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by leejo 9y ago
> Sometimes you don't notice, and there goes your shot. That's because you're not using the EVF, which you should be. The single most useful feature combination I find on the x100 series cameras is the EVF combined with th
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Ask HN: Have You Ever Migrated from MySQL to PostgresQL or Otherwise?
4 points by leejo 9y ago|3 comments
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by leejo 9y ago
> We used to know how cars work. We used to know how phones work. Now we don't, and never will again. Philip K. Dick wrote a short story on this, some 60 years ago: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pay_for_the_Prin
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by leejo 9y ago
I'm relatively agnostic about this, but having developed integrations for many APIs I generally prefer those that use HTTP status codes + error payload for client side errors, rather than 200 OK + possible error payload, as they'r
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by leejo 9y ago
> Most people designing a REST or rpc style API do not attempt this breadth in their API design, instead they just overload HTTP response codes (from the HTTP and webDAV specs) to handle application-specific stuff, which ends up resultin
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by leejo 9y ago
I suspect it's because a lot of merchants are using terminals that are connecting over PSTN, or they don't hold a connection open between transactions so they have to do the connection dance for every transaction. Or they have con
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by leejo 9y ago
I spent the weekend in Shanghai a couple of months ago and used the Metro to get around. It was modern, clean, on time, easy, and cheap - around €10 for an unlimited 72 hour pass. I was astonished by its sprawl, some lines over 50km and one
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by leejo 10y ago
Indeed, Darius makes this clear when he moves onto the more serious second half of his talk: "... beyond a certain threshold of work that you put into your projects, success is entirely out of your hands". You can substitute &quot
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by leejo 10y ago
When I saw the comic in my feeds this morning I immediately thought of Darius Kazemi's XOXO talk: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l_F9jxsfGCw
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by leejo 10y ago
Possibly they're trying to game the algorithm. I follow a few photo sources on Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, and RSS feeds from their sites (when offered). The consequence is that I see the same posts multiple times, not just across th
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by leejo 10y ago
This. From the article: > We went from roughly 20 posts per day to 24 posts per day. If you post that many articles to Facebook then I'm simply going to unfollow you. Imagine I have ten sources posting that much, or one hundred sour
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by leejo 10y ago
> I'm a diehard racing fan and F1 is the absolute pinnacle of car technology. F1 is also the pinnacle of absurdity. I say this as a diehard fan myself, having been to 14 races over the past 6 years and having followed the sport for
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Ten Years with a Hasselblad(leejo.github.io)
1 points by leejo 10y ago|1 comments
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by leejo 10y ago
> if you need more entropy then add another digit. That would break so much as most of the message formats and batch files use fixed width fields. It's probably the same for the databases underneath. Changing to alphanumerics sounds
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by leejo 10y ago
> i've always found it to be profoundly messed up that address validation (AVS) and security code validation (CVV/CSC) happen after the funds are authorized and held by the issuing bank. That's because the alternative is t
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Emulating Just About Any RESTful JSON API(blogs.perl.org)
2 points by leejo 10y ago|0 comments
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by leejo 10y ago
> Anyone know if it's a Harvard Diploma/Certificate that you get? I'm guessing it's probably not. I doubt it, and the certificate isn't free: PDF Certificate: € 21 Certificate Parchment: € 27 Framed
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by leejo 10y ago
> Perhaps a larger concern is the chemicals that are required to develop the stuff and making sure they are disposed of responsibly and not just flushed down the drain. The same argument can be made for the disposal of electronic devices
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by leejo 10y ago
The popular initiative against mass immigration (2014) was essentially rejected by parliament recently: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/dec/16/switzerland-u-... The SVP were furious, but hey that&
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Why Python Is Not My Favorite Language(zenhack.net)
4 points by leejo 10y ago|0 comments
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by leejo 10y ago
Not sure https://github.com/joshbalfour/disable-scroll-jacking solves this one, but it's a start.
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by leejo 10y ago
Maybe you could try to schedule a flight that will give you an even better view: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YBoa81xEvNA
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by leejo 10y ago
From https://leanpub.com/the-tao-of-tmux/read : > Does tmux persist sessions after restarts? I suggest mentioning tmux-resurrect: https://github.com/tmux-plugins/tmux-resurrect as this has made
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Check news bias with a simple browser icon(jeffreyatw.com)
4 points by leejo 10y ago|0 comments
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Learning Perl 6(kickstarter.com)
18 points by leejo 10y ago|7 comments
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by leejo 10y ago
> What's the deal? I guess i need to take more pictures, because clearly no one reads the articles. Here's the relevant quote from the final section for you: "Here’s the thing - USB is a mess, and pretty much has been for
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by leejo 10y ago
> Slightly OT, but what version of the HHKB is that? I've never seen one with that layout (the JIS version has arrow keys but it's quite different...) HHKB Lite 2 (Model No: KUH0010). > Edit: also, be aware that the Apple US
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by leejo 10y ago
> Well, they make lots of USB-C to micro-b superspeed, so that's not really an issue: Excellent! Do you know if there's anything available to simplify USB-C to Mini Toslink? > I can get hating on Apple when they introduce ne
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Apple Deprecated All My Stuff(leejo.github.io)
23 points by leejo 10y ago|20 comments
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Finland Emojis(finland.fi)
2 points by leejo 10y ago|0 comments

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