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811.
Could BitTorrent create the first popular distributed social network?(blog.martinemde.com)
3 points by jarin 15y ago|1 comments
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by jarin 15y ago
I got the same thing, but enabling Web Audio in about:flags fixed it.
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by jarin 15y ago
While I don't doubt that CEOs work a lot, I wouldn't trust the accuracy of this study all that much. The CEOs knew their activity was being recorded by their assistants, so it likely affected their behavior. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ha
814.
by jarin 15y ago
It's crazy, I've gone rock bottom and offered a one-page redesign for $500 (for a restaurant whose site was just a logo and a link to a PDF of their menu), and it's still like pulling teeth. I understand that they're very cash-conscious (my
815.
by jarin 15y ago
This is fantastic, I was just looking for a way to turn incoming emails into Resque jobs for a weekend project without having to mess with postfix mail filters, and I was just about to resort to paying for SendGrid.
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by jarin 15y ago
Every time I go to a restaurant that's practically empty, I check the website on my phone and it's always really bad (busy restaurants usually have at least a decent site). The worst part is I often offer to do a redesign for a modest price
817.
by jarin 15y ago
Looks very nice, I like being able to design your hosted payment page. Does the "thank you page" redirect pass along enough information to be able to associate the subscription with a user account? Also, do you plan to do some kind of URL p
818.
by jarin 15y ago
I anticipate a lot of luddite rage and probably a good number of accidents (and maybe even a few deaths), but we're not going to get to The Future by just wishing it so.
819.
by jarin 15y ago
Well, that's what we have git rebase for.
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by jarin 15y ago
Somehow I think he'll be alright, especially compared to Bradley Manning.
821.
3Crowd launches "build your own CDN"(techcrunch.com)
2 points by jarin 15y ago|0 comments
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by jarin 15y ago
How many people REALLY use video chat though? I mean more than once a year. Even among techies and businesspeople, video chat rarely seems to have an advantage over regular voice chat.
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by jarin 15y ago
I'm not sure I buy the "government banned this to promote consumerism" argument, but I'm definitely interested in trying it out as an experiment.
824.
by jarin 15y ago
Original paper: http://www.simulation-argument.com/simulation.html "This paper argues that at least one of the following propositions is true: (1) the human species is very likely to go extinct before reaching a “posthuman” stage; (2) any
825.
You’re living in a computer simulation, and math proves it(io9.com)
2 points by jarin 15y ago|4 comments
826.
by jarin 15y ago
If remembering attribute names is your concern, you can use an IDE or vim plugin for autocomplete, or just use annotated_models to add/update the schema down at the bottom of your model files on every db:migrate: https://github.com/opentea
827.
by jarin 15y ago
seeds.rb isn't intended to be run more than once on a particular database instance. Running it more than once results in duplicate entries, unless you're explicitly checking for dupes (not always possible). It looks like seedbank is fairly
828.
by jarin 15y ago
Mission failed.
829.
by jarin 15y ago
"Again we're running into the geeks-trying-to-understand-the-law problem -- they always expect the law to be as sensible and self-consistent as geometry." Well, there's only one solution then—we need to get more geeks in office. Edit: Real
830.
by jarin 15y ago
By that argument, EVE Online's PLEX should be illegal as well, as it is transferrable and exchangeable for something of monetary value (a subscription).
831.
by jarin 15y ago
Of course, they failed to mention that Seth Meyers' joke was likely prompted by the hilarious South Park episode about it 3 days prior.
832.
by jarin 15y ago
Ah, ok I misunderstood what I read.
833.
by jarin 15y ago
Every Rails developer makes that mistake once (well, hopefully not more than once). What I'd really like to see next is a way to version seeds.rb.
834.
by jarin 15y ago
"A brain chemical called dopamine may help encode what counts as relevant information in the human brain, researchers say." I think the theory is that a lack of dopamine is what causes schizophrenia, by making it harder for the brain to det
835.
by jarin 15y ago
I've downloaded and converted the PDFs to .mobi so I can read them on my Kindle.
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by jarin 15y ago
Interestingly enough, this seems to also explain why schizophrenics tend to self-medicate with cigarettes and why smoking tends to increase focus in non-schizophrenics (nicotine increases dopamine levels in the brain). Edit: I misunderstoo
837.
by jarin 15y ago
I would argue that manipulating your database schema is creative work.
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by jarin 15y ago
I've been getting hit up by companies lately, and it's been a little bit of a put-off for me when they say things like that. Not because I think it's something bad for a company to want, but because I suffer from Impostor Syndrome sometimes
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by jarin 15y ago
Well, yeah I totally agree. I didn't want to start a flame war :)
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by jarin 15y ago
That probably won't happen (anytime soon at least), because Rails takes the approach of generating your model attributes based on the table fields, not Django's (equally valid) approach of declaring the model attributes on the model and the

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