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by Smudge 13y ago
I've considered hosting my assets on a separate domain (e.g. assets.mydomain.com) because, in theory, browsers will better be able to parallelize the downloads. It sounds like this same approach would make your CloudFront setup a bit easier
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by Smudge 13y ago
To be fair, often when this happens it's due to a lack of communication on the programmer's part. Giant pull requests out of nowhere (even well-crafted ones) may not always be what the project maintainers want or need. This is why it's usef
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As a quick illustration, this is what can happen to the commit tree when just one of your team members doesn't rebase by default: http://pastebin.com/cnPbg0vm
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I tried it. My message disappeared from the UI, but showed up in my "Drafts" folder. Perhaps not the most intuitive behavior, but totally recoverable.
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The author's assertion is simply that enforcing quotas does not empower women, and that instead it devalues the work and talent of the women who are ultimately represented at the conference. And I agree with her. Women shouldn't need quotas
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by Smudge 13y ago
In my mind, the author is the one pointing out the lack of industry data. Just because she doesn't provide it does not mean her core argument -- that quotas undermine the empowerment of women by devaluing their hard work and talent -- is in
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by Smudge 14y ago
Instead of explaining why this likely won't be the Next Big Thing (tm) I'll tell you why I still think you should give it a shot: 1. The Experience. Building and maintaining a service you care about--even if only you and your friends are th
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by Smudge 14y ago
> The market doesn't go who gets done first, it goes to the person who dos it best. Except when it goes to the first movers. If your product's success depends on a virtual land grab, it might be better to work those 100's of less produc
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by Smudge 14y ago
I'm on Chrome for Windows and your blog is pretty hard to read. I know that CfW has a ton of font rendering issues, making it easy to overlook some pretty common "jagged font" cases. Here's some more info: "Using Web fonts in your design re
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> It's production ready by definition. That is, if you define "production ready" as "already being used in production."
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> We're probably going to have an intern or junior developer move documents from the old folder to the new system. Just be careful not to give them all of the shit jobs.
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I always assumed we call it the "grandma test" because by the time it matters grandpa's probably already dead.
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As I read this, I found myself trying to pinpoint the bits of text that would inevitably be cherry-picked by others for the sake of argument (or simply to make Steven Wittens look bad for having written this piece). And, while there are cer
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by Smudge 14y ago
And MS SQL Server Compact Edition is the Wordpad of databases. (I'll just see myself out...)
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by Smudge 14y ago
I thought this was one of the more refreshing articles relating to gender issues to appear on HN, of late. Perhaps others felt it was just rehashing the same, tired issues. Who knows.
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As I read this, I found myself trying to find the bits of text that would inevitably be cherry-picked by others to argue opposing points (or simply to make Steven Wittens look bad for having written this piece). And, while there are certain
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by Smudge 14y ago
It's not fraud simply because the mother is a millionaire. But it's probably against Kickstarter's policies nonetheless: > Kickstarter does not allow charity, cause, or "fund my life" projects. I suppose one could construe summer camp
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by Smudge 14y ago
I agree. The net worth of the mother does not somehow make it more of a fraud than if the family genuinely couldn't afford the tuition. However, from Kickstarter's policies: > Kickstarter does not allow charity, cause, or "fund my life"
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by Smudge 14y ago
I'm not saying it's a clear-cut case of policy violation. But in my opinion, asking for money to go to something as normal as summer camp (by "normal" I mean very common for kids her age) -- and then using additional funds to buy something
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by Smudge 14y ago
From Kickstarter's policies: > Kickstarter does not allow charity, cause, or "fund my life" projects. In the "where's the money going" section of her project page, it's pretty clear that this money was going to go towards tuition for a
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by Smudge 14y ago
(1) Adria was the one using her non-anonymous Twitter account to publicly out these two individuals. So, by her own actions, we know her name. (2) There is a direct set of causalities leading from Adria's actions to the first firing. It was
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by Smudge 14y ago
While this project technically adheres to this policy: > Everything on Kickstarter must be a project. A project has a clear goal, like making an album, a book, or a work of art. A project will eventually be completed, and something will
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by Smudge 14y ago
And female devs who disagree with Adria.
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by Smudge 14y ago
You're right about the defamation. However: > Yes, they had an opportunity to defend themselves. That is to say, they had an opportunity to defend themselves to the PyCon organizers. Who, subsequently, did not kick them out. From what
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by Smudge 14y ago
Median? $0. Mean? Somewhere in-between $0 and your typical exit.
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> Try programming without internet for a few hours. I've done this a couple times out of necessity (internet goes down, etc). It made me realize how useful a good IDE can be. Googling the API references is essentially a poor man's Intel
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Python was first released in 1991. I assume you meant Python 3, which was 2008.
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Okay, so it's not black and white. Sure, my android phone from 3 years ago can't run most newer apps. But it can still run the things I had on the phone at the time. I guess what I was getting at was that Apple (or Google) doesn't come and
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by Smudge 14y ago
> I realize a line needs to be drawn somewhere, and in this case that line was chosen at me. When you're the only one to cross a particular line among many other people, don't be surprised when you get called out. The lines may be fuzzy
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by Smudge 14y ago
> You can still buy a Mac Pro. Even more importantly, if you already purchased a Mac Pro, you can still use it. Indefinitely, until it breaks beyond repair.

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