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by drderidder 9y ago
What could possibly go wrong. coughthatshowyougottrumpcough.
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by drderidder 9y ago
I highly recommend reading "The Do's and Don'ts of Client Authentication on the Web" [1] from MIT. It's rather old and not very well-known, but it's excellent. The concepts provide very useful background info t
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by drderidder 9y ago
It's easy to see graphs trending down and say, oh, interest is waning. But the initial spike could just be lots people going through a learning curve. It tells you something about popularity, but ease-of-use, quality of docs, etc. must
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by drderidder 9y ago
What a waste of time that was to read.
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by drderidder 9y ago
{ "_comments": [ "Hello." ] }
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by drderidder 9y ago
Mineral oil is also used medically as a laxative; you put a few spoonfuls in a glass of juice and drink it. So, pretty safe to use as a wood conditioner but its not a drying oil so needs to be re-applied from time to time. It's used a
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by drderidder 9y ago
Nice to see someone explaining drying oils, a discussion usually buried in woodworking forums. That said, in addition to flaxseed oil there a few other drying oils that can be food safe, depending on the additives, like safflower oil, walnu
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by drderidder 9y ago
lol, powerpoint guarantees ugliness. But have you seen the excel artwork? http://www.spoon-tamago.com/2013/05/28/tatsuo-horiuchi-excel...
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by drderidder 9y ago
That, plus attention to detail is just part of the Japanese culture. There's a higher density, very little wasted space, and a slightly smaller scale of the built environment there that always strikes me as having a "storybook&quo
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by drderidder 9y ago
This argument is trotted out every time the gun violence issue comes up, but there's no veracity to it. The data is freely available. It's been several years since I did this but I plotted gun ownership vs gun deaths per 100k popu
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by drderidder 9y ago
Sorry to hear about your frustration. A lot of people can sympathize, but I can assure you that nightmare codebases can happen in statically typed, object-oriented languages just as easily as they can in dynamically typed, functional langua
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by drderidder 9y ago
Not really. It's not that other debuggers didn't provide some of those features and were very good at, say, stepping through program logic. I've spent many years using other debugging tools for C/C++ and Java, and althou
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by drderidder 9y ago
Firebug didn't just raise the bar for web debugging, it pretty much raised the bar for all debugging tools. It leaves a great legacy with the built-in dev tools. Great project.
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by drderidder 9y ago
As a pianist, latency of 20ms makes an electronic keyboard instrument unplayable for me. I wasted lots of time messing around with different drivers for soft synths trying to get below that number. 100 ms is a lot. In audio, a 8ms delay has
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by drderidder 9y ago
Very true, and we've seen better performance from multi-process than multi-threading in some high-traffic (10Gbps) systems (those were C++ however, not node). It was puzzling, but I put it down to the OS scheduler; I imagine that a sin
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by drderidder 9y ago
Also many providers charge by CPU usage, so it behooves customers to spec machines as lightly as possible and fall back on auto-scaling to spin up additional, equally lightly-spec'd VMs, on demand. Rarely are there many idle cores just
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by drderidder 9y ago
Though the functions are serverless in the sense that you needn't allocate virtual infrastructure, the platform obviously utilizes CPU resources to execute your function. That platform underlying the serverless function is, as it happe
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by drderidder 9y ago
Time limits on serverless functions are 9 minutes on GCE and even less on AWS, so for long-running stateful tasks they're probably not suitable, unless you can divide the work into serial as well as parallel subsets.
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by drderidder 9y ago
This looks great, but it's important to bear in mind the architecture you intend to run on. I recently made an application blazingly fast by - among other things - parallelization using the node cluster module. On my 4-core laptop it f
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by drderidder 9y ago
Some of the comments seem a little disjointed from the details. According to the article, only information that's publicly available online is collected, and specifically for those immigrating to the US, not tourists, conference atte
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by drderidder 9y ago
I think it started as an affordable alternative to stick frame construction in a few instances where the containers were readily available, but I agree it's become something people want to do even when its not cost efficient in their a
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by drderidder 9y ago
It's sad that in an academic workplace you'd be better of as a janitor than a prof. The facilities workers where I studied were unionized and seemed to manage alright. The abuse of part-time positions is such a scam.
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by drderidder 9y ago
Nice. It's too bad they didn't support that initially. It was issue #3 on their repo, incidentally. I might still be using it if it had been implemented sooner.
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by drderidder 9y ago
Alright, costs. I think it's not well advised to use a type system as reason not to write unit tests. It seems to be a common misconception that static types are a replacement for testing. I think the real question is can you afford no
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by drderidder 9y ago
I feel there should be a counter-article along the lines of "Unit testing and static code analysis conservatively prevent 80% of the bugs". I've used both Flow and Typescript and imho they're both frequently more trouble
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by drderidder 9y ago
I'm afraid this is what happens when the exercise of democratic freedoms is cordoned within the platforms of corporations who have no duty to uphold them. Google's unilateral suspension of AdSense accounts without reason or recour
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by drderidder 9y ago
For components, bundling the CSS makes sense. For other use cases external CSS resources with inheritance are very beneficial.See for example Scalable and Modular Architecture for CSS or any modern CSS framework for lots of examples.
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by drderidder 9y ago
One word: re-usability.
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by drderidder 9y ago
I started thinking of FB more as a channel to publish notifications of content I keep on other sites, like blog entries, Flickr photos, etc. Once I started thinking of it as more of a pub/sub layer for the content I manage externally,
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by drderidder 9y ago
Interesting how a country's culture can have such an affect the quality of its products. Kudos to Kim Gwang-ho.

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