damon_c

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by damon_c 12y ago
They are really hard to find... almost as if they are seasonal or something!
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by damon_c 12y ago
Did you just imply that you worked at Atari in the early 80s and also on the Xbox? cool!
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by damon_c 12y ago
Ha, that's awesome. I was going to suggest something similar... just put the bowling ball at one end and if you can see the whole thing at floor level at the other end, it's straight, else it's curved.
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by damon_c 12y ago
Yes. Going to work as a bond trader in downtown Manhattan on 9/11/2001 did at one point meet the criteria for being called a hero.
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by damon_c 12y ago
Wait... so are you proposing a metaphor where we are the horses and mules?
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by damon_c 12y ago
NYC - Remote Only - Django/Javascript dev. I'm a freelance Django developer with a lot of projects. I am considering taking a full time job and will need someone to maintain a project or two. Please help! You must be comfy with g
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by damon_c 12y ago
The blatant copying of the successful ideas of others to the maximum extent legally allowable under one's prevailing legal jurisdiction is an activity pursued profitably by people of many ethnic groups and nationalities. http:/&#
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by damon_c 12y ago
It's not easy to stop an identity campaign once it's been started but it really seems like the conference people at least tried a little bit with their fs14 and "{future}stack" branding.
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by damon_c 12y ago
It sounds like you might benefit from a change in environment. Maybe you don't have the right people in your life.
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by damon_c 12y ago
ar·ti·san a worker in a skilled trade, especially one that involves making things by hand. Why does the use of that word with regards to web/programming raise such negative feelings? Just wondering, no affiliation...
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by damon_c 12y ago
Good point. It might be best to use a 5D vector to account for this.
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by damon_c 12y ago
by the way, if anyone is dealing with websocket implementations for the web, have a look at SockJS, it makes things much easier and includes fallbacks for situations where sockets are not supported. https://github.com/sockjs
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by damon_c 12y ago
Conceptually, polling just seems dirty. if (some event occurred){ do something over and over every so often that requires multitudes of processes including authentication, DNS etc. across many machines, that might not even ever return any v
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by damon_c 12y ago
Looks like time alone with thoughts is ready to be disrupted.
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by damon_c 12y ago
They don't mention this anywhere, but for light based communication with more distant targets where the laser would need multiple seconds to reach its target, would they need to "lead the target" with the lasers pointing in b
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by damon_c 12y ago
finally, the future!
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by damon_c 12y ago
Clearly if the criteria for passing the Turing test rests on this 30% of judges "fooled" threshold, we need to add a screen for the judges themselves...
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by damon_c 12y ago
If I were just starting out, I'd go with whichever version the boasted the most examples on Stack Overflow. While more and more are written in 3.x or include both, for now it will be much easier to learn 2.x.
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by damon_c 12y ago
Redis offers several data structures that make it far simpler a solution than SQL for certain uses. One example is its lists: http://redis.io/commands#list
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by damon_c 12y ago
I have experienced similar. I have surmised that it's because as a web developer, sometimes the work I do for my clients one day translates into actual dollars either saved or generated the very next day. It seems easy to justify payi
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by damon_c 12y ago
That seems like it could be a little messy... are you sure? Also, if you think about what the world might be like 50 years from now, ".com" and ".org" might be remnants of the past we remember fondly. They will likely be
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by damon_c 12y ago
There are lots of other jobs out there. You don't need to work for people who break deals.
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by damon_c 12y ago
I've been thinking about this lately and it occurred to me that it would be nice to be able to store sensitive info in an area accessible to everyone on the project but still be able to limit access. Currently we use ssh keys to limit
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by damon_c 12y ago
"the home page of their website, what are they thinking?" You're right... this should be put in the 'bad ideas' portfolio for web design instructors to use in future lessons. Even after you know that it is not a &qu
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by damon_c 12y ago
One interesting animal mirror implementation is with chameleons. Chameleons get very upset when they see another chameleon in their space who refuses to back down no matter how threateningly they may posture.
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by damon_c 12y ago
I recently spilled a little coffee on a MacBook Air. As the screen flickered its last flicks, I zipped up my .ssh directory and put it on Dropbox. Got off the bus, went to the Apple Store...I Was back to work in the time it took to instal
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by damon_c 12y ago
Who would you say would be the losers in this scenario?
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by damon_c 12y ago
Ha. the picture is the best part: http://pdfpiw.uspto.gov/.piw?Docid=08676045&homeurl=http%3A%...
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by damon_c 12y ago
"This feels like the scene where Mel Gibson and Rene Russo compare scars in Lethal Weapon 3." You might also refer to the scene from Jaws(1975) where Hooper and Quint compare scars: http://www.rowthree.com/2011&#x2
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by damon_c 12y ago
"this article is so far from the middle ground that you'd need a telescope to see it." This assumes one is standing on the middle ground. ;)

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