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by kgtm 11y ago
Maybe the problem isn't the Windows OS (which is quite fine actually, especially compared to the hot mess OSX has turned into), but the development approach, tooling and processes that was forced upon you. Personally, i couldn't c
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How to Beat Procrastination(waitbutwhy.com)
3 points by kgtm 12y ago|0 comments
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by kgtm 12y ago
That could work. And lack of immediate post/design previews can be taken care of with a simple Vagrant configuration to spin up a local Github Pages server directly from the repo. Like so: https://github.com/kappataumu&
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by kgtm 12y ago
Another approach: https://github.com/jlund/streisand "Streisand sets up a new server running L2TP/IPsec, OpenSSH, OpenVPN, Shadowsocks, sslh, Stunnel, and a Tor bridge. It also generates custom configuration
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by kgtm 12y ago
Upvoted. For those that prefer getting their hands dirty (but not too dirty), duplicity and S3 might be a good alternative. It's really simple to get up and running: http://kappataumu.com/articles/cloud-backups-dup
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by kgtm 12y ago
Firefox is unusable for developers with poor eyesight that use OS-level accessibility features such as high contrast on recent versions of Windows. There is an open bug but no love: [ https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cg
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You Tell Me If This Word Processing App Is Worth $15 Million(fastcodesign.com)
7 points by kgtm 13y ago|1 comments
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Female 'Purity' Is Bullshit(jezebel.com)
14 points by kgtm 13y ago|9 comments
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by kgtm 13y ago
But it's not always about professional connections IMHO. This sticker has the potential to signal 'geek/programmer', and I would very much welcome a fellow hacker coming up to me and having a chat because of it. I agree that it seems like a
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by kgtm 14y ago
I was able to find a video [1] of the building, with that area visible to some extent. You can see it at various points, like at 3:43. I'm not sure of its significance though. [1] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NX59-ZBO3mo
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by kgtm 14y ago
The last couple of years I have found myself intensely making the same thoughts, constantly measuring life by some invisible standard that is grounded on a hazy idea of what my potential is. And coming up short. Recently I've been looking a
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by kgtm 14y ago
While I agree that it is a good post, isn't it kinda obvious that if you are an idea person, can execute on that idea to make a product and also sell it, you are king of the world? I mean, you have everything except finding a way to repair
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by kgtm 14y ago
tldr: The author is actually talking about firing an employee, but communicating it as "we need you to leave the company", while at the same time "being generous in financial terms and emotional terms". Just some perspective: Not sure abo
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by kgtm 14y ago
TL;DR: Copy startups that have a significant barrier to entry in a country where you are familiar with ways to overcome said barrier. Use your knowledge of local regulations and how to maneuver them in your advantage. In general: aim to be
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by kgtm 14y ago
I feel compelled to both upvote and comment on your post, in order to further emphasize the point you are making: you can help the number of times you put yourself in a position to be lucky . This understanding is incredibly important and
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by kgtm 14y ago
I agree with the overall premise of the article, in that these examples are in fact exploiting UI design patterns to funnel users into not being able to painlessly leave negative reviews. But i want to offer a different perspective for co
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by kgtm 14y ago
Actually, putting swap on an SSD == great idea. If you need swap, there aren't any better places to put it. I quote from [0] (for Windows), because it is fairly large wall of text and the relevant point might be missed: _Should the pagefil
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by kgtm 14y ago
Actually, what worries you is not Perl per se, but people that write Perl code and don't know what they want to test for. The code shown interrogates $lastname for values that represent truth in Perl, while it ought to be checking for defin
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by kgtm 14y ago
I may be quite off base here, but i think it has to do with the audience you are dealing with. Once the reader is somewhat familiar with more abstract reasoning, e.g. able to identify placeholders in places such as (in programming) function
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by kgtm 15y ago
I'm fairly sure this must be the blog post you are trying to remember: [ http://www.codusoperandi.com/posts/increasing-your-luck-surf... ].
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Unquoted attribute values in HTML and CSS/JS selectors(mathiasbynens.be)
3 points by kgtm 15y ago|0 comments
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by kgtm 15y ago
> You sometimes want to just get the blog post object too, not all the comments. I feel this should be clarified a bit (since you most likely have a more complicated scenario in mind) but it is entirely possible to only select certain f
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by kgtm 15y ago
You are one step ahead though. How can you address a resource if you don't know beforehand the representation of its identifier? Say, you want to create a new Employee under /Employees. Do you just issue a 'GET /Employees/1234' and assume '
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by kgtm 15y ago
Valid point, and PUT would indeed be appropriate. But are there any benefits to this approach? I'm sure there is an edge case I can't think of right now; as I see it, there is one more trip to the server, plus extra code to accommodate it v
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by kgtm 15y ago
First of all, this piece was written in 2008. The tl;dr is that GET/DELETE/PUT are idempotent, whereas POST is not. The author suggests that POST should be used on "collection-like" resources, e.g. '/Persons' to create a new Person while PU
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by kgtm 15y ago
Yes, but that result is most likely on a Sandforce-powered SSD, which sports different transfer speeds based on the payload (compressible/incompressible). Like the GP notes, this is not a problem with SSDs in general.
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by kgtm 15y ago
Great list, but do keep in mind of language/tech specific job boards. To give a concrete example, if I was looking for Perl developers (or to work as one) I would surely check out jobs.perl.org first. Such focused boards or mailing lists u
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by kgtm 15y ago
I'm sorry that i'm going to sound negative (i'm really just trying to offer some perspective), but that just isn't the right approach for a product you want actual people to use. It's not "dumbing down", it's proper UX/UI that enables your
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by kgtm 15y ago
Do my _users_ need to be in the USofA to enjoy Dwolla? [0] > Currently yes. We are exploring which market to enter next :) Not a criticism, just a heads up for developers not targeting solely USA clients... [0] http://getsatisfactio
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by kgtm 15y ago
Line 5 just made me spill my coffee (or I need to drink some more). Since STDOUT is the default filehandle, there is no need to muck around with that anachronism. A simple $| = 1 would suffice. This idiom was once useful for setting autoflu

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