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by jxf 12y ago
I'm a longtime Ruby user (among a number of other languages). I feel very productive in Ruby right now, with Python being a close second. It's also vital to the functioning of my current startup (along with Go). And yet -- I feel
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by jxf 12y ago
It's related because it's not conventionally thought of as user input that needs to be sanitized (but, of course, it should be).
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by jxf 12y ago
While the content of the e-mail is of course noxious and appalling, what's really awful is the sense of entitlement exuded by this. It isn't just an obnoxious proposition: it's an attempt at coercion. "I won't leave
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by jxf 12y ago
SEEKING FREELANCER - Remote We're looking for a full-stack web developer to work with us on UpHex ( http://uphex.com ). Our stack is Padrino, Postgresql, and Redis (for Resque, not as a primary datastore). We're in the m
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by jxf 12y ago
> If you've got a specific beef with him, then you should just say what you mean instead of saying something that only serves to lay blame without rational. I think I was very specific in the OP and the WSJ reference. But to spell i
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by jxf 12y ago
Thanks for responding, Patrick. I appreciate you engaging in discussion on this matter. I'm not sure that this actually answers my questions, though. You seem to have more or less restated what I said without specifically addressing an
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by jxf 12y ago
I was able to successfully sign up and get 5,000 STR, so that worked for me at least. But then I started looking a little deeper into the blog post. > Development is led by Jed McCaleb and Dr. David Mazieres in collaboration with a small
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by jxf 12y ago
Can you talk a little about how you're using it for analytics and why you like it over other similar choices?
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by jxf 12y ago
You're absolutely right, and I should have said that! I was trying to contrast to the case of just typing it into some kind of map service, i.e. MapCodes. A lat/long pair unambiguously resolves to a single point in that service.
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by jxf 12y ago
I'm a little confused about what this replaces, but it's definitely not postcodes. * Postcodes have a specific meaning: they're both a geographical area and a mail delivery zone (at least in the US). Replacing one short cod
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by jxf 12y ago
It seems very difficult to conclude that Uber and Lyft are responsible for reducing DUIs from that graph. * There's already a downward trend well before Uber and Lyft come into play. * Even if the downward trend is stronger more recent
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by jxf 12y ago
FWIW I ranked Legendary (in March 2014) without using any Legendary cards. It's definitely not required for success.
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by jxf 12y ago
Not directly related to the article, but asking here: what did you use to make those diagrams? It looks like the Unicode box drawing characters, but I was wondering if it was from a tool or handcrafted.
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by jxf 12y ago
Thanks for sending a strong message, Dan. It's nice to see some sanity here.
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by jxf 12y ago
I agree that there's no actual wrongdoing present, looking only at the content of the e-mails. However, the tone of the e-mail suggests that this is one event in a pattern, and that the size and unusual nature of the particular gift (h
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by jxf 12y ago
A certain level of corruption is perhaps expected in any large bureaucracy. People are, after all, only human. What really galls me, however, is the circumstances. This isn't some low-level flunky taking a bribe under the table to move
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by jxf 12y ago
I was a little confused about why this was called "Occupy Google", since that makes it sounds like it's against Google -- but then goes on to describe it in complimentary terms on the homepage. One of the sub-pages has the ac
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by jxf 12y ago
That's precisely my point -- that it's important not to succumb to our internal biases. Just because we think they're "mostly the same" doesn't mean they are.
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by jxf 12y ago
> the countries there are more similar to each other than to other countries, so combining them is natural. That seems like a very inaccurate generalization. If you think, say, Egypt is "similar to" Madagascar, Malawi, or Moza
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by jxf 12y ago
It looks like it really stumped the FBI to determine what "leetspeak" actually is, given that the only responsive document is the Twitter acronyms summary. (Is it even fair to call most of these "Twitter acronyms"?)
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by jxf 12y ago
Sorry, I was emphasizing "SASS" by capitalizing it, not trying to make it an acronym. Will fix.
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by jxf 12y ago
In case anyone else is unclear on the title, they mean Sass as in "Syntactically Awesome Stylesheets", the CSS extension language: http://sass-lang.com (IOW, it's not a misspelling of SaaS.)
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HR Antipatterns at Startups(modelviewculture.com)
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by jxf 12y ago
Unsophisticated journalists routinely fall for Onion articles getting picked up as actual news items. I can only wonder how often they're going to get pranked by something that really does look like a news site but for a subtle change.
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by jxf 12y ago
I'm a little curious about how the bill got to $100k. Were the payments going unmade for months while you continued to do work for them? I usually asked for biweekly direct deposits when I was contracting with startups, and I made sure
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by jxf 12y ago
My current favorite insane/facetious conspiracy theory on this: "WARNING: Using TrueCrypt is not secure as ..." WARNING: Using TrueCrypt is (n)ot (s)ecure (a)s ... TrueCrypt is (n)ot (s)ecure (a
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by jxf 12y ago
This entire post seems to conflate "weak typing" with "dynamic typing". Both are terms that seem to have a lot of common definitions, but they're nevertheless distinct. Weak typing usually implies a system where typ
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by jxf 12y ago
Repeatedly updating S3 files on a stream that produced a lot of updates (e.g. 1-second-resolution server logs) would get very expensive, very quickly! Something like that might work if you only periodically rewrote the S3 file (e.g. once an
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by jxf 12y ago
The versioning is cool in and of itself, but auto-archiving to Glacier after an expiration date is a fantastic feature. The value-add on that is going to be really great for a lot of teams I work with. What I'd really love to see on S3
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by jxf 12y ago
System-level tests are important, but they're not much help with refactoring code. For some applications, particularly in my domain of analytics, it's very important that we can do that effectively.

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