jmelloy

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by jmelloy 13y ago
My wife finds the FuelBand so ugly she almost finds it offensive. She's a pretty normal woman, and I'm not suggesting all women feel that way, but it bears reminding that anything worn on a wrist is actually a fashion accessory fo
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by jmelloy 13y ago
How secretive is something that Google trots whenever they want some goodwill? I think I've seen an "article" about Google X every six months for the last 3 years.
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by jmelloy 13y ago
$299 + $100 for Prime, actually. We use Amazon Fresh in Seattle for all of our groceries. There's no membership fee, and if they made me start paying $400/year for it, I'd never order again.
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by jmelloy 13y ago
Also, I think that iOS 7 has gotten mixed press. (Like it, hate it, not-quite-baked, etc) that it's worth making a big deal of 7.1.
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by jmelloy 13y ago
I think it's more likely that both were in the pipeline, and QA finished iOS 7.0.6 first - last week, and QA for 10.9.2 was slated to finish this week. So do you hold it or not? Is it more critical to have 4 days of protection, or 4 da
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by jmelloy 13y ago
So is the nook DRM.
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by jmelloy 13y ago
That's how my boss does it. He pretty much has a notebook with him at all times, and any item on his todo list gets a line and a checkbox. It serves him immensely well.
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by jmelloy 13y ago
Our Apple TV is the main way we watch TV, but frankly the channel options are a bit bizarre, and half of the interesting ones require a cable contract. It'd be nice if they put a stake in the ground for ESPN, Disney, HBO Go, etc and d
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by jmelloy 13y ago
They have a concept of an "ephemeral" volume, which is a disk mounted on the same rack. It goes away every time you reboot, but is useful for caching or file transfers, because it's the fastest disk you have access to. In d
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by jmelloy 13y ago
And has been getting worse. We've used them in Seattle for a couple years, and the prices keep going up and selection going down.
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by jmelloy 13y ago
There are two Walmarts in Bellevue, WA, which has one of the highest incomes per capita in the country. They import and sell cheap shit designed to break and be replaced and disguise it as value by citing low prices.
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by jmelloy 13y ago
I don't believe he would take any job where he wasn't programming.
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by jmelloy 13y ago
There's one in England that's mainly for tea kettles after major television events, like Eastenders. They're one of the power storage options that has the quickest ability to change their output.
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by jmelloy 13y ago
LinqPad isn't bad.
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by jmelloy 13y ago
If you're regularly doing 7 joins it's a good sign of an over normalized databased.
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by jmelloy 13y ago
Another good regional example is cities. Illinois signers have a specific sign for Chicago, for instance, whereas outside the state it's just finger spelled. Sign is incredibly conceptual and has a large spatial component. This is defi
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by jmelloy 13y ago
This is the iPad app I've wanted to build. Nice work.
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by jmelloy 13y ago
Why don't you just get a preloaded visa with $5 on it?
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by jmelloy 13y ago
I had this conversation with a friend a few days ago. He was like, "The 5S seems like what the 5 should've been." When I said something like, "The 5 upgraded the body style, the screen, the processor, and the camera, wh
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by jmelloy 13y ago
Detailed definitions of the chips they are making and the strategy/prioritizations they use while upgrading them?
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by jmelloy 13y ago
Where does the patching dashboard pull data from? Is it tracked by hand or is there a scanner? We use Orion at work, and it's got a decent amount of data in it, but is kind of kludgy and slow.
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by jmelloy 13y ago
We're doing an evaluation of a bunch at work, and we usually come down to: 1) most charge per server per month, making costs go up quickly 2) you don't own the data & the API May not exist or be wonky with implementation deta
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Best dev environment for a novice?
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by jmelloy 13y ago
I wouldn't expect people with python to necessarily have numpy, though.
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by jmelloy 13y ago
Since he hasn't mentioned it on DF, and the website is only a splash page, and it's the Friday before WWDC, I wonder if Macworld broke their press embargo early.
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by jmelloy 13y ago
It seems to error out. select name, count(*) from queries having count(*) > 1 Column 'queries.name' is invalid in the select list because it is not contained in either an aggregate function or the GROUP BY clause.
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by jmelloy 13y ago
A few years ago I wrote a sudoku solver using the Knuth Dancing Limks algorithm. It's kind of a fun project, and I included an option to output the board as it recurses. http://cavernum.net/dlsudoku/
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by jmelloy 13y ago
If you live in a city, Zipcar is great for this.
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by jmelloy 13y ago
I get about 2x speedup on my CSV reader & processing app, which is nice. When I tried the beta, it was crashy, but 2.0 seems pretty good so far.
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by jmelloy 13y ago
I can't stand the XMLTable syntax. I like the idea of turning an xpath expression into a result set, but in practice it's a massive pain in the ass.

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