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by jamie_ca 13y ago
> This avoids the biggest problem with fragile servers which is an agglomeration of config changes and ad-hoc installations over original setup scripts. The playbook becomes your server config documentation. If you're not careful, y
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by jamie_ca 13y ago
In Canada, for a homebuilt LSA-equivalent you need to have the aircraft inspected and first flight performed by someone certified by Nav Canada. And no way he's going to risk his life in-flight unless he's pretty damn sure your ai
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by jamie_ca 13y ago
You can buy a recent Quad City Challenger kit for much less than that, and even fully assembled by someone else you're looking in the $30k range http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quad_City_Challenger#cite_note-... I&#x
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by jamie_ca 13y ago
No loops because (as it's a game AI) it's meant to be called once per game tick, rather than as a driver. I didn't try continuations but it's possible you could get something like that to work. As a Rubyist for a decade
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by jamie_ca 13y ago
Do what biot suggested, invert the metric and say lower is better. "3.6% framework overhead" is immediately understandable.
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by jamie_ca 13y ago
"software distributed along with the licensed software" is to handle the case of distributing a CD with multiple software packages (shareware CD, or your typical linux install disc). The GPL says nothing about other software.
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by jamie_ca 13y ago
Avoid #2 at all costs. Nothing drives me away from games faster than "Please wait X time (or pay more money) before you can continue playing," whether it's a daily action limit, or some kind of "endurance" hack, or whatnot. You want people
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by jamie_ca 13y ago
Yep. My 5yo still alternates between "Minecraft" and "the Lego game."
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by jamie_ca 13y ago
The variant that I most miss is the partial completion on paths. With zsh I got into a habit of `cd c/s/b/<tab>` and having it expand to `cd code/sites/blog` so long as the tabbed path is unambiguous.
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by jamie_ca 13y ago
If you have a doorway adjacent to a hall, stand in the middle of the doorway and angle yourself slightly off parallel to the hall and do your jumps there. You make a lot of noise hopping in the middle of a room but (assuming a similar floor
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by jamie_ca 13y ago
> they'd have updated their commits to the current state of the codebase such that they could be cleanly applied. Yes! > If they had used a rebase strategy No.... Take your out-of-date branch, merge master into it, and clean it up _
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by jamie_ca 14y ago
Not to mention a couple of times an hour while listening to CBC Radio "It's now 9:12, or 18 to the hour in Newfoundland."
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by jamie_ca 14y ago
Agreed. I don't use a Kindle, but having a (optional, configurable) "Rate this book?" prompt when removing a book from my in-progress shelf would be very handy.
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by jamie_ca 14y ago
Yes. ebiester even spelled it out: > I am more than willing to pay. I just want to pay one person for everything. I want that integration. I want webmail. I want to be able to access it from my phone without issue. I'm in the same boat
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by jamie_ca 14y ago
As someone who worked on a Merb app fulltime for about 4 years (before merb 1.0 through to well after rails 3 released) it's more accurate to say that Rails got rearchitected with some of the good ideas Merb had on the backend. When the pla
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by jamie_ca 14y ago
> And, oh, whilst I'm at it, perhaps "Most Recent Streak" would be more motivating than "Current Streak" which I imagine would be at an awe-inspiring 0 for many of us way too often. Not to mention, give it a day of leeway. I pushed code
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by jamie_ca 14y ago
For at least one version of the Android style guides, that's supposed to be the standard for indicating "more menu options are available"
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by jamie_ca 14y ago
If you manage your own MP3 directory structure, and like to just drag and drop onto a player to queue stuff up, try http://voxapp.didgeroo.com/ I don't think it has a _lot_ of playlist support, but if you already have the m3u files it'll
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by jamie_ca 14y ago
At least he licensed them CC visibly - Here's the first section merged: http://dl.dropbox.com/u/1002031/Music%20Theory%20Fundamental...
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by jamie_ca 14y ago
The benefit to refinements is in preventing code conflicts from a shared namespace (like monkeypatching a core class). The downside is it becomes even _harder_ to figure out what code is being run just by reading it. Right now, you just hav
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by jamie_ca 14y ago
Rake::RemoteTask (a dependency of Vlad) defines a bunch of stuff on Kernel, including #role. For whatever reason, if an ActiveRecord model includes role as a property, things break in weird ways. Reasonably easy to work around by aliasing/u
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by jamie_ca 14y ago
I've been running at 75 for the past few months, saves me from wasting _too_ much time here instead of working ;) I have noticed it's a bit quirky though - occasionally I'll have an article from a year or two ago show up on "my" front page.
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by jamie_ca 14y ago
Especially given how many games on GOG are old dos games that just run in DoxBOX and would be trivial to make bundled linux packages for... I've had great success installing dos-based GOG games through WineBottler ( http://wiki.winehq.org/W
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by jamie_ca 14y ago
Speaking of music, that'd be a reasonable approximation of an http://www.eigenlabs.com/ - and it wouldn't need a separate laptop to act as speakers :P
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by jamie_ca 14y ago
Also, assuming the site isn't brain-dead and invalidating the address, you can use email+site@gmail.com with any gmail or google apps address. That + is frequently a cause of contention though, so I use a . (which was done via config when I
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by jamie_ca 14y ago
I've been using fish exclusively for about 2 years, and the only thing I really missed was smart tab-completing multiple directories, like cd l/a/t/b<tab> completing to Library/Application\ Support/TextMate/Bundles even if there's a
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by jamie_ca 14y ago
The single feature I long for that I've never seen in any other editor is the tree view of open buffers. It's 100% outstanding. Alas, it's not enough to make me stick with it.
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by jamie_ca 14y ago
You can hit space bar or escape to flip through the quest dialog more quickly. There's only a few places where you also need to wait for an NPC to do something, but they're far enough between that it's not a huge issue.
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by jamie_ca 14y ago
The nominal exchange rate you see has only a passing resemblance to exchange rates charged by CC processors.
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by jamie_ca 15y ago
Squeak smalltalk (among others I'm sure) has had version control for quite a while in the form of http://wiresong.ca/monticello/

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