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by jpcx01 17y ago
Nobody likes watching stuff in the mushy middle. Rightwing wants Fox news, Leftwing wants MSNBC. Always better to specialize.
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by jpcx01 17y ago
Government spending Pie chart in the article is a oft repeated lie. They don't include "trust fund" payments like Social Security and Medicare in it. Why? It's $1.89 trillion. But that doesn't count for some reason. Anyways, better source i
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by jpcx01 17y ago
I honestly didnt know Puppet had such widespread adoption. The tech buzz always seems to favor Chef which is why I have more exposure to it. Puppet does seem to have much much better docs on their homepage. However Chef is way more reusable
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by jpcx01 17y ago
Dennis Forbes really seems like the much more rational debater in this exchange. I do like reading the back and forth. They both make good points, and this is an argument with real applicability to help us decide what tech to be using in th
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by jpcx01 17y ago
There's a lot of useful functionality here that comes in handy. Just as a standard library, I think its useful. Ruby Hashes and Enumerators have way more functionality than the stock js types. Is it worth the 40k minimized for the full incl
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by jpcx01 17y ago
Great point. The thing I'm interested in on these new data storage technologies is at the low level, rapid development, early stage (low traffic) portion of a project since thats where I'm at. I'd rather be able to remove barriers like havi
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by jpcx01 17y ago
I think the parent author's main point is they used a defective RDBMS as a representative example of all. MySQL does not do certain things well. However many mature RDBMS's have solved these problems and its worth pointing that out before y
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by jpcx01 17y ago
Haha, Friedman belongs nowhere near the New York Times. He'd be better suited as the whacky Social Studies teacher somewhere in the midwest (ok, he reminds me of my old social studies teacher). Another funny article where Jonah Goldberg has
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by jpcx01 17y ago
I mostly agree with that. Probably because I consider myself a good programmer and am perfectly fine to delegate all sysadmin stuff. I think the point is they are distinctly different skillsets. Programming is very different from setting up
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by jpcx01 17y ago
Anyone know if there's similar services for non-recurring payments? I'm currently planning on using e-junkie but its kind of a piece of crap. Looking for a slicker integration similar to spreedly or chargify.
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by jpcx01 17y ago
to avoid having to create an account and log in just to view the docs, can anyone give details on how this is implemented (technologies, etc)?
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by jpcx01 17y ago
Keep pushing it. I've made 1pm now the usual time to expect my arrival.
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by jpcx01 17y ago
He's right that design sometimes doesnt matter. But most of the time it does, especially if you're trying to break in.
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by jpcx01 17y ago
The plaintiff is "a 12-man operation that gets most of its revenue from licensing its intellectual property". So they sue people who use stuff they've patented but don't actually use themselves. Patent law badly needs to change.
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by jpcx01 17y ago
Arg, if anyone deserves to be homeless its the IT guy running the ocregister's mobile site. Accessing this link from an Android it redirects to a broken gateway page, which in turn links to tbeir mobile front page, completely losing the ori
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by jpcx01 17y ago
It's the economist so I'll put up with anything they throw at me since they have such good content. Plus the ad was for their own product, and not some 3rd party crap. I guess I'm just happy whenever I can actually access an article there.
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by jpcx01 17y ago
Great, except no ones spending the money on roads. 99% of its going to entitlements (year long extension of unemployment), money to states to shore up their underfunded pension plans, and a nice $250 bribe to our elder population.
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by jpcx01 17y ago
Agreed. Wild speculation, but I think the Firefox codebase might have hit critical mass and its just too hard to manage it. I'm anticipating using Chrome much more once webkit improves their dev tools to surpass firebug (what's the hold up!
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by jpcx01 17y ago
Depends. I don't consider my browser my primary application my computer so I like it to save as much memory as it can for the truly horrid memory hogs like Adobe suite and my development IDE. I have 8gb on my laptop (macbook pro), and its s
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by jpcx01 17y ago
Even being a free marketeer, building codes are one of the few government interventions that have had huge positive impact on society (i know, i know, there are others as well).
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by jpcx01 17y ago
I had this issue. Chrome on mac doesn't like to load fonts from anything other than the hard coded paths they programmed in. Usually not a problem for people, but after tracking things down I had to uninstall FontExplorer X and after that h
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by jpcx01 17y ago
Firebug is obtrusive, buggy, and slow. However, for the reasons this article suggests, and some others (no right click - delete element in web inspector), I'm stuck with using Firebug for the foreseeable future. I can't wait to replace it w
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by jpcx01 17y ago
Damn. Dunno why it would matter all that much, but I'd like it if they used github for core ruby dev.
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by jpcx01 17y ago
I dunno. It's ok I guess. Too much of a trac clone though. Lighthouseapp has been pretty nice to work with I think.
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by jpcx01 17y ago
Big mistake by the developers. Also a reason I tend to try sites like this with my disposable twitter / gmail accounts. All in all, I do like the site and the idea. Very similar to hi.im, but a tad more stylish.
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by jpcx01 17y ago
Awesome! Any word on if they're gonna swap bug trackers? Lighthouse would be a big step up.
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by jpcx01 17y ago
really?
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by jpcx01 17y ago
About time! I always wondered how such a successful product could lag so behind in polish. That embedded IE control steam uses is an absolute pain in the ass.
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by jpcx01 17y ago
Yup, tried them all (merb was the one i landed on for core dev work). So far Rails3 seems much better than all of them. Community, documentation matter. Also having an active core team. Rails 3 seems like the best of breed web framework for
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by jpcx01 17y ago
I ditched rails long ago because it's simplicity was an absolute nightmare when you actually wanted to build something that wasn't a clone of basecamp. From my experience so far, Rails3 is a breath of fresh air. Easy to get up and running,

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