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by jewel 12y ago
As an old habit before I knew about "paste" mode in vim, I transcribe code instead of using copy and paste. This allows me to make adjustments to the variable names and other stylistic changes, and also gives me a better chance o
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by jewel 12y ago
I'm working on a photo organizer for my family's photos which has about 115K entries. I want all of these to be visible in a single pane, so I implemented what I call "near-infinite scrolling". It could also be called
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by jewel 12y ago
This article addresses one problem with technical debt, the idea that one day the debt will "come due" and you'll have to fix some latent problem in a hurry and very painfully. While that can happen, a lot of the time you ca
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by jewel 12y ago
I imagine that Slack's founder, who was formerly co-founder of Flickr, is experienced enough that he could avoid a lot of the pitfalls of raising too much money such as losing control of the board. Since this isn't to add runway,
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by jewel 12y ago
Can someone with more experience comment on the terms of the investment itself? Why would people invest in this company if they haven't even begun to spend the $120M of their series D money yet? For those of us outside of Silicon Vall
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by jewel 12y ago
I have a Nexus 5 with their wireless charger, and it makes a huge difference for me. Their charger is magnetic so the phone snaps into the correct location. In my case it's on my nightstand next to my bed. The ability to "plug
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by jewel 12y ago
Note that this means that there's no longer a pressing need to consolidate multiple javascript files into one file, likewise with CSS files. Icon sprites aren't necessary either. There are still some gains from combining the file
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by jewel 12y ago
It's surprising. They say that they are using the hardware AES support in the CPU too. They do mention that they are no longer able to take advantage of sendfile() which was letting the bulk of the data transfer to happen completely
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by jewel 12y ago
How so? I'm glad to trade 15% of my pay check in order to work 15% less hours. As a salaried employee I wouldn't have had the option. It's kind of like having 10 weeks of vacation instead of 3.
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by jewel 12y ago
I had a few computer science theory classes where we never wrote any code. Algorithms can be worked out on pencil and paper. Imagine, for example, trying out different sorting algorithms by using twenty different strips of paper of all di
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by jewel 12y ago
I imagine for safety reasons the car won't shut off just because it's out of range. If it did it'd certainly solve this problem. In any case, they'd just drive it to the chop shop.
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by jewel 12y ago
Github was bootstrapped from 2008 until finally taking $100M in 2012. I don't think they needed the money, so they probably got it on really good terms. I don't think the investors have much sway in daily affairs nor control of
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by jewel 12y ago
This is why I've negotiated for hourly pay at all of the jobs I've had so far. I feel like this is the most fair way to pay programmers. There is always an infinite list of work to do, so there's always pressure to work more
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by jewel 12y ago
Lightning can be detected from thousands of miles away. See http://www.blitzortung.org/Webpages/index.php?lang=en&page_0... . Turn on "detectors" on the right to see the distances involved. That site wor
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by jewel 12y ago
That's certainly the right thinking for consumers. In my client's case it was B2B in the entertainment industry where licensing fees were per-day and substantial, so there are no poor students involved. Sorry for being vague as
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by jewel 12y ago
I looked into stenography for a client who had a problem with audio being leaked by the users of his service. Even though there is a lot less signal in audio, it was trivial to encode a 32-bit pattern throughout the audio track in such a w
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by jewel 12y ago
Sorry if I'm missing something obvious, but how do these locks stop a deadlock from happening? To explain, say that I have some code that locks A, then locks B, then does something, and another bit of code that locks B, then locks A,
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by jewel 12y ago
Hi! Yes, I should have clarified, that's exactly what the treaty was about. In the novel the "pilots" aren't given any command of the plane at all, it is computer controlled with the objectives transmitted from central
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by jewel 12y ago
I'm writing a sci-fi novel about a future war between Canada and the United States which mostly takes place between their fighter planes. For plot reasons all planes are required to have a human pilot (as per international treaty), bu
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by jewel 12y ago
The "filter-by-filetype" approach used here is going to work a lot better for mixed-content repositories than git-annex, which doesn't have that capability built-in (to my knowledge). git-annex has been great for my photo col
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by jewel 12y ago
I believe what they are saying is that they looked at historical security updates and saw what percentage of them would have applied. Because it has less code, there are security updates that wouldn't have been relevant. That seems li
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by jewel 12y ago
> I haven't tried it, but I've looked at it. I think it adds too much complexity. Who decides which files go on the annex and which don't? Doesn't seem like an automated great solution for a scale-able team. I would p
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by jewel 12y ago
Use `whois` to see who controls the IP address and then contact them. As others have noted, you won't be able to route a single address differently, so your best bet would be to host with the controlling entity. For example, lets say
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by jewel 12y ago
Have you tried git-annex? It handles large files really well and is as close to git-like as you can get. :)
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by jewel 12y ago
As the article states, general advice won't apply to every situation, but I'd advise any startup that generates revenue to consider that their last round of funding is going to be their last. The startups that don't generate
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by jewel 12y ago
This would be an easy text-transformation that you could do in vim. Upon opening the file, translate all dashes without spaces "foo-bar" to add spaces "foo - bar". Then convert all underscores to dashes. "foo_bar
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by jewel 12y ago
> ... I would hate to have to re-burn 233 DVDs... Burning 233 DVDs is easy if you have the right equipment. At my workplace we used to use units from rimage.com and now use units from microboards.com. The units have built-in inkjet pri
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by jewel 12y ago
If you don't want this to happen to your startup, register for a trademark. Since both the twitter program and this analytics ones are apps in the same app stores, I imagine that trademark protection would be broad enough. Twitter&#x
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by jewel 12y ago
I've had this as my startup idea for at least four years now. I'd build a web-based database product that would fit in google apps with the intention of getting bought by google and integrated into google apps. Even if I didn&#x2
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by jewel 12y ago
48.2% of bodies in the US are cremated now, but it varies significantly by state. The NFDA predicts that it will be up to 70% by 2030. http://nfda.org/about-funeral-service-/trends-and-statistics...

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