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by gedrap 10y ago
Another day, another post taking an extreme position on Ruby/Rails, well no wonder given the author. While such articles keep getting votes, clicks and attention, they often take an extreme position which does not always result in some
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Cold boot attack(en.wikipedia.org)
1 points by gedrap 10y ago|0 comments
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Why people pay to read The New York Times(medium.com)
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by gedrap 10y ago
While the post is good, the submission title is a quote taken out of the context to optimize for clicks (at the time of writing: John Gruber: “JavaScript has brought the web to the brink of ruin”). The real title is: "The New York Time
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by gedrap 10y ago
Challenging is probably better choice for a word then complexity. Anyway, there are a few different kinds of complexity. One comes from simply the problem at hand being large / complex and that's something that might be really har
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by gedrap 10y ago
I get what you mean - side projects are notorious for never getting delivered. However, there is tons of things that can be learned from that as well. Balancing new and familiar technical choices, creating good tasks and assigning them to m
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Pioneers, Settlers and Planners: searching for a balance in engineering teams(medium.com)
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Noticing frustrating bits and lack of better options is a habit, I believe, which has to be developed. It's easier to notice horribly frustrating things and that's what startups often do, but that might be out of scope for many si
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by gedrap 10y ago
I get what you mean but I believe the post describes a different issue and talks about side projects which are very different from paid gigs. In paid gigs, you have hard or soft deadlines, commitments, etc. But sometimes you just want to co
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by gedrap 10y ago
In a recent humble bundle, I found Automate the Boring Stuff with Python [0] which partially answers this. After going through the basics of Python, it describes building small projects such as scanning an Excel spreadsheet and sending emai
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by gedrap 10y ago
Looks like a nice release! One thing I really miss in grafana and seems like it's not included is alerts. It would be so damn convenient to have data visualization and alerts on the same system because usually they are strongly related
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Don’t try to be too smart. Be boring, predictable and consistent(medium.com)
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by gedrap 10y ago
I've read parse.ly tech blog a few times, it was a great so I immediately recognized your company. As someone who's working in the publishing as well and gradually moving to a more data driven approach - thanks! :)
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by gedrap 10y ago
I don't think that ads were fine for the past decade (I'd even say that they got better but that's just based on my memory). What has changed is that adblocking reached mainstream.
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by gedrap 10y ago
I just disagree. It's up for the community to decide what's useful and what's not by voting on it. If you don't like the link - don't vote. If enough people like it, then it's fair for others to see it. That&#x
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In theory, it would work pretty well and there are startups in this space. The problem is that there is a number of different publishers and maintaining account with each of them doesn't sound very convenient. Unified payments system&#
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by gedrap 10y ago
It is rather obvious from the description that is required so that you can write BASIC programs that use GPS features, etc. I know that it's quite common at HN to complain about android permissions but this is probably a wrong context
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by gedrap 10y ago
Well, simple way to stop most of it would have been to prove it. That's all. But holding the proof and then such a dramatic exit, playing the victim? Wow.
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by gedrap 10y ago
It's good to quickly grasp basic syntax so you can read code in unfamiliar language. However, I don't think that it's a good resource to properly learn language. You will often miss learning the philosophy of the language (th
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>>> As the saying goes, "This is why we can't have nice things." Nah, it's just basic human nature. Would be really naive to expect something different.
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by gedrap 10y ago
Slightly related, throwing food away and the expiration date is a tricky thing. My dad works at grocery store and initially, they were allowed to bring the food home once it expires for a symbolic cost (10% of the price or something). Soon
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by gedrap 10y ago
So, if you are proved to be poor or hungry (whatever that means), does it give you a green light to steal? Maybe, let's say, steal 10 times a day from 10 different shops, and resell the goods for half the price and use the money for so
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by gedrap 10y ago
It definitely makes a nice headline, it might work in this specific case. Damn it might even work in an utopian world where everyone is absolutely honest and has high moral standards. But applied widely in real world, it's just won&#x2
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by gedrap 10y ago
The only clear, objective advantage of using nodejs is that if your application is I/O heavy (e.g. tons of sql queries which can be executed in parallel), nodejs event system is helpful and everything you need is pretty much out of the
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by gedrap 10y ago
Interesting point about OCR. But isn't bypassing it as straightforward as taking a partial screenshot, which is simple in any modern OS? At which point it is so simple that it doesn't make much sense. Although this story is full o
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It just depends, there's no rule of thumb for it (although there are obviously wrong cases). For example,you provide SaaS which is applicable to a wide audience, from personal account and tiny teams, to large companies. It's total
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>>> The marginal cost of producing another copy of digitally encoded product is essentially zero, and it requires zero specialist knowledge. Copying binary data is what computers are made for, it's their basic function. Plus,
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by gedrap 10y ago
In general, managing subscriptions for each media source sucks. I'd rather trust one company to manage it and have it all in one place rather than a few different ones with varying level of quality.
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by gedrap 10y ago
I think it's just basic human psychology that once you have access to something, you start feeling entitled to it. However, in reality, Coursera (or any other company) is under no obligation to keep providing free stuff. It's natu
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by gedrap 10y ago
So maybe it's not that learning online is a better method but that you found better teaching material and online is obviously a easier method to do so?

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