maryrosecook

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Writing an mp3 crawler in Clojure(blog.maryrosecook.com)
3 points by maryrosecook 17y ago|0 comments
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by maryrosecook 17y ago
I've never seen the problem with being at work for all three meals, given that breakfast and lunch closely bracket work hours. If you are young and don't have a family, having your employer cook you healthy meals is probably a net time-save
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by maryrosecook 17y ago
Public transport can create value by running all night. That way, more young people move to the city and bring money with them and create wealth while they are there.
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by maryrosecook 17y ago
Treating people with suspicion based on the fact that they are perceived as being in a particular demographic category is unacceptable. Essentially, it means that these people are having their rights infringed - freedom of movement and fre
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by maryrosecook 17y ago
Computers rarely save money. They usually allow people to do more in the same amount of time for the same money. In the case of hospitals, they provide a better level of care for the same money and in the same time. e.g. I was in an appo
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by maryrosecook 17y ago
More feedback: - Really lovely site. Lots of great touches. I typed that I will be going to Bar Wotever (actually the name of a night, not a place) tonight and it figured out where the venue is automatically. - Could the little red bars n
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by maryrosecook 17y ago
Cool. Thanks a lot.
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by maryrosecook 17y ago
Very impressed by the date handling. I entered Thursday to Saturday and it figured out what I meant. However, I can't make it understand ranges further in the future. For example, I'm going to All Tomorrow's Parties from 11th Dec to 13th
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by maryrosecook 17y ago
Does this include statements made under duress?
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by maryrosecook 17y ago
Approach it like you're probably approaching learning the actual language you are interested in (Scala/Clojure): you learn a bit, write some code, find a gap in your knowledge, learn what you need to know to fill that gap, write more code e
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by maryrosecook 17y ago
Thank you for the insight.
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by maryrosecook 17y ago
I've never played poker online, but I've played some with friends. For me, the fun is in playing against people you can see because you can read their faces. Could anyone explain how online poker is fun without this talking/visual element
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by maryrosecook 17y ago
Cambridge (UK) -> Sheffield (UK) -> Leeds (UK) -> London (UK) -> Berlin (Germany)
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by maryrosecook 17y ago
Totally relate. I've moved every two years for the last ten years.
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by maryrosecook 17y ago
1. I use the arrow keys to scroll in Firefox. You have made them move me up and down through the set of results. I see what you're trying for, but it's too jerky and confusing for me. 2. If I hold down TAB and click on an item in the Zero
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by maryrosecook 17y ago
Joshua Block, Chief Java Architect at Google, says in Coders at Work: "But for the absolute core of the system—the inner loops of the index servers, for instance—very small gains in performance are worth an awful lot. When you have that man
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by maryrosecook 17y ago
This will be the first 37Signals product that their staff don't use regularly in their own business. It will be interesting to see whether this means Haystack is less successful because they will be eating less of their own dog food.
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by maryrosecook 17y ago
Their deployment is beautifully simple. The fact that they host several of my mini-apps makes me extremely grateful. But, the chances I will ever actually give them money are remote: their plans are scarily expensive. I'd rather spend 20
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by maryrosecook 17y ago
For more from the wonderful Jensen on how abusive our culture is, read A Language Older Than Words ( http://www.amazon.com/Language-Older-Than-Words/dp/189395603... ). If you can look past the absurd stuff about talking to animals, there i
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by maryrosecook 17y ago
You're right: I write a little, do a test run of the code to see what comes back, fix it if it doesn't work, write a bit more and so forth. And I see how saving those little tests could be useful.
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by maryrosecook 17y ago
You know what has improved the quality of my code? Having every error on my live servers emailed to me. I feel compelled to fix it because I know that an actual user has had a problem. I tried to do unit testing for a project. I'd write a
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by maryrosecook 17y ago
A frequently running bus anywhere in the city for £1. Super-fast, mostly reliable Underground to most places that people call London for £2.
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by maryrosecook 17y ago
"'Chicks'? You're such a man."
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by maryrosecook 17y ago
How about if they just emulate the female role models in their life?
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by maryrosecook 17y ago
"This is just a rumour" is not boilerplate if it's the only reference to the source of the information. Also, "sources" is highly ambiguous: who do you mean? the guys at the bus stop or the company board members?
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by maryrosecook 17y ago
I make music in Ableton Live. I sing, play an electric guitar, a microKORG, a child's glockenspiel and assorted things (plastic bottles, lamps, doors, cassette tapes etc.) http://maryrosecookmusic.com
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by maryrosecook 17y ago
I use gist.github.com for this. Advantages: * Always editable in a clean text-area. * Version controlled. * Language detection and syntax highlighting.
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HTML 5 is another guess at the future(bigcontrarian.com)
29 points by maryrosecook 17y ago|9 comments
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by maryrosecook 17y ago
Um, I open source my own projects at github.com/maryrosecook Does that count?
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by maryrosecook 17y ago
On a side note, BitsyBox is a great idea: content management without the content management system, or, a feather rather than a sledgehammer.

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