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14y ago
The number of men went up?
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15y ago
There's an installer in the text of the page at http://g-off.github.com/Campfire/ https://github.com/downloads/g-Off/Campfire/Campfire.zip
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15y ago
A very important nugget of wisdom is at 27:18. In short: it's very useful to be creative w/ other people, but you have to be supportive even if you disagree. Don't tell people "no" or that they are wrong. Provide constructive redirection
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15y ago
While what he writes is true, most magazines are not innovating for tablets. Compare Nat Geo with Dwell: Nat Geo is pretty much an app (I get it through Zinio), the fonts are sized properly for readabilty, and there's a ton of interactive
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15y ago
http://www.cliffsnotes.com/study_guide/Euphemisms.topicArtic... http://clear-writing-with-mr-clarity.blogspot.com/2011/05/ge...
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15y ago
FWIW, a friend mentioned that disabling sync over wifi solved at least one major crashing issue. Link to tweet: https://twitter.com/#!/mmartel/status/169145796107833345
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15y ago
Worker rights in China are still in the early 1900s, or worse, their policies are feudal.
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15y ago
Spoiler: they don't make airships :(
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15y ago
I'll second the data structures class. This was the advice I received 20+ years ago.
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15y ago
Sadly, for baseball, this is far from the case :(
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15y ago
Denver, CO: iTriage - Improving the healthcare process and reducing costs. HIRING: Frontend UI, Android, Rails, and Devops A lot of major people in the healthcare industry are excited about what we are doing and where we are going. Being o
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15y ago
Probably historical, as CRTs are black by default and you could burn in a solid white background.
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15y ago
Is this what you are looking for? https://github.com/buymeasoda/soda-theme
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15y ago
The amount (and nesting) of flagged comments at the bottom of the article is both hilarious and depressing.
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15y ago
I'm curious if Dropbox will proactively adjust their capacity/pricing, or wait to react.
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15y ago
If anyone is like me, they try it out, decided it isn't ready for daily usage, and then forget about it. This replaces "Check for Updates" :-)
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15y ago
Agloves have been around for a while: http://www.agloves.com/ [edit] No relation, just a happy customer. Last Christmas I bought a whole bunch as presents for my family.
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15y ago
However, once you start writing ERB or HAML, or whatever, you're greatly reducing the involvement that designers can have in the process. If you're working on a traditional web site, that's potentially a bad thing. However, if you're makin
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15y ago
I've looked at H, H-Nueue, and Roboto at large sizes in FontBook, and frankly, I can't see an important difference. Sure, I can see the differences when I look for them, but they are pretty minor.
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15y ago
The main features Sublime Text 2 needs before I give them money (since I already have TM and Rubymine): - code navigation: The main reason I deal with rubymine cpu and memory hogging. - intellisense-ishness: The 2nd reason I deal with rubym
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15y ago
Worked great for Rome. Oh wait... Drat, Joshua Northey in the freakonomics comments already pointed that out.
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15y ago
Rob seems to have done a great job translating the python-ness to ruby-ness, but Zed did the hard work -- he created the approach and wording for Python. I haven't tried to compare them, but my interpretation of Zed's comments is that most
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15y ago
Fine is usually more than enough since fine is usually better than 90% of what's out there. I've been reviewing design shops for a site redesign and most of them not only have less-than-fine* websites, but their clients' websites are equal
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15y ago
Off topic, but Umberto Eco's novels in English are still written by Umberto Eco, regardless of the translator.
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15y ago
I laud his inititiative. If herding cats takes talent, herding documentation-averse cats must be even harder. Best to make an attempt, get buy in and feedback, and move forward. If the people at the top say "bugger off", oh well. If the
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15y ago
FWIW, I usually have between 10 and 30 tabs opened simultaneously and I'm usually pushing 1G ever since 4.0 rolled out. I may cycle 100-200 over a few hours and then have to restart to reclaim memory (only 4G). Similar usage with 3.x rarel
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15y ago
I use the same except my 2nd line has history id and time: 136 11:33:48 $ export PS1='\[\e[32m\]\u@\h \[\033[33m\]\w\[\033[00m\] $(__git_ps1 "(%s)") ${rvm_ruby_string}\n\# \[\033[31m\] \[\033[00m\]\t \\$ '
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15y ago
In my experience, you can grow and retain quality people with compensation, practices, and other incentives, but you won't make them passionate about their job this way. There's passion about what you do (passionate about their field, tools
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15y ago
Some sort of ML/Bayesian filtering to determine which items are duplicates and know which site I prefer getting my news from (e.g. engadget over slashgear.) I've been wanting to implement this into Vienna for years now, but time and OBJ-C k
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15y ago
That's great advice for anyone! I've seen it recommended by many to people wanting to get involved in OSS projects and build a name for themselves. I rarely watch videos, especially interviews, and I skimmed the summary, but based on the a
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