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by mapleoin 12y ago
My personal experience definitely agrees with this. I think it might have something to do with a "trained" ear or a better discernment or attention paid to small variations in sound.
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by mapleoin 12y ago
Not sure which you mean. I have a 3200x1800 13" display + Firefox and the practicaltypography font looks amazing. I basically had to read the whole article just because of the joy of the typography. Medium looks washed out in compariso
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by mapleoin 12y ago
Agreed. What I like most about GitHub pull requests is that they encourage splitting commits into smaller ones. Gerrit is focused on doing a change in one big commit.
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by mapleoin 12y ago
Wow! I took the 2min one and it made me feel great. I especially love the ending with [SPOILER]"this is you, alive and present"[SPOILER]. Thanks a lot!
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Bloomberg BusinessWeek Jealousy List 2014(businessweek.com)
2 points by mapleoin 12y ago|0 comments
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by mapleoin 12y ago
Welcome to 2014 where cross-platform means "Ubuntu, CentOS and Mac OS X".
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by mapleoin 12y ago
"Hands. They've always done amazing things..." That's a great beginning for a video parody of some Silicon Valley startups.
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by mapleoin 12y ago
It's ecology in a really large national park. You don't get to do much controlling there.
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by mapleoin 12y ago
That is very non-idiomatic python. Use True and False instead of 1 and 0 when comparing the (boolean) result of a comparison.
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by mapleoin 12y ago
Am I the only person who has no idea what's going on here? I'm just walking around picking up stuff and sometimes changing into something else. What else is there to do in this world? Besides building more stuff to wear or throw a
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by mapleoin 12y ago
This is the most important point here. Facebook can afford to do this because their users don't care. No one really needs Facebook or depends on it to work at critical times. Most products are not like that. Imagine what happened if Gm
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SQLite + Redis hybrid database with threading support (2012)(thredis.org)
2 points by mapleoin 12y ago|1 comments
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by mapleoin 12y ago
That's pretty amazing how Australians can use a driver's license to drive a car.
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by mapleoin 12y ago
Right, now think if the server was opensource and there would be multiple servers with their own rules.
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by mapleoin 12y ago
Right, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Worse_is_better
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by mapleoin 12y ago
Surely you mean dwm.
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by mapleoin 12y ago
You're saying that as if there were no bedside lamps in Finland.
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by mapleoin 12y ago
You can do Direct Debit transfers from credit/overdraft accounts.
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by mapleoin 12y ago
Direct Debit, he's one of the founders of: https://gocardless.com/
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Safely Creating Temporary Files in Shell Scripts (2005)(linuxsecurity.com)
24 points by mapleoin 12y ago|5 comments
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by mapleoin 12y ago
The conclusion makes perfect sense; software engineers should be paid much less than quants. After all, we know that software is really easy to build, that's why there are so many cheap programmers out there. Once it's built, ther
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by mapleoin 12y ago
So the solution to this problem is common knowledge by now, isn't it? Separation of concerns, different abstraction layers, MVC (at least the M and C parts), even OOP interfaces. These after all should be known by all CS professionals.
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by mapleoin 12y ago
In what way?
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by mapleoin 12y ago
This reminds me of the OLPC games. They had the same mechanics and probably also using the scratch programming language.
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by mapleoin 12y ago
People who care more about freedom than comfort?
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by mapleoin 12y ago
They're only undercutting Square until 2015, after that the fee is 2.75%, same as Square. Read the fine print.
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by mapleoin 12y ago
Welcome to the internet.
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by mapleoin 12y ago
> The transaction rate (in USD/time) is microscopic in altcoins. I believe the word you're looking for is liquidity.
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Supernormal Stimuli: This Is Your Brain on Porn, Junk Food, and the Internet(huffingtonpost.com)
2 points by mapleoin 12y ago|1 comments
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by mapleoin 12y ago
So I don't get it. Are they for sale? How much?

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