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by arscan 13y ago
I personally hope django (and rails) keep their focus on the "bland corner of the web." The vast majority of (useful) sites out there are dead dull from a technology perspective, and I'd like tools that help me develop &
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by arscan 13y ago
Because it is an infinity symbol (U+221E). I guess the idea is that the permalink will last for an infinite amount of time. I personally think its pretty clever.
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by arscan 13y ago
What if the earth had rings like Saturn: http://io9.com/if-earth-had-a-ring-like-saturn-508750253 The author describes how bright they would be at night and what they would look like at different locations on the planet.
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by arscan 13y ago
http://remysharp.com/2010/10/08/what-is-a-polyfill/ "Shim, to me, meant a piece of code that you could add that would fix some functionality, but it would most often have it’s own API. I wanted som
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by arscan 13y ago
In short: KISS (Keep it Simple, Stupid) That's one of my favorite principles of software development (and engineering in general).
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by arscan 13y ago
I think the point here is that its not some ridiculously huge number, like $100 billion. It is feasible for the NSA to actually store a substantial percentage of US phone calls if they wanted.
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by arscan 13y ago
Reminds me of Junkyard Jumbotron, which came out of MIT a few years ago. The nice thing about that is that it runs on anything with a browser (I believe), and the devices don't have to be particularly close or well aligned. I haven&#
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by arscan 13y ago
I just think you should spend money in a way that maximizes your own happiness. Studies indicate that spending money on others is one of the best ways to increase your own happiness. I don't have references handy, but check out the book "
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by arscan 13y ago
Maybe I'm missing something, but how is "largest" defined here? Looks like only $1,200 has been pledged so far.
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by arscan 13y ago
I'm getting a "Not Found" on the link. Looks like the url changed slightly to: http://baus.net/posts/you-cant-impress-developers/ (its not a cache, but i'll say cached here for those searching the comments for a link to the google cache)
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by arscan 13y ago
Some history for those that are interested: corporate-ir.net is a utility domain that only exists to serve customized investor relations sites. The base domain itself actually does nothing. Think of it like github.io... www.github.io serve
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by arscan 13y ago
Regarding the URL: Amazon (and just about every public company in the US) outsources the investor relations portion of their site, because it is easier to do so than to integrate the feeds mandated by the SEC on their public site themselves
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by arscan 13y ago
Generic Country Code Top Level Domains
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by arscan 13y ago
Not to be that guy, but the fact that it plots 2013 and 2014 really messes up the impact of this chart. When I first saw it, I was thinking "whoa, we must have severely cut funding for such a huge dropoff!"
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by arscan 13y ago
Hah, I like that concept. If the author is interested in renaming, there are a lot of ones here that would make good names for this project: http://oxforddictionaries.com/words/common-misspellings Though its probably a bit too late for t
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by arscan 13y ago
> If one person has been working with machine tools 40 hours a week while the other hasn't used machine tools for six months, hiring the first is the rational thing to do yes, but the point is that companies would even prefer hiring p
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by arscan 14y ago
Coming up with measurable criteria is hard. It may not be perfect, but how else would you gauge community adoption? Or are you complaining about netflix wanting projects "that contain a substantive contribution, working code and which ha
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by arscan 14y ago
whether we're saving time or cutting jobs It depends what you mean by "jobs". If you mean it in the headcount sense, then yes, that's bad. Good leadership should inform its employees of how technology is impacting its operations. That
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by arscan 14y ago
Whether or not you actually click on them, you are "using" them. Last I checked (admittedly, a couple of years ago), if you've used that browser to log into facebook and haven't cleared your cookies (or configured / installed a privacy add
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by arscan 14y ago
Re browsing: If you use Chrome, give vimium a shot. I never touch my mouse. There are probably other similar plugins, but that one works well for me.
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by arscan 14y ago
I think about this occasionally. Everything that you see that isn't "nature" was explicitly designed by somebody (and most likely a large team of somebodies). Its truly mind-boggling.
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by arscan 14y ago
There is a dedicated Kinect In though. It seems more likely that they are trying to push xbox towards being a media hub, and to get people used to always consuming media through their xbox.
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by arscan 14y ago
Apparently he was driving in circles looking for the charging station, which was difficult to see in a dark parking lot: http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2013/02/elon-musk-new-y... We'll just have to wait for this "detailed rebuttal"
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by arscan 14y ago
Or maybe Hanlon's razor applies instead: Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity.
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by arscan 14y ago
Note that this is from December.
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by arscan 14y ago
There are probably some value-adds you can do here, besides convenience for developers. For example, you could save your users money by doing some creative aggregation of data points (assuming these services charge by volume) before sendin
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by arscan 14y ago
This caught my eye as well, because the article talks about how big a pain it is to set up & maintain queuing servers, but then provides a solution that simply isn't as robust. But to be honest, the fact that they open sourced all these
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by arscan 14y ago
>> In this case, the person renting the car would be "interviewing" the car rental company to determine if their service is worth their money. It goes both ways... the rental car agency interviews the person to make sure she is trus
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by arscan 14y ago
Is there an underlying story / quest that your little guy progresses through as he gets stronger? I always thought that the story component is what helped make those old rpg's great. Obviously it would defeat the purpose if you spent too mu
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by arscan 14y ago
I would be highly surprised if he lets other people manage his Facebook account. He seems to firmly believe that the type of social interaction that facebook facilitates is the way of the future. By not using it himself, he would be admit

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