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What really powers the internet(flickr.com)
1 points by dhotson 18y ago|0 comments
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by dhotson 18y ago
Summary: We're a diverse group of 20-something year old white males. ;-)
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by dhotson 18y ago
Actually, I find limiting to ~80-100 chars makes code more readable. On a 24" screen I like to have 2-3 files open side by side. Having to scroll down is no big deal, scrolling sideways is pretty awkward. It also makes diffs harder to read
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by dhotson 18y ago
I find a combination of OSX with an Ubuntu VM (vmware) works really well. That way you can keep your dev environment the same as your production linux machine .. it's pretty hard to beat apt-get. By using VMWare, the OS you use doesn't actu
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by dhotson 18y ago
I disagree with #2. I think that 37signals did the right thing. This issue doesn't just affect 37signals, it affects a lot of other companies. In my opinion, 37signals were obliged to talk about this publicly. If they sent some private mail
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It’s easy to make something incredible.(unalone.tumblr.com)
26 points by dhotson 18y ago|14 comments
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by dhotson 18y ago
.. except in the terminal .. ;-)
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by dhotson 18y ago
Hey, me too!
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by dhotson 18y ago
I've recently switched to OSX from Ubuntu and I've found it equally frustrating in the other direction. My biggest gripe is that the home and end keys don't work as I expect anymore. In Ubuntu (and windows afaik), the home and end keys work
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by dhotson 18y ago
Disclaimer: I used to work at hitwise. All of these analytics services have some bias.. Google only measures traffic to their site, whereas hitwise compares things in more relative terms.. I.e percentage of all searches (all search engines)
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by dhotson 18y ago
I'd recommend jEdit. It's my editing weapon of choice for OSX, Linux and Windows. By default it's a bit plain, but the plugins available are fantastic: http://taat.pl/en/jedit/ Download it here: http://www.jedit.org/
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by dhotson 18y ago
The killer feature of github for me is their network graph.. it would be great if they could copy it, and open source it. :)
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by dhotson 18y ago
It's actually not that difficult to write a text database from scratch (without libraries like Lucene). Most text databases are based on inverted indexes at their core. Implementing basic boolean operators turns out to be pretty easy to imp
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Orbiter - A free space flight simulator(orbit.medphys.ucl.ac.uk)
2 points by dhotson 18y ago|0 comments
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The power of a whiteboard(agile-software-development.com)
24 points by dhotson 18y ago|13 comments
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by dhotson 18y ago
Ugh, I hate to be 'that guy' but this is such obvious link bait.. these rules don't really tell me anything insightful.
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Just F’ing Ship It(carpeaqua.com)
1 points by dhotson 18y ago|0 comments
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by dhotson 18y ago
This might be worth a look for a decent diff algorithm: http://code.google.com/p/google-diff-match-patch/
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by dhotson 18y ago
I can't see the site, but it looks like some kind of dumb meme: http://images.google.com.au/images?q=internet%20serious%20bu...
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by dhotson 18y ago
Ruby 1.9 makes Hash ordered by default. The major reason I care about it is that when loading data from yaml files the key order doesn't get messed up. In ruby 1.8 the order got messed up. So yeah.. use ruby 1.9 :)
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by dhotson 18y ago
I don't mean to be rude.. but all of these look awful. ...I guess that's why Jonathan Ive gets paid what he does. ;)
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What do companies want?(groups.google.com)
2 points by dhotson 18y ago|1 comments
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by dhotson 18y ago
This is the document the source is talking about.. and it appears to be fake: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Document_12-571-3570
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by dhotson 18y ago
Pretty interesting stuff.. it's a pretty stunning demonstration of neural networks and related algorithms. I find it amazing at just how broadly this kind of technology can be applied.. from speech and handwriting recognition.. to breaking
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by dhotson 18y ago
Nope, that is correct. Joel is gay.
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by dhotson 18y ago
The best way to use OpenID is if you have your own domain or website. By putting some tags in your website you can then login with the address of your website. Makes it really easy to remember. The feature is called delegation for those int
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Say Goodbye to Done(adaptivepath.com)
2 points by dhotson 18y ago|0 comments
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Chill out, everybody. - Dr. Shadowfax on Steve Jobs' medical leave.(allbleedingstops.blogspot.com)
3 points by dhotson 18y ago|0 comments
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by dhotson 18y ago
Ah I think I've kinda got it. That's pretty cool.. thanks for explaining. :)
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by dhotson 18y ago
Oh, something like train timetables? Or you mean something like generating railroad maps? Edit: While googling, I came across this http://railroad.rubyforge.org which is also a pretty cool use of graphviz. But probably different to what y

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