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by dansingerman 13y ago
Is cloning a repo that rare? Isn't that kind of the point of GitHub?
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by dansingerman 13y ago
All video URLs I have tried (over 50) report a 500 with a screen like this: http://oi40.tinypic.com/2ni6y4g.jpg Curious. Am using chrome on Mac OS X. But working in Safari and Firefox. Any idea what all that means?
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Youtube is down (for me). Anyone else?(youtube.com)
2 points by dansingerman 13y ago|6 comments
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by dansingerman 14y ago
The default Adobe DRM implementation requires that you need an Adobe ID (i.e. an account with Adobe) to access the book. (DRM licences are against Adobe accounts) The bigger players who use Adobe DRM (Like B&N) of course don't want this
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by dansingerman 14y ago
Having had to get my hands dirty in the murky world of Adobe DRM, I am pretty sure this is actually an implementation problem with how Barnes & Noble have implemented it. As crazy as it may seem, I believe in the B&N case the DRM li
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by dansingerman 14y ago
Didn't you know? We are living in a simulated reality: http://www.simulation-argument.com/simulation.html (Probably)
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by dansingerman 14y ago
Not sure 'Post-mortem' sets the right tone given the contents of the post.
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by dansingerman 14y ago
I'm a user of Titanium. Or rather, I was. This incident, and their response, is a complete dealbreaker.
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by dansingerman 14y ago
Upvote just for "Most of management's problems are management's creation.'
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by dansingerman 14y ago
Nope, all REST calls now require authentication: https://dev.twitter.com/docs/api/1.1/overview#Authentication... (and search is now formally part of the REST API as of v1.1)
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by dansingerman 14y ago
I've thought about that sort of approach. Can you describe in a bit more detail how you do that, especially how you ensure it is secure?
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Twitter effectively killing JSONP too(blog.dansingerman.com)
66 points by dansingerman 14y ago|27 comments
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by dansingerman 14y ago
http://geosay.com Just a side project, that I thought some people would find useful. Judging by the stats, no one finds it useful (or not enough to come back) Still, it's served as a decent tech demo to demonstrate what I can do.
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by dansingerman 14y ago
Leo Burnett response here http://blog.leoburnett.co.uk/our-views/rmhc-gate/ TL;DR - Original concept and script were supposedly Leo Burnett's.
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Why Fact Checkers Fail(xark.typepad.com)
1 points by dansingerman 14y ago|0 comments
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by dansingerman 14y ago
But a lot of those shiny toys are probably going to be barriers to upgrading to a later rails version. "Be careful about adding gems, especially those with dependencies" and "Wooo - shiny toys" - are somewhat contradictory.
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by dansingerman 14y ago
Testflight doesn't really work like that - for any app not approved by Apple, you can only open it with your device if the UDID is registered in the build as a tester device. What testflight does is take your device's UDID (when you registe
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by dansingerman 14y ago
I am not sure installing a full stack web framework, a version control system, and automated deployment to public hosting should be _that_ easy. Learning how to install it all is very informative as to what is going on. e.g. Deploying to He
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by dansingerman 14y ago
Yes, just got "The item you tried to buy is no longer available"...hmmmm... https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-VzS7TgKtYRE/T-zQMcuxLXI/A...
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by dansingerman 14y ago
Yes, I agree. You make the point a lot better here than in your linked post - i.e. with PHP, you can 'just start'. With Ruby you need to choose a framework, understand enough about how it works, and where things go before you can even start
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by dansingerman 14y ago
I have a few nits with this post, but am mostly irked by the comparisons between PHP (a language) and Rails (a framework)
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by dansingerman 14y ago
I know that this is a bit snarky, but I can't help feeling, "Solve 50 problems in 50 days with design" is not a million miles away from "Solve 50 problems in 50 days with great hair"
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by dansingerman 14y ago
The vast majority of projects are underestimated; that's a truism of software development. If the outsourced developer was good in all other respects, I don't see any evidence to suggest it took twice as long because he was outsourced.
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by dansingerman 14y ago
As long as both Gates and Jobs get remembered longer than Malcolm Gladwell, there'll be some justice in the world.
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by dansingerman 14y ago
A lot of that could be described as "lessons I have learned on recent projects". I wish I had read (and grokked) this post 18 months ago.
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by dansingerman 14y ago
"It's also been said that if you drop that reality and simply exist in the now, a point where you stop "doing" (action) and start "being" (no action), you'll remove that separation of the "self" from the rest of the Universe." With all due
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by dansingerman 14y ago
There goes the freemium business model...
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by dansingerman 14y ago
For some reason that story makes me feel really sad. I know us geeks are not supposed to be the best with social skills and awareness, but treating a new junior hire like that is tremendously insensitive.
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by dansingerman 14y ago
"Performance & scalability mean shyte if you can't guarantee correctness" - well that depends... I take it you are aware of Brewer's CAP theorem? ( http://www.julianbrowne.com/article/viewer/brewers-cap-theor... ) If not, you should be.
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by dansingerman 14y ago
I think you are missing the grandparent's point. It is easy(-ish) to get some structured data and turn it into sentence format. Unless you have structured data that represents all human experience someone present at an event could muster (s

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