisArgyle 10y ago
Honestly this is more likely due to the actual outcome being too complex for a headline. "Facebook denies systematic bias but admits their current process allows bad actors to apply bias and takes remediating steps" Doesn't w
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by ChrisArgyle 10y ago
The central thesis here is that APIs should be treated like GUIs. Make them as intuitive as possible to minimize brain space waste (ie. memorization of non-transferable, vendor-specific knowledge) Sadly, the post is too short to discuss wh
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by ChrisArgyle 10y ago
> Why on earth isn't there just a generic keyboard-shortcut preference where I can control every possible browser action and its associated keyboard shortcut? It turns out this extension does exist. I just used it to assign "s
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by ChrisArgyle 10y ago
Analysis from Chrome devs here https://codereview.chromium.org/1854963002 Though I am a frequent user of backspace in Chrome I'm inclined to agree with their decision. Almost no one is using it and casual users are co
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by ChrisArgyle 10y ago
I'm embarassed to say I haven't even heard of MobaXterm. This is going on my remote-work rig tonight.
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by ChrisArgyle 10y ago
That sounds like a scenario for long-form work over a mobile network (eg. on a laptop through a mobile hotspot). Mosh from a laptop is a no-go for me because there's no Windows-based, full-featured terminal emulator (saved sessions, au
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by ChrisArgyle 10y ago
"Why use this instead of GNU screen?" The low latency features really set this one apart. The smart local echo (it underlines unconfirmed predictions) make it much nicer to use over laggy mobile networks.
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by ChrisArgyle 10y ago
I second the asyncio endorsement. I started using Python 3 just to try out asyncio and never went back. It works like a dream.
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by ChrisArgyle 10y ago
path=$foo/$bar if [[ $path =~ [[:space:]]*/[[:space:]]* ]]; then echo NOPE else rm -rf $path fi
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by ChrisArgyle 10y ago
The title is a bit click-baity and misleading. DevOps isn't dead it's just becoming centralized. The rub seems to be that quality managed services are widely available and affordable enough to obviate the need for in-house DevOps
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by ChrisArgyle 11y ago
Home Assistant user here, too. After my house got robbed it was either $1000-$2000 for commercial, cloud-locked systems or Home Assistant with $200 worth of X10 devices and IP cameras. The commercial options couldn't automatically arm
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by ChrisArgyle 11y ago
Also great is the wow factor when you show off the mobile interface. Material design is a big time crowd pleaser.
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by ChrisArgyle 11y ago
TL;DR Man plays a single Civ II game, locked in a 3-way stalemate, for 10 years (2000 in-game years). He asks reddit for advice on ending the stalemate, posting his savegame. Quickly a community forms around it. Fans post not only strateg
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by ChrisArgyle 11y ago
Maybe its a cross product? If we assume "Welcome" is a 2x1 matrix and "11" is shorthand for [1 1]
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by ChrisArgyle 11y ago
Believe it or not, you don't even have to change your workflow to try out python 3. If you're on a Red Hat/Ubuntu-based system just add a '3' to everything (python3, pip3, pdb3, etc) edit: added relevant platforms
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by ChrisArgyle 11y ago
I've seen this go badly even when the first responders are the ones configuring the alerts. For example those getting paged for slow app response times want DBAs to be paged for slow query performance who in turn want System Admins to
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by ChrisArgyle 11y ago
If we're being technical the author should have wrote "reaping" not "killing". It's a very different process. The use of quotes is probably an acknowledgement that the term "zombie" is not universal.
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by ChrisArgyle 11y ago
Some great ideas here--a lot of them solve problems I've personally had with bash over the past 15 years--but plenty of these feel like solutions in search of problems. I'm tempted to post my own commentary but I'd probably m
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by ChrisArgyle 11y ago
Updated, thanks
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by ChrisArgyle 11y ago
Also, this means that the Venti White Chocolate Mocha actually contains less sugar per unit than Coke: 12oz Coke contains 39g sugar[1] -> 39g/12oz = 3.25 g/oz 20oz White Chocolate Mocha contains 55g sugar -> 55g/20oz =
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by ChrisArgyle 11y ago
Their measurements appear to include whipped cream but this isn't mentioned in the article. For example: the pictured Starbucks Venti White Chocolate Mocha is accused of 18tsp sugar but Starbucks nutrition info[1] says 15tsp (55g) suga

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