mikegioia

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by mikegioia 10y ago
I think the trend of front-end projects not providing a compiled `dist` folder with the assets for web inclusion to be a bad idea. This requires me to NPM install this "front-end code" (no Bower) and then add this Gulp compilation
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by mikegioia 10y ago
Ah I see, thank you.
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by mikegioia 10y ago
This is really cool. The article mentions that encryption is illegal over these radio frequencies, but why is that? Are people actively detecting encrypted data? It would be cool to experiment with these radios but have it all communicate u
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by mikegioia 10y ago
If you have a lot of relations in your data don't use mongo Why would you use Mongo if you have lots of relational data? Why would you not start with a relational database for that? I know Mongo has issues but it's n
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by mikegioia 10y ago
The dollar-pizza wars hit their beautiful height when I walking down 1st ave between 13th/14th a few years ago. I counted 5 in one block! What a wonderful gift dollar-pizza has been. I often wonder how many able-bodied men and women th
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by mikegioia 10y ago
This is, in my opinion, the worst part of the story. Anyone who has set up a web-server on the public net knows what happens when you leave ports accessible like this to old, well-known software. There's a good chance people would targ
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by mikegioia 10y ago
I think it works perfectly :P
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by mikegioia 10y ago
Not necessarily. You don't need an HTML renderer for emailing, and even if you did, the difference between HTML rendering for emails vs. a full 3rd party, concurrently running application system is pretty big.
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by mikegioia 10y ago
We've all been using one since the 80s: email. The interface is just poorly designed for social networking.
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by mikegioia 10y ago
I just want one manufacturer to care about and release a decent feature phone. The current landscape right now is the LG Cosmos III, various shitty Tracfones, and then the Nokia lines that have been ruined by Microsoft. I think there's
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by mikegioia 10y ago
I think this is wonderful, but this chart [1] seems to indicate that the decrease in coal use is really only replaced by the increase in natural gas. Natural gas seems to release less CO2 than coal burning, but it would be much nicer to see
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by mikegioia 10y ago
Welcome to the circus that is the 2016 Presidential Election. She's running against "The Donald" ffs! The whole thing is just disgusting, top to bottom.
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by mikegioia 10y ago
The ground is warmer (and therefore drier) now in May, and this is especially so in the Boreal Forest of Canada where temps. have been rising much faster than they have in the mid latitudes. This year the fire season
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by mikegioia 10y ago
I'm not going to engage you on what you do, but you need to re-read some of the comments you've made. A lot of it is too hostile / oddly opinionated to be taken seriously, regardless of message. Whatever it is, it's not
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by mikegioia 10y ago
Yea but you have to give Stallman the benefit of the doubt here. Perhaps he just knows that Parrots live long, bonding lives and that an unknowing person should never buy one.
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by mikegioia 10y ago
One of the best methods is recreational, organized sports. One good example is ZogSports. A lot of people sign up alone and I think the team sports and group interaction really help form the bonds early.
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by mikegioia 10y ago
If there is a key it must be the willingness to be persistent, not give up the effort to enrich the network of connectedness. Here and there people do respond, and a relationship slowly begins to form. I think that&#x2
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by mikegioia 10y ago
I think you're right, but I also think a lot of people want something different. Most people see something they admire, want to recreate it for themselves, and then share it with their friends and family to show/record that they&#
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by mikegioia 11y ago
This is great work, but any scrollbar adjacent to a draggable divider isn't usable :(
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by mikegioia 11y ago
> As an experiment, we could take a fork of good quality ad-blocker and change the way that it works so that rather than blocking the advert content when it detects an ad on a page it blocks the entire page That is a fantastic idea. Some
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by mikegioia 11y ago
I have absolutely no problem not consuming it. I would bet most people consume things not because they want to, but because it's there and easy. Ask your friends this: would they still read NYT articles if they had to pay 25 cents ev
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by mikegioia 11y ago
The argument against ad-blocking is that the content-creators don't get paid for their content. But, honest question: who cares!? If you push out content and you can't make money on it without ads, then that content didn't ne
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by mikegioia 11y ago
I think it suffers from the same problem as other asset caching. Think of all the sites you visit and how much JS they load. 1000 websites with 1MB of JS will hit 1GB of storage.
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by mikegioia 11y ago
Just out of curiosity, why do you only consider gzipped size when determining bloat? Transmission size/time isn't the only factor, there's also the time it takes the JS engine to process the code. 43k gzipped is okay for the
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by mikegioia 11y ago
The comments here are not indicative of the developers at-large. This is mostly posturing to validate decisions to use other tools. I love Grunt, I understand the complaints but it's a great system that's easy to understand and wo
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by mikegioia 11y ago
Yea but honestly, every time I try to configure Gnome the way I need it, I get frustrated and give up (ha). I just don't have the time, and this distro looks good right out of the box. I'd be someone who tries this in a VM and hon
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by mikegioia 11y ago
I'm not sure what I would do if I lived in a city where electronic transactions are a requirement for public transport. Step into my office ;) There are many things you can do, walking is the best one. You can pay for
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by mikegioia 11y ago
Have every candidate work on the same problems, and let them do it from home To be fair, I've seen a lot of good arguments against programming assignments. I think at the end of the day, the employer needs to conduct some
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by mikegioia 11y ago
I've been "cash only" for 8 months now and I love it. Of course I need a credit card if I buy something on Amazon or a one-off web store, but the point is to move as many transactions offline as possible. There are so many pr
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by mikegioia 11y ago
The prima donnas will attack you ad hominum and call you slow. I don't know whether to laugh at or applaud the irony of that statement.

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