moneypenny

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by moneypenny 10y ago
I have been a member for some years now and it's definitely my favourite place in London (and thus, the planet) but that's entirely because I'm somewhat institutionalized and feel quite at home here. Only a few weeks ago I di
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by moneypenny 13y ago
Photographer/photojournalist here. What a panamax-sized-load of complete nonsense. "Don't use the kit lens!" Says who? Some kit-obsessed "coffee enthusiast". And I'm keen on indoor-outdoor breathing! Let's be buddies! Marco Arment knows fuc
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by moneypenny 13y ago
That's exactly why I thought Flash would be repurposed - especially as they have a track record in making tools for creating (D)HTML and JS - anyone remember GoLive? Maybe they're still working on it, it can't be an easy task. Actionscript
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by moneypenny 13y ago
Flash Player not withstanding, the rest of the product line is very good IMHO. ActionScript 3 is a decent language with great compiler support, three good IDEs (FlashDevelop, FDT and Flex Builder) and libraries galore. Desktop support with
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by moneypenny 13y ago
Two of my friends flew over from the UK and were running in it, it happened right in front of Chris, luckily he's ok, she's ok. Fucking bombing bastards.
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by moneypenny 14y ago
And after using a John Carmack quote to back that up. ROFL.
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by moneypenny 14y ago
I was hoping for a well-reasoned and insightful post, but unfortunately this is not. The author appears to not quite understand how Dart works, with its optional static type system, and how Dart's imports work. I started laughing when readi
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by moneypenny 14y ago
As a journalism postgrad, I am extremely cool with this. AP employ thousands of stringers all round the world to gather and verify news, in dangerous and hostile places. Meltwater literally (not figuratively) took that news without giving a
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by moneypenny 14y ago
HURRAH! Gitlab is an excellent product but Gitolite and Resque were making the baby Jesus cry, ran off with your girlfriend and kicked a kid over on his bicycle. V5: Thanks very much, team Gitlab.
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by moneypenny 14y ago
God, there's a massive sense of humour failure from HN posters today. I really enjoyed the post, he hits a lot of nails square on the head. It's a well-written, poetic tribute. TLDR: Vim is great, but it's not always, but we're stuck with o
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by moneypenny 14y ago
Really? It took six years for PDPC to disband? How come? I don't know the whole story, but I'm a donor/got my cloak/etc, so am curious.
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by moneypenny 14y ago
Looks great. I was looking into creating something similar in terms of processing, some years ago, but never took it very far. Your work sounds very interesting and I can think of some interesting uses - I have access to some fascinating da
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by moneypenny 14y ago
Brilliant - thanks, hadn't found that info.
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by moneypenny 14y ago
dumb question I thought the GC tunings, e.g. RUBY_HEAP_MIN_SLOTS, were only available in REE, rather than MRI?
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by moneypenny 14y ago
If the original author is reading, those are George Orwell's "pithy maxims", not Allen Short's, but entertaining usage on getting a Big Brother reference into a security/trust context.
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by moneypenny 14y ago
Absolutely agree - anyone wandering into one of these opinion articles/discussions would think that developers are a self-centred bunch of arseholes whose productivity is the most important thing in the entire universe, and isolation/concen
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by moneypenny 14y ago
Absolutely - anyone wandering into one of these opinion articles/discussions would think that developers are a self-centred bunch of arseholes whose productivity is the most important thing in the entire universe, and isolation/concentratio
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by moneypenny 14y ago
I don't have too many issues getting latex running either, but I do mostly agree, despite my humorous aside. If I had a quid for every extra hour that Maven added to my work above and beyond the coding, I could take you all to lunch. Tools
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by moneypenny 14y ago
TLDR: Maven makes hard things easy and easy things really f hard.
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by moneypenny 14y ago
Github, as good as they are, aren't the only company doing what they do. Gitorious, Tigris, Bitbucket and Sourceforge (et al.) have all been around a long time. Suggesting Github have had their features "ripped off" is harsh, and more than
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by moneypenny 14y ago
Finally. Resque is such a PITA with Gitlab. Hopefully the upgrade script will work properly now. I have to fix quite a few bits and pieces every upgrade. Top piece of software, though.
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by moneypenny 14y ago
The benefit is that you know which tedious people to avoid when they tell you they work at Facebook/Google/etc.
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by moneypenny 14y ago
This is awesome. Or witchcraft. Top, top work. I love it. Now to try with my monster list of packages...
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by moneypenny 14y ago
stunned may have to eat socks (See: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4748382 )
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by moneypenny 14y ago
This is a fabulous technology, but we shouldn't get carried away. Firstly, this is another disruption of the world's water cycle, which we have already managed to a considerable degree, and if we manage atmospheric water extraction on a mas
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by moneypenny 14y ago
As a similar Indian born in Britain, I agree with your observations about the paradox of violence inherent in the movement. I should add that non-violence only works when governments are vulnerable to moral pressure and this was not true
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by moneypenny 14y ago
Well, if it does everything they says it does, does that still make it any good? raises eyebrow
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by moneypenny 14y ago
Restricting it to Github is also annoying, if not slightly stupid.
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by moneypenny 14y ago
I briefly worked at Eidos amongst a bunch of avid gamers (really?). The consensus verdict: Elite - best game ever. We played Oolite mercilessly in our free time. However, regarding a new version of Elite, David Braben is a feckless omega ma
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by moneypenny 14y ago
Perhaps this chap would be suitable? http://www.craigslist.org/about/best/tor/881177993.html

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