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by ghc 14y ago
The worst part about all of this has been the many scenes I saw on Monday that caused flashbacks to memories of 9/11. Nothing I saw Monday compares to the horror of being with friends waiting to find out that yes, their parents had died in
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In praise of Boston(mungerruns.blogspot.com)
1 points by ghc 14y ago|0 comments
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by ghc 14y ago
Yes, there are people building full-fledged web apps...at least with AngularJS and Backbone. Hubspot uses a lot of Backbone in their products, and they're a large company at this point. Google uses AngularJS...the Youtube app for PS3 is wri
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by ghc 14y ago
I needed this. I have spent the past 24 hours shell-shocked. By pure chance I was not at my usual spectator spot at the marathon yesterday for the first time in 4 years: in front of the storefront where the first bomb went off. It's all tha
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by ghc 14y ago
Haskell has a difficult learning curve, that is all. A person coming to Vim from a modeless editor might feel the same way, but nobody doubts that someone familiar with Vim finds it easy to use. It took me a couple of years to "get" Haskell
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by ghc 14y ago
It surprises me to read about all these negative experiences people have trying to use level up. I've had only one experience where the machine was broken, and I use it to pay for everything from groceries to bowling. Where I live about 2/3
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by ghc 14y ago
Why is this being upvoted? There is nothing new about being able to share Amazon Prime benefits. And here I was hoping it was an annoucement that you would henceforth be able to share your Kindle lending library benefits. That's my biggest
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by ghc 14y ago
I think the real test of a futurist's predictions, in order to determine if we have in fact arrived in the future, is not to see what came true and what did not come true. No, the real test is to see how many predicting things make you stop
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by ghc 14y ago
Similarly, in Japan one pronunciation of 4 is also the word for death, so it's frequently omitted.
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by ghc 14y ago
I see so many cool visualizations built with D3.js these days. All the libraries I used to build visualizations in the past were very limited and using them involved many tradeoffs, but D3.js seems just about limitless in what it can do. I
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by ghc 14y ago
Of course the taxi companies want to protect the status quo. Imagine if you had to invest half a million dollars per employee so they could legally operate and then some company claims they don't need to abide by the same system. Nobody wan
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by ghc 14y ago
The government-granted "monopoly" here has forced medallion prices so high that of course the companies would sue to protect the investment their drivers make (which they subsidize). They're like a union in that sense. Each medallion is a h
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by ghc 14y ago
The same reason architects are forced to knock 10 stories off of every building constructed here. The Boston City government has no interest in overturning arcane zoning laws that force companies to provide it with concessions (or kickbacks
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by ghc 14y ago
If you're in Boston, arrange with Metro Taxi. They're quite reliable and on-time. If in Cambridge...yeah, good luck with that.
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by ghc 14y ago
I think you're getting the wrong idea about this. These Taxi companies (of which there are many in Boston, not one or two) want to sue precisely because they have something like a government-granted monopoly. The problem here is governmen
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by ghc 14y ago
Perfect night for this if you're in a place that just had a DST switch-over. To me it doesn't feel like 11:30PM at all. Initiating "get the fuck off the internet" subroutine now...
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by ghc 14y ago
It's not easy, even if you sell yourself cheap. It can be done, however. I never asked for references or kept a portfolio of my past work. To get that first client: 1. Advertise and be picky about where. There are lists of freelancers who a
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by ghc 14y ago
This is a PSA: Dateutil doesn't get enough publicity in the Python community and I see too much code where someone was unaware of its existence and wound up rolling their own broken implementation of datetime handling. Please, PLEASE, for t
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Dateutil - Sane real-world timezone handling, date parsing and math for Python(labix.org)
1 points by ghc 14y ago|1 comments
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by ghc 14y ago
As someone who has, at one time or another, failed at some or all of these points, I wish I'd seen this before I started out. It's tempting to devalue yourself when you're new to freelancing or consulting in order to get business. But I'd t
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by ghc 14y ago
That's rather interesting. I remember attending a talk several years ago by someone from Amazon and he claimed their codebase was in excess of two billion SLOC, and that it was almost entirely C++. If they're running Tomcat, does that mean
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The Runner(espn.go.com)
14 points by ghc 14y ago|0 comments
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by ghc 14y ago
Or, if you're someone like me who was non-founder employee number 1 and are pretty sure you're not cut out for corporate life...arrange to work from home as much as humanly possible. The bureaucracy of the acquiring company makes me rage, b
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by ghc 14y ago
Indeed it does. I have a large code base at work that uses this pattern for Django models with a bit of metaprogramming to create a template for types of input sensors. It's amazing what this kind of refactor can do when you need to turn a
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by ghc 14y ago
I was puzzled by this too, but I think it's an artifact of the way the map is done. I live in one of those $1800+ zones and I couldn't find a 1BR on the market for under $3000 last summer. My guess would be that mean per bedroom would be $2
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by ghc 14y ago
I've definitely soured on the idea of having threaded discussion in blogs. Or unmoderated discussion, for that matter. On the other hand, I think threaded discussion is great on sites like Hacker News which are divorced from the original co
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by ghc 14y ago
The only good thing about an open office plan, in my opinion (as a programmer), is that my boss can see me working. That means he is forced to acknowledge, when I can't get anything done due to constant interruptions, that it's because I'm
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by ghc 14y ago
I just want to emphasize, for anyone hoping to learn writing this way, that you can't effectively learn to write Japanese by typing. It truly isn't for beginners. Some Kanji are so similar that the only real difference is the stroke type an
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by ghc 14y ago
That's pretty cool. After playing around with this some, I'm glad that I won't just get to use it, but that I'll also get the chance to learn something from the code. I don't believe I've ever seen such nicely routed auto-updating paths bef
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by ghc 14y ago
> In fact, I think Python is becoming the secret weapon behind every good Javascript application ;) My recent experience says this is not true. Python is so widely used as a backend that it is in no kind of secret weapon - at least not

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