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by damon_c 13y ago
I like to think that the light rays from that far away galaxy could just be arriving here any moment, treating all with a good enough telescope to a free showing of Star Wars from a really boring camera angle.
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by damon_c 13y ago
In my opinion, they could have gone into "a long time ago, in a galaxy far far away" a bit more...
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by damon_c 13y ago
Yeah, the cylinder design seemed a little bit "what?" at first, but after seeing the airflow demo... it makes a lot more sense.
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by damon_c 13y ago
fun.
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by damon_c 13y ago
It would be interesting if Google let us optionally search using the original pure pagerank search from 10 years ago. Would it be like turning off spam filtering on email?
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by damon_c 13y ago
1st thing I would do is take a long hot shower. Also maybe go for a jog.
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by damon_c 13y ago
I was recently astounded by the sheer number of dependencies and attendant files that get downloaded when starting up a new node.js project. The notion of reading all the source is... quaint!
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by damon_c 13y ago
Firefox on Mac: No Chrome and Safari on Mac: Yes Bonus: IE8 on Win7 (I already had a VM open!): No
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by damon_c 13y ago
I was recently hired to complete a specific task on a project that sounds similar to this one. On the 2nd day of my involvement and having read through the code a bit, I realized that the task I was hired to complete was the last thing the
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by damon_c 13y ago
I believe Django would do this as a single query.
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by damon_c 13y ago
It's 7am PST on a USA national holiday (Memorial Day) The up/downvoters have not yet arrived?
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by damon_c 13y ago
You don't have to move anywhere. Just bill at least $625/day (cheap!) and take multiple projects. Working in django, it is fairly easy to deliver sufficient value to two clients per week at this rate. Very often they need the same things
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by damon_c 13y ago
When I am not feeling design intuitively, I approach it as a problem solving exercise as that's what we do as coders... solve problems. Ask yourself, what problem is this design solving? Is the goal of the site to get people to buy things?
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by damon_c 13y ago
It is really well presented here as "Jobs moving in for the kill", but in a way, Apple's terms really didn't seem to be about "killing" but more about taking in the situation and finding a realistic set of numbers that were actually tenable
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by damon_c 13y ago
I did this once. I sent them something like $50 just to see if there was anyone actually working in that office. They sent me a nice thank you letter.
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by damon_c 13y ago
Here is the trick: All of the technologies that your customers supposedly now use to replace the services you used to offer them, can also be used by YOU... to replace the services you used to offer with better services in much less time. P
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by damon_c 13y ago
Agreed on wave. We wanted to use it for projects but there was always the 10% of the team that didn't have access. That seemed like the perfect way not to introduce a product oriented toward collaboration.
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by damon_c 13y ago
I use a MacBook Air paired with an LTE iPad. The combo gives me great speed and roughly whole workday battery life. If the MacBook dies after 5 or so hours, the iPad will still be at 90% charge and is fine for ssh/vim. This rarely happen
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by damon_c 13y ago
This thing looks fun. It's like they took apart a Segway and put it back together "cool"!
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by damon_c 13y ago
He should have used a "==" though... Edit: Oh wait sorry no... I suck!
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by damon_c 13y ago
We used to have an area like Akihabara in NYC, from the 1920s until the '60s. It was called "Radio Row". It was displaced by eminent domain to build the World Trade center. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radio_Row
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by damon_c 14y ago
25 is when you can (easily) rent cars (in the US). That's definitely a sweet spot. Of course until 35 you still can't run for US senate or president...
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by damon_c 14y ago
Off topic... is this a correct ranking of preferred form in handling this situation? blank page or other such confusing non-function : bad "your browser sucks" - page still doesn't work : poor "please enable scripts or get a newer browser"
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by damon_c 14y ago
the general concept of this UI (besides the spherical part) is similar to that of a site I'm freelancing on right now. It even has some of the same hotkeys :) it's for girls only though... http://www.stunable.com
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by damon_c 14y ago
I sometimes think that if Theodore Kaczynski was a fictional character in a Hollywood movie, he would be the hero, like a Neo... Of course it would help if he looked like Keanu Reeves... and David Gelernter would have to be evil and played
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by damon_c 14y ago
(spoilers ahead) Yes.
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by damon_c 14y ago
This is a no brainer donation in so many ways... from the obvious of helping you complete this which will benefit so many people directly, to helping establish this very fine precedence! Thanks and good luck!
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by damon_c 14y ago
Some of these comments raised a lot of questions about meteor distribution due to orbital/rotational effects. Found some answers here: http://curious.astro.cornell.edu/question.php?number=746
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by damon_c 14y ago
I'm surprised nobody has mentioned WePay for payment processing. Their api is excellent and they fill some specific needs that I haven't seen addressed anywhere else.
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by damon_c 14y ago
Just think of what a single index crawler could do to this car!

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