jmelloy

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by jmelloy 13y ago
If I'm doing a simple query, I still structure it as select blah, blha, blah from dual where ... I find that even for short ones, lines quickly get very long and illegiable if you're shmushing them all onto one line.
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by jmelloy 14y ago
Yeah, I wasn't a big fan of that portion of the argument either. (Same with the math bit). I definitely think "I show an aptitude for art and graphic design, and enjoy doing it, so I will attend college to learn and grow" trumps "I have som
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by jmelloy 14y ago
Sudoku's kind of a fun one, because brute force works just fine. More elegant solutions use the same strategies humans use, but recursive brute force gets the job done just fine.
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by jmelloy 14y ago
Also, D3.js doesn't work on IE, which is a non-started for our app. We're currently evaluating and will probably end up using Highcharts.
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by jmelloy 14y ago
If I were to pick one thing I wish Excel handled better out of the box, it was it's annoying habit of reformatting numbers pasted in.
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by jmelloy 14y ago
Did they make more than one season of Sym-Bionic Titan? I thought the art was gorgeous, but it felt like a decent high school drama, an awesome "large mecha fighting monsters" drama, but that the two halves didn't blend well at all . The s
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by jmelloy 14y ago
My biggest production whoops was an update gone awry ... instead of updating one row, updated all 300 million. Spotted it pretty quick, cancelled the update, but then the rollback locked the table and wouldn't allow inserts while it was ro
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by jmelloy 14y ago
That's my current top contender for the switch. I figure we'll start with g.raphael.js and then if we outgrow it we can just upgrade to the full library.
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by jmelloy 14y ago
I have two problems with d3.js right now. 1) I have a hard requirement for IE 8. 2) All d3.js sites look the same. 2 I could get over, I suppose, but I really need something slick, simple & fast that works in IE.
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by jmelloy 14y ago
Is there a way to buy it without using Amazon?
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by jmelloy 14y ago
Traditionally, command-P prints and command-t opens a new tab.
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by jmelloy 14y ago
Except for the part where they announced their margins on the tablet were at best razor thin.
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by jmelloy 14y ago
The apple store in that mall does just fine. It recently moved into a spot with double the floor space. I'm sure it's considered a flagship Microsoft store, but when I was computer shoppin last year the sales staff did not unde rstand the d
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by jmelloy 14y ago
"Facebook would like to send you push notifications." - Do Not Allow
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by jmelloy 14y ago
I'm pretty sure Microsoft was the real innovator in the vaporware space. Google is just copying that strategy.
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by jmelloy 14y ago
It also could suggest that the .1 version will be a significant upgrade if the underlying date's good but it's being parsed wrong/deprioritized for OSM data/etc. Better than if the underlying data is wrong, anyway.
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by jmelloy 14y ago
I don't believe they've used that in a while. They let Chrome & Sparrow on without any complaints.
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by jmelloy 14y ago
We have a blue line innovations reader, and found it pretty helpful. Their software is atrocious, though, and the reader stopped working after 6 months. WattVision a far superior UI and has always looked interesting to me, but I'm not sur
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by jmelloy 14y ago
Rails has a pretty strong leader in DHH.
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by jmelloy 14y ago
Did you know about alt-` -- it tabs between windows.
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Ask HN: Project to store & cache result sets?
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by jmelloy 14y ago
Because it doesn't run OS X?
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by jmelloy 14y ago
Their examples almost always use an Apple ID with the name "Johnny Appleseed"
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by jmelloy 14y ago
The 15" Pro with the retina display is SSD.
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by jmelloy 14y ago
I thought the story was that they were readable User IDs until fairly late in the dev process, when they realized they were giving away what people's gmail accounts were.
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by jmelloy 15y ago
Neat. By pure happenstance, I needed a bunch of colors for plots and state diagrams yesterday.
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by jmelloy 15y ago
Both the Hypercritical and the Talk Show around that time had in-depth discussions around the book; I believe Gruber started iwth "I mostly agree with Siracusa." I was also a little surprised by the timing of this piece, because I also felt
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by jmelloy 15y ago
Months ago on Hypercritical [1], John Siracusa had a series of episodes where he was talking about weaknesses of programming in Objective C vs more dynamic runtimes like C#/Java, like garbage collection, dynamic typing, etc. One of the adva
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by jmelloy 15y ago
Doesn't this article paint them as the next Sony, not the next Apple?
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by jmelloy 15y ago
Every review I've seen has said it has poor user experience. In my 10 minutes holding one, it was janky, clunky, heavy and hot. ("I trust Amazon to fix it!" was the rallying cry of my friend.) The interesting thing isn't that the UI/UX suc

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