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by awj 15y ago
> How did they break it? After their changes, the tool does not function as it was originally intended. Certain sections of the official rubygems documentation give instructions that do not work with the Debian version of rubygems. How
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by awj 15y ago
I'd love to see solid numbers on what percentage of their sale price companies are spending on different forms of advertising. Considering the general bargain hunting nature of Groupon-derived customers I wouldn't be surprised if they're po
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by awj 15y ago
That sounds like a great recipe to start justifying shaving off fractions of your market until you're down to only reaching 40%. Not saying that's what you're doing, but any kind of "Screw X, I will tell the users what they want" decisions
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by awj 15y ago
Well, part of it was that there weren't other browsers to worry about. At the time there was no Chrome, no Safari (no one used Macs in a corporate environment if there was), and no Firefox. All that you had was IE and Netscape, and Netscape
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by awj 15y ago
I once worked for a company that made a staggering amount of money off producing milk (or other paper) cartons. They were vertically integrated from initial design all the way to dropping it off on your factory floor.
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by awj 15y ago
File "<stdin>", line 1, in easter_egg RuntimeError: maximum recursion depth exceeded
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by awj 15y ago
Probably working around a repost filter.
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by awj 15y ago
> Investors shouldn't be allowed to invest until they've purchased at least one product from Amazon. Seriously. My wife gets Amazon Prime for free through school. Within the first month I was looking for the best opportunity to buy stoc
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by awj 15y ago
My brother in law is British, after five years I still laugh at the way he says 'aluminium' too.
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by awj 15y ago
It seems like your education only matters up to a certain amount of experience. If someone has been out of school for ten years, I don't give a damn what happened back then. When all I have to go on is education and a one-year failed startu
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by awj 15y ago
There's a bit of space between "there's no education listed on your resume, what's up with that?" and "give us every ounce of data there is to be had about you being in school." The first one is reasonable. The second one isn't, and in my o
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by awj 15y ago
I don't think that's what's going on here. Steve Yegge is notorious for his overly-long blog posts. I got a chuckle at the comment, and I think that kind of offhand joke is what Brin intended. This looks like an inside joke pulled out of
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by awj 15y ago
Yeah, those steps are pretty crazy. They also aren't official , and most of the work is in setting up RVM, which you don't actually need to use for Rails. Just about any non-ancient environment that has Ruby provides 1.8.7, which is the
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by awj 15y ago
I have had to do this. Although I'm absolutely thankful that those days are over, I'm not convinced higher precision mouse control alleviates enough of the problem.
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by awj 15y ago
> How does that do anything but confirm the GP's point, that it's dumb to place a menu bar potentially thousands of pixels away from the window it applies to? That menu bar is effectively a billion pixels tall. You can throw the mouse p
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by awj 15y ago
> Apple studied this on a 512x342 1-bit display, on a machine architecturally incapable of multitasking more than one app at a time. It's just not relevant anymore, sorry. ... how do these technology changes render their results irrelev
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by awj 15y ago
I thought it was an indictment of ridiculous comparisons...
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by awj 15y ago
Irrational as it might be, appearance matters when someone becomes the public face for a group. This topic inevitably comes up when RMS is the subject of a thread. It's easy to dismiss that as maliciousness or trolling, but I think it's a
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by awj 15y ago
No ... who is on second.
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by awj 15y ago
If your goal is to appeal to "less-than-expert" programmers, this is exactly the kind of point where you want to be crystal clear. Blocking on CPU is the kryptonite of evented servers. If someone is new to them you probably cannot reiterate
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by awj 15y ago
...it's not the recent blog posts that are the problem, those are a response to hype huffers in the community spouting scalability nonsense. Having vague wording in the front matter for the project's main page doesn't help. Many of the peop
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by awj 15y ago
> Try pulling the marker from one location to another. For me it just drags the map (Chrome 13.0.782.220 / OS X). > I may have a general area of where I want to end up, but this lets you choose exactly where through a visual map. Ag
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by awj 15y ago
> While these changes feel like an answer to the rise of Google+, the search giant’s social network, Ross says that’s not the case. “We’ve been iterating on this in the last four years,” he said. Then this is going to be a revolutionary
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by awj 15y ago
To me, that map seems like a very confusing bit of UI. The cities themselves are really tiny interaction points, I'm a relatively experienced FPS gamer and hitting those points accurately involves more fumbling than it should. You cannot
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by awj 15y ago
His argument was: if the only two things your class does are take in a string when constructed and return it on demand, you don't need the class.
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by awj 15y ago
> I'd also like to see effort put into exploring the CL conditions systems. Exceptions already made programming more robust, conditions give the developer full control over error handling. In my opinion, almost every language I've worke
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by awj 15y ago
Yeah, it does, and thanks for taking the time to point me at something a little meatier than slides. I guess it's just hard to imagine that kind of situation when I'm on a two man web dev team that pushes out into the testing server 10-20 t
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by awj 15y ago
The same panel also has stats like "max number of hosts simultaneously receiving a deployment (3000)". Depending on how you run the numbers those 3000 hosts could all take nine hours to receive a single deployment and average out to 11.6 de
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by awj 15y ago
> For instance: assert_equal 2, @thing.method vs @thing.method.should == 2. ...what makes you think this is less confusing? Test::Unit is blindingly simple, your assertions are plain old functions that take plain old arguments. I can bu
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by awj 15y ago
...because of one guy, who may have been lying through his teeth in an attempt to impress the other people at dinner? I'm not trying to defend this guy, certainly it's a big problem if he did what he said, but you can't fix something when

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