acobster

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by acobster 9y ago
I highly recommend Destroy All Software if you're looking for resources for going from a beginner/intermediate level of coding ability to a more advanced level. Much of the material is organized around MVC web development and espe
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by acobster 9y ago
The idea of using the name Jango is probably patented.
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by acobster 9y ago
Wow, I had no idea Phil Collins worked for SoundCloud! :D
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by acobster 9y ago
True. And at the same time, people submitting their code for review could use some thicker skin.
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by acobster 9y ago
She was right, and as a senior engineer she was in a mentor role. I don't think that directly communicating a relevant fact - that trans is not a gender - to someone contributing to a survey intended to collect data about marginalized
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by acobster 9y ago
I can see my house!
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by acobster 9y ago
I never knew the verb decline corresponded with declension . Thanks for that.
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by acobster 9y ago
I agree that boiling the "wall of legalese" down to some quick bullet points might be a good approach. Within the existing regulatory framework, the requirement could be that the language be clear and that it accurately reflect th
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by acobster 9y ago
Well to answer his question: because in the examples of African Americas and Hispanics, there's a power structure with its roots in the racist history of American capitalism, and profiting off of that power structure is definitely less
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by acobster 9y ago
No, leaving their brand on it confers that you thought well enough of the company to pay for their product, and nothing more. Consumers have no obligation to protect any company's reputation.
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by acobster 9y ago
This is why our legal system comes to the sane conclusion that a person who gets "upset with John Deere" for that reason has no legal standing because they bought it used. That's the incentive to buy the warranty.
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by acobster 9y ago
This looks great. I will be trying this out later. Minor grammar nitpick: "Less grocery store trips" should be " Fewer grocery store trips."
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by acobster 9y ago
"These are only suggestions. You make the call." In other words, calm down people.
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by acobster 9y ago
I highly recommend Jeff Hawkins' (the founder of Numenta) book On Intelligence to anyone interested in anomaly detection and AI in general. Although HTMs haven't been as successful as neural networks, his concept of what intelli
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by acobster 10y ago
Decompose complex signals into their constituent sinusoids with this one weird trick
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by acobster 10y ago
This. One of my most frequent freelance clients was a web developer who farmed some modules out to me to be implemented. From what I could tell, he used FTP for deploying changes, and did not use any kind of version control. I kept him on a
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by acobster 10y ago
Tangential question: > It seems to me high time to rouse ourselves to consciousness, and to cast a critical eye upon this decidedly grotesque tendency. Other nations suffer terribly from the Mandarin disease. Does anyone know what this
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by acobster 10y ago
I completely disagree. I still watch it every once in a while and notice something new every time. I'm never disappointed.
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by acobster 10y ago
I highly suggest you add some sort of timer to the FAYT feature to avoid premature AJAX calls to the server. If I type "hipster" into the search box, it makes seven calls: one for each letter of the search term. I'm starting
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by acobster 10y ago
We do have a choice, and while Comedy Central may be the most popular arena at the moment, it will never be the only arena. Comedy is good for keeping things relevant, but I've never seen it actually convince anyone. For that, you have
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by acobster 10y ago
I agree in that people who still appreciate truth and facts must combat lies on all fronts, and that includes on the cultural front of entertainment. If a joke can reveal that the emperor has no clothes, I suppose that's a net gain. Bu
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by acobster 10y ago
> you may decide that not binding a database to local connections would be a reasonable default...But assumptions like that are dangerous because when not if someone does something that breaks that assumption, they’re now vulnerable to
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by acobster 10y ago
I also really like how Atom, Sublime Test, and Vim are "DevOps tools."
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by acobster 10y ago
This reminds of Jeff Hawkins' book On Intelligence. He takes a similar stance on the overarching/conceptual solution vs. more specialized solutions that dance around the knowledge gap. He criticizes neural networks as not suffic
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by acobster 10y ago
Gee, thanks for giving us humanities people a voice. :/ As an artist myself, I have a huge problem with assessing qualitative analysis using something as mechanical as multiple choice. Authorial intent definitely falls under that umbre
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by acobster 10y ago
Yawn. Paul Graham basically wrote this article twelve years ago. I'm no fanboy, but at least he wasn't trying to coin bland catchphrases by italicizing them.
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by acobster 10y ago
Definitely irrelevant. But still definitely annoying. Cheer up, though, sometimes the code is from the WordPress core!
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by acobster 10y ago
Maybe the dog in this case is protect people's incomes, but they're not a regular guard dog in the sense of protecting from intrusion. More like they're out in public, begging for food. Oh and some of them might have rabies.
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by acobster 10y ago
A friend of mine studied abroad in Cuba. There were wild dogs everywhere. One of his roommates was shocked at their treatment. She would feed them and try to pet them, until one day she was bitten. So maybe it's OK to poke them preempt
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by acobster 10y ago
Not that I'm really surprised by Google's action, but "fraud" is a pretty strong word for what's happening, and pretty disingenuous IMO. No one's pretending to be anyone they're not.

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