davidlumley

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by davidlumley 10y ago
I _think_ http://cushionapp.com might be profitable. The founder has recently started using some freelancers to help with features but as far as I know it's still a one person company. The founder writes about their experie
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by davidlumley 11y ago
I imagine this is a recording of the demo which was streamed in real time, as opposed to being rendered (a process which can take significant time per frame for scenes this complex).
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by davidlumley 11y ago
I live in Brisbane, and my current internet plan is 'unlimited' (TPG). The biggest problem I have isn't the quota / data caps available, it's the fact I can't get any better than 2mbps upload speed, even if I s
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by davidlumley 11y ago
You can use S3 to make hosting your site super simple, and super cheap. I don't understand why people use a database for content that (for the most part) doesn't need one.
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by davidlumley 11y ago
> I was a bit surprised at the uncanny parallel between the author's description of the ships and the mechanics of ships in Eve. That was my thought too. I always thought EVE had a fairly good use of nomenclature for its ship types
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by davidlumley 12y ago
The index is missing some content on Safari thanks to an error (OS X, 8.0.2, private browsing enabled): > InvalidCharacterError: DOM Exception 5: An invalid or illegal character was specified, such as in an XML name. Seems like an useful
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by davidlumley 12y ago
Why is there no information about the Inmarsat and Iridium networks that a lot of aircraft already use? ADS-B is fantastic for fast, accurate position data, and apart from the hardware is essentially 'free' for an aircraft to make
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by davidlumley 12y ago
Ah, that makes a lot more sense! I quickly skimmed through SproutMark and it seemed great so assumed it was a full time job.
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by davidlumley 12y ago
I'm also Australian, but we have a fairly international customer base so the ~150ms difference for requests that hit the application hasn't been that big for us in the scheme of things.
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by davidlumley 12y ago
None as a fulltime sysadmin, most of my experience has been in operations, and in configuring servers for my own projects. I've used Puppet and Chef before, haven't checked out Ansible. My main dissatisfaction with those tools was
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by davidlumley 12y ago
I used to prefer the flexibility and efficiency of having my VPS setup, and it's certainly cheaper. Over the past 2 years though, I've saved so much time and sanity using Heroku. I certainly can understand saving thousands of doll
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by davidlumley 12y ago
I've used Tumblr, Wordpress, and Jekyll. My preference is Jekyll, as I find it the easiest to use and can be served very cheaply via S3.
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I was an Extraordinary Alien – For a Week(philsturgeon.uk)
2 points by davidlumley 12y ago|0 comments
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by davidlumley 12y ago
You're able to delete individual cards, but you can't delete a board – even if it's empty.
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by davidlumley 12y ago
I completely agree with your first point. Being able to actually delete boards would be great, rather than having 5 archived boards. I disagree with your second, but am genuinely interested as to why you might want this. The idea is with Tr
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by davidlumley 12y ago
Because Twitter is all about broadcasting to people who follow you, I've always understood the "only those you approve" part to mean "those people following you that you haven't blocked". The idea that you can
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by davidlumley 12y ago
It's completely anecdotal, but we've used eWay for the past 2 years. They've been slightly cheaper than the alternatives and pleasant to deal with for the most part, but any technical interaction has been incredibly painful.
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by davidlumley 13y ago
More recently, the Albuquerque police were involved in a shooting that was recorded through the use of body cameras: http://krqe.com/2014/03/21/apd-officer-shooting-raises-quest... While the outcome of the in
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by davidlumley 13y ago
I use OS X for a few reasons: it's the default OS on my laptop of choice, it's easier to setup ruby on OS X than Windows, and I prefer the OS X UI to that of any Linux distro (and to that of Windows 8 and Windows 7 too)
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How to Give Constructive Design Feedback Over Email(medium.com)
2 points by davidlumley 13y ago|0 comments
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by davidlumley 13y ago
You're talking about 'The Fold' and it's a myth - http://blog.kissmetrics.com/why-the-fold-is-a-myth/ It doesn't really matter if there's content below the page height, just that you ensur
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Bitbucket Service Outage(status.bitbucket.org)
2 points by davidlumley 13y ago|0 comments
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by davidlumley 13y ago
It looks like it's progressing well. One quick thing I noticed is that the thumbnails show up, even if there is no article for them: http://i.imgur.com/QrLZuxF.png
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by davidlumley 13y ago
Sketch is absolutely amazing. I moved from Illustrator to Sketch last year, as I was getting frustrated with cruft Adobe were adding, and things they weren't fixing. It took a little longer for me to get used to Sketch at around 3 mon
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by davidlumley 13y ago
The temporarily reduced pricing means I can actually justify trying a few side projects without investing too much into it. Thanks so much Pin!
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by davidlumley 13y ago
The $9 a month is an introductory price valid for registrations this month only. The original (and I suspect the price if you register next month) was $50.
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by davidlumley 14y ago
> Therefore, they should be treated with the same level of caution that any powerful yet relatively unrestrained program deserves. A friend of mine's mother routinely compromises his vps simply by installing themes which include the pop
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by davidlumley 14y ago
> The somewhat flawed logic is that if I do things too fast, I'll just get more work assigned, and expectations will rise, which will make it progressively harder for me to achieve. For what it's worth, I'm in this situation at the mome
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by davidlumley 14y ago
While I'd love to get rid of Windows as my gaming OS, I can't see this happening while game developers still use (and enjoy) Direct X and D3D over Open GL.
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by davidlumley 14y ago
It's not JSON, but rather that MongoDB's query language sucks. I'm not entirely sure how to fix it - perhaps make it slightly more verbose and meaningful?

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