icehawk219

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by icehawk219 12y ago
It's easy to blame others but what it really does come down to is a lack of appreciation for what debt really is and how it really works. It's very easy to get approved for 3 credit cards each with a $5k limit and say to yourself
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by icehawk219 12y ago
The ease with which huge amounts of credit are given to people who clearly shouldn't receive it is quite scary. When I was 18 I had a decent enough job as a fledgling software developer making above average for my age but still not gre
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by icehawk219 12y ago
While this makes a good narrative (and as someone who is fed up with laying down to get comfortable just to have to get up 3 minutes later to confirm I'm still watching Futurama again it's easy to imagine), I suspect it's les
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by icehawk219 12y ago
I didn't realize that. My only exposure to weather reports at this point is actually just going to weather.gov and saying "ok, might get snow, I'll go the store tonight instead of tomorrow". And stuff like this is precis
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by icehawk219 12y ago
The "play up the fear" stuff around weather reporting in recent years is why I've given up even attempting to use weather forecasts from anywhere but weather.gov which is sourced directly from The National Weather Service and
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by icehawk219 12y ago
> Writing was art for a long part of human history but it's not anymore. Same is going to be true for programming. While I want to believe this is true, at least here in the US, I have trouble accepting it. Primarily because so few
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by icehawk219 12y ago
As well as your average customer. Your average customer couldn't care less about the maintainability, testability, or cleanliness of the code. They care about getting the features they asked for within the time frame they were promised
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by icehawk219 12y ago
> Perhaps it's because the enormous scientific illiteracy afflicting the populace as a whole (which can be observed simply by reading any popular journalistic account of scientific developments) places scientific developments and sc
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by icehawk219 12y ago
At least in the US it seems like the definition of "pornography" has become, or is increasingly becoming, "nudity".
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by icehawk219 12y ago
Somehow I foresee Microsoft trying to rush out a security patch to a hugely complicated piece of software so it can be distributed to hundreds of millions of devices running countless hardware configurations just to appease Google ending ve
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by icehawk219 12y ago
I've become extremely disillusioned with US Politics and I find it hard to not be apathetic about it no matter how much I don't want to be. It seems like everyone treats it as a big game. Just look at the landscape and how its imp
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by icehawk219 12y ago
Comments sections on some sites have had the regular "way to waste money ..." types of comments but that's hardly indicative of the nation as a whole. The reason I believe it will run up against a lot of opposition is because
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by icehawk219 12y ago
The cynic in me thinks that's the entire point. Things like this an the free community college are great but he has to be going into it with confidence that it'll never happen under the current climate. For the community college p
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by icehawk219 12y ago
> HOW: This will be a simple switch – turn off CodePlex, turn on GitHub. You’ll be able to see our check-ins on GitHub that same day. It's probably a safe bet that CodePlex's days are numbered. Which is kind of a shame. It was
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by icehawk219 12y ago
I'd actually argue it is possible to log too much if you aren't using good tools to make your logs easily searchable. Which is why you should use such tools if at all possible. Otherwise the logs can become so big that finding t
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by icehawk219 12y ago
> Backups - Take regular backups of all user data. It's also VERY important that you actually try restoring the data as well, as it's quite possible that backups are not occurring properly. The part about testing your backups i
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by icehawk219 12y ago
I largely agree with most of the points in this article but personally there's one thing that drives me up the wall that every company I've worked at has gotten wrong. The author hints at "mandatory fun" with regards to
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by icehawk219 12y ago
The wiki is just a Git repository so you could just clone that and then do what you need to with it. Once it's cloned locally I'd imagine it's fairly straight forward to either manually copy it to something else or use an API
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by icehawk219 12y ago
Thanks for the info, those two will be very helpful.
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by icehawk219 12y ago
Out of curiosity what tools do you use for profiling and finding these sorts of things? Plain old xdebug, xhprof, or other things? I'm going to have to jump into debugging a fairly large Symfony application within the next couple month
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by icehawk219 12y ago
I've had one of these 23andMe kits sitting at home for a while now. I find the information they can give you very interesting and I'm curious to do it. But part of me can't overcome the fear of this data sitting around on a c
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by icehawk219 12y ago
That's how people pay for Google Docs and all of Google's products and they seem to be perfectly OK with it. As long as the perceived price is $0 they're happy and don't really care what the real price is for things. Ign
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by icehawk219 12y ago
This is awesome but the pictures of the rover with the penguin chick on it got me wandering. Do animals, in this case penguins specifically, have their own version of the Uncanny Valley [0]? For an animal that does I'd imagine that thi
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by icehawk219 12y ago
I'm with you on the tactile experience. I read a lot and have tons of books piling up around my condo. I've bought multiple e-readers and have an iPad but whenever I try to use them to replace physical books I just can't do i
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by icehawk219 12y ago
If it's raised for everyone one that's just not true. For the very poor even a small increase in their bills could have huge implications that you and I just can't appreciate. And they're the ones who can't necessar
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by icehawk219 12y ago
Thank you for the correction. I'm in NJ and remember my instructor going out of his way to mention that it was illegal to be in the intersection when red. However upon investigation I can't actually find anything to back this up n
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> I think when the kids of 2150 sit down in history class to study the 20th century, they'll laugh at the idea that every family invested significant money into 1-2 expensive hunks of steel for transportation. We fling these big dir
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by icehawk219 12y ago
The US has the same thing the problem is it's not always followed. Many drivers don't view the amber/yellow light as "I should stop now" but rather view it as "I better speed up so I don't get stuck at the
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Usually the key is being able to find people who share your vision and are able to execute it without you needing to micromanage or devote a huge chunk of your time to that one venture. I'd argue that if that's how he's done
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by icehawk219 12y ago
What was supposed to be PHP 6 got turned into 5.5 after their attempt at unicode support went south. So now a bunch of folks want the next major version to be named PHP 7 on the basis that the name "PHP 6" has been tarnished. As a

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