mnutt

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by mnutt 15y ago
One of the many differences between programming and medicine, law, etc is that entry into the latter fields is tightly controlled by governing bodies. Anybody can read a programming book and start working, but only so many law students gra
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by mnutt 15y ago
Though it could have been said more constructively, I don't the the parent is completely wrong about the grouping of the elements. I find the diamonds a bit distracting because to my eyes it makes the right column a long string of differen
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by mnutt 15y ago
I was surprised that he ran siege against www.google.co.uk without some kind of "don't do this" disclaimer to new users. Running it against other people's websites is pretty poor form.
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by mnutt 15y ago
It's because width and height are set to zero. And since the browser tapers the edge of the borders, you get a triangle shape.
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by mnutt 15y ago
A while back I remember using an extension that would restore all of your previous tabs on start up, but not actually load them until you clicked on them. It fixed the situation you describe, but sadly it looks like it no longer works with
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by mnutt 15y ago
The problem that I see with the certificate of origination idea is that then the patent trolls will file for literally millions of certificates of origination. Then they'll just send you threatening letters asking for a settlement and you
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by mnutt 15y ago
I have to think it can't be that bad a place to work; they at least have a good sense of humor. April Fools' before last they did this awesome parody of Gilt: http://www.groupoupon.com/
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by mnutt 15y ago
People are more likely to buy umbrellas online on days when it's raining. Though it will certainly rain again, whereas hopefully we won't see that many riots over our lifetimes.
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by mnutt 15y ago
Would you prefer minor copy edits to come in the form of pull requests, or just comments?
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by mnutt 15y ago
I don't think Google's suggestion that patents are bad is at odds with them trying to buy $3B of them. Whether or not they like patents, they still have to deal with the effects. They claim that they tried to buy the patents as a defensive
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by mnutt 15y ago
Matz is short for Yukihiro Matsumoto, the creator of Ruby.
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by mnutt 15y ago
You make it more difficult for the spam filters to determine the difference between spam and non-spam.
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by mnutt 15y ago
I assume that is referring to Paul Graham's assertion that a good developer isn't just a little better than an average developer, but is instead orders of magnitude better.
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by mnutt 15y ago
I can't imagine it's considered a vulnerability. Heroku has had a documented `heroku console` that can do at least as much as bash can, security-wise.
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by mnutt 15y ago
It's possible in Safari. Mozilla and Opera have said they'll support it in the future. Here's an example in Safari: http://videojs.com/
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by mnutt 15y ago
This is a static pure HTML page generator.
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by mnutt 15y ago
I'm not disappointed, but I was actually hoping it was a playable html5 version of this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T2OytHzZ72Y My favorite part is when he misses the goalpost in his first pass and then goes back a second time and hit
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by mnutt 15y ago
I believe it just uses it under the hood, but I'm not familiar enough with relational algebra (or ARel) to know for sure. Here's a blog post from the author: http://magicscalingsprinkles.wordpress.com/2010/01/28/why-i-...
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by mnutt 15y ago
For non-gui work it mostly lives up to that promise, but if you're building a consumer app you end up having to do a lot of tweaking per-platform.
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by mnutt 15y ago
Check out ARel. (it's in ActiveRecord 3, part of Rails) It uses relational algebra and is pretty good about letting you mix and match: enabled = User.where(:disabled => false) enabled.group("date(created_at)").having("created
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by mnutt 15y ago
Regarding the screenshots, I find that 90% of the time I'm taking screenshots it's to show somebody something, so I really like CloudApp. (getcloudapp.com) You do the usual shift-cmd-4, but instead of copying the screenshot to the clipboar
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by mnutt 15y ago
Now that I think of it, it would actually be pretty easy to write a github-archive tool that would clone a repo, compress it, push to s3, then delete from github using the API. It could even do the reverse, as well.
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by mnutt 15y ago
Isn't there some value in paying for a service that you use and value?
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by mnutt 15y ago
The enumerables prototype took from ruby were really nice. I always liked being able to do things foo.map(function(p) { return p.length; }); jQuery's $.map felt clunky in comparison. (this is all with the understanding that prototype addi
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by mnutt 15y ago
From the other side, as founders, when did you switch everybody over from using their personal laptops to company laptops? A funding event? Certain size of the team?
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by mnutt 15y ago
I've never heard of the "artist stature" theory regarding what is copyrightable; the only time I've heard stature come into play is related to derivative works and destroying sculptures. What ruling would apply here?
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by mnutt 15y ago
I don't know about Django but in Rails ActiveModel works pretty well to bridge the gap and let you use any Rails auth system on Mongo, etc.
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by mnutt 15y ago
I had to google 'django magic removal branch' just because it sounded so cool: https://code.djangoproject.com/wiki/RemovingTheMagic I think your experience with Rails (and the community) may be a little out of date. Check out wycats' cha
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by mnutt 15y ago
That would be useful. Archive.org is better at not breaking than I imagined it would be, but still often leaves broken assets. The combination of the two would be really cool: see the page, and how the page was viewed at the time.
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by mnutt 15y ago
Thanks, I didn't know that. They should publicize that feature so that more projects use it. I still find Github's detached gh-pages branches to be really clever and convenient.

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