jburwell

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by jburwell 14y ago
1. iTerm2 is great. I haven't used the Mac terminal since it became available. Thought I will say that I have never experienced any performance problems with either. iTerm 2 just has a richer feature set. 2. Say hello to the homebrew ( h
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by jburwell 14y ago
Amen. To borrow a quote from Alton Brown, "I hate unitaskers." -- applies to apps, as well as, kitchen tools.
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by jburwell 14y ago
There seems to be a disconnect between the TOS and this statement. If/when it comes down to brass tacks, a legal agreement between the Instagram and its users trumps a blog post about intentions. Talk is cheap -- codify the intentions exp
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by jburwell 14y ago
Since they use the FreeBSD userland, it seems appropriate for Apple to kick in a little cash to the FreeBSD Foundation. The remaining ~$150k is an utter bargain considering how important those pieces are to iOS and Mac OS X ...
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by jburwell 14y ago
And this is a problem? Hopefully these potential law school candidates have found more productive avenues to devote their professional lives.
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by jburwell 14y ago
All source is available for RHEL -- hence the existence of nearly identical clones CentOS ( http://www.centos.org ) and Scientific Linux ( https://www.scientificlinux.org/ ). The only differences for the clones being the removal of tradema
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The Emerging New Orleans Startup Scene(cnn.com)
1 points by jburwell 14y ago|0 comments
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by jburwell 14y ago
How is Homebrew any different from than apt? Both are package managers. Neither OS provides all of the tools a dev needs, so regardless of your OS choice, you will using a package manager to acquire your complete toolset. So, why do you
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by jburwell 14y ago
Thanks to the _Social Network_, they shall forever be known as the Winklevi to me ...
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by jburwell 14y ago
This sentiment is dogma from long ago when there was a slight performance improvement for individual imports. Today, there is no such performance advantage. Their risk of a namespace collision, but in practice, it is very rare and very ea
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Congress meddling with government open source(m.wired.com)
1 points by jburwell 14y ago|0 comments
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by jburwell 14y ago
This looks very interesting, but I didn't see a download or source link the page. How do you obtain a copy?
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by jburwell 15y ago
Based on the description you have provided, it sounds like you have psychological issues that need to be addressed. Before taking any action, I suggest you visit your campus health center. They typically offer free psychological counselin
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by jburwell 15y ago
Friends don't let friends do SOAP.
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by jburwell 15y ago
If you use Java at work and your company will pay for the certification and study materials, I would say take it. The exam itself is not very difficult nor does it require a tremendous amount of preparation. It's a checkbox item on a Java
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by jburwell 15y ago
Facebook was going to reinvent email, checking, local deals, etc. How many messages do get from facebook.com addresses? How often do you check into Facebook? What was the last coupon you bought from Facebook? Thought so. Until they re-
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by jburwell 15y ago
I would add that you also need to have a strong understanding of the Java Language Specification ( http://java.sun.com/docs/books/jls/third_edition/html/j3TOC.... ). Recently, aomeone tried to tell me that a non-synchronized static method
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by jburwell 15y ago
The author seems to miss the obvious point of why people don't "upgrade" to Windows 7 -- vastly increased hardware requirements. Many of the XP installations running today are on hardware that is either barely sufficient to run Windows 7,
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Microsoft Contributes to Samba(m.zdnet.com)
36 points by jburwell 15y ago|1 comments
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Spy Satellite Engineer's Top Secret Is Revealed(npr.org)
3 points by jburwell 15y ago|0 comments
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by jburwell 15y ago
I recommend graduating on-time with the CS Minor, taking the job you have in-hand, and then going back to part-time school for a CS Masters. The point of the CS Major is to get the first job which you have already landed. You should be l
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by jburwell 15y ago
Generally speaking, you should stop interviewing once you have accepted an offer. Your soon-to-be employer has moved from decided to give you job to planning how you will contribute to the company. It is extremely poor form to back out po
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by jburwell 15y ago
I work in a very stressful workplace with the same types of stress (e.g. constant changes in direction, client commitments made without checking with the staff who will deliver, etc). Unfortunately, the root cause of these problems lies wi
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by jburwell 15y ago
Two visi0naries lost in one week. Unfortunately, Dennis Ritchie's passing will not get the level of coverage of Steve Jobs, but he deserves it. Without his critical contributions, the UNIX core of Steve Jobs' great products could not exis
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by jburwell 15y ago
Wow. If this resignation is health-related, I wish him godspeed and the hope that he will be able to recover to spend time with his family and friends.
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by jburwell 16y ago
My simple response is, "Denial is a river in Egypt." Paul Graham is not an impartial observer in this debate. YC (and by extension him) are some of the loudest advocates for the current startup generation. Should a bubble burst around th
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Reliable & Repeatable Development Environments with Continuous Integration(drnicwilliams.com)
3 points by jburwell 16y ago|0 comments
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by jburwell 16y ago
I wish that this event would change Oracle's approach to open source projects. Sadly, I imagine Oracle's internal response is along the lines of, "Good riddance to those open source dweebs. Now, we can finally do it the Oracle way." Ther
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by jburwell 16y ago
Glad to see pure speculation making the front page. It's a sad commentary when you a few links to that vaunted journal Mac Rumors would vastly increase the credibility of a post. I am sure some would love to see a 15" MacBook Air and the
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by jburwell 16y ago
Yet another half-baked implentation of concept. Why in the world closures are limited to the SAM use case is beyond me. It's erasure all over again -- building a "general" purpose feature suited to one pratical use. It's no wonder that J

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