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by chao- 14y ago
though someone did try the old trick of pretending to "find" a ring, ask if it belonged to my wife, insist on handing it to her, and then asking for money I don't understand this, and if someone did that to me, I would be utterly confused
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by chao- 14y ago
Or you can be a bit more subtle about it, Suburban Texas Style™, and simply design the homeless away: 1. No public transportation. 2. Unreasonable distances between gathering places (e.g. grocery stores) and often long stretches of no sidew
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by chao- 14y ago
Honolulu comes close. As you say, it's complex in origin, but contributing factors are the constant influx of outside money (tourism), significant pedestrian traffic, and moderate climate (you can live outside year-round and the weather wil
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by chao- 14y ago
You can't help everyone you see, or even half the people you see, and still have the time and resources to help yourself. What's important is to know what you're comfortable with doing, why you're comfortable with it: Personally, I will b
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by chao- 14y ago
That was indeed the complaint: That the keyword arguments are actually implemented as a hash underneath. Still useful for loads of reasons, but hopefully will transition to a more optimized implementation one day.
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by chao- 14y ago
Agreed regarding refinements. I will personally stay away from them until some braver souls find best practices for them in long-term projects. Even then it will take some convincing. I have been awaiting Ruby keyword arguments for a very l
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by chao- 14y ago
I ran into yet another consequence of this situation today: In a Linux/Windows setup, I lost two hours of minor Photoshop work (i.e. stuff that was simple but annoying to recreate). I have generally found it safe to read from my NTFS drives
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by chao- 14y ago
if the terrorist could otherwise not be captured or detained without serious risk to American lives. I believe you have misinterpreted my objection. I do not object to the killing, I object to the killing without a non-executive legal aut
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by chao- 14y ago
If you're going to say that terrorists can be killed without judicial overview, which I think you have to I vehemently disagree: You don't have to think that terrorists can be killed without judicial overview. I'm also willing to bet I'm
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by chao- 14y ago
I would like to make two points on behalf of "CRUD-type developers": 1. Everyone starts somewhere. There's no reason to place an "us vs. them" lens on things as if a "CRUD-type developer" can never learn, improve or grow the scope of their
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by chao- 14y ago
Thanks. I added the workaround on Day 1, and have tested it using the following: http://blog.codeclimate.com/blog/2013/01/10/rails-remote-cod... I've just had this itching question about whether or not using a cloud host (ala Heroku) is l
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by chao- 14y ago
Right. I understand that much, but entire swaths of our application become unusable when I upgrade. Chalk it up to "legacy" code from when I was first learning Rails. Since that is fundamentally my own problem, and I have to deal with it ov
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by chao- 14y ago
Operations noob here. Honest question: How do I apply the patch file? I've never seen one before, and I've managed to gather, via Google and Stack Overflow, how to use a git .patch (I think anyway), but I deploy on Heroku and can't direct
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by chao- 14y ago
I took the quiz based entirely on the single image presented, and not visiting the site itself or doing much investigating. Managed to get 8/10 primarily based on the familiar buttons/navbar. Strangely though, after the quiz I was told: "1
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by chao- 14y ago
And rather than pass it down to your children, consider selling any property in Galveston, New Orleans or Miami Beach. Even on the lower-end estimates, those areas are thoroughly deluged. Or pass it on and let them sell it, whichever is sma
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by chao- 14y ago
The maker-bot style, plastic printers are not the only printers out there. For example, I know that the current Z-Corp printers create figures out of a sort of powder and literally use inkjet ink to put the full spectrum of color you would
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by chao- 14y ago
I'm curious what OS and graphics drivers you are using. I've gotten a similar effect once in a blue moon while simply scrolling.
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by chao- 14y ago
Sorry, I should have specified better. By "Linux" I meant the overall mix of Xorg and whatever display or GUI toolkits are in use, and instead of "graphics card", I should have said "graphics card drivers". If the card itself were having is
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by chao- 14y ago
Getting all sorts of text artifacts remaining smeared across my browser. Not this site's fault, and is something I've experienced before. It does make me wonder where the blame lies, though: Linux, Firefox or my graphics card?
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by chao- 14y ago
>Would Braintree do the above if they were the only company offering such a service? But they aren't the only company now, so why the hypothetical? Who cares if they did it due to competition, due to the goodness of their hearts, ou
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by chao- 14y ago
Are you serious? If that's true I owe you a huge "Thank You!" Every time I have to put my hands on a friend's Mac (to show/help/diagnose something) the single most frustrating issue is trying to alt-tab between multiple windows within an
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by chao- 14y ago
I can't imagine that relocating an entire environment for a multitude of applications and services is as simple as scping things over. I'm sure there is a process wherein scp could be a step, but I don't see it being any easier/faster. Movi
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by chao- 14y ago
This is probably the most exciting part to me: Having copy-on-write without having to run REE.
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by chao- 14y ago
The issue is not that of government is trying to preserve itself. This is a desirable outcome, if all else were equal. The issue is that, in this case preservation was given priority above other goals, among them preserving the right of peo
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by chao- 14y ago
Yeah, they do that to a lot of people, not just Apple: http://thepiratebay.se/legal The Apple exchange doesn't appear to be a particularly notable standout, really. Gr8pop Ltd is far more amusing because there is some back-and-forth, but
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by chao- 14y ago
I don't really understand the cult connection, even after Googling Heaven's Gate (I am too young to remember much about them directly). But on the topic at hand, I would buy one of these, or at least, I definitely would if I were still in H
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by chao- 14y ago
>Putting patently invalid(joke) bug reports in a system that's designed for actionable bug fixes just makes life a bit more troublesome for people actually trying to fix things. Harassing them about it through this channel seems like a
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by chao- 14y ago
Very nice. I like how the separate sections are links to the actual images.
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by chao- 14y ago
Having trouble loading the parent link so here's my own version for anyone else with the same problem: http://dl.dropbox.com/u/20403079/xkcd1110map.zip I had this master plan of putting it into a webpage and using some sort of screen-prin
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by chao- 14y ago
As someone who is just now tackling USPS integration for the first time on behalf of a client, you certainly have my interest.

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