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by gamache 13y ago
It turns out that out-of-shape cops are make fairly effective killing machines when you outfit them with automatic rifles and body armor. And, since the US Defense Department can donate excess hardware to police forces, most of the gear com
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Tracking a JRuby Memory Leak(petegamache.com)
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by gamache 13y ago
Formally, they're absolutely right. Information like that is out of band with HAL. In practice, I deal with it by sticking to HTTP verb conventions and specifying what to do in the documentation. It's not automatic -- it'd b
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by gamache 13y ago
The client space is slowly filling in. There are a bunch of clients which still leave the plumbing exposed (a couple good ones are HyperClient.rb[1] and HyperAgent.js[2]) -- it still feels like you're making HTTP requests. One of the
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by gamache 13y ago
I appreciate it -- that was kind of the point. :)
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by gamache 13y ago
Ah, that makes more sense. I was under the impression that Alpaca was targeted at people writing the APIs. Neat tool!
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by gamache 13y ago
Wouldn't it be wiser to choose a hypermedia format for the API, and then use a generic hypermedia client on whichever platform you like? Then you write just as many client libraries (zero), but the problem of pushing updates to your c
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by gamache 13y ago
Let's not even get started on climbing ladders.
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by gamache 13y ago
I've got mbsync set up to periodically dump my Gmail into a local Maildir archive. Works great, and it was a (relative) breeze to integrate with my old mail archives reaching back to the late 90's.
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by gamache 13y ago
Oh, admit it. Antirez wrote a hell of a blogging platform.
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by gamache 13y ago
Great idea! How much of my data are you mining? EDIT: Not much, it seems! http://getrather.com/privacy-policy.php
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by gamache 13y ago
New hire orientation! Seriously though, I doubt it. Most of it is very in-house.
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by gamache 13y ago
The move toward Node as a platform will make things like cosmetic redesigns much easier to accomplish. I don't think many design firms could, or would want to, work within PayPal's older stack, which requires knowledge of not onl
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by gamache 13y ago
I worked in PayPal's mobile team for a few months last year (acqui-hire). I can confirm that as of two years ago, everything you said is true, but as of last year the groundwork was laid for everything in this article being true today
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by gamache 13y ago
Name another time that Google spent years putting its entire weight behind something no one wanted.
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by gamache 13y ago
Ah, go eat a bag of barewords.
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by gamache 13y ago
Articles about how great Smalltalk is usually remind me of articles about how great the Lisp Machine was. And there is a lot of merit to an entire system, hardware and software, designed to operate in a high-level language. My complaint is
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by gamache 13y ago
I'd also like being able to open that many tabs and have my browser perhaps release some of that memory and just reclaim it when I open the tab for reading again. Chromebooks do a great job of this -- inactive tabs are often freed wh
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by gamache 13y ago
Myth: The world needs more articles in which Millenials are explained Reality: Millenials have been lied to by virtually every authority figure for every single moment of their entire goddamn lives, and are slightly harder to bullshit than
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by gamache 13y ago
Google Hangouts provides a lot of Skypeishness, for what that's worth.
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by gamache 13y ago
ChromeOS is a better choice for today's grannies on today's hardware. Linux can be made that granny-proof. And that's what ChromeOS is. Hell, it's so granny-proof that it doesn't ship with gcc, or even header file
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by gamache 13y ago
They sure are glad there are people to applaud them for doing bullshit.
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by gamache 13y ago
There are some CEOs who think they can do anything, and design logotype over the weekend. There are other CEOs who think they can do anything, and start their own space program (with an electric car company on the side).
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by gamache 13y ago
I hand-assembled machine code for the 6502 for a couple of years in my youth. I was 12, couldn't afford an assembler, and my school wouldn't pay for one. I wasn't exactly writing VisiCalc, so a notebook and a pencil were ple
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by gamache 13y ago
Under a certain percentage by weight, flavors don't need to be specifically listed so that producers aren't compelled to reveal trade secret recipes.
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by gamache 13y ago
I agree that full-size pickups should not be mass market. On the other hand, there are a lot of people who could use a truck but don't need a monstrous pickup. There used to exist compact pickups for them (us) -- e.g. Toyota Hilux&#x
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by gamache 13y ago
In my experience, when someone reeks, it's usually because they don't bathe daily or they don't wash their clothes enough. Fresh sweat on a recently showered body generally does not smell bad. A guy who applies Right Guard f
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by gamache 13y ago
And over the years, other Good Samaritans helpfully pointed out that we're fat, ugly, pimply, and not so fresh. How did we get along??
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Web Smith 4 min read One good thing about Medium is that CMO-posted selfsucks like this one come with a disclaimer about how much of your life you will never get back after reading it. The three-time champion responded, “It’s all me (wit
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by gamache 13y ago
Bose is what you might call "pro-sumer". Bose products to not hesitate to alter and color the sound of the output, if Bose considers the result pleasing. Audiophiles and audio professionals are generally more interested in high

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