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by chops 13y ago
Companies are usually improving the community in some way (that's why they make money in the first place). Grocers sell food to the community, hardware stores sell tools and supplies for making things, even the dreaded oil companies
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Rich Ex-Facebook Exec Still Working Because "I Don't Want To Be A Douchebag"(businessinsider.com)
2 points by chops 13y ago|0 comments
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by chops 13y ago
That scene was actually the inspiration for the app (if you notice in the photo I posted, it's actually the first image from the Mad Men presentation).
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by chops 13y ago
It's interesting the throwback trend to the old slide projectors. A friend of mine has an app for iPad and AppleTV that mimics the old slide projectors called "The Carousel" ( https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/carousel-slide-projector-for...
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by chops 13y ago
I don't think there's anything ridiculous about drinking 2 quarts of water per day. I easily drink 48-144oz of pure water per day with the 48oz bottle I carry with me everywhere I go ( http://store.nalgene.com/Silo-p/2178-0048.htm ) Sayin
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by chops 13y ago
The Relevant EEP can be found here: https://github.com/psyeugenic/eep/blob/egil/maps/eeps/eep-00... The discussion related to the "Maps vs Frames" proposal is fascinating and enlightening, for those with the time to read the (currently 70
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Erlang's New Map datatype coming in R17(erlang.org)
1 points by chops 13y ago|1 comments
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by chops 13y ago
The language in that video is Erlang using the Nitrogen Web Framework ( http://nitrogenproject.com )
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by chops 13y ago
This is something I actually offer to my clients, and I do it for fun. I guess I was inspired by watching some of Notch's screencaps over a few days. So I capture it with RecordMyDesktop (I run xubuntu), and run through an ffmpeg script (
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by chops 13y ago
If you're looking for some rapid development with Erlang, you've got a few options at your disposal: Nitrogen Web Framework ( http://nitrogenproject.com ): Event-driven development. You can do almost complete development in Erlang and writi
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by chops 13y ago
Happy to: Change the div#TOC rule the following: div#TOC { float: left; width: 25%; font-size: 10pt; background: #eee; margin-right: 15px; margin-bottom: 15px; line-height: 15pt; } I hope that helps!
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by chops 13y ago
The spacing (or lack thereof) on the site is very distracting. The left menu has zero pixel spacing from the content, and so the side menu basically runs right into the content. The table of contents on the right isn't obvious that it's a t
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The Fractured History Erlang's MySQL Drivers(github.com)
1 points by chops 13y ago|0 comments
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by chops 13y ago
Two-step authentication, especially for something as prominent as twitter, is always a good thing. So, kudos to them.
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Joe Armstrong's Programming Erlang, 2nd Edition now available (beta eBook)(pragprog.com)
3 points by chops 14y ago|0 comments
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by chops 14y ago
If I can find the time, I'll try to put together one for Nitrogen ( http://nitrogenproject.com ) as well.
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by chops 14y ago
http://steadfast.net offers customizable resources (CPU dedication, CPU cores, Memory, Storage, Network interfaces)
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O'Reilly Erlang Ebooks 50% Off until the 17th(shop.oreilly.com)
1 points by chops 14y ago|0 comments
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by chops 14y ago
In Aliens, they were officially called "Colonial Marines"
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by chops 14y ago
As far as I know, there isn't. This particular question highlights a shortcoming of long-form changelogs though. It would be nice if there was a way to have community-voted highlighting of a changelog pointing out the significance of each
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by chops 14y ago
For those new to Erlang conventions, the "A" in the release number is an indicator that this is a beta release. The stable releases are the "B" branches. So in this case, R16B will be the stable version.
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by chops 14y ago
The pmod arguments have been a pretty ongoing war[1] on the mailing list, especially since it was announced R16 would be removing official support for them. With ChicagoBoss being one of the highest profile projects to use pmods extensively
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by chops 14y ago
The only beef I have with cloud/VPS hosting is the price. Conveniently, the data center I've worked with for years[1] supports a hybrid setup, where you can use their cloud hosting combined with coloed physical hardware all in the same VLAN
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by chops 14y ago
> - New London, CT used eminent domain to take an entire neighborhood of private homes to give the land to Phizer because Phizer would generate more tax revenue. ...and after bulldozing the neighborhood, lost their funding, avandoned th
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"I couldn't really learn Erlang, 'cos it didn't exist, so I invented it"(erlang.org)
506 points by chops 14y ago|176 comments
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by chops 14y ago
Ah yes, I forgot about all the mouth-work that went into clarinet. It's been almost 14 years since I last played with any degree of seriousness. Thanks for the reminder :) It's starting to come back.
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by chops 14y ago
That kind of slide involves subtly easing off the holes of the clarinet, leaving partial openings. It's a skill I practiced, but never really mastered. I could slide a few notes, but it was never make it that smooth, nor could I slide th
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Atari U.S. Files Chapter 11 Bankruptcy(touch.latimes.com)
1 points by chops 14y ago|0 comments
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by chops 14y ago
Pretty sure it was a joke.
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by chops 14y ago
Holy crap, the overdone continuous scrolling and animation makes that page almost useless. Scroll a little bit, and suddenly I'm jumped to a different part of the page. Don't scroll too far up, or it loads the previous article right in pl

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