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   by alxndr 12y ago

   I made the switch a week or two ago, and it was pretty painless. Kept most of my previous configuration, but only brought it over once I used it and missed it (to find out what I'm acutally using). The one thing I haven't set up y
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   by alxndr 12y ago

   A couple years ago I read an article about a fatal shooting the previous night, next to an ad for The Killers [0] in concert at a nearby venue. [0] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Killers
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   Jansen's linkage(en.wikipedia.org)

   3 points by alxndr 12y ago|0 comments
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   by alxndr 12y ago

   Even small companies can have momentum and unanalyzed patterns that are hard to change.
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   by alxndr 12y ago

   > "At the end of every trivia question I'm tempted to ask: so is this typical of what I will be doing here? Will I be implementing rand(7) given rand(5) once a week?" That sounds like a great question to ask!
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   by alxndr 12y ago

   Bleacher Report • Frontend, Backend, or Devops Engineers • San Francisco, CA • full-time or contract Bleacher Report, one of the fastest-growing digital media properties in the U.S., is seeking mid-to-senior level engineers with experience
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   by alxndr 12y ago

   One of the things I've heard about Erlang is that its processes can be distributed very easily. The paper you cite was written four years before Erlang was open-sourced; I wonder if Erlang/OTP would hold up to their analysis.
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   by alxndr 12y ago

   I've had the same experience lately. Coordinating a number of staging environments for an evolving SOA backend has been challenging for both developers and ops. In addition to the services, each one can have many other things to worry
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   by alxndr 12y ago

   One of my favorite features of the RSS reader I use is that it can hook up to a Twitter list, effectively giving me back an RSS feed of tweets. (Previously I'd been scraping together Yahoo Pipes or Google App Engine based things people
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    by alxndr 12y ago

    Don't Macs let you switch regions a limited number of times?
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    On the Comprehension of Program Comprehension(neverworkintheory.org)

    21 points by alxndr 12y ago|1 comments
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    An iPad Remote Presence Device(pivotallabs.com)

    2 points by alxndr 12y ago|0 comments
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    by alxndr 12y ago

    I'm inclined to repurpose a cliche, and say that now your backend team has two problems!
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    by alxndr 12y ago

    OT: as someone trying to learn my way around Erlang's OTP framework, I'd be interested in a walkthrough of an OTP based system compared to this.
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    by alxndr 12y ago

    I've been preferring explicit `map()`s in my CoffeeScript for exactly that reason.
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    “constructor” package page causes a 500 error(github.com)

    1 points by alxndr 12y ago|0 comments
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    by alxndr 12y ago

    This sounds like a very good answer to that question.
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    by alxndr 12y ago

    Could be a perfect use for Lojban.
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    by alxndr 12y ago

    I wonder if Lojban[1] could serve as an unambiguous, largely-context-independent way to store representations of the central concepts, which can then be translated into natural human language. [1] "a constructed, syntactically unambigu
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    by alxndr 12y ago

    One person's old trash is another person's incredibly valuable archaeological artifact...
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    by alxndr 12y ago

    For a bunch of reading about related "evolution" of arcane words, see Language Log's archive about "eggcorns": http://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?cat=49
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    by alxndr 12y ago

    What if the company needed to bring on a large number of junior developers again?
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    by alxndr 12y ago

    Wow, that's perfect!
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    by alxndr 12y ago

    Unfortunately that's lead me to need to specify my intended ruby version in several places on a ruby project (.ruby-version, Gemfile, CI config file...)
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    by alxndr 12y ago

    With an actual firearm and bullets, it might not be; bullets don't have a lot of mass.
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    by alxndr 12y ago

    That's good to hear. It (and a python-based rewrite) was one of the first software projects I looked at and had a chance to mess with when I began to learn to code.
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    by alxndr 12y ago

    And the underlying CMS was pretty messy if memory serves.
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    by alxndr 12y ago

    Send a pull request!
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    by alxndr 12y ago

    Have you seen https://railslts.com/ ? > "Rails LTS is a commercially supported fork of Rails 2.3 (and soon Rails 3.2) that continues to receive security patches now that official support has ended."
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    by alxndr 12y ago

    Brian Krebs has just posted his analysis of the incident and the FBI's response: http://krebsonsecurity.com/2014/12/fbi-north-korea-to-blame-...