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by cschneid 17y ago
If you think about it, there's a class of restaurants that does something like this. What I'm thinking of is a local burrito place that is a little grungy, the employees quick and efficient (but not very polite), and with damn good food. T
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by cschneid 17y ago
Best choice was to get the 16gb of ram in my Mac Pro. It's epic working with that kind of hardware behind you. I'm running a Windows VM, all my servers are up constantly, dozen programs, etc. And still have 4.25 gb free for the sweet swe
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by cschneid 17y ago
Who defines good content? Obviously blatant link stuffing on non-related topics is spam. Obviously on-topic paragraphs of text on-topic without links is not spam. What about on-topic posts with a link back to my affiliate sales on on-topic
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by cschneid 17y ago
I agree with the grandparent post. We need to define why college exists in the modern system. In the more distant past, it was purely academic. Research, experimentation, etc. Somewhere in the last century the goal of schools shifted to b
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by cschneid 17y ago
I did a science fair project in elementary school where I looked at all the ways to calculate Pi. I ran a monte carlo simulation written in QBasic on my 386 overnight. It converged to 5 or 6 decimals. The beefier Alpha that I could dial
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by cschneid 17y ago
One trick we use for our applications is have an url endpoint that checks for db connection, filesystem, etc and formats it in a human readable and machine checkable format (ie. "Load is OK at .4 .4 .4"). Then you can use a similar "reques
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by cschneid 17y ago
I have 3 pairs of these pants. They are amazing. You'll need to tailor them for length, but man the fit is perfect. The colors and quality are great. I actually found out about them through another post on this site a while back about the p
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by cschneid 17y ago
This actually appears to be a bug my girlfriend runs into with Spaces and Office 2004 and Snow Leopard. But yeah, I've never seen it anywhere else. (word window on top, spaces out, spaces in, word window draws below the top, but in every ot
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by cschneid 17y ago
For power users, it really is nice to have somebody just point to the few non-default options and say "here, just check that box". For instance, the two-finger-right-click is elegant and simple, but not on by default. (keyboard -> shor
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by cschneid 17y ago
I agree, I'm a huge Sinatra fan and was coming in here to rail against somebody reinventing the wheel, but I see some value in the magic form generation and the baked in, but lightweight marshalling. Seems like it would be handy for a "hey,
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by cschneid 17y ago
Credit card + 19.95 monthly billing is about as safe as it gets for getting paid on the internet.
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by cschneid 17y ago
More if macruby worked and was significantly faster.
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by cschneid 17y ago
I disagree in a large part due to different use cases. Developers often "live" in their editor, using it all day. Because of that, a non-obvious interface is ok, if the benefit is faster processing. The same reasoning applies to the old
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by cschneid 17y ago
If I recall correctly, AGP, the older graphics interface was very lopsided with respect to bandwidth (very fast to send data to the card, very slow to get data back). As far as I understand, the newer PCI Express (newer == several years ol
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by cschneid 17y ago
I dislike that helium is on the other side of the sphere from the rest of the noble gasses. Isn't the point that going out on a spoke is the equivalent of going down a column on the normal table?
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by cschneid 17y ago
At least last time I checked, he was running a custom written blog engine that several of us in #sinatra made a bit more generic. It's probably been heavily modified or even replaced since then. Link: http://github.com/rtomayko/wink
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by cschneid 17y ago
While excellent advice, that's not the issue that the article is talking about. You can be the most silent, rights knowledgeable person and still get screwed by Federal law. I'm currently reading a book titled "Three Felonies a Day" which
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by cschneid 17y ago
Honestly, my current solution to that is to get my current directory correct when I start (:cd ~/Programming/project) and then just :e app/controllers/users_controller.rb when I need a file. Tab completion makes it fast enough that it's no
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by cschneid 17y ago
I think I found it, it was a law book. http://lists.essential.org/1995/info-policy-notes/msg00019.h...
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by cschneid 17y ago
"The collection as a whole" isn't necessarily copyrightable as far as I know (not that I'm anywhere near a lawyer...). I think curated collections (say, of short stories) are copyrightable since it requires artistic decisions to be made, b
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by cschneid 17y ago
To summarize for my own learning, you can't copyright facts themselves, but you can copyright the representation of facts (page layout, etc). The question then is if a CSV file counts as "page layout". How customized does something have to
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by cschneid 17y ago
Does anybody know how that map was generated? What software can easily assemble geolocated data into a nice glowing map? I assume you could do it manually via processing or similar, but there's gotta be something pre-assembled.
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by cschneid 17y ago
Maybe, but there's a decent legal argument that it's not copyrightable data (facts of where stuff is for example), and that it's publicly posted ("find a store near you" links). I suppose it gets more and more fuzzy if you move into non-fac
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by cschneid 17y ago
In my opinion, they signal different things to different hiring entities. To a big corp, it signals that you play by the rules, and that a 3rd party has vouched for you. To a small company, it signals that you don't learn by yourself, and e
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by cschneid 17y ago
Correct (although some wheels only have 0, no 00). With both, it's a 5 point something house edge. Also, the martingale (doubling) strategy falls apart with table limits, even if you have the bankroll.
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by cschneid 17y ago
One of the screenshots shows side-by-side of the same file I think.
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by cschneid 17y ago
I'd like to have more of a spacial sense of code. If only to help organize things. I work with huge fonts when coding (so I can lean back, instead of in), but in exchange I give up a lot of surrounding context. A sidebar like that would
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by cschneid 17y ago
I always really like the NYTimes graphics. They do a good job displaying info, and (not applicable to this one) their flash graphs are always more helpful than annoying.
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by cschneid 17y ago
It really depends on your needs. My comment was in regards to the memory footprint. There was an Engineyard blog post about that recently. Basically if you do some non-obvious things, you can just explode out the size of ram, and because
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by cschneid 17y ago
Sinatra has built in handlers to render erb, haml, builder, and sass. Layouts are handled by automatically grabbing the file layout.erb (or layout.haml, etc). Partials are a bit of a pain, since you have to write your own helper, but at it'

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