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by akl 16y ago
Fun fact: it was changed because of concern people might hear 'cadaver' instead of 'cadabra'. (or so this book said: http://www.amazon.com/amazon-com-Inside-Revolutionary-Busine... )
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by akl 16y ago
FourSquare currently does this - they've been partnering with restaurants for some time: http://foursquare.com/businesses/ (large list of businesses and some info on the program) If you check in near a special, it'll tell you - also, if y
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by akl 17y ago
Where are you getting this image data from, out of curiosity? Also, any plans to publish a live report? I'd be more inclined to keep helping out if there were some interesting graphs I could look at; the promise of a future report is less e
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by akl 17y ago
.. and by 'moving those libraries' you mean 'copying' them, right? :) A quick look at nginx's ./configure script doesn't show any options that enable static linking on the libraries, but that would be useful for looking into chrooting it.
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by akl 17y ago
My bold can do that, though it's entirely likely he didn't know the path through the menus to open the .xls doc. The office-like suite opens .doc/.xls/.ppt, iirc. It doesn't render properly 100% of the time, though, whereas my iPhone always
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by akl 17y ago
Why is losing 1000 people a week when the states in question have 24 million people (Texas) and 36 million people (California) notable? It seems like it's nearly impossible to determine 'why' given those population counts, personally. (popu
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by akl 17y ago
.. kind of. There are some reports of these rules being enforced on domestic-only flights, too: http://gizmodo.com/5435117/the-unofficial-guide-to-flying-af... (scroll down to the 'be ready for anything' part)
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by akl 17y ago
Develop a non-work life, if only for balance. I'd like to expand my ruby skills, too.
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by akl 17y ago
You are crazy for doing that - one instance of downtime doesn't justify ignoring all the advantages DNS brings.
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by akl 17y ago
hn link for original post on his blog he's referring to: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=860913 hn link for sfweekly article he's talking about: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=998554
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by akl 17y ago
I disagree that there's a specific reason for his feeling lost; this is probably due to still feeling some of that myself (I'm nearly 25), though. That said, I joined a startup as his age. Younger, actually - I was 18. It was a good experie
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by akl 17y ago
Maybe these also, if so inclined: - new perlperf man page that looks interesting: http://search.cpan.org/~jesse/perl-5.11.0/pod/perlperf.pod - 'use 5.11.0' also implies 'use strict' now, yay: http://search.cpan.org/~jesse/perl-5.11.0/pod
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by akl 17y ago
I just don't see, with current hardware, the iPhone taking over the niche that the xbox360/ps3 serve for more serious gamers. The serious types also seem like they'd be spending a lot more money, but I guess there are more casual gamers wit
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by akl 17y ago
I'll differ from berntb - you should learn Perl exactly because it's fairly similar to those languages you already know, and the effort required to do so will be minimal. You may not end up using it all that frequently, but an hour or two s
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by akl 17y ago
... from a teacher at open university, apparently. I'm sure I'm biased as a college drop out myself, but I've never been impressed by abstract ('learn how to help society!', etc) type reasons to go to college.
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by akl 17y ago
First instinct was to compare against websites of other programming languages, and (despite the poor choice of mascot) it occurs to me that I'm not really sure what a good programming language website would look like... Ruby: http://www.ru
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by akl 17y ago
I wonder if the project devs have thought of putting an instance of this up for the world? There's a solid version of this for ruby ( http://tryruby.hobix.com/ ) I direct people to when they ask about the language, I'd like to see more "tr