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by burke 15y ago
Lua scripting is really exciting. I wrote a library to simplify using Redis' lua scripting facility from inside a rails app: http://shopify.github.com/wolverine/ . We've been using it at Shopify for inventory management, and it's let us do
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by burke 15y ago
And to no one's surprise, they're up 8% in after-hours trading.
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by burke 15y ago
I'm sure I wasn't the only one that was curious about this, so: > There are very limited laws against "insider trading" in the commodities markets, if, for no other reason, than that the concept of an "insider" is not immediately analog
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by burke 15y ago
Supposed to be, but rarely was. Throw a bunch of new programmers at a framework, and insecure-by-default becomes insecure.
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by burke 15y ago
Honestly, I'm pretty impressed it's only 7-10 times the size. Ruby is a comparatively huge language, and the compiled size will more likely get smaller than larger from here.
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by burke 15y ago
I'm using rupa/j. This looks way featureful. Thanks for the link!
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by burke 15y ago
This is pretty important context. I probably would have called the presenter out too.
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by burke 15y ago
I think the takeaway here is that: yes, there is quite likely a societally-imposed suggestion that men should go into software and women should not; however, that it's not just Silicon Valley's fault, and that the genders are really groom
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Unboxing the Royal Canadian Mint's MintChip development kit(imgur.com)
2 points by burke 15y ago|1 comments
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by burke 15y ago
That works out to about 31% of their current market cap. Wow.
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by burke 15y ago
For anyone that still needs it, it lives on as a separate gem: https://github.com/rails/activeresource
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by burke 15y ago
No, then if you don't drink, you simply don't participate in one of the most prominent ways people socialize. There was no implication of sub-humanity there. Strawmen are bad. Even including Islamic countries in the set, drinking is still
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by burke 15y ago
FWIW, we emailed an @mint.ca address asking if it is legitimate, and they confirmed.
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by burke 15y ago
Could you elaborate on this a bit? I'm curious.
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by burke 15y ago
I'm coming at this from the perspective of someone with a pretty good memory for things like this, but those particular "nano questions" seem pretty damn fair to me. They're fundamental enough that it's not really relying on random trivia;
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by burke 15y ago
This looks like it might be less painful for simpler postgres databases than Navicat. Very cool.
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by burke 15y ago
Is this the same guy that was going to be executed for writing an image uploader last month? If not, what came of that case? Did they end up going through with the execution?
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by burke 15y ago
The sad thing is that even at that angle, their real motivation is to shut down foreign pharmacies selling generic drugs (often made on the same production line as their branded equivalent) directly to Americans without the price-gouge they
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by burke 15y ago
> VIPR teams which count TSOs among their ranks, conduct searches and screenings at train stations, subways, ferry terminals and every other mass transit location around the country. In fact, as the Los Angeles Times has detailed, VIPR
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by burke 15y ago
The name "Osfoora" initially struck me as an encoding of "Twitter" with a substitution cipher ("o"s in the same places as "t"s, and the same length), but apparently it's Arabic for "Little bird".
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by burke 15y ago
Same story here. I wish there was more music that sounded like them. Particularly more music that sounded like Dorset Perception.
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by burke 15y ago
I set up most of the emacs/OS X bindings in insert mode as well, and slowly migrated away from them toward more use of vim features. It eased the transition, and now I don't really feel any mismatch between the two.
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by burke 15y ago
As someone who used emacs for five years before switching to vim, my personal experience was that the top-level comment is more true than this one.
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by burke 15y ago
I did. In fact, I used viper mode (vimpulse) for about three weeks before deciding it was worth a shot to just try vim proper. I haven't really looked back. Viper was alright, but there were far too many moving parts in that setup.
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by burke 15y ago
This story parallels my own on a nearly-disturbing number of levels. Exactly the same experience. I never thought I'd switch from emacs, then I finally gave vim a good shot (switched for two weeks and made a very conscious effort to use it
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by burke 15y ago
No more unethical than private tutoring, in my opinion. People understandably like to draw parallels between mental enhancement and physical enhancement in the context of sports. The difference is that sports are a purposefully-created leve
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by burke 15y ago
These sorts of thing tend to parallelize well too. If it were written for CUDA or similar, I wouldn't be surprised to see it finish in a few hours.
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by burke 15y ago
I like the idea of this app a lot, but I wish people wouldn't announce iOS apps before they're available in the App Store. I just searched for it and couldn't find it. Chances are I'll forget about it in an hour and never end up buying it.
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by burke 15y ago
From a long-term perspective, it's probably more effective, as a user, to pirate everything that's not easily available for legal purchase, with the intent of making outdated, overpriced distribution channels unprofitable. I'm not trying to
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by burke 15y ago
As someone that hasn't followed this very closely (and is not more than very vaguely familiar with the OPEN act), I wonder if SOPA and PIPA were never intended to pass, but only to make the OPEN act seem positively moderate by comparison so

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