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by dmerrick 10y ago
I'm excited about exposing to app developers a way to ask for ratings. Specifically, the ability to opt out of them. I think this doesn't address the real problem though, which is that ratings reset after every app update. This me
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by dmerrick 10y ago
Perhaps this has changed recently, but the last time I tried to use Uber without "allow location access even when not using the app," I was unable to call a ride. Instead, I was given instructions on how to enable that setting.
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by dmerrick 10y ago
This is so exciting! If it's an official Apple app, it will get access to all kinds of powerful things that other apps can't do. Finally a way to mute my phone when I'm on a certain wifi network, and other things IFTTT only w
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by dmerrick 10y ago
/r/Serendipity Meta-subreddit designed to introduce you to new subreddits /r/Showerthoughts Amusing, often insightful thoughts /r/wholesomememes Pleasant pictures that make you feel nice about the world /r
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by dmerrick 10y ago
/r/DesirePaths Paths created by people walking off the intended paths /r/DoesNotTranslate Words or phrases without analogs in other languages /r/FuckYou Does what it says on the tin /r/Heavymind Tripp
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by dmerrick 10y ago
/r/A1B21F8244F Weird encrypted messages, or just data dumps, or something else. The mystery is the fun part. /r/AmazonWTF Strange things you can buy on Amazon /r/bench and /r/fence Originally spawned
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by dmerrick 10y ago
I'm a huge Plex fan, but I'm really not comfortable using this until it supports encryption. I would only use this for media where you have the legal rights to copy it.
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by dmerrick 10y ago
I've been using computers my whole life, and a lot of the magic has been explained away. Wine is a project that continues to astound me. Grats to the Wine team, this is great!
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by dmerrick 10y ago
Did she glue her fingers together?
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by dmerrick 10y ago
Thanks, this is precisely what I intended.
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by dmerrick 10y ago
Perl 6 was too little, too late. It was hyped for a long time and delayed for a long time. During that time, everybody who was impatient and not forced to use Perl ended up moving to the new hotness languages like Python and Ruby. Ruby is p
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by dmerrick 10y ago
Honestly that seems like par for the course for the area of town the Twitter HQ is in
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by dmerrick 10y ago
Pretty much this. A little background... the company was in the television industry. The original product was "clickable TV," in which they'd managed to deploy a small Java app to set top boxes over the cable lines, which cou
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by dmerrick 10y ago
Back in 2010 I worked at a startup that ended up pivoting to a regional Groupon clone. It seemed like a good idea at the time, but the company ended up going under a year later. What I remember most vividly was trying to come up with a good
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by dmerrick 10y ago
I learned how to program on a TI-83 graphing calculator. I was bored in class and I made a simple text-based blackjack game. Later my friends and I would use the link cable to share programs between our calculators, and I would pour over th
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by dmerrick 10y ago
The one that stood out to me most was Jean-Paul Sartre. Wouldn't it make sense for a philosopher to have a philosophy degree?
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by dmerrick 10y ago
I'm really happy to see a company so large taking a stand on privacy. Even if most of their users are unsavvy and don't understand/care about the implications, Apple is making an example that other companies can now follow.
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by dmerrick 10y ago
Darn, that's what I was worried about. I wouldn't have anticipated it, but this is an critical feature for me. Without WoL, I need to have a mouse/keyboard attached to the guest machine, which completely defeats the purpose o
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by dmerrick 10y ago
I just purchased this recently (having used it ages ago) to drive a second computer on my desk. My problem is that once the guest machine goes to sleep, I can't seem to wake it via Synergy. Is this expected behavior? I have WoL enabled
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by dmerrick 10y ago
It's really unfortunate that Imgur took such a turn for the worse. Originally it seemed like Imgur was a benevolent gift to Reddit users... a clean, simple, easy to use image hosting service that everyone could use for free. I guess it
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by dmerrick 10y ago
That is exactly what Plaid is... a tool for developers. Savvy users can use the Plaid API to build apps that use their users' financial data. It's free to use if you have less than 100 users, so you could easily build your own too
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by dmerrick 10y ago
The extremely-talented folk-metal band Kauan recently released an album about this[0]. It's worth checking out if you like ambient, moody, atmospheric music. [0] http://www.metalsucks.net/2015/10/22/strea
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by dmerrick 10y ago
There's a lot more info and documentation here: http://sanctuary.js.org EDIT: with really cool REPL examples, too!
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by dmerrick 10y ago
Infrastructure guy at Plaid here. > Is there really no way to get closer to normal performance for networking in Virtual Box? Unfortunately not! It takes many different tweaks, tunes, and hacks to squeeze performance out of VirtualBox. T
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by dmerrick 11y ago
I like the idea here, but I don't really see how drawing ASCII art is easier than running: tmux list-windows I do agree that it's nicer to read the ASCII art version, but making edits seems like effort. The list-windows s
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by dmerrick 11y ago
Depending on when the channel was introduced, the backend implementation of a channel can vary wildly. Some were written in Node, others in Ruby, some where written internally, others were written by the service owners. When IFTTT released
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by dmerrick 11y ago
I've always thought of it as a tax on people who are bad at math.
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by dmerrick 11y ago
Might still be cheaper than owning a car.
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by dmerrick 11y ago
It's the worst when it says something to the effect of "you made a typo, so we already ran this unrelated command for you!" Tip: run the following to add a 1-second pause between the message and the "fixed" command
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by dmerrick 11y ago
It's really great to see that with every big release, Ruby is making the language even more pleasant to use in addition to the regular performance improvements. Ruby just keeps getting better and better.

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