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by bhiggins 16y ago
I don't travel much, but the last time I had the option I opted not to go through the body scanner. At that time, the alternative was the usual metal detector. I plan on travelling next month and I am considering doing the pat-down since
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by bhiggins 16y ago
I'd have no problem going through the backscatter body scanner every time if the government would just do this to make me feel better: - I could see the body scan of the TSA agent who is scanning me. - The body scans of John S. Pistole (TSA
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by bhiggins 16y ago
The first sentence makes sense but the second one does not follow. Grow a brain.
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by bhiggins 16y ago
PHP: by amateurs, for amateurs
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by bhiggins 16y ago
You get to tell your friends you work at Facebook and they get to be like oh sweet and they say what are you working on and you get to say oh the billing platform for virtual goods and they get to say like whoa that is so exciting!!
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by bhiggins 16y ago
on the flip side, here's an experiment for converting JavaScript to Python, and then if it turns out to be valid RPython (a subset of Python where among other things the types of variables don't change), converts it to a native executable.
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by bhiggins 16y ago
drains battery too fast
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by bhiggins 16y ago
Yeah we never do stuff like that here.
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by bhiggins 16y ago
I still have a problem with using a VM on a phone and having GC on a phone. (I also have a problem with Objective C's function call overhead.)
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by bhiggins 16y ago
I've only surveyed what's out there a little, but I am impressed with Protovis's demos and apparent flexibility: http://vis.stanford.edu/protovis/
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by bhiggins 16y ago
fine. here's some information, then: you're promoting cargo cult thinking.
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by bhiggins 16y ago
your enthusiasm is infectious in a bad way.
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by bhiggins 16y ago
hey sorry to burst your bubble but this is pointless.
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by bhiggins 16y ago
someone directly copied my answer to 2+2. boo hoo.
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by bhiggins 16y ago
It's time Yahoo just gave up.
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by bhiggins 16y ago
something has to pay for those four day work weeks and Isilon storage
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by bhiggins 16y ago
yeah totally. viral too.
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by bhiggins 16y ago
Foursquare did add more MongoDB servers, the problem was that the 5% of records that were migrated off of the full server were small, so the removal didn't result in many memory pages being released, so it didn't help. This article does no
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by bhiggins 16y ago
Why don't you go start a company and show us how great you are at headcount?
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by bhiggins 16y ago
Be professional, don't push your religion on other people.
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by bhiggins 16y ago
I'm curious, is the title of the documentary a Nietzsche reference?
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by bhiggins 16y ago
he's also wrong about when to use continuations
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by bhiggins 16y ago
CouchDB removed my appendix. I didn't even have appendicitis though.
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by bhiggins 16y ago
Schmidt's strategy seems to be to make himself and Google look bad, but since Schmidt is a smart guy and I'm an idiot, I'm trying to figure out what's really going on... Will Google be entering the housing construction market and offer pr
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by bhiggins 16y ago
apparently, because all the wealth somehow got redistributed to a small minority. that's what you're talking about, right?
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by bhiggins 16y ago
a web programmer should perhaps not speak of things he does not understand
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by bhiggins 16y ago
"Thiel’s remarks were largely motivated by his understanding of the tech sector." Facebook is not in the tech sector. They're in, I don't know, some kind of nonsense social sector. Technology is more incidental to their business, just lik
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by bhiggins 16y ago
Like strict vs. lazy evaluation by default...?
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by bhiggins 16y ago
Just make sure you don't pointlessly store continuations when you don't need to, like on Hacker News.
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by bhiggins 16y ago
improving Erlang performance... by not using Erlang. neat. next step: stop using CouchDB?

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