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by andyl 12y ago
I have two hives in the yard. (Palo Alto) We produce 10-20 gallons of honey per year. Fun to harvest - kids love to get hands-on. Fun to give away esp to random strangers.
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by andyl 12y ago
Let me rephrase my post to soothe your butthurt... > Needless killing and destruction doesn't correlate with intelligence. Tell that to the Europeans after the arrival of the Mongols. Or to the North American megafauna after the arr
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by andyl 12y ago
> Needless killing and destruction doesn't correlate with intelligence. Tell that to the Native Americans after the arrival of Columbus. Or to the North American megafauna after the arrival of humans. Or to the millions of species
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by andyl 12y ago
The Peter Thiel stuff that you reference is a good framework for identifying AI-based market opportunities over the next decade or two. But it doesn't have much to say about the existential risks posed by a future intelligence that we
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by andyl 12y ago
NY Times concludes by asserting: "We (humans and AI) are going to have a lot of the same problems, and any company is preferable to going it alone." Utterly childish wishful thinking. AI is not going to be your surrogate mommy.
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by andyl 12y ago
I believe Rails5 will require Ruby 2.2.x (which does garbage collection on symbols).
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by andyl 12y ago
This society rewards restraint and conformity. Then there are the mood-altering drugs. When my boys were in elementary school, the teachers wanted to drug them into compliance because they were 'too competitive'. Nurse Ratchet
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by andyl 12y ago
Maybe it has something to do with him being 70?
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by andyl 12y ago
And with Elixir, there is no chance for a future 'runs best on Chrome' campaign, no chance that you'll be trapped in a corporate-controlled walled garden. Not that I'm trying to raise doubts about Dart. Jose and team h
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by andyl 12y ago
Elixir also gives you really cool meta-programming tools, a way to extend the language, that aren't part of CoffeeScript.
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by andyl 12y ago
We've used marionette - wanted to like it but found the learning curve too difficult. Switched to React - much simpler learning curve with good performance.
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by andyl 12y ago
Just wait for the "runs best on Chrome" campaign. Deja vu all over again.
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by andyl 12y ago
Here's another analogy: ActiveX was to Microsoft as Dart is to Google. Dart is another brick in Google's walled garden.
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Tesla will build battery 'Gigafactory' in Nevada(usatoday.com)
9 points by andyl 12y ago|1 comments
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by andyl 12y ago
There are tools to make use of HTTP in all sorts of ways. Curl, Wget, Restful APIs, Sinatra, Grape, etc. Fast, flexible, lightweight. Email - not so much. Want a local email server? There's Postfix - yuckkk. The overhead of spam -
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by andyl 12y ago
And ruby has YamlStore. I use PStore and YamlStore all the time - extremely simple and helpful. But - I wouldn't necessary call any of these tools 'databases', just persistent object stores.
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by andyl 12y ago
I was able to run bash and vim inside the browser console. And Tmux. And I could run vim inside of Tmux. Split windows, multi-tabs, htop. Guard, rspec, pry-debugger. Everything worked. WOW
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by andyl 12y ago
Just saw this in the release notes: The PostgreSQL adapter now supports the JSONB datatype in PostgreSQL 9.4+. Indexable/queryable JSON - so fantastic.
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by andyl 12y ago
One of the things I like best is the pre-announcement that Rails 5 will be built for Ruby 2.2. I appreciate the role that DHH and Rails play in keeping the community moving forward.
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by andyl 12y ago
I have low enthusiasm for this project because I don't see a big added-value above NerdTree and CtrlP. But I would love to see more cross-platform Gui wrappers and more embedded Vim. I'm hopeful that NeoVim will help make this ha
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by andyl 12y ago
Tell that to Tom Preston-Werner.
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NSA Funded Project to Roll All Programming Languages into One(gizmodo.com)
1 points by andyl 12y ago|0 comments
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by andyl 12y ago
A great popularizer of psychedelics - a real-life Walter White. To his credit, he doesn't shy away from the fact that some people never return from their trip. That happened to my cousin.
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by andyl 12y ago
I've had experience with Chef, Puppet and Ansible. Ansible is the least complex, and we're using it daily. Re: Ansible community dynamic - I've gotten unfriendly feedback a few times and agree with the negative reputation.
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by andyl 12y ago
A great solution is to run DNSMASQ on your local network, and configure it to block unwanted domains. That way it works on any connected device automatically, with no plugins or browser overhead. There are plenty of guides - google it!
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by andyl 12y ago
There is grape, grape-swagger, grape-swagger rails, and a bunch of other gems for creating API's. They work amazingly well, and have a pretty active community. They have solved a ton of issues: Jsonp, Cors, authentication, rate limit
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by andyl 12y ago
I've lost many friends and family to drugs and alcohol. Tremendous loss. Most can use with no consequences, but not everyone. I believe legalization will result in more casualties.
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by andyl 12y ago
Nevada. Pretty cheap. Not crowded.
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by andyl 12y ago
There are a few options for scripting xfce4. You can use xfconf-query from the command line or a script. You can edit the config files in .config/xfce4. You can sync the whole .config/xfce4 directory from machine to machine - t
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by andyl 12y ago
My old setup had a mix of single-monitor and dual-monitor machines. Now I use single-monitor on all machines and found you can replicate the entire .config/xfce4 directory, even with different screen sizes. Everything syncs perfectly

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