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by gecko 14y ago
This has been repeatedly invalidated over and over and over again, and I'm really tired of being brought up as the excuse. First, you can simply prove that's not right empirically: start loading a large page, slap down your finger, scroll a
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by gecko 14y ago
I don't quite think the Smalltalk one is fair. Smalltalk-80 definitely went to the extreme with everything-is-an-object, but PG is glossing over the history of Smalltalk-76 and Smalltalk-72, which betray the actual purpose: "Programming ac
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by gecko 14y ago
There's some truth to that: JavaScript's execution model was Scheme, with the syntax swapped out relatively last-minute in response to corporate pressure. What I genuinely don't remember anymore is whether LiveScript shipped with the Schem
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by gecko 14y ago
Is it genuinely identical? E.g., I get Python refactoring and Django/Mako/Jinja template support directly in IntelliJ?
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by gecko 14y ago
That particular font is a copy of Tolkein's personal handwriting, but you can find similar font design in any of a dozen Gaelic fonts. (Or probably find a font that's a copy of his handwriting, too; I don't know.)
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by gecko 14y ago
Having read through their workflow diagram, I'm really unclear why they can achieve 90% efficiency. Isn't that basically just a Carnot engine? If not, why not? If it is, how can they possibly achieve 90% efficiency when the best Carnot-l
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by gecko 14y ago
I usually handle subprojects by having tags to go with the list, and optionally using a smart list to aggregate if need be.
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by gecko 14y ago
I think I'm missing something. Most of those shortcuts I gave are post-creation. You can use Trello fully from the keyboard; is there something specific not available that's bugging you?
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by gecko 14y ago
I love both Trello and Remember the Milk, using them for different purposes, but keyboard shortcuts shouldn't be one of your reasons for one tool versus the other. Both tools allow you to specify most of the information you want right at c
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by gecko 14y ago
Sadly, the author of this package was unaware that Dr. Jones was denied tenure, and is no longer on faculty. http://www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/back-from-yet-another-glo...
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by gecko 14y ago
I think theres a misconception that OS X is in a huge debt to FreeBSD, or even runs it at its core. Apple runs a custom kernel, no relation to FreeBSD, with a mixture of *BSD user land tools--more NetBSD than FreeBSD the last time I looked
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by gecko 14y ago
I know the Super Scope relies on CRT scanlines to operate, but I was fairly sure that the NES' gun should work on any display that can change fast enough to black out all the screen except the targets, which (IIRC) go white with striped lin
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by gecko 14y ago
I hate to just bust out some stats here, but: The average murder rate in the US is roughly 5.0 per 100,000 and falling [1]. NYC's population fluctuates between its 8.2 million residents in the evenings and closer to 10.5 million people dur
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by gecko 14y ago
The bigger complaint I've got with App Engine, which I don't have with this, is that it's complete lock-in. If I write my app against Heroku, I can pick up and move to AWS, Rackspace, Azure, or even a local cloud such as vSphere, VMware Fus
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by gecko 14y ago
That is starting to look more like J or K than Perl. Is the Perl 6 team still considering syntax changes? If so, any thought on making map/grep/join operators?
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by gecko 14y ago
I think part of the problem is that, while the CLR is vastly better than the JVM at supporting languages other than its flagship, I also think that the cost of using languages other than C# or VB.NET is higher than a lot of developers are
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by gecko 14y ago
I think the author is simply inexperienced in C#. Here's the right way to express his code: string.Join("\n", from elem in myList where elem.Description != "" select elem.Description); Note how mind-numbing
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Stepping back and being quiet(bitquabit.com)
3 points by gecko 14y ago|0 comments
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by gecko 14y ago
They've thought of that. Kind of fun to find new sets of industrial pumps post-hurricane though.
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by gecko 14y ago
Just so we're clear, I have time to reply to these because I'm stranded in LA. That's also why I have to go back and edit my posts fairly regularly when I get better information out of NY. Pretty much everyone in NYC, such as the ops te
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by gecko 14y ago
Are there any safety issues associated with hauling a bucket of diesel up a staircase? It's flammable and slippery. Wear boots, and I suggest this is a good day to quit smoking. I know it's not as volatile as gasoline b
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by gecko 14y ago
This information is from earlier today, so I don't know how accurate it is, but: - They burn 44 gallons per hour - The tank adjacent to the generator holds ~400 gallons - Gas is currently VERY expensive, but I don't have a real numb
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by gecko 14y ago
There's a little bit more information in the last status post, plus a picture of Fog Creek cofounder Michael Pryor hauling 5-gallon jugs of diesel up 17 flights of stairs. (We have other employees down there, too, and I know Stack Exchange'
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by gecko 14y ago
Technically, it is running hybrid now, albeit for somewhat silly reasons: the mail server is still at Peer1.
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Trello has moved to AWS(status.fogcreek.com)
124 points by gecko 14y ago|67 comments
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by gecko 14y ago
Trello has switched to AWS as of this posting. The Trello team are insane, and I'm very proud to be part of the same company that they are.
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by gecko 14y ago
Kiln alone has >4 TB of data; you want to SCP that with 90 minutes heads-up? Having power and/or rack space is not the same as having servers, switches, etc. anyway. Hopefully it will not be down that long. We'll let you know more when
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by gecko 14y ago
It is movable. It would take a few days. We have another DC. We wouldn't say that if we knew it wasn't doable. EDIT: Just because it's feasible doesn't mean we will actually do it; just wanted to clarify that we weren't firing from the hi
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by gecko 14y ago
Where I grew up in the urban Midwest, they were called English units (despite everyone knowing that England is metric). Kind of reminded me how the French call French horns English horns.
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by gecko 14y ago
You have a good point, but I've been assuming that Microsoft would drop their refusal to allow mature content, at least for big-title games, if any of the game studios expressed serious interest in porting to Windows RT to begin with. We'l

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