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by jimm 14y ago
Or New York, or perhaps Chicago, Boston or a few other places.
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by jimm 14y ago
I went to grooveshark.com and looked at the page for a few seconds. When I went to close the tab, a JavaScript popup asked me if I was sure that I wanted to "navigate away". Why, oh why does Grooveshark think that was useful, necessary, or
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by jimm 14y ago
The Brute Squad is a reference to The Princess Bride.
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by jimm 14y ago
Actually, we do. If you look closely you'll often see a line item on the final invoice for something like "advertising" or "promotion". Yup --- they make you pay for the advertising. I learned this years ago from a site that walked through
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by jimm 14y ago
Since it says "thanks to PoTe for fixing my terrible english" it sounds like English might not be the author's first language. Perhaps the impact of those words isn't as negative for the author. I think the article would have been better wi
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by jimm 14y ago
I already finished migrating off of my TD lifetime account and onto WebFaction. I don't see why I should put my sites back on TD. So I guess my TD lifetime account is a spare, for now. I'm sort of glad to hear they're doing the right thing,
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by jimm 14y ago
Yeah, I noticed that. I first heard of generational GC in association with Smalltalk VMs and I think that's where they made their debut.
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by jimm 14y ago
Verbing weirds language. -- Calvin
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by jimm 14y ago
I don't know, but typing that slowly means that there is a barrier between the thought and the deed. It like if you wrote a poem, then started speaking the letters one by one in Morse code --- and you refuse to learn Morse code so you have
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by jimm 14y ago
I've traced it down to font selection. When I change the font to a larger size (Monaco or Menlo) then the top of the contents of the frame is off the screen, "above" the Mac menu bar. Strangely, Courier New works correctly with larger font
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by jimm 14y ago
I had trouble with that release. I haven't tried any others yet (or tried compiling from source). The problem: after loading my init files ( https://github.com/jimm/elisp ) and loading a file there is something seriously wrong: the file isn
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by jimm 14y ago
Just added this to the CMS I'm building, as a quick-and-dirty way to let users select images. ActiveAdmin was listing every image name and the user had asked for a way to filter the list. Voila!
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by jimm 14y ago
Another reason I'm glad that I'm married (and faithful)!
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by jimm 14y ago
That's not the only answer it accepts. I'm stuck on "india". Edit: Got it. On to the next one.
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by jimm 14y ago
Okami did; it was immersive and beautiful. Search for "okami screen shots" on Google images (the URL is longer than this sentence, including this parenthetical statement).
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by jimm 14y ago
I wonder how much of Etsy's enlightened attitude is because CEO Chad Dickerson was until recently the CTO.
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by jimm 15y ago
I remember reading something similar 20 years ago or so: not that the specific background color mattered, but that a light background works better than dark, and that the contrast between the foreground/background matters (the higher the be
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by jimm 15y ago
source "http://rubygems.org" should be gem source "http://rubygems.org"
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by jimm 15y ago
I disagree: - Ruby object construction performance boost - Require performance improvements
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Scranton Stan...Our First Hacker Fan(blog.calltrunk.com)
1 points by jimm 15y ago|0 comments
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by jimm 15y ago
They are all in error. "(int)Math.random()" always returns 0 because Math.random() returns [0.0, 1.0) (i.e., does not include 1). Casting that return value to a int will always return 0.
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by jimm 15y ago
You missed something. Ruby can do the same thing.
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by jimm 15y ago
A pedantic correction: Rails runs its server on port 3000 by default; Ruby is the language Rails was written in.
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Dabble DB Shutting Down(blog.dabbledb.com)
3 points by jimm 16y ago|0 comments
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by jimm 16y ago
Science!
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by jimm 16y ago
I was in NYC at a breakfast meeting midtown (just south of Central Park). The restaurant manager interrupted our meeting to tell us that a plane had crashed into one of the towers. Two of the people at the meeting worked at Sun, which had a
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by jimm 16y ago
Three things: learning one editor (Emacs) really well, learning new languages that force me to think differently, and as am6100 said, writing a lot of programs.
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by jimm 16y ago
I'd say Clojure, but it runs on the JVM.
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by jimm 16y ago
I work in NYC and get calls from recruiters about Rails positions constantly. Rails is "hot" now. The rates mentioned elsewhere are in the ballpark; I'd say $75/hour if you're halfway decent. If you want to get plugged into the community an
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by jimm 16y ago
How about the opposite: browse the Web from within Emacs? http://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/emacs-w3m [Edit: link to W3M, not the older W3]

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