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by jerhinesmith 14y ago
Just a note about the pots and pans. All-Clad is nice, but also very expensive. After seeing a few recommendations on reddit, I picked up a Tramontina set from walmart.com (weird, I know). I love them. They're stainless steel, high qual
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by jerhinesmith 14y ago
As a sometimes developer of web applications, relative dates nicely (for me) solve the problem of timezones. "10:42 PM - 15 Aug 12" means nothing without the relevant timezone information. "30 minutes ago" is timezone agnostic. For non-co
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by jerhinesmith 14y ago
I've wanted to try zsh for a long time now, but I worry about the mental context switching I'll have to do when developing locally and then ssh'ing into another server to perform other tasks (servers, I should add, where I can't install zsh
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by jerhinesmith 14y ago
No, they're talking about the desktop OS. Look about 2 or 3 levels up and you'll see the context is fragmentation between XP, Vista, and 7.
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by jerhinesmith 15y ago
Mine didn't have "phone" capabilities, but the Compaq iPAQs resemble the iPhone. This is pretty close to the one I owned around 2002: http://img.tomshardware.com/us/2002/04/04/comparison_of_six_...
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by jerhinesmith 15y ago
I'm interested to see where this goes next. I feel like Airbrake hasn't gotten much love lately, and there are multiple times during the day where the response times are abysmal. Here's hoping the new stewardship brings some better archite
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2012 Super Bowl Squares Odds(caseyshead.com)
3 points by jerhinesmith 15y ago|0 comments
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by jerhinesmith 15y ago
I was with them up until the quote at the end. At best, it's disputed[1]. It's strange how one small oversight took the wind of the entire argument's sail (so to speak). [1] http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Mohandas_Karamchand_Gandhi#Disp...
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by jerhinesmith 15y ago
After reading through this article, I immediately went to google maps to see if they had any street-level views of the town. Thankfully, they do. From them, and the satellite views, you can see both the chat (I'm guessing that's what thos
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by jerhinesmith 15y ago
"Every branch we push has tests run on it and reported into the chat room, so if you haven’t run them locally, you can simply push to a topic branch (even a branch with a single commit) on the server and wait for Jenkins to tell you if it p
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by jerhinesmith 15y ago
Yeah, I read this and immediately thought of the terminal in OSX. Sure, there's a full unix environment beneath it all, and the people that want it (in most cases, developers) can use it. But, you can definitely use OSX, be willfully igno
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by jerhinesmith 15y ago
This is probably off-topic, but after the fuss that was raised about the staleness of the english Ruby site ( http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2839580 ), why does ruby-forum.com still look terrible ? The bottom of this page even has a "
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by jerhinesmith 15y ago
Definitely a combination of html, flash, etc. These aren't games developed by Google -- rather games running on Google's platform (similar to Facebook games).
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by jerhinesmith 15y ago
I wonder how many people now live close enough to a Redbox location that dropping the Netflix DVD service and going streaming + Redbox ends up being cheaper and affording of more DVDs/month.
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by jerhinesmith 15y ago
I'm all for speed improvements, feature parity, etc., but my question is why has it taken a (somewhat) radical change to versioning/release-schedules to realize these performance improvements? If these latest benchmarks hold up, then Mozill
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by jerhinesmith 15y ago
The article did mention this: Customers currently under contract won't be affected by the changes, but new and renewing customers will likely have to accept the new, tiered plans.
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Verizon to end unlimited data option(money.cnn.com)
18 points by jerhinesmith 15y ago|20 comments
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by jerhinesmith 15y ago
Ah, yes, that makes sense. I was considering the case where the attacker simply wants access to your account on 'compromised system x' -- not where they're simply using 'compromised system x' as a conduit for obtaining your password (in the
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by jerhinesmith 15y ago
Nobody said their customer support rep would be the one doing the decrypting. All it would take is an 'email the user their password' function in the app that decrypts the password and sends out the email. I think you're misunderstanding t
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by jerhinesmith 15y ago
How is that different than most systems that do hash your password and then email you a reset link? The process is slightly different, but the results would be the same. Am I missing something?
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by jerhinesmith 16y ago
Yeah, that's the same thing I was thinking. It seems like you could do payments through PayPal, but I'd rather not get stuck keeping track of all compensation paid and providing the requisite tax forms at the end of the year -- it's just t
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Ask HN: How to pay your users?
2 points by jerhinesmith 16y ago|2 comments
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by jerhinesmith 16y ago
This is more or less me thinking out loud, but why allow upvoting for new users and not downvoting? Does it not make sense to have a barrier to entry for each? Maybe the ability to upvote only happens after you've been here for 3 months a
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A Practical Guide To Varnish - Why Varnish Matters(highscalability.com)
9 points by jerhinesmith 16y ago|4 comments
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by jerhinesmith 16y ago
I wonder how much of that is due to the popularity of the language and how much is due to other publishers. I have 4 Ruby books, 3 of them are from the Pragmatic Bookshelf and the other is O'Reilly. For C# stuff, I'd probably start with O
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Ask HN: Internal Networking at a Lean Startup
2 points by jerhinesmith 16y ago|0 comments
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by jerhinesmith 16y ago
I'm not sure using a fictional computer is helping your argument.
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by jerhinesmith 16y ago
I was wondering the same thing. I've used Linode in the past and been very happy, but I also feel like I have a lot to learn when it comes to "proper" server administration. Does MediaTemple alleviate any of that (ala Heroku)? Or is it j
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Matt Cutts: My thoughts on this week’s debate(mattcutts.com)
2 points by jerhinesmith 16y ago|0 comments
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by jerhinesmith 16y ago
Yep. "Invalid request."

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