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by jpk 14y ago
Yeah, that's badass. You guys have me convinced. :-P
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by jpk 14y ago
Oh, I agree fully. Optimize for the common case. This is why I make a few exceptions like Ctrl-P. But in this situation, there's one variable missing: the urgency with which off system editing happens. If a machine is blow'd up and stuck
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by jpk 14y ago
I've thought about it, but in the context of, "I'm reformatting this disk, and I need to back up my home directory to have after I'm done," since I would cry many tears if I hosed my ~. But in that case, I just make a copy of it somewhere
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by jpk 14y ago
So what we're saying is: "This would be a terrible, terrible thing for the web."
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by jpk 14y ago
Protip for python hackers: "set wildignore+=*.pyc" in your .vimrc so Ctrl-P won't pick up all the .pyc files. It's pretty annoying to get every file you search for 2x, and then get a bunch of binary junk if you pick the wrong one. :-P
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by jpk 14y ago
I use vim for coding just about every day, and as a rule, I try not to install plugins unless I really need/want it. Reason being is if, on occasion, I need to do a little editing inside an ec2 instance, or whatever, I don't want to type
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by jpk 14y ago
Yep, it does. I use it daily in plain-old terminal vim on ubuntu, so I don't use it in GVim much, but trying it just now worked fine.
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by jpk 14y ago
That's a pretty dramatized way of framing it, don't you think? I think the take-away is as simple as this: JavaScript is a dumpster-fire, and we should probably fix it so we can avoid more of this noise. Framing it as a soap opera conflic
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by jpk 14y ago
Good call. Looking into this further, looks like you're right.[1] For the Mercator projection, translate, scale, and rotate are sufficient for the georectification of small images (read: floorplans). You'd need more of the affine toolbox
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by jpk 14y ago
Reminds me of this talk about creativity by John Cleese[1]. The tl;dw is creativity is about getting into an open, uninhibited state of mind where new or risky ideas flow freely. Then getting into a closed, more focused state that allows
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by jpk 14y ago
Agreed. I find even a beer or two throws me off. However, when I need to write emails or some more social, less technical thing, a couple beers makes me way more productive. I think because I tend to waffle on verbiage and think things l
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by jpk 15y ago
What it's doing is setting ground control points that can be passed to a tool like gdal_translate[1]. That three-point alignment deal is setting three pairs of points made up of a lat,lng on the world, and an x,y on the image. Most world
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by jpk 15y ago
As the author of a program/library, it just depends on what's important to you. If you want wide use of your code, a permissive license is the way to go. If you want to ensure your users offer the same freedom to users of their modificati
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by jpk 15y ago
Why would you want to modify settings at runtime? Not that I'm saying there's no good reason to, I just don't know.
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by jpk 15y ago
Puppet is pretty cool. I recently used it to do provisioning in a Vagrant[1] VM to duplicate my development environment for other members of my team. I'll probably use it for production stuff soon, too. [1] http://vagrantup.com/
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by jpk 15y ago
This seems to be an unscientific conclusion. There's no mention of other conditions the patients may have had or acquired before the follow up and how those conditions may have played a part in their sleep habits and/or lifespan. It's like
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by jpk 15y ago
I've been doing roughly this for a little while now, and it works pretty well. Particularly the bit about splitting the settings file. There are a few ways to do that, here[1]. [1] https://code.djangoproject.com/wiki/SplitSettings
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by jpk 15y ago
> Also, indoor flying means no GPS. Correct. However, indoor positioning tech will likely come of age in the next 12-18 months driven by indoor mapping and navigation. Once that becomes commoditized, it'll make positioning a little ai
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by jpk 15y ago
Understand, too, that the work schedule of musicians are different from most. Shifting the working day into the evening and after dark, plus ubiquitous artificial light probably alter sleep habits just as much as the nature of the work.
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by jpk 15y ago
This is exactly what I've been doing for about three months now. I quit my 9-to-5 to work on a then side-project full-time. Being outside the structure of a corporate work-environment, I started doing this and it's been the most productiv
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by jpk 15y ago
Mozilla wants to do it for free with BrowserID[1]. [1] https://browserid.org/
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by jpk 15y ago
The startup I'm working on now sprung from my senior design project. In our case, our "customer" was a local startup incubator. Their goal was not only to mentor the project, but help us turn it into a business (so retaining ownership of
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by jpk 15y ago
> Anything that increases build times is inherently a bad idea. Iteration time has been THE major issue on every project I've worked on. Sucks up man-hours like nobody's business. I'd say this is only true part of the time. Optimizing
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by jpk 15y ago
That mile-long list of complaints is what I'm after. Not to compel you to write a book about it (but if you did, I'd read it :-P), but what are some of those things?
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by jpk 15y ago
I'm in the process of building an api in Django (GeoDjango, actually, with PostGIS). What are the gripes with the ORM and how could it be better? (Not that I'm disagreeing; I'm curious. I'm not experienced enough to know what makes an OR
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by jpk 15y ago
I would argue that all of positives you cite can be accomplished without trolling. What distinguishes a thoughtful but contrary comment from a trolling comment is that the troll wants to force other users into negative behavior. Trolls wi
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by jpk 15y ago
Zuck said he'd stay in Boston if he were starting Facebook today. Personally, I'd move to Providence and hop on the Providence/Stoughton Line whenever I needed to be in Boston. :)
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by jpk 15y ago
As someone who uses Eclipse pretty regularly, what don't you like about it? I'd never really used big IDEs before I got into Java either, so I'm curious.
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by jpk 15y ago
I'm in the same boat because I have a Google Apps account, so Google Profiles (and thus Google+) isn't available to me (yet?).
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by jpk 15y ago
My understanding is that building the reactors are significantly more expensive. So until the price of Uranium increases enough to justify the total cost of the Thorium reactors, we won't see many of them outside research settings. The oth

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