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by awj 15y ago
In some ways that seems even worse. Canned messages that you have to inflict on your friends to use something are one step shy of pure spam. They also seem to be ignored in much the same ways.
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by awj 15y ago
I'd be careful with that. Most people probably wouldn't try too hard to promote you, and "just tweeting so I can use this crappy inbox cleaner. bit.ly/asdf..." isn't really great promotion. In general forcing viral activity both misses th
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by awj 15y ago
Suggestion: Download is great, email might be better. I don't get many DMs on twitter, but if I did I could see an automated "clean out everything over a month old and email it to me" service being worthwhile.
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by awj 15y ago
If you're boss can't imagine how "delivering better software cheaper and more quickly" could get him a larger quarterly bonus, you need a better boss.
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by awj 15y ago
Running cost/benefit on this is great, except that the numbers still don't add up. Instead of a user id that is obviously some row in a database, use a UUID and do your db lookups against that. Worst case you have to put in some kind of loc
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by awj 15y ago
Yeah, as a Rails developer I seriously doubt any of us are full time any of those things. I've met people that actually do full time JavaScript dev and DB admin, the knowledge difference between us is staggering. Rails developers need
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by awj 15y ago
Possibly you could stand to up the sensitivity? I can accomplish most of what I need from a mouse using simple wrist rotation. That said, I live in emacs and spend most of my day on the keyboard. Maybe I'm doing it wrong in a way that only
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by awj 15y ago
> Most of the farmers in my extended family are quite intelligent people, many of whom have masters degrees in agriculture. That's nice, but are they adept computer users? I know plenty of very intelligent people who haven't needed or
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> As an aside - I would LOVE a historic online mapping service. The ability to view a map moving through time, communities displacing, rivers changing course, harbours silting up, whole countries appearing and disappearing, simply by se
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by awj 15y ago
Except that those have definable effects, or at the least can be based in definable problems. "By using $SEO_technique, we were able to move up to $position in searches for 'blah blah blah'" "Our projects currently run over budget by $ugly_
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by awj 15y ago
The "distributed" part can simply reference the number of systems involved, it doesn't have to span networks all over the world.
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by awj 15y ago
I definitely am in the same camp on the "sharing code" argument, but could see careful structuring make models sort-of work. Obviously the basic persistence behavior needs to change, but if you reduce validation and some of the business log
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by awj 15y ago
I wouldn't call it a "fixed" version of Backbone. It changes some things I'm not overly concerned about (getters) and replaces collections with something that at first glance appears less useful. I like collections, they give me a good plac
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Not to mention able to keep up with an entire company full of Lisp programmers, fueled only by his rage at the situation. And, obviously, food. Probably a lot of coffee.
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by awj 15y ago
I'm not sure I follow what you're saying. How can you make daily deals algorithm based? They rely on third parties (merchants) agreeing to the promotions. Anything algorithm based would have to know enough about those merchants to make coup
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by awj 15y ago
Not to nit-pick your joke, but the unfortunate case in the Rails world is very often. I (try to) be a good boy and run tests before every check in, as well as writing them in advance of new features. Our project has enough files that it t
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by awj 15y ago
The project I'm working on right now (Rails) could certainly use the hell out of it. Hell, people were thrilled by how much faster things were after I pushed everything that didn't need to happen at request-time into the background queue. J
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by awj 15y ago
I think his point was that you shouldn't redo everything because someone phones you up claiming to have a trademark. Give the response he mentioned then go do your homework. If you're actually infringing, it's prudent to stop before the law
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by awj 15y ago
Both the article and you are talking in terms of extremes. Some people work 14+ hour days regularly because they are excited about the work. There is nothing wrong with this. Working 14+ hour days because you feel like you must do so to "
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by awj 15y ago
How do you consider what the Kindle does different from electronic paper? Matching the true physical dimensions of paper seems impractical when you no longer need more than one page. After about a year on the Kindle, I just finished re-re
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by awj 15y ago
The discussion in Learn you some Erlang is probably good enough: http://learnyousomeerlang.com/syntax-in-functions Python already has something accessible and similar in it's tuple unpacking. For example it allows: a,b,c = (1,2,3) Here th
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by awj 15y ago
You may win the award for "best comment I've seen all day", and today has just started.
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by awj 15y ago
Make it seasonal. Grilled cheese and tomato soup van in the fall/winter. Cupcake and Icee van in the spring/summer.
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by awj 15y ago
Phrasing it as "solving the biggest problem" is a little ... grandiose, though. How can you even quantify such a thing? Why should I swing for that fence when the problem is likely "bigger" for me because I am abnormally impaired at deali
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by awj 15y ago
So it's ok for me to misrepresent a situation and make other people look bad as long as I'm "just playing"?
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by awj 15y ago
I didn't realize "doing us a favor" excused them for being deceitful about the situation. The favor they should be thanked for. The reprimand is for misrepresenting what happened to make Comcast look bad when SearchYC was being run outsid
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by awj 15y ago
Pretty sure his regex is off, or at least sensitive to breaking from someone monkeying with the url. Something like /pages/01-/ will match and possibly end up triggering "fetch a page range" logic on null data. Instead he probably wants: /p
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by awj 15y ago
Yeah, I'm in the midst of discovering the horror of having my parents/extended family on Facebook. I now have to filter all of my dumb comments against "will mom call me to see if I'm ok" and stupid jokes have to be checked for grandma-appr
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by awj 15y ago
FWIW, the puppet book [1] was pretty good. Didn't end up using it for the project, but it seemed readable/informative. [1] http://www.amazon.com/Pulling-Strings-Puppet-Automated-Admin...
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by awj 15y ago
> It seems silly that so many datacenters are in central Texas, where not only are tornados and tropical storms fairly common, but it's hot and humid for 7 months out of the year. I thought most of the data centers were around Dallas or

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