armored_mammal

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by armored_mammal 14y ago
The example page (Tindie) is slow and chunky-scrolling on latest Firefox with my machine (16 gigs of RAM and quad Xeon)... It eats CPU. Something wrong with it. Doesn't happen in Chrome. I like the typography on the blog, though.
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by armored_mammal 14y ago
"focusing too much on a narrow skill set contributes greatly to the perceived skills shortage" I'd say not just contributes greatly, but is pretty much responsible for 90% of it. Employers aren't willing to find talented people and train th
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Canonical releases C++ fuzzy matching library libcolumbus(voices.canonical.com)
3 points by armored_mammal 14y ago|0 comments
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by armored_mammal 14y ago
I still think the fact that there's hard cap on the eventual total number of bitcoins will make them long run deflationary, create a strong incentive to horde, and eventually act as a restraint on their use in commerce - after all inflation
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by armored_mammal 14y ago
And here I thought everyone hated XML...
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by armored_mammal 14y ago
I just picked up a laptop for a relative that both had trackpad issues, lacked touchscreen support, and even had fn-keys that didn't work (you know, for controlling brightness and volume and such on the laptop) under Linux. And it was a pre
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by armored_mammal 14y ago
Nobody cares. Copyright is dead. If you insist on shaving a dead cat 21 ways the whole world is probably fine with you keeping it to yourself.
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Only civil engineers allowed to code for infrastructure projects in CA [pdf](norcal.aiche.org)
2 points by armored_mammal 14y ago|0 comments
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by armored_mammal 14y ago
I so concur with this post. How hard can it be to send an automated email: 'We're sorry to inform you that you have not been selected for position X. Thank you for your time and consideration.'
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by armored_mammal 14y ago
Is there any evidence that what it records actually matches the screen anyway?
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by armored_mammal 14y ago
I mostly hate the choice between 'renting' and 'buying' these boxes when you don't have any control over them and might get dragged into court for doing so.
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by armored_mammal 14y ago
Isn't this one of those 'it depends' questions?
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by armored_mammal 14y ago
Crashed my browser, FF 16.0.1, too. Or rather ate 200% cpu and locked browser, which I then had to kill.
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China's labor costs are now as high as Mexico's(qz.com)
9 points by armored_mammal 14y ago|1 comments
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by armored_mammal 14y ago
I thought they only allowed you to replace user space, not the Kernel? I'm always so tempted by Chromebooks... All I want out of a laptop is no moving parts, < 12" screen, an 8+ hour battery, and 1080p video playback using my Linux dist
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by armored_mammal 14y ago
I've never wanted an MBA, but I do feel like there's also not any really good provider of the kind of useful practical information that you feel like you need to know in order to start a business, whether it has to do with business licenses
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by armored_mammal 14y ago
I think there's a special level of hell for people who prefix their tables with tbl. They share it with people who give their schemas plural names. At best it's the obnoxious curry code special.
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by armored_mammal 14y ago
I'm a developer using Linux at work but it's sure not a high-paying job. I'm usually around average Linux when I buy a Humble Bundle and I'm making under $50k a year.
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by armored_mammal 14y ago
I hate video tutorials. I don't even have audio at work so if there's a video, I'm gone. But even when I do have audio, I feel like I'm spending 6 minutes to get 30 seconds of information, which drives me nuts. The worst part is that if I n
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by armored_mammal 14y ago
Hmm. I guess I was smart to start using Mint around when 12.04 came out.
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by armored_mammal 14y ago
Developer Auction == Silicon Valley farce to recycle Silicon Valley players at the expense of outsiders and newcomers. Yes... propagate the myth of 'the hard to find' developer by pretending that only the 'elite' exist by dint of their Alma
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by armored_mammal 14y ago
Meh. I haven't had any major fails with the Kickstarters I've supported, though outside of the Ouya I don't think I've supported any hardware ones. Some of the hardware ones I thought were the neat and obviously producible (like weird light
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by armored_mammal 14y ago
I noticed this when I signed up with them, but don't consider it the end of the world -- when I switched my number from AT&T, is was obvious anybody who had a little of my personal information and phone number could have done the same t
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by armored_mammal 14y ago
I concur with the author. When I write CoffeeScript I often use a more explicit or more c-like style for things I find ridiculously ambiguous or hard to parse when reading quickly. Particularly, if one line has lots of commas, I put parens
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by armored_mammal 14y ago
Can someone confirm that there is no such thing as a case insensitive index/search in Mongo? If true it seems likely that the author's comments have some degree of truth, at least when it comes to its usefulness for web and mobile applicati
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by armored_mammal 14y ago
Of course this being PHP maybe there's an equivalent interface I'm not aware of...
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PHP IteratorAggregate getIterator() should be static? (Seems sensible to me...)(bugs.php.net)
1 points by armored_mammal 14y ago|1 comments
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by armored_mammal 14y ago
I couldn't use the Internet without Adblock and Flashblock. Just like I couldn't read a novel if it every page were surrounded by flashing neon and ads randomly inserted between paragraphs, I can't read your website if the content is domina
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by armored_mammal 14y ago
My theory on this is that it's intended as a step to avoid SSDs writes.
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by armored_mammal 14y ago
I hate the whole 'networking' thing, too, because I associate it with people who replace functional skills with schmoozing skills, and I also hate how concentrated in California and New York things are, because I'd really rather not move, t

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