brendoncrawford

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by brendoncrawford 13y ago
MrJob is great. If you do not want to run full blown Hadoop and are not using Amazon, Gearman is also a great alternative.
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by brendoncrawford 13y ago
The word's meaning has also been twisted by the tech startup crowd to mean "one who glues together a couple API calls to make an MVP".
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by brendoncrawford 13y ago
First world problems: "I get too many job opportunities from recruiters." There are a lot of people right now who would be thrilled to receive these emails from recruiters, and would reply to every one. Why burn the bridge with a
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by brendoncrawford 13y ago
The whitelist also allows ads for Reddit and Amazon.
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by brendoncrawford 13y ago
Happy paying FastMail customer here. Would love to see CalDav support (public and private), so I can ditch Google once and for all.
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by brendoncrawford 13y ago
As someone who has travelled throughout Germany, I can say that there is nothing in Germany that remotely resembles the scope of homelessness that exists in certain parts of the US. So, I can understand why you might find it amusing.
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by brendoncrawford 13y ago
This is a myrh.
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by brendoncrawford 14y ago
Just what the world needed: More talentless hacks teaching the world how to more efficiently spread bad art. It really is a shame that time invested into areas having nothing to do with the music is rewarded over the music itself. This seem
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by brendoncrawford 14y ago
I generally find this to be extremely confusing.
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by brendoncrawford 14y ago
This reminds me of why I am glad I have plain-text mode enabled in Thunderbird. I do not want my emails to be webpages, and I do not want email senders using clever tricks to determine how I see my emails, and how my recipients see them. Th
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by brendoncrawford 14y ago
For what it's worth... I lost a lot of weight by eating the same stuff I have always ate, just much less of it. Cookies, oatmeal, chocolate, beans, nuts, fruit, etc. Pre-historic or not, paleo is a fad. People with self control are going to
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by brendoncrawford 14y ago
Thankfully, city planners are increasingly disagreeing with your sentiment, and are encouraging bicyclists to use the full lane. This is proving in many cases to be safer than using the bike lane for both drivers and bicyclists. If you have
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by brendoncrawford 14y ago
Put this in a text editor and run it in python: print(reduce((lambda x, y: x + y), xrange(10))) print(reduce((lambda x, y: x + \ y), xrange(10))) HINT: It runs.
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by brendoncrawford 14y ago
4. Don't make live edits on your production server.
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by brendoncrawford 14y ago
In which case, maybe the title should have been "Design Books Everybody Should Read"?
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by brendoncrawford 14y ago
Great books, but why is it necessary that every hacker should read them? How are these relevant to the hacker who writes his own Linux device drivers? Or the hacker building an open source voice recognition library? There are plenty of ha
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by brendoncrawford 14y ago
> The people least familiar with the language have the most negative to say about it My 12 years of experience with PHP would beg to differ. It is, by ANY standard, a terrible language. In fact, it's primary defense of being "convenie
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by brendoncrawford 14y ago
> Almost nobody "non-techie" that I know about learns git's command line. That is fine. Those people are not Git's target market.
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by brendoncrawford 14y ago
I recommend FlowDock as a good alternative.
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by brendoncrawford 14y ago
A while back I made a drastic recovery from pretty bad RSI. Here are some tips based on my experience and fairly extensive research, including many conversations with doctors and chiropractors. * Use a REAL ergonomic keyboard, such as the S
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by brendoncrawford 14y ago
> every vegan I know has serious health problems That does not necessarily mean that veganism caused their health problems.
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by brendoncrawford 14y ago
They use Redis.
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by brendoncrawford 14y ago
> AFAIK, it's no longer maintained False. Last commit was 18 hours ago.
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by brendoncrawford 14y ago
From the article: > PHP is used by 77.9% of all the websites whose server-side programming language is known. Selection bias. PHP Has a higher tendency to advertise itself.
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by brendoncrawford 14y ago
This seems to be pretty much the same as MVC, where "Operations" are controllers and "Events" are essentially routes. Am I missing something?
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by brendoncrawford 14y ago
> But I also think that it might be the best language to use in gaining an understanding of the fundamentals of web development OP admittedly has less than one year of web development experience. Perhaps it would be wise for OP to gai
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by brendoncrawford 14y ago
Or, he wants to establish himself as a brand.
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by brendoncrawford 14y ago
Some would say it is easier to setup and manage.
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by brendoncrawford 14y ago
This public shaming was immature and unprofessional. The matter should have been resolved within the legal system. I would not hire somebody who behaves this way.
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by brendoncrawford 14y ago
I recommend using rEFIt: http://refit.sourceforge.net/ It can help with some of the multi-boot problems people tend to have with Ubuntu on MBP.

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