djrobstep

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by djrobstep 13y ago
That's right kids: Any reform of the status quo is literally communism.
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by djrobstep 13y ago
Do you have a citation for that? I'd hope that the key distribution is a bit smarter than prefix-based.
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by djrobstep 13y ago
If statistics as a whole has a bad rep, there is surely a reason for that, and shouldn't we work on solving that underlying cause rather than hiding it under a rug by renaming?
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by djrobstep 13y ago
There are solutions to funding drug research that don't require artificial scarcity. Eg prizes, or simply more government R&D. The status quo is rediculously inefficient: "...patent-protected brand drugs sell for more than thr
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by djrobstep 13y ago
I've noticed a quite a few landing pages going for the "large photo of generic smiling person" (usually female) concept in recent times. This page, healthcare.gov, basecamp.com, and many many others. Kind of amazing/sad
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by djrobstep 13y ago
Your clients might appreciate advice on how to use technology better?
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by djrobstep 13y ago
As somebody who has administered Mono apps in production, Mono is a huge pain in the arse. This was a year or two ago so mono may have improved, but you're always going to be somewhat behind the cutting edge, and you'll be sufferi
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by djrobstep 13y ago
So unfair isn't it? Clearly disabled children and their parents have had it too good for too long.
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by djrobstep 13y ago
[citation needed]
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by djrobstep 13y ago
"...just think what naming an XML parser “Nikogiri” instead of “XML Parser” could do? Imagine if the C++ exercise above had just been FizzBang. That would have been tons more engaging." Tons more cringe-worthy, more like. We'
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by djrobstep 13y ago
If anybody is after similar s3 functionality within python, I wrote a small python wrapper around boto a while back that does similar parallel/multipart upload to s3, and a bunch of other AWS stuff: https://github.com/d
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by djrobstep 13y ago
Indeed. In fact, being directly instructed by the client to copy their competitor's website happens more than some people might think.
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by djrobstep 13y ago
Dreams are free. In the real world, management will typically take all the credit if things go well, for the same reasons as they'll blame-shift and arse-cover if things don't.
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Game Dev Tycoon: Less “indie innovation”, more “Zynga appropriation”(games.on.net)
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by djrobstep 14y ago
I used to think this too, but I recently switched a PHP app I run over to Nginx from Apache, nginx uses much less memory, and consequently the app can run on far less instances, it's been a huge win. This app has many long-running connect
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by djrobstep 14y ago
Has anybody ever come up with a domain name allocation scheme that's more advanced than first come first served? Surely there's a better way.