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by Jd 15y ago
I'm sure there will be another Bitcoin. I'm also sure the founder is smart enough to know (e.g. in his note about Wikileaks) that something like this must be introduced in stages. In fact, the design of Bitcoin (e.g. the sharp inflationary
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by Jd 15y ago
Abbreviated version: (1) One codebase tracked in revision control, many deploys (running instances, typically including a production and one or more staging sites) (2) Explicitly declare and isolate dependencies (e.g. GEMFILE for ruby) (3)
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Twelve Factors of Web Application Development(12factor.net)
250 points by Jd 15y ago|37 comments
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by Jd 15y ago
Yep, I'm about 110 wpm without adjustment last time I clocked on a regular keyboard, but I can't maintain this for long periods of time. I suspect that ergonomic keyboards allow you to maintain high speeds, not necessarily to reach them. I
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Netflix suffers 2012 loss and potentially irreversible brand damage(forbes.com)
2 points by Jd 15y ago|0 comments
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by Jd 15y ago
Just got my first Github spam message today. Coincidence? Is this being used as a spam tool? Anyone else got something like this in all caps? <<GREETING TO YOU AND YOUR FAMILY, IN MY SEARCH FOR A... >>
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by Jd 15y ago
Ergonomic keyboards ease strain when one is typing a lot, which can easily happen when one types for a living. They are a necessity for many who end up with wrist strain (I had my first serious episode at age 17, another one at age 22, and
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by Jd 15y ago
Yep, I try to keep an extra one or two in the basement myself in case my main one goes bork. I think the feel is far superior to the 4000. I also put down the $$$ for the Kinesis and, though I like it a lot in many ways, it is a bit more th
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by Jd 15y ago
Do you mean the classic Natural Elite or the one of the intermediate versions? The classic Natural Elite still feels a bit better to me than any of the new versions (including the 4000), which is why I keep a stockpile in my basement.
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by Jd 15y ago
For a just-released handpicked plugin repository, you would think that all the plugins would work. Not so... (FF 7, OSX Lion). There are even a lot of plugins that reduplicate the (generally much better) functionality in jQueryUI.
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by Jd 15y ago
Are nuclear bombs good? Do the heads of our national security agencies take technologies that could potentially kill the whole world's population and, because they, like every other executive in the world, are an MBA-types, sell it to whoev
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by Jd 15y ago
I take it you think there are MBA types that wander around NSA headquarters, grab the dragonfly-size spy robots and bring them to market?
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by Jd 15y ago
"But is made public by the university researchers who usually create it" <-- yeah, the stuff you know about is made public, and the stuff you don't.... isn't. That's what secret means. I think I heard that 50% of the research in Neuro
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by Jd 15y ago
Unusually, I don't think it was butchered particularly badly. The sea I believe existed inside of the attacking "angel," and had certain psychological-probing properties.
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by Jd 15y ago
A bit of an aside, but one of the best Evangelion episodes invovlves a Dirac Sea: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-aoLMp6q3js
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by Jd 15y ago
Great quote: "In my own naive way, I would never build a company anywhere but Iowa so maybe I just don't know any better. My personal feeling is, if you want to build it, where you are is just an excuse. Figure out what the area has to off
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by Jd 15y ago
Ha, there is also more to beer than how much hops you put in it.
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by Jd 15y ago
Compared to Munich? I assume you've yet to have a good wheat beer in Bavaria ;)
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by Jd 15y ago
You are completely right -- and it's really too bad because some combination of the two would be ideal. I wonder if it is easier to start a "startup culture" in Munich or a "get stuff working" culture in Berlin. I guess since I'm also "stuc
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Log.wtf()(developer.android.com)
17 points by Jd 15y ago|4 comments
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by Jd 15y ago
It is ultimately not about clout and incentives; it is about drive. It is just like when a lot of people know what the right thing is to do but are too short sighted to pursue it (wasn't Google just trying to acquire Zynga, for example).
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by Jd 15y ago
I live in Munich and just the opposite is true -- well, sort of. We've got lots of nerds and plenty of money but not much entrepreneurial activity. Too sedentary -- but why?
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by Jd 15y ago
Generally speaking I agree, but Google screwed up Wave so badly that the lead developer went to work for Facebook; any developer that was in the community or building products for Wave was also so badly screwed I think they'll never work wi
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by Jd 15y ago
I would agree if they innovate and Facebook doesn't. One thing preventing mass adoption will always be the clumsiness of Google's UI compared to Facebook.
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by Jd 15y ago
This is a bit far afield. The most likely prospect for G+ is that it becomes a social network for the more technically inclined while Facebook remains the social network for all -- a bit like the differentiation between reddit and digg. The
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by Jd 15y ago
Can you give examples of reasonable comments that are grayed out on finance threads? My impression is that this happens from time to time, but I haven't noticed it happening any more on HFT/Finance threads than in general.
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by Jd 15y ago
What are the shuttles if not engineering successes? PR stunts? How would you categorize them? There are certainly problems (like providing a good and functional high-speed rail system) that are not really questions of "genius" and more prac
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by Jd 15y ago
Re: open source notebook see: http://stallman.org/stallman-computing.html I'll make the relation very clear. There is a segment of the Lisp community, which most certainly includes Paul Graham, that maintains that projects with large team
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by Jd 15y ago
Where do I sign up?
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by Jd 15y ago
I still have dreams about BSOD. Sad to hear that it is gone.

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