jrlocke

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by jrlocke 8y ago
Wet streets cause rain.
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by jrlocke 8y ago
In philosophy, you sometimes hear an idea along the lines of "the least useful (or useless) map is that which has a 1:1 scale. This is a nice counterexample.
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by jrlocke 8y ago
SEEKING WORK | iOS Developer | Boston | Remote Only Tufts educated iOS developer with 5 years of experience building world class iOS apps (Notarize + Savant). Experience + expertise with Swift, Obj-C, functional programming, RxSwift, RxCoco
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by jrlocke 9y ago
The reasonable tradeoff, in this case, would be to continue using the third-party analytics saas, but exclude personally identifiable information, or at the very least, exclude this extremely sensitive information.
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by jrlocke 9y ago
This was my first thought as well. It appears the elephant isn't sucking as much as chewing.
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by jrlocke 9y ago
I've personally found this to work great, the only exception being the moment of surprise and confusion when I asked the driver to pull around to the emergency entrance.
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Education in the Age of Outrage(nytimes.com)
2 points by jrlocke 9y ago|0 comments
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by jrlocke 9y ago
I write Swift code every day, and I can't count the number of times thats its type system has saved me, at compile time, from errors that would have otherwise shown up in QA or quite possibly production. In general, Swift makes iOS app
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by jrlocke 9y ago
At the end of the day our monkey-derived brains still run legacy code wired to find ripe fruits.
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by jrlocke 9y ago
Great looking app. I'm an iOS dev, and I need to implement a similar color picker for picking a color within an image in my app. Any tips or example code you can point me to for how to performantly target a screen pixel and get the hex
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by jrlocke 10y ago
As a fan of FFFFOUND and a neofyte of Tumblr, any specific blogs I should be reading?
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by jrlocke 10y ago
Boston, MA - Office is 8 miles from my home. I drive during morning and afternoon rush hour, 25 minutes to work, and 45 minutes from work.
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by jrlocke 10y ago
I agree that it's great, but being 8th on Beer Advocate (4th amongst hoppy beers) is to me too high.
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by jrlocke 10y ago
Heady Topper is a great beer, but make no mistake, the astronomical esteem for it stems not from its merits, but from its status as the progenitor of New England style (cloudy) IPAs.
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by jrlocke 10y ago
I'm a t1 diabetic; I of course share your feelings on progress. That said, I'm unconvinced that technological progress is necessarily dependent on long work weeks (to start, most people working long weeks are totally uninvolved wi
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by jrlocke 10y ago
My archaeology professor: "Paleolithic peoples 'worked' roughly 15 hours a week, are we really so advanced now?"
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by jrlocke 10y ago
The system is likely capable of distinguishing a lit green light from a sign painted like one. If you're simply asking "would the system be fooled if someone nefariously hung an always green light where a red one should be" s
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by jrlocke 10y ago
The first iOS app I built used parse for the entire backend. We basically used it as a database in the cloud accessible by multiple clients (it can accommodate fancier uses as well). We didn't really run any custom code on the server s
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Safes Are Safe Except Two on New Year's Eve(nytimes.com)
1 points by jrlocke 10y ago|0 comments
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by jrlocke 10y ago
I use my sous vide machine around 3 times a week (I bought it about a year ago). For most preparations, sous vide is not more convenient than conventional cookery–the long cook times are almost never worth it. But convenience is not the ben
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by jrlocke 10y ago
My mid 2014 MBP control key is labeled "control"
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by jrlocke 10y ago
All I know is that in my youth ^ sent me to google befuddled a few times while + never did
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by jrlocke 10y ago
It's not about neutrality, it's about ease of understanding. For me at least, when speaking about something that can be entered into a keyboard ^D is less obvious than Ctrl+D–I need to press the key labeled "control" to
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by jrlocke 10y ago
Guidance on the portion of salary to invest?
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iPhone 7 Launch Date Confirmed(mirror.co.uk)
2 points by jrlocke 10y ago|0 comments
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by jrlocke 10y ago
I would love to use this when it runs on data from a longer time period.
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by jrlocke 10y ago
The expression is "a distinction without a difference"
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by jrlocke 10y ago
There is certainly no scientific consensus that GMO/transgenic food causes cancer; if anything the community believes it does not. Perhaps we currently have flaws in implementation (e.g., Roundup-ready crops could lead to increased hum
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by jrlocke 10y ago
I've made this same argument myself, but I've come to believe that there is a difference of kind between the two revolutions you cite and the coming of AI: each of those found a way to replace a large number of human jobs, but hum
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by jrlocke 11y ago
As a software engineer in Boston this only confirms my feelings that we are a world leader in innovation. I'm looking forwards the the smart people that this will bring to my great city.

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