jeffbr13

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by jeffbr13 12y ago
+1 on this. If you were hiring, you probably wouldn't choose someone who describes themselves as a novice. Don't focus on your lack of experience, but your other attributes.
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by jeffbr13 12y ago
One of the reasons I love programming in Python so much is the focus on idiomatic code and 'one obvious way to do something' means that unfamiliar codebases or APIs are easier to read, and patterns for common tasks are seen again
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by jeffbr13 12y ago
Touché
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by jeffbr13 12y ago
I've not used Docker before, so this is all postulation: Dockerfiles don't look great for complex software setup processes, being just a list of commands to run on the machine. We already have provisioning tools which attempt to s
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by jeffbr13 12y ago
You're right that "log in" is more distinct from "sign up" (and works because "logging up" doesn't make much sense), and I definitely agree with you that 'login' is a noun, if anything! Both
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by jeffbr13 12y ago
Like the author, I frequently get hung up on which of "log in", "sign in", or any of their variants is 'more correct' every time I put together software with users. "Authenticate" might be the most co
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by jeffbr13 12y ago
Not an expert, but one solution is to have an Nginx configuration file for each website in `/etc/sites-enabled`, which matches requests based on the `server_name` parameter. Then you can reverse-proxy requests to the right locatio
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by jeffbr13 12y ago
I currently have an ansible script which can set up a web-service on any Debian/Ubuntu box, and can be invoked 1) over SSH, or 2) by Vagrant when provisioning a VM. Docker, on the other hand, provisions it's containers from a rath
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by jeffbr13 12y ago
Can anyone vouch for any similar services in Europe (specifically in the UK)? I change address fairly regularly, as a student, and it'd be great if I could cut out paper mail entirely.
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by jeffbr13 12y ago
I wonder why Outbox didn't go this route? If USPS declined to honour re-routing rules to Outbox, then why not just give customers an 'address' at an Outbox depot? USPS would have no choice but to deliver to Outbox (with no ot
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by jeffbr13 12y ago
Similarly, your rep on one StackExchange site doesn't follow you around to all the other sites, because it's not really relevant.
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by jeffbr13 12y ago
> "EDM" might sound stupid, but its widely accepted terminology Sure, it's widely-accepted terminology in the US or by people who are disinterested enough to label all electronic music as "EDM". It's also st
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It does according to Wikipedia, although "Binary data must be first base64 encoded before it can be transmitted in-band", making it inefficient[1]. XMPP's based on XML anyway, so implementing inline media and extra features s
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by jeffbr13 12y ago
I don't understand why even most of the open-source projects aren't using a modern standard like XMPP, and simply focusing on the UX. Is there a technical reason for it? Is XMPP broken in some way? Or is the chat space simply full
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by jeffbr13 13y ago
All this sounds great, and I've considered doing the whole quantified self thing, but aside from a massive helping of motivation, how do you go about keeping track of all the data? Are there any good data-entry applications, or do you
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by jeffbr13 13y ago
True, but I think that I parse "performance-enhancing" as being to do with immediate on-the-job performance. If we're talking about the benefits of a drug for any purpose though, you could put recreational use under (3) and m
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by jeffbr13 13y ago
I've been using nicotine on-and-off, after reading up on Gwern's self-experimentation[1], in order to moderate my caffeine dependency. I would probably use other chemicals, if the cost-benefit balance was good enough: 1. Easy to a
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by jeffbr13 13y ago
I think the difference might be this, in undergraduate degrees: * Mathematics is entirely about proving arguments and solving problems within logical systems. * The 'hard sciences' (esp. physics) are about working within a theor
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by jeffbr13 13y ago
Applied projects and practicals are more along the 'working with lathes' line, forcing you to practice what you've learned. "Critical Thinking" (and its development) is perhaps more nebulous, but I imagine that it c
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by jeffbr13 13y ago
Awesome, cheers!
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by jeffbr13 13y ago
> Let's not forget that "programming" runs the whole gamut from embedded systems programming in assembly all the way to very high level theorem proving in Coq and understanding anything about the nature of that entire spec
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by jeffbr13 13y ago
I love Chris Granger's work, and LightTable, but jeeez my eyes were going weird by the "Chasing Local Maxima" section. Turn the contrast down!
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by jeffbr13 13y ago
Interesting, was this a primary or a secondary school? I ask because teachers in secondary schools seem to be under much more pressure to ensure their students pass standardised exams to enter higher education, whereas there's much mor
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by jeffbr13 13y ago
As you say in your post, PKSs already associate your public key with your email address as a unique identifier. But there are two points here: 1. Limiting identifiers to email addresses isn't that great a solution. Email is less popula
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by jeffbr13 13y ago
If you're managing dotfiles with Make (which I attempted once...) then may I direct you to GNU Stow instead? It's much easier to manage a bunch of files centrally and just symlink to them all: http://brandon.invergo.net
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by jeffbr13 13y ago
They've used Grunt for builds for a while now[0]. It seems most of the twitter-style web developer community who happily replaced `make` with `rake` when developing for Rails simply followed that with `grunt` when they moved to JavaScr
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by jeffbr13 13y ago
Exactly, Scotland (and most other parts of the UK) won't ever get as much attention in Westminster as the South-East of England, and our parliamentary representatives are that much further away from us. You could say that your vote&#x2
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by jeffbr13 13y ago
Can't beat the local delicacy of salt'n'sauce on your chips here in Edinburgh!
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by jeffbr13 13y ago
Oh come on, Scottish Nationalism ≠ Nazi-ism/EDL-ism Scotland's "Nationalism" is about gaining independence and actually becoming a nation, not about violent and misguided idealism. In fact, Alex Salmond (leader of the Sc
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by jeffbr13 13y ago
Replied to a node above ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7415728 ), but you can usually find out who's hiring by just turning up to the monthly Tech Meetup[0] - it's pretty active here in Edinburgh. [0]: http

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