justinhj

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by justinhj 14y ago
Seems like message here is that if you use an off the shelf solution you need to work around its limitations. In this case random load balancing may sound dumb but it's actually quite a reasonable way to spread load. The customers real prob
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by justinhj 14y ago
Well most of the people I know in the real world that are casual home computer users get a lot more use out of apps like iPhoto and iMovie than word. Especially because most of them just use Google docs for writing letters.
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by justinhj 14y ago
No I didn't argue. It's just my perspective.
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by justinhj 14y ago
One differentiator is that Macs come with iLife suite that are a pretty extensive and popular addition, whereas windows comes with office which is easily replaced for most people with free and/or cloud offerings.
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by justinhj 14y ago
I worked productively for a couple of hours in a kids play place at the weekend. The roar of kids acts like loud monotonous music. I also once wrote a key piece of a sofware system on a long flight. I agree with the author that variety is r
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by justinhj 14y ago
I've been working on video games for 20 years and from my perspective Minecraft is not a one hit wonder, it's the coming of age of a genre. It reminds me of when I first saw Doom running. It was graphically beautiful for the day and a real
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by justinhj 14y ago
Looks like it is on github now... https://github.com/gnachman/iTerm2
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by justinhj 14y ago
This is also very interesting. An animator/manager goes to N.Korea to oversee outsourcing and makes a graphic novel of his experience. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pyongyang_(comics)
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by justinhj 14y ago
I got the idea that the author does understand quite well. From the very first paragraphs: #1 Caveat: It's impossible to know how much we can extrapolate from what we saw in Pyongyang to what the DPRK is really like. Our trip was a mixture
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by justinhj 14y ago
If ndas worked that way there'd be no point in ndas.
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by justinhj 14y ago
In my experience Zynga have amongst the most polished of the social games. I've encountered occasional bugs but nothing like you're describing here. If what you describe is typical how do you explain their huge audience?
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by justinhj 14y ago
Prismatic are doing something wrong with the way they message the sender or the recipient because when I clicked a button saying 'invite these friends' I didn't realize it was going to Tweet them all DMs. I got about 10 messages varying fro
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by justinhj 14y ago
The first couple of days with a language can be painful. People have trouble getting python libraries to work too. Maven is really quite well thought out and solid.
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by justinhj 14y ago
Going to the toilet is very culturally determined. Take a poo in Germany and when you stand up your poo will be waiting for you on a shelf, in case you wish to examine it (historically to identify health issues). Will that ever translate to
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by justinhj 14y ago
I hit the same issues as above. Once I found a project created with the last version of LightTable that loaded I was up and running. One thing I've noticed is evaluating an expression with Cmd-Enter seemed buggy until I realized it automati
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by justinhj 14y ago
No shareware doesn't have to be limited in anyway and often isn't apart from a nag screen. I agree donationware is more accurate.
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by justinhj 14y ago
Dwarf Fortress is shareware, not free. Not quite the same thing.
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by justinhj 14y ago
Reading the documentation is important, but tests are even more so. A simple test running with a bad certificate would have caught a lot of these issues. Small devs often push out software without having much time to read docs or make tests
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by justinhj 14y ago
I came across this issue when using node.js to make secure requests as a client and after setting up tests with bad certs found it silently worked anyway. To get it working you need to be at a certain version of node.js and make sure you se
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by justinhj 14y ago
Funny that you switch gears and talk about ethics after basically saying it's much cheaper to steal than to buy products and actually support the people making your entertainment.
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by justinhj 14y ago
I took a meditation class at a Buddhist temple. There wasn't any Buddhism taught in the class, only meditation techniques. The advantage in my case was that going to a class where I had to sit for an hour prevented me from procrastinating a
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by justinhj 14y ago
Is that a Ubuntu only tool? I'd be hesitant to commit myself to anything that runs in a single distribution if I can help it. Fail2Ban would work if I decided to migrate to Centos later down the line. https://help.ubuntu.com/community/UFW
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Employees of kixeye accused of racist remarks fired(develop-online.net)
61 points by justinhj 14y ago|91 comments
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by justinhj 14y ago
Then how about myspace?
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by justinhj 14y ago
The unfortunate thing is about this is that I don't think the employees see themselves as racist or prejudicial at all. They think they are just cool, edgy and funny. When people get to positions of authority before they have grown up then
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by justinhj 14y ago
Change is as good as a rest. I've certainly found that to be the case when these sorts of feelings manifest. Working on a different team, a different project, a different boss or company down the street often completely refreshes your outlo
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by justinhj 14y ago
By that logic everybody would still be using Yahoo search
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by justinhj 14y ago
Universal health care pretty much nullifies this threat
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by justinhj 14y ago
So you're saying creating a rival service to Twitter would be as hard as creating faster than light space travel? All I'm talking about is gradual migrations like the ones from geocities and myspace. In the case of those services users had
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by justinhj 14y ago
At some point you start losing users who are affected by apps they use suddenly not working any more. If they care to find out why it makes a bad impression. If it happens multiple times they will think about switching to a rival service. T

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