kaffeinecoma

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by kaffeinecoma 13y ago
Stupid question: are you just doubling every pixel of a non-retina source for the @2x images? Does that really provide any extra clarity on a Retina display (beyond setting the proper size of the image?) Or are you actually starting with an
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by kaffeinecoma 13y ago
An entrepreneurial success story doesn't belong on HN?
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by kaffeinecoma 13y ago
Well I was with him up until: Three days later (on a Monday), she calls me, and tells me that she has organised an interview for me for Tuesday afternoon. What? I went to the interview [...] Why would you go on an interview
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by kaffeinecoma 13y ago
So you'd be unwilling to discuss a major library that you've used in your career (say Spring, or Rails) with a potential employer? The "filter" I'm looking for is to weed out people who cannot crack open the source to something that is stan
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by kaffeinecoma 13y ago
unless I have a problem the documentation or google doesn't answer Documentation/googling is definitely the right thing to do off the bat. But if they've never had a moment where they had to peek under the hood (or never thought to
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by kaffeinecoma 13y ago
If you use Intellij + Maven this becomes magically seamless. I assume there is something similar for Eclipse as well. Really worth your time to make this work.
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by kaffeinecoma 13y ago
I agree, and sadly it's way harder to locate relevant bits of code in dynamic languages. (Hey Steve Yegge- can we have Grok now, please?) But even in static languages it's a must for me. I find that Javadoc becomes largely irrelevant if I c
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by kaffeinecoma 13y ago
I nonchalantly told him to look at the source code of the library we were using. He looked at me like I had asked him to help me dig up a grave. I can't imagine not examining the source code of the various frameworks I use on a da
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by kaffeinecoma 14y ago
I like to ask "What's the worst thing about working here at Potential Co?" In addition to (potentially) learning what the group's pain points are, it also allows the interviewer to blow off steam a bit (being on the other side of the table
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by kaffeinecoma 14y ago
I never noticed that the Stackoverflow js pulls updates for vote tallies in real-time. Browsing this answer while HN is sending lots of traffic there is almost like watching a car odometer.
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by kaffeinecoma 14y ago
Same here. In aggregate, I must have spent at least a two full days getting therubyracer and libv8 working in various environments. As a recent Java refugee, one of the things I find most painful about Rails is its dependence on native code
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by kaffeinecoma 14y ago
Use Optimistic Locking: http://railscasts.com/episodes/59-optimistic-locking-revised...
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by kaffeinecoma 14y ago
This year I switched to Ruby on Rails after years of doing mostly Java. I'm quite happy with it, but by far the biggest pain point has been Ruby's dependence on native code libraries. Dealing with CLASSPATHs and Maven was never fun, but it
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by kaffeinecoma 14y ago
From the article: Since the third party service conducted rate-limiting based on IP address (stated in their docs), my solution was to put the code that hit their service into some client-side Javascript, and then send the res
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by kaffeinecoma 14y ago
Two related projects: 1. https://github.com/armhold/ocarina - a Ruby gem for doing simple OCR. 2. http://wordhelper.net/contact - helps you win at Letterpress. Uses my OCR library to find playable words on the board. Have only tested it
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by kaffeinecoma 14y ago
No way. Ad-supported.
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by kaffeinecoma 14y ago
In pursuit of a casual passive income generator, I've been working on a meme creator. It uses HTML5 canvas rather than Flash. I'm only a weekend or so into it, but would appreciate any constructive feedback. http://mememachin.es
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by kaffeinecoma 14y ago
"Why should I use version control?" http://stackoverflow.com/a/1408464/93995
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by kaffeinecoma 14y ago
I'd also like to point out mauricesvay's take on this: https://github.com/mauricesvay/CheaterPress . His implementation runs in the browser and is both simpler and faster than mine.
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I built an OCR library in Ruby to help you win at Letterpress(wordhelper.net)
2 points by kaffeinecoma 14y ago|1 comments
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by kaffeinecoma 14y ago
That is really impressive. My OCR solution (see comment above) uses a neural net on the server. Your code is both simpler and faster. Nice job.
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by kaffeinecoma 14y ago
Interesting. I'm working on a similar app, mostly to show off an OCR library I'm working on for fun: http://wordhelper.net/contact .
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by kaffeinecoma 14y ago
You can listen to her tell the story in this American Public Media podcast: http://thestory.org/archive/20121012_The_Story.mp3/view
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Juliane Koepcke - survived a 10K foot freefall from an airliner(en.wikipedia.org)
10 points by kaffeinecoma 14y ago|5 comments
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Are Those Spidery Black Things On Mars Dangerous?(npr.org)
491 points by kaffeinecoma 14y ago|118 comments
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by kaffeinecoma 14y ago
Are you serious? I double click pretty much every photo I find interesting in my collection. Is that not the natural way to view a photo full-size? Editing requires you to click "edit". Why would they needlessly allow this to bloat if no ed
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by kaffeinecoma 14y ago
Yup, tried it, did not help. The minute I'd hit a site needing flash (Google Voice was a frequent one) it'd go bonkers again.
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by kaffeinecoma 14y ago
That's interesting. I just moved back to Safari because ever since Lion, Chrome has been totally unusable for me. The Flash/Shockwave that they bundle in consistently pegged my CPU after a few minutes of use. The whole desktop would get l
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by kaffeinecoma 14y ago
It's nothing compared to the pain of debugging in a language that doesn't have/encourage proper namespaces. Ruby has Modules, but many, many common libraries do not use them. I had fun recently debugging a project that (through transitive
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by kaffeinecoma 14y ago
Does "remote wipe" also wipe attached drives, or just the system disk? It would really suck to also lose your Time Machine backups that way. I alternate my TM backups between several disks, leaving one of them off-site in case of catastroph

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