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by kcorbitt 12y ago
I visited Egypt eight years ago, and the the thing that struck me about modern Egyptian construction is that there was rebar sticking out of the top of everything . From adobe shacks on the edges of fields to the five-star hotels, everythi
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by kcorbitt 12y ago
like V-2's top-level comment explains, there are lots of ways to interpret these statistics and it's easy to jump to false conclusions if you don't take the time to look for context. In Ruby's case, the total number of r
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The Tall Tower(hieroglyph.asu.edu)
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I know it's a bit of an orthogonal concern, but will this project provide a way to style native apps using web technologies (e.g. CSS) as well? I'm very excited about building native apps with React, and would be even more so if
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by kcorbitt 12y ago
As a supporting anecdote, I'd like to share the story of how my non-technical cofounder found/"grew" me (or rather, grew the relationship), and why I think it worked. Last year I was in my final year of university. The s
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by kcorbitt 12y ago
This isn't exactly an answer to your question, but a general piece of advice: you might have more luck if you take your "very technical" product and explain it in a way that others can relate to more easily. Something like &q
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by kcorbitt 12y ago
> Good for them, but nothing revolutionary going on here. The article is hindered by the fact that the author doesn't appear to be familiar with what's on the market already, so he doesn't focus exclusively on the right th
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by kcorbitt 12y ago
> If you’re based in Germany, there is a 7 hour time difference to east Asia, if you’re based in California, it is 16 hours. No, in California, it's 8 hours (in the other direction). It doesn't make sense to talk about more tha
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by kcorbitt 12y ago
If the files are in a Virtualbox shared folder from the host OS, that performance is to be expected. Just google "Virtualbox shared folder performance."[1] If you're using Vagrant to manage the VM it's easy to work aroun
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by kcorbitt 12y ago
I assume this would be another problem solved by disabling 3rd-party cookies? https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/disable-third-party-coo...
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by kcorbitt 12y ago
If multiple proprietary software packages are talking to each other at all, there must be either an implicit or explicit specification they're talking over. And if that interaction is broken, that implies that either (1) the spec is am
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by kcorbitt 12y ago
It probably isn't the same issue that is causing the Leiningen slowdown, but as near as I can tell the really slow startup time is the main reason Clojure on Android isn't currently a viable option. Which is too bad, because I&#x2
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Clojure for Rails Programmers(corbt.com)
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by kcorbitt 12y ago
I had that problem with Linux Mint on some configurations too. I found that by going into chrome://flags/ and disabling everything related to GPU acceleration the crashes went away. YMMV, of course.
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by kcorbitt 12y ago
I love Seafile, and am running it on my own VPS right now as my primary file sync/store. I'd love for more companies to pop up offering hosted Seafile instances. Right now I'm hosting my own because I like having the guarante
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by kcorbitt 12y ago
I have the same Vagrant setup you do (nfs-shared app directory, everything else inside the vagrant box), and while I see overheads of 1.5-2x, I've never seen anything like the 60x overheads you're describing here. Something seems
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by kcorbitt 12y ago
Whether this works or not depends a great deal on the size and geography of the city you're talking about. Where I grew up outside of Seattle, we could get from our very suburban home in Bellevue into downtown Seattle in about 20 minut
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by kcorbitt 12y ago
I dunno, I would hate to work for a company where one of my coworkers disappeared every two weeks, and you never know if you'll be next. At least this way after the big layoff those who are still around don't have to be looking ov
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by kcorbitt 12y ago
> dealing with suppliers also only a couple of hours all up I assume the extent of their product design involved shipping a couple of the kits from the USA to the Chinese supplier and saying "make one of these." I know that&#x2
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by kcorbitt 12y ago
Yeah. My understanding of Rocket from the original blog post is that they don't have an "API" in the sense the Docker one is described at all. Since Rocket is just a container format/runner, there's no client/s
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by kcorbitt 12y ago
To me, it looks like the biggest advantage over existing solutions is point 4: "Faster Development Lifecycle." If you're running all your infrastructure out of an AWS datacenter anyway moving your source control servers into
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by kcorbitt 12y ago
If I had to guess, I'd say it lists the people who take the initiative/care enough to edit the file for themselves and commit their updates. Github is famous for having an open organization, so it wouldn't surprise me if ther
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by kcorbitt 12y ago
> Last week it was showing video feeds from more than 250 countries I may be very confused, but Wikipedia only lists 206 sovereign states (193 full UN member states)[0]. Even with border disputes 250 seems like a very inflated number. Is
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by kcorbitt 12y ago
You're probably genuinely confused about why you're getting downvotes, and I'm sorry about that. Hacker News, like any group, has a particular culture. If you're brave enough to stick around after the onslaught you'
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by kcorbitt 12y ago
For what it's worth, I went to the July 4 Stop the NSA rally at the Utah data center two years ago when I was living there. It drew quite a large crowd and felt to me like a large cross-section of the population from a number of differ
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by kcorbitt 12y ago
Just a PSA for discoverability: since the replacement characters use different code points than their more standard equivalents, the default HN search ( https://hn.algolia.com ) at least doesn't find this submission when sear
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by kcorbitt 12y ago
A sincere question from another part-time (hobbyist) roboticist: what problems do you have with loosening that nylock[1] nuts don't solve? [1] https://www.google.com/search?q=nylock+nut&espv=2&source=lnm...
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It depends on the threat profile. Something can be "secure from a MITM on the coffee shop wifi" without necessarily being "secure from a directed attack by the NSA". For any practical security scheme, you do have to make
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by kcorbitt 12y ago
great idea, I would definitely throw it into all of my ongoing projects.
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Tangential, but does anyone know what Github uses to match their css and html classes in the integration suite? I often find that I don't clean up my css as the free as I should because I'm scared of breaking another page by mista

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