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by burke 15y ago
The thing that has always turned me off of Grooveshark (compared to Rdio and friends) is extremely-poorly-curated content. Albums are frequently duplicated, mislabeled, out of order, and so on. That, and it's much more legally questionable.
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by burke 15y ago
I wrote a similar thing a few months ago. https://github.com/stefanpenner/rebinder/blob/master/lib/reb... My syntax was far more sarcastic and less legitimate, however. eg: add = Fixnum.☃.+ add3 = add.∂(3) assert_equal 7, ad
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by burke 15y ago
I'm kind of suspecting this started off as "I want to make a simple kernel module", not "I wonder how I can make my computer rickroll me more often".
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by burke 15y ago
Yup. Producing several megatons of diamond in labs would be many orders of magnitude easier than harvesting it from another planet. Even if it were the moon that were made of diamond, I strongly suspect that the energy requirements to harve
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by burke 15y ago
> Recommending RVM for production use is hilarious. That's a pretty inflammatory, unsubstantiated opinion. Any reason?
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by burke 15y ago
It's a useful analogy. Heroku abstracts server configuration away from Rails development to the point where it's (theoretically) completely unnecessary to know /anything/ about it. If this does the same thing in a different context, I think
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by burke 15y ago
I think most people that have a 9-5 and do a small amount of after-hours contracting, or regularly stay a little bit late to finish something up will be voting 40-50. That's how I voted, even though if you subtract slacking time and lunch,
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by burke 15y ago
I have a small SproutCore 1.6 project that I'll be moving to 2.0 in the coming weeks/months as it gets closer to release. I took an initial stab at it early in the alpha, and it is much, much, much more developer-friendly. I am very excited
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by burke 15y ago
My expectation would be that the specific photos I tag Person A in are automatically visible to Person A. I think this is reasonable, and other concerns come up if a person is unable to see which photos they are tagged in. Making the entire
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by burke 15y ago
Both, really. It's a sort of clever way to deal with a problem that plagues non-savvy users.
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by burke 15y ago
The biggest difference is that Spotify is curated content. On Grooveshark, if you search for an album, you may get three copies, each missing songs and improperly named. Spotify has one real release of the album.
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by burke 15y ago
sad song = blue seems to be a strong trend too.
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by burke 15y ago
I think the real problem here is all the regulatory and financial barriers to competing in the telecomm arena. The free market has a hard time sorting itself out when there are so few players. I don't have a solution to propose, but this is
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by burke 15y ago
No, it's not. It should be reasonable to have an expectation that the people writing laws have a working understanding of the subjects they're writing them on. Very, very few 70-year-olds have a sufficient understanding of the Internet. It'
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by burke 15y ago
This really seems like a theme for Yahoo!. Delicious comes to mind as another example.
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by burke 15y ago
I don't understand why everyone feels a need to argue over whether Apple is a Software company or a Hardware company. This is not a fruit-or-vegetable question. They do a lot of both, with roughly equal degrees of effort and success.
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by burke 15y ago
There were a lot of people claiming that the smartphone market would never approach this size, though.
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by burke 15y ago
> bashing awk I know this was an unintentional pun, but I still thought it was funny.
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by burke 15y ago
You probably mean http://www.everyjs.com/ . Also possibly relevant: http://microjs.com/
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by burke 15y ago
It took me five minutes of reading the changelog to figure out what I have to stop using in 3.1. There are additional features that can be integrated into a workflow at whatever pace is desired. People are making a bigger deal of this than
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by burke 15y ago
I found this J example on StackOverflow. 43 characters, excluding name, assignment operator, and optional whitespace. quicksort =: (($:@(<#[) , (=#[) , $:@(>#[)) ({~ ?@#)) ^: (1<#) http://stackoverflow.com/questions/26
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by burke 15y ago
I was going for the distance from some arbitrary spot in North America to some arbitrary spot way out in the middle of the Pacific Ocean, where I'd assume the ocean is at its deepest, but this is interesting too.
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by burke 15y ago
Yup. My Telecommunications prof back in University told us you can approximate the speed of a network as 2c/3, so that sounds right on the button.
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by burke 15y ago
Just FYI, The circumference of earth is roughly 4 * 10^7 metres, and the speed of light is 3 * 10^8 m/s, so light can actually circle the globe almost 7.5 times per second. The depths of the oceans are just a few milliseconds away (40ms -is
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by burke 15y ago
> It is a win for iOS users who only deal with other iOS users. No, it is a win for iOS users who deal with /any/ other iOS users. I would imagine that's most of them.
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by burke 15y ago
There's a little bit of a difference here in that Apple has set a precedent of removing applications in competition with features provided by the OS itself.
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by burke 15y ago
ED almost certainly refers to http://encyclopediadramatica.ch/Get_On_IRC_Fgt (usually semi-NSFW)
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by burke 15y ago
...no. That's not how it works. Your wallet has a pool of private keys. Addresses are the corresponding public keys. You can send or receive from any address you have the private key for (minor simplification, but doesn't affect my point).
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by burke 15y ago
Agreed. This is why I really, really hope Rubinius manages to become "worth it" soon (or at least JRuby). The MRI core team, Tenderlove excluded, seem to give approximately zero shits about Rails.
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by burke 15y ago
Not quite. Your wallet can have an arbitrary number of addresses. You can receive at one address, then send that balance out to a dozen different people using a dozen different sending addresses.

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