benburton

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by benburton 6y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paradox_of_tolerance
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by benburton 6y ago
Imagine being so socially inept that you write a manifesto to dictate how others greet you.
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by benburton 6y ago
You're not alone!
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by benburton 6y ago
Great stuff guys!
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by benburton 7y ago
Whoa whoa whoa... I thought jimmies were the "long" ones and sprinkles were the smaller, circular ones.
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by benburton 11y ago
Good to hear it's finally official. The Mac desktop app has been unusable for the past 6 months.
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by benburton 11y ago
When their requests lack clarity and specificity, they definitely do.
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by benburton 11y ago
Looks beautiful, but I think I've blown my "keyboard budget" for the next year :)
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by benburton 11y ago
I've been running a mid-2012 MacBook Pro with a Dell Ultrawide u3415w at 3440x1440 for the past week (got a Newegg deal for $650 down from $800 on Amazon), and I have never been happier. I don't know what I would do with more real
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by benburton 11y ago
Best bet is to wait for Massdrop to relaunch that ErgoDox kit: https://www.massdrop.com/buy/ergodox?mode=guest_open
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by benburton 11y ago
This is going to sound stupid, but I think the major problems with Drive are the line height it uses for items within a directory and the fact that it has relatively short file pagination threshold. I had thought that Drive was confusing, b
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by benburton 11y ago
I particularly love Cloud Platform's Nearline storage for personal media archival. Previously I was using Amazon's Glacier, but the interface was clunky and the load times were too slow. Cloud Platform's web UI, comparatively
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by benburton 11y ago
I like to call this the "father in law" feature.
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by benburton 11y ago
How else would you detect the operating system of the client making the request?
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by benburton 11y ago
How is this different from the usual API docs? I'm not saying that it isn't, I'm just curious as to how it is.
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by benburton 11y ago
Sounds like United States v. Microsoft Corp.[1] all over again. [1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_v._Microsoft_Cor... .
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by benburton 11y ago
The only real use case for this is if you drive somewhere, get drunk unintentionally, and need to get home with your vehicle. Planning ahead and using Uber is obviously the more economical solution.
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by benburton 11y ago
Standardized dependency injection is great news! The Play application I work on has a home-grown dependency injection system that leaves a lot to be desired. It will be great to see a more standard way of doing this.
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by benburton 11y ago
In 2008 I graduated from college and moved to New York City right away. I immediately got a job at a very early stage startup. The economic climate took a turn for the worse, and after a month the startup lost their main investment and had
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by benburton 11y ago
Watch out, rivers are being deprecated: https://www.elastic.co/blog/deprecating_rivers
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by benburton 11y ago
I have a bit of a chuckle at anyone who uses the term "web-scale" in serious conversation. The idea of 'web-scale' is an inside joke that the author has clearly missed: https://twitter.com/search?q=web%20
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by benburton 12y ago
> Everyone agrees Scala is too complicated. This is not true.
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by benburton 12y ago
His lectures are wonderful! In college I skipped my regular Linear Algebra lectures, and used the time slot in my schedule to watch his MIT lectures instead. I ended up scoring one of the highest grades in the class.
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by benburton 12y ago
TheLadders is just a worse LinkedIn you have to pay for up front.
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by benburton 12y ago
Excellent demo! I love how easy this is to use.
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by benburton 12y ago
The view handling in Active Admin has always been a huge problem for me personally. I find myself at home with most any other Rails gem, but when it comes to Active Admin I always shudder and think "now I have to remember how to do thi
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by benburton 12y ago
> presumably have a centralized database which maintains a record of any credit card used at a home depot That's a bit of a leap. I'd assume they just have a hash of the data.
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by benburton 12y ago
I think this is actually the crux of the issue. The language gives you enough rope to hang yourself with, and when people do hang themselves with it, those who look in from the outside throw the baby out with the bathwater.
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by benburton 12y ago
It seems to be that what's really needed is better JVM language interoperability in Android, then you can choose your poison. * As an aside, for beginner programmers I think that asking them to use a Lisp is far more conceptually chall
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by benburton 12y ago
There's no substantiative argument in this comment. > Scala, as a programming language, tries to incorporate too many concepts Too many concepts? Says who? How many concepts is too many? You don't have to use them all, and you

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