jonathanhefner

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Basecamp's geared_pagination Gem(github.com)
2 points by jonathanhefner 10y ago|0 comments
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by jonathanhefner 10y ago
I believe it's a reference to this old (but insightful) comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8902739 As such, it is actually "Bane's Rule" which states, "you don't understand a distrib
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by jonathanhefner 10y ago
I also found his research intriguing! Here is a nice write-up for anyone unfamiliar: http://www.mostlyodd.com/death-by-utopia/
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by jonathanhefner 11y ago
I hadn't heard of fsql, but I did recently find q[1]. If anyone has experience with both, I'd be interested to hear if one does its job better than the other. 1: http://harelba.github.io/q/
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by jonathanhefner 11y ago
At least two of these are available for free download (as in "not pirated"): http://thinking-forth.sourceforge.net/ http://www.projectoberon.com/
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by jonathanhefner 12y ago
If you liked this talk, or perhaps liked the topic but found the pacing a bit fast, here is a friendlier-paced revision of it presented at Strange Loop 2010: http://www.infoq.com/presentations/Thinking-Parallel-Program.
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by jonathanhefner 12y ago
Also chiming in: same thing happened to me, but they sent my account to collections without notifying me first. When I was on the phone with the collections agent, I was very polite and told her I knew she was just doing her job. I then go
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by jonathanhefner 12y ago
I had the very same experience (though my use case was something akin to autocomplete), and so have a handful of other people I've spoken with. I think that has interesting implications regarding the patentability of software and algo
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by jonathanhefner 12y ago
OpenGameArt launched in 2009, several years before the Liberated Pixel Cup: http://lpc.opengameart.org/content/lpc-about
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by jonathanhefner 13y ago
Which makes it more difficult (impossible?) to polyfill. For the time being, I see that as an anti-feature.
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by jonathanhefner 13y ago
Yes, very interesting. Reminded of http://prog21.dadgum.com/173.html
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by jonathanhefner 14y ago
It is a good and interesting observation, but as the benchmarks approach real-world scenarios, the difference is more than a millisecond or two. For instance, if you're running on EC2 hardware (which is common enough) and you're executing ~