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by gry 13y ago
First off, I didn't know the hurdy-gurdy was an instrument, nor did I know it preceded this. Guess I really didn't pay attention to Donovan's lyrics… I'm even more curious now. I want to know why this couldn't or wo
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by gry 13y ago
Adobe Topcoat [ http://topcoat.io/ ] provides metrics. The "optimized" CSS is growing, and becoming an interesting space. edit: clarity
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by gry 13y ago
I upvoted this 10 times, even though it counts once. Thank you, scoofy.
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by gry 13y ago
Huh: http://asana.github.io/kraken/
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by gry 13y ago
Agreed. I commented on the organization. One expects the NSA to provide a sub-par post-mortem. a) it is the NSA and b) it is a "marketing" website I'm not sure what utility www.nsa.gov provides beyond a mission statement. Nev
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by gry 13y ago
It sure is. It's been down for hours. http://www.isitdownrightnow.com/nsa.gov.html Funny thing is, outages for GitHub and its ilk hit HN in minutes. Either way, the transparency in the post-mortem is more valuab
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by gry 13y ago
> Once upon a midnight dreary, while I {pon}ered It's a visual demonstration how gzip works. The first line says it all. 'pon' matches the bytes in 'upon', the first first instance, thus it's pointer to thos
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by gry 13y ago
Thoughtback [ https://thoughtback.com/ ] sent me a pertinent reminder this morning. No affiliation, just a great tool. Organizational metrics, which are not related to the code, can predict software failure-pronenes
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by gry 13y ago
It isn't all GoDaddy. I have no affiliation with GoDaddy. I don't use them anymore myself. WestHost or otherwise, WordPress sites, bar none, need a caching plugin.
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by gry 13y ago
Thank you for Greg Wilson's talk. I've been trying to find empirical information about software development and he's frank about the lack of it. He noted work by Lutz Prechelt [ http://www.inf.fu-berlin.de/w&#x
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Building An Orrery(zeamon.com)
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by gry 13y ago
> If you want to get the best advertising delivered to you, based on your actual interests, start here. They make no compunction, though, that's not what I want.
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by gry 13y ago
No. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6248089 Given what you know, you may recuse yourself. Others are not afforded that decision. Even at a cost.
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Butterick’s Practical Typography(practicaltypography.com)
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by gry 13y ago
Also see http://huboard.com/ .
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How much research has gone into developing the Facebook ping sound?(quora.com)
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by gry 13y ago
Blue marble is half the resolution MapBox is aiming for and also their goal is a generalized base layer. [ https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5475899 ]
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Langref: A cross-language reference(langref.org)
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by gry 13y ago
Heroku is up: http://cl.ly/image/0B0U1K3Z342R . Conversely, when AWS had issues, Amazon.com was not impacted. Amazon.com != AWS. I'm curious to know when AWS or Amazon.com innovations impact each other, or which one leads. I'd rather it be
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Ruby Advisory Database(github.com)
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Highbrow: A Textual Annotation Browser(osc.hul.harvard.edu)
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Unique in the Crowd: The privacy bounds of human mobility(nature.com)
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by gry 14y ago
$ bundle package Places the gem binaries in vendor/cache, as noted. SCM those. "While installing gems, Bundler will check vendor/cache and then your system's gems. If a gem isn't cached or installed, Bundler will try to install it from the
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by gry 14y ago
The interesting story is Apple. We're hearing about it now.
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by gry 14y ago
moom [ http://manytricks.com/moom/ ] or divvy [ http://mizage.com/divvy/ ]
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by gry 14y ago
The source: http://blog.500friends.com/2012/12/17/how-big-is-amazon/
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by gry 14y ago
Apple kills Microsoft here. My bias: They deprecated every major Mac hardware and software transition into a virtual machine. * Mac OS 9 to Classic Environment * PowerPC to Rosetta Apple brands, changes brands, and moves forward. Microsoft
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by gry 14y ago
I've also found this diagram incredibly helpful translating from a SQL to map/reduce world. http://rickosborne.org/blog/2010/02/infographic-migrating-fr...
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by gry 14y ago
Teacup is a RubyMotion-only stylesheet. https://github.com/rubymotion/teacup
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by gry 14y ago
I am not a lawyer. In my experience, HIPPA does not provide any spec. It is akin to "did/do you have reasonable precautions for X?" so every organization is different, though many go to the extreme under HIPPA, because it providing document

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