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by j-kidd 14y ago
Where I work, the channel manager was given one of the two offices, and she makes sales calls all day, while leaving the door open.
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by j-kidd 14y ago
What Python package you tried to install that comes with "Unix dependency"? I have 163 packages in my local pypi, and they work fine on Linux, Windows, and OS X.
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by j-kidd 14y ago
> The past couple of years have seen findings, that, taken together, suggest that we should embrace coffee for reasons beyond the benefits of caffeine, and that we might go so far as to consider it a nutrient. That's the gist of the art
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by j-kidd 14y ago
If you do not telecommute, you may want to set an end time to beat the rush hours traffic. One of the many reasons why it is unproductive to work in an office.
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by j-kidd 14y ago
When the existing code base is at least functional, then of course, a big rewrite is not warranted. However, some of us are not as lucky. The situation is often such that the existing code base is full of bugs that it can cause a ton of sup
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by j-kidd 14y ago
The article is about coffee, not caffeine.
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by j-kidd 14y ago
Wow! I didn't know there is readline support for cmd.exe. This is great.
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by j-kidd 14y ago
Kinda weird that the author mentions Ctrl-R but not readline. History searching actually works for everything that supports readline, e.g. bash, ipython, psql, henplus, etc, although personally I use page-up / page-down with: "\e[5~":
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by j-kidd 14y ago
How about Komodo IDE / Komodo Edit, which are XUL-based applications? Many users do value a good cross-platform application.
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by j-kidd 14y ago
Agree on all points. Timestamp is really no better than sequence number, and can cause bigger WTF moments with its automated "conflict resolution". So, forget about timestamp and sequence number. GUID is the way to go: http://alembic.readt
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by j-kidd 14y ago
Ironically, this Guix thing would be perfect... for Windows. Right now, I have to maintain my own list of GnuWin32 installers (wget coreutils cygutils diffutils findutils grep gzip less patch sed tar unzip) retrieved from sf.net, with a 30
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by j-kidd 14y ago
Get off the high horse. I am sure most people here experienced the "passionate" phase you mentioned. The problem arises when the passion fades, and you look back at the code with a clear head and realized how shitty they are.
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by j-kidd 14y ago
> First, unexpected arguments are immediately caught since they throw a TypeError. > Without this, you either have to manually check for unexpected keys (probably doing a set difference with `allowed_keys` or something) or you just
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by j-kidd 14y ago
Come on, Homebrew doesn't even have gcc. I am not a Mac user, but a designer using MacBook joined our team last week, and we struggled for half a day with Homebrew. The next day, we installed MacPorts instead, and with just: $ sudo port ins
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by j-kidd 14y ago
This workflow only needs one extra step: treat master (git) / default (hg) as the unstable branch, and have a stable branch for stable release. There, 2 branches with simple CI setup and low cognitive overhead, suitable for a small non-1337
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by j-kidd 14y ago
I always feel that Hammer was the one holding things back. This article kind of confirms that.
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by j-kidd 14y ago
Edis also does KVM.
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by j-kidd 14y ago
Edis is not what I will call "professional". I got a UK VPS and was given an IP config such that the default gateway is outside of the subnet, with no explanation given. After some rather heated exchange with William from Edis, where he: -
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by j-kidd 14y ago
You mean down/up navigation. Anyway, adding keyboard navigation directly to a web app (instead of as a browser extension) breaks the "do one thing and do it well" philosophy. This is why Google Chrome doesn't allow one to use Backspace to g
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by j-kidd 14y ago
I would counter that with computer gaming. Everyone who plays computer games growing up would be familiar with the keypad, the arrow keys, or WASD. In all cases, UP is always above DOWN. For this demographic, HJKL is just wrong. Computer ga
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by j-kidd 14y ago
May I ask what are the use cases for maps like that? I don't think I have ever needed one myself.
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by j-kidd 14y ago
Personally, I found that SQL Server documentation was written to tick the checkbox of "100% documentation coverage", while PostgreSQL documentation was written for human to find useful information.
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by j-kidd 14y ago
He lost me at "put in their hours at the gym" and Allen Iverson: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eGDBR2L5kzI
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by j-kidd 14y ago
The perpetual 2 months deadline is interesting. Is it because 1 month is definitely too short, while 3 months will invoke the wrath of Boss? I think a 2 months period hits the sweet spot where developers feel like they can get a lot done, w
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by j-kidd 14y ago
Probably because the PostgreSQL people value humility more than hype.
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by j-kidd 14y ago
PostgreSQL with sharding is called Postgres-XC.
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by j-kidd 14y ago
So, another pretty graph for Heroku, yet no comparison to alternatives due to the total architecture change. The numbers are useless for comparison purpose.
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by j-kidd 14y ago
You need good developers to tackle those interesting questions. There is no answer, because you can only rely on rule of thumb and you must know when to break the rule of thumb. PEP 8, on the other hand, is to get these good developers to a
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by j-kidd 14y ago
> The persistence scaling story for Heroku seems pretty questionable to me. Agree. Those people who tell horror stories about Heroku/EC2, usually give solid numbers, i.e. this was how much I spent, this is how much I save by moving away
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by j-kidd 14y ago
I have no experience with Redis or MongoDB, but your statement is only true if the storage layer is transient. Some of us use servers that don't go away upon shutdown, backed by a SAN.

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