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by ecoffey 14y ago
From http://support.gnip.com/customer/portal/articles/745561-hist... "The Gnip Historical Power Track product is a job-based system and usage is reliant on a multiple-request API. Generation of data via the Historical Power Track product
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by ecoffey 14y ago
Gnip has been around for a few years, but re: backstory, this post from our CEO Jud lays things out pretty nicely: http://blog.gnip.com/we-believe/ (disclaimer: I work for Gnip).
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by ecoffey 14y ago
I feel like this article about how the Law views information and how Tech views it is germane. I think it is one of the best descriptions of this split, and what problems we'll have to overcome. http://ansuz.sooke.bc.ca/lawpoli/colour/2004
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by ecoffey 14y ago
I participated in one here Boulder, CO as a TA, and yes there were a lot of moving parts, but what I think was important was not deep diving into any particular thing, but getting to the point where they have pushed a "real" app. I have a f
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by ecoffey 14y ago
Dear OP, If you're still using git from time to time and get frustrated please feel free to ping @gitdoctor on twitter. It's an account I run to try and help people use git right when they need that help. Thanks and good luck!
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by ecoffey 14y ago
I think it's really cool to see interviews with woman in tech who are unabashedly passionate and proud of the work they do. (Disclaimer: I work for Gnip)
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by ecoffey 14y ago
My programming started on windows trying to learn java (classpath? wth is a directory??), then to dos prompts and rexx scripts, but I didn't really hit my stride until a neighbor helped me install TurboLinux. I spent the next few months at
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by ecoffey 14y ago
Yes I'm non-Indian, and that was just a way to indirectly reference my culture and language gap with him.
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by ecoffey 14y ago
Well he was, and that's part of the story. I wasn't passing judgement on him as a person, or stating that because of that one characteristic he was Evil. Edit: see my response to shard. No offense intended, and I hope none was taken :)
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by ecoffey 14y ago
Heh, yeah luckily I haven't had to do that, but I have chosen some obscene answers to them, and then later had to recite, and spell them out to a horrified Indian call center worker.
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by ecoffey 14y ago
This may not have helped your specific case, but I recently bought 1Password, and updated all my security questions with randomly generated 16 character string answers, and just put those strings in the "notes" section of a website. So when
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by ecoffey 14y ago
In a strict sense I have a ton of different browser options on the same piece of hardware, so if one app doesn't work in Safari say, I can use Chrome or FF. Annoying? Yes, but not world shattering. In a sense you're correct, I've had to inv
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by ecoffey 14y ago
Well it's also consumer perception. For Android I paid money for the phone itself, for a calling and data plan, and then for the apps (sometimes). So after putting down money and things not working right, yes that angers me. But for web app
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by ecoffey 14y ago
This is a good read, and something I agree with. The command pattern that you're showing here almost feels like the "write" inverse to the Presenter "read" action. The way I've been thinking about it for myself is to imagine your Domain Obj
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by ecoffey 14y ago
Definitely. Your brain just gets so saturated and you feel pulled in a bunch of different directions. "I want to work on this! Oh and that! Wow that other thing will help our app here! But first this!"
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by ecoffey 14y ago
Went to railsconf for the first time this week. I've never felt so exhausted from just sitting and listening. (Not to mention I've exceeding my yearly tolerance for tiny uncomfortable conference room chairs)
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by ecoffey 14y ago
I think the point is to provide an abstraction layer, so that the community has some common feature set and protocol expectations when we're discussing different technical solutions to queuing.
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by ecoffey 14y ago
That's awesome to see. This was part of tenderlove's keynote.
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by ecoffey 14y ago
I still want notification settings per organization membership.
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by ecoffey 15y ago
Totally off topic, but his name and my name are both pronounced the same, but different historical roots. Interesting stuff. He's probably one of the rare people to appreciate the "but why not Owen?" question I get all the time :-) http:/
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by ecoffey 15y ago
I think the "Beard stroking" preamble is one of the more interesting parts. That and this quote: "The combination of low startup costs and investor aversion means there are all kinds of opportunities lying around for a developer to run a
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by ecoffey 15y ago
Nice! Although that was never my experience, after futzing with it for a while.
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by ecoffey 15y ago
When I finally got it working on my asus, it still took a healthy 2 - 5 minutes to sleep and about the same to wake
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by ecoffey 15y ago
What I've liked about switching fulltime to a mac laptop is the polish. It's a unix install that quickly sleeps when I close the lid :-P
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by ecoffey 15y ago
I didn't know I could use this until I read this thread.
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by ecoffey 15y ago
I believe that C# 4 gives you the ability to specify the co- or contra variance of a generic type.
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by ecoffey 15y ago
MongoMachine was based out of the same city I'm in, and as such I've seen the founder talk about a few times at local tech events. The selling point, was not that they would host your data, but they would help automate the provisions, conf
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by ecoffey 15y ago
What I'm excited for is organizations adopting the mental model of Infrastructure as a Service internally.
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by ecoffey 15y ago
Yes it was

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