jerhinesmith

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by jerhinesmith 12y ago
I use a macbook air all day for work. I built my windows box when I was doing .NET development, but I've long since switched to ruby -- ideally I'd like to have both running the same OS (which I guess could be a flavor of linux,
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by jerhinesmith 12y ago
Me! I've been wanting to replace my Windows desktop machine for a year now, but I've been waiting for a refresh on the mac mini.
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by jerhinesmith 12y ago
I use it as online backup for my photos -- the dropbox app syncs them when I'm on wifi.
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by jerhinesmith 12y ago
That's actually a huge help. What I've also been looking for (and haven't been able to find) is a good guide on How to Tune your GC settings. Aman Gupta has gotten the closest so far* (I think), but I'd really love a s
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by jerhinesmith 12y ago
The "others can see info about me" is the value that I've landed on in my head. I don't recall ever getting a valuable message through the LinkedIn platform, but I will concede that there's possibly passive value
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by jerhinesmith 12y ago
Honest question for the engineers/programmers in here that are also on LinkedIn: Have you gotten any value from LinkedIn? I realized a few weeks ago that 1) I have a LinkedIn account, 2) I make semi-regular updates to my LinkedIn accou
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by jerhinesmith 12y ago
If you're on heroku (or similarly memory-constrained VPS), it's worth noting that 2.1+ can use significantly more memory. I've been collecting bookmarks on how to properly tune the GC environment variables in these situatio
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by jerhinesmith 12y ago
Could they be using tape drives? This wikipedia entry says limits of 35TB were achieved in 2011 and limits of 185TB were achieved in 2014. The 2011 achievement wasn't expected to be commercially available for 10 years. Would that al
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by jerhinesmith 12y ago
Oh wow, how did I miss that? I looked at sabre when I first started scraping, but the application process to just look at the APIs was exhausting. Thank you!
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by jerhinesmith 12y ago
Completely agreed on the "lag in technology" -- couple that with the fact that even if you do manage to book a flight as an affiliate, most providers only give you a flat fee (as opposed to hotel affiliates which tend to give a pe
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by jerhinesmith 12y ago
This is the first I've heard of Skyscanner, and they kind of get what I was going for, but I want more of a "set it and forget it" type of service -- something where I can enter in the closest airport and a list of cities I w
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by jerhinesmith 12y ago
That's because "Tom's" is possessive in this case. The possessive form of "it" is "its" (no apostrophe). The way I remember it: if you can substitute "his" or "hers" for "it
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by jerhinesmith 12y ago
Interesting. Thanks. From some brief reading on wikipedia, I wonder if they chose SDHC to avoid any (patent) issues with the exFAT file system. Kinda seems like a shame. 32 GB is quite a lot, but for HD video, it seems like it could fill
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by jerhinesmith 12y ago
Are there technical/practical limitations that prevent it from reading microSD cards above 32 GB? I'm mostly asking out of curiosity, as 64 GB seems fairly inexpensive on Amazon...
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by jerhinesmith 12y ago
A while ago, I had the idea of creating a travel site that catered to the group of people that enjoy traveling but aren't bound by time (i.e. I want to go to X, but I don't care when -- just show me the cheapest weekend for the ne
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Alibaba Invests $120M in Mobile Gaming Co. Kabam(blogs.wsj.com)
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by jerhinesmith 12y ago
Couldn't you easily accomplish the same thing via the ransack gem? https://github.com/activerecord-hackery/ransack/wiki/Basic-S...
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by jerhinesmith 12y ago
I came here to say the exact same thing. After having worked on/scaled an API that served >100k requests per minute, I feel I can say with some experience that defining your JSON in your model is a very bad idea. A classic example t
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by jerhinesmith 12y ago
When I look at the clean logo used in the survey, I think more paperclip or 'A'. When this was announced on their blog, however, a hand-drawn image was displayed prominently -- an image which looks significantly more like a &quot
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by jerhinesmith 12y ago
You'd have thought they'd stop doing that after the Github email embarrassment: https://github.com/blog/1440-github-enterprise-email-inciden...
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by jerhinesmith 12y ago
Is that true? I'm not being sarcastic -- I just have always generally assumed that maintenance was better performed "off-hours". Also, 1pm and 1am aren't the only options. 8am EDT would have been within the work day bu
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by jerhinesmith 12y ago
What I'd really love (and have looked for in the past) is a way to automatically push a song over to a specific spotify playlist every time I tag a song on shazam (thinking like an IFTTT recipe). It looks like that might be possible w
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by jerhinesmith 13y ago
Right, but Oakland != "The East Bay".
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by jerhinesmith 13y ago
I just finished Sandy Metz's book, and it is fantastic. Easily one of the best ruby books I've read; I can't recommend it enough.
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by jerhinesmith 13y ago
He passed away June 5, 2012. I had to double check, because I thought this was "new". Is there some significance that I'm missing that would put this back on the frontpage of HN?
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by jerhinesmith 13y ago
If it's anything like San Francisco, once word spreads that a gaming company is shuttering, there's pretty much a "land grab" from the other local companies for talent.
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by jerhinesmith 14y ago
I'm not the OP, but I don't think he was necessarily talking about the Google Reader API (rather just the service). If you're getting hung up on documented/undocumented APIs, pick any one of the deprecated examples from this list ( http://
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by jerhinesmith 14y ago
Most of the vulnerabilities you (likely) have been seeing are from code that's been a part of rails for a lot longer than the past few months. The spate of recent vulnerabilities has more to do with YAML in particular than with rails itself
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by jerhinesmith 14y ago
Oh, agreed. I use the tramontina one primarily for boiling pasta. I have a cast iron dutch oven for things that actually require a dutch oven.
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by jerhinesmith 14y ago
Agreed. In this case, it's not actually 8 pans, since they're including the lids in the count. It's actually two sauce pans, two saute pans, and a dutch oven - which is perfect for me.

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