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by kennon42 8y ago
My initial thought was that this was yet another post about serverless!
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by kennon42 9y ago
I would recommend checking out Faktory ( https://github.com/contribsys/faktory ), by the author of Sidekiq. It's fairly new but looks interesting. For something production-tested already, I've found RabbitMQ to
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by kennon42 10y ago
American Citizens Abroad ( https://www.americansabroad.org/ ) is another non-profit organization working on behalf of US persons abroad. They are doing some great (but probably ultimately quixotic) lobbying work in favor of c
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by kennon42 10y ago
While reading this, I couldn't help but think of Black Mirror S03E01 Nosedive. I understand the dynamics of all of the players involved in this, but I can't help but feel a little sad about the co-opted "authenticity" in
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by kennon42 10y ago
(list co-moderator with jetsnoc here) Well, it is currently a fully moderated list, and we will do our best to maintain the guidelines so hopefully you won't get any spam at all! Right now we are checking sign ups before approving, so
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by kennon42 10y ago
It's not that PHP (or virtually any other non-purposefully-arcane/obscene language) is inherently "terrible", it's just that the syntax, organization, standard library, and most of all mainstream community do not en
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by kennon42 10y ago
The primary thing that determines overall group performance (assuming no interpersonal biases like peer pressure or coercion, etc) would be the probability that any individual chooses the "right" answer. If this is greater than 0.
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by kennon42 11y ago
Except that going from 9 atmospheres to 1 is way more dramatic than from ~1 to ~0.
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by kennon42 11y ago
One of the most unintuitive concepts in thinking about Cold War strategy is the assertion that explicitly targeting the opponent's civilian instead of military targets was morally superior : targeting military first (counterforce targ
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by kennon42 11y ago
For you German speakers, this is a hilarious article (on the German answer to The Onion) about having to create a new verb tense in order to discuss the airport: http://www.der-postillon.com/2012/08/neue-zeitform-f
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by kennon42 11y ago
Hyperion by Dan Simmons would make an /amazing/ miniseries. The narrative structure is apparently based on the Canterbury Tales and so each chapter is fairly self contained with an overarching plot tying the characters together. I
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by kennon42 12y ago
Studio Calico | Junior backend/Rails developer (FT) | Remote (KY or TN, USA) Founded as a scrapbooking kit club, we have grown into a force in the specialty papercrafting and memorykeeping world by consistently innovating in both produ
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by kennon42 13y ago
If you liked Maciej's talk, you should definitely check out his blog: http://idlewords.com Warning: kiss the next several hours goodbye because he's simply an outstandingly interesting and funny writer - imagine someth