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751.
by burke 16y ago
(very much not an expert) I think the reservoir itself it much deeper than the effect of the explosion would reach.
752.
by burke 16y ago
Something along the lines of this, abstracted away a few layers, would be my guess. def build_query() "UPDATE prices SET price=4995 #{where_clause}" end def where_clause() # only set prices on products in our group of st
753.
by burke 16y ago
I'm suddenly tempted to give SLASH'EM another go.
754.
by burke 17y ago
In fact, you can have functions of type [Byte] -> [Byte], however, the problem is when you need to get the first set of bytes from a file or stdin. You could sort of read this as a function of type FileHandle -> [Byte], which will o
755.
by burke 17y ago
Here's a little snippet of elisp to automatically download and apply a random dark theme: http://gist.github.com/341879
756.
by burke 17y ago
Here's the script I've been using to install the latest version. It was kind of quickly hacked together, and the symlink stuff near the end breaks occasionally, so if anyone's going to use this, you might want to read it over first. http:/
757.
by burke 17y ago
> - I kept trying to click the buttons embedded into the help tips, but they're roll-over only. Yes. This bugged me. They looked like such beautiful buttons. I was kind of disappointed when clicking them had no effect.
758.
by burke 17y ago
Celery seems to try to distinguish itself from other job queues by supporting multiple worker servers with a single queue, and concentrating on real-time processing.
759.
by burke 17y ago
Well, I spend 8 hours a day with him and frequently talk to him in the middle of the night. Anecdotal, technically, I guess.
760.
by burke 17y ago
Well, I can personally attest to polyphasic sleep working. My friend and coworker does it -- three hours at night and three naps. He's still sane-ish.
761.
by burke 17y ago
Ceci est le commentaire où je signale que j'ai arrêté l'apprentissage du français en 10 e année :(
762.
by burke 17y ago
Ceci n'est pas une comment.
763.
by burke 17y ago
The first one is git status: Magenta means there are unstaged changes, cyan means there aren't. Star is master, I have different symbols for a few different branches I use on some projects. Otherwise, that symbol just shows as the branch na
764.
by burke 17y ago
I like having extra information in my prompt, but not to the point that it takes up a whole line of its own. Here's what mine looks like: http://grab.by/26hX
765.
by burke 17y ago
I've been tempted to learn Lua for quite a while now. I think I'll start tonight.
766.
by burke 17y ago
This. It's different enough that it could have been successful as an entirely separate venture.
767.
by burke 17y ago
If anyone else is wondering, I think http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=913946 was the thread the music is from.
768.
by burke 17y ago
Very, very cool. I'd pay for this. Why is the image for "eight, 8" a glass of... very translucent-ish milk?
769.
by burke 17y ago
Pseudocide, if you will.
770.
by burke 17y ago
Yes. It doesn't work for every app.
771.
by burke 17y ago
Well, last time I had an immunization, I went into a coma, so it's a pretty easy choice for me. Otherwise though, I'd have though it'd be a no brainer.
772.
by burke 17y ago
Very neat. movl $7, -4(%rbp) movl -4(%rbp), %ecx addl $1, -4(%rbp) movl $2, -4(%rbp) movl -4(%rbp), %esi addl $1, -4(%rbp) movl -4(%rbp), %edx movl $.
773.
by burke 17y ago
Really? I live in Winnipeg, Canada, and it's pretty much everywhere here. There are bags of it in health stores, granolahead-oriented restaurants, and various other surprising places.
774.
by burke 17y ago
The status bar also says "transferring data from 127.0.0.1" -- and there's no " http:// at the front. They just edited the address bar after the page loaded.
775.
by burke 17y ago
If you have an Arduino or equivalent kicking around, it's also pretty easy to rig up an LED to flash at the same frequency as the beats. Mine looks a little ridiculous though. http://burkelibbey.org/brainwave.jpg
776.
by burke 17y ago
* No liquid sugar. Stick to black coffee (or better yet, tea) and water. * Do something physical. A lot of hackers seem to like martial arts. I do karate. * Pick times to go to sleep and wake up, and stick to them. Even on weekends.
777.
by burke 17y ago
This would be a huge improvement, in my opinion. The only thing I would change is to rename .appz to .zapp :P
778.
by burke 17y ago
* Downloading/FTP/Torrenzt The Transmission web GUI is actually very nice, but I suppose this method assumes a web server on a LAN, which for most people doesn't work
779.
by burke 17y ago
It's useful to know an article is four years old before you read a dozen pages of material and mentally file it all as current information.
780.
by burke 17y ago
CakePHP runs the whole framework codebase on each request. It's actually over a hundred times slower than rails (!).

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