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by dpeck 10y ago
If anything GT is viewed better outside of the state than within it. Few realize that a significant part of the reason that Georgia (for all its problems) isn't Alabama/Mississippi/South Carolina is because of GT and Atlantas
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by dpeck 10y ago
Launched a product that is on the shelf in stores across the US. Things I learned: Be extremely careful with your demo apps, people will see the demo work and think its most of the way there and just needs polish where reality is very diffe
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by dpeck 10y ago
reminds me of this old article we had as assigned reading during a networking class in school. The Internet Sucks: Or, What I Learned Coding X-Wing vs. TIE Fighter ( http://www.gamasutra.com/view/feature/131781&#x2F
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What I Learned Coding X-Wing vs TIE Fighter (1999)(gamasutra.com)
166 points by dpeck 10y ago|24 comments
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by dpeck 10y ago
Look at life spans of royalty vs commoners in 19th and early 20th century, this already happened and took the medical advances of 20th century to make similar.
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by dpeck 10y ago
I'm the same and it drives me (and my wife if Im honest) crazy. For whatever reason I pick up background noise with much more intensity than most people. Surround sound is useless to me, I'll hear cricket chirps and background mus
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Phoenix GraphQL Tutorial with Absinthe(ryanswapp.com)
3 points by dpeck 10y ago|0 comments
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by dpeck 10y ago
"From the widest gulley to the deepest trench, holes define who we are and where we are going." - Rainier Wolfcastle
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by dpeck 10y ago
Offensive lineman have to know a ton about the play being run, whether they should pull left or right, who he's responsible for blocking, if he should drive block the man up or chip and work to get in front of a linebacker, etc. Receiv
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NYT – US Presidential Election Data Visualization(nytimes.com)
3 points by dpeck 10y ago|0 comments
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Safe Rust bridge for creating Erlang NIF functions(github.com)
2 points by dpeck 10y ago|0 comments
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by dpeck 10y ago
Use it to manage and service connections to IoT/networking devices. No migration, did some early prototyping of the web frontend with rails but backend was always elixir. Phoenix matured enough and really used it from early on in devel
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by dpeck 10y ago
Fully anecdotal, but got into a conversation with an animal trainer once after a demonstration that he put on. After mentioning how impressive the training of the cats in particular he said he actually preferred working with them and got mo
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by dpeck 10y ago
| The hand shapes the tool and the tool shapes the hand I really like that line a lot. I've used a similar phrase to describe the relation between the data you're generating and consuming and the code doing so. Very eloquent, I&#x
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by dpeck 10y ago
Tolstoy, among others, would disagree.
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by dpeck 10y ago
Friend of mine did a lot of research on contraception, doing her culmination project for her degree on it, looking into the history and current. The women in her family also had a history of complications with hormonal approaches and after
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by dpeck 10y ago
Bit longer than 10 years ago. Americans have been very into gymnastics at the Olympics since at least Mary Lou Retton in 84, and the 96 Olympics the womens team was a huge part of the storyline. Same with Beijing and London. Mens generally
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by dpeck 10y ago
In fairness it was the ice, which is a whole different beast.
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Trump: Tribune of Poor White People(theamericanconservative.com)
5 points by dpeck 10y ago|6 comments
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The Rise and Fall of Theranos: A Cartoon History(ww2.kqed.org)
17 points by dpeck 10y ago|4 comments
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by dpeck 10y ago
One of the best approachable writeups I've found on getting started in reversing embedded devices is an old gem from Matasano. Retsaot is Toaster, Reversed: Quick 'n Dirty Firmware Reversing - http://www.woodmann.com&#x
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by dpeck 10y ago
|The most surprising thing was how his approach (arrogance, hyper-confidence, indignation, loud speaking voice) made nearly all the non-technical people in the organization convinced he was a world class technologist. In reality he had pret
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by dpeck 10y ago
Not that you should do it too much since traversing arrays (lists) is expensive, but http://elixir-lang.org/docs/stable/elixir/Enum.html#at/3 gives you the ability to grab arbitrarily.
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by dpeck 10y ago
One of the most enjoyable posts I've read in the last year. Was linked to it a few months back, glad to see its already posted here.
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by dpeck 10y ago
Where do you live? That really does sound like a beurocratic nightmare.
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by dpeck 10y ago
in my experience security guys and privacy guys are very different people. Theres a lot of overlap in interest and skillset at lower levels but it usually diverges hard with experience.
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by dpeck 10y ago
My little sister uses it a lot and got me to get on so she could share her silly and over dramatic life a bit more. She's the only one I follow, but not for lack of trying. I know I have a few other friends on it but the ability to dis
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by dpeck 10y ago
That is a great idea. I remember going through a handful of apps trying to find one with an interface that agreed with both my wife and I but never found one we liked that synced. The hands free of the echo is especially useful for that. Go
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by dpeck 10y ago
Nice video intro/discussion about the book for anyone interested. I haven't had a chance to read it yet but it is fascinating. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hyry8mgXiTk
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Machining, a Love Story (in MS Paint)(xlogicx.net)
2 points by dpeck 10y ago|0 comments

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