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by mpd 10y ago
> Audi (example): letter (car/SUV/race car)+ number (quality: 1-cheap, 8-luxury) - BMW: first number is a quality class, two numbers is the Engine size. - Mercedes: first letter is a quality class, number is the engine. You nee
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by mpd 10y ago
Why do you talk about 'engineers' as if they were a single mind? They've also been working on nuclear weapons for generations.
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by mpd 10y ago
> it is impractical to transport data in a binary format that is unparseable without extra information (schemas) Well, Avro embeds the schema with the messages, and deserializing the message will default to using that schema. I think JSO
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by mpd 10y ago
> Everytime console hacking comes up I start to wonder how well a manufacturer would do if their next console was open. Would you consider a PC as an 'open' console for this context? If not, what would differ?
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by mpd 10y ago
Eh, Kinesis has some pretty significant trade-offs to know about if you are comparing it with Kafka (e.g. data retention time and write latency).
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by mpd 10y ago
Because as a developer, it's often easier to develop for Linux than other major platforms. You often get Linux compatability for "free". It's worth asking for for this reason.
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by mpd 10y ago
I assume you've never had the pleasure of configuring a Sendmail installation?
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by mpd 10y ago
I want to second this. I'm in the middle of this course right now. It has a lot of theory, which may not be terribly interesting if you just want to learn to build a compiler, but it's complete and the language you're buildin
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by mpd 11y ago
> This is good, because now I know I would never work for Asana. I've actually used their product, and I'm in the same boat as you because of it.
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by mpd 11y ago
A player with glasses is on Giant Bomb's stream as I type this, and says "it ain't great". He's been at it 20-ish minutes.
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by mpd 11y ago
Which would have been a terrible name if they weren't simultaneously controlling the bully pulpit.
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by mpd 11y ago
I mentioned it in my response to the other reply, but I've found that the average programmer's Google-fu is actually quite poor, and they would not do that subsequent narrowed search.
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by mpd 11y ago
I get that¸ but naming your project a single word that has tons of pre-existing search results can't be a great idea if you're looking for traction. The average person's (or even programmer's!) Google-fu has always bee
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by mpd 11y ago
It's not really on-topic, but why do people name their projects with names that are very difficult to find via search engine? I really don't understand this mindset.
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by mpd 11y ago
I mean... you don't start out using power tools, right? Every tool can't be everything to everybody. At the beginning of my career, there's no way I could do Rails, but nowadays, I'm just not interested in anything but.
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by mpd 13y ago
There's a lot that I like about Erlang the language, but using it in production left a sour taste in my mouth due to difficult-to-find documentation, difficulty in testing the code, and (especially) the misery that is mnesia. It was a
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by mpd 13y ago
You can install it from Play. It's straightforward. https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.google.and...
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by mpd 13y ago
Yeah, it's come up a few times in the past. https://www.hnsearch.com/search#request/all&q=anonymous+font
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by mpd 13y ago
Cockatrice is the successor to Apprentice, and is still around even after a recent C&D from WotC. The reason the C&Ds come along is because they all tend to use terms and concepts that WotC owns, like tapping cards. http:/&#x2
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by mpd 13y ago
I'm not sure if you're aware of Forge or not, but it's actively developed and will probably give you a better game than Shandalar. http://www.slightlymagic.net/wiki/Forge
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by mpd 13y ago
This reminded me of a password for the original Metal Gear that will start you very close to the end. FUCK1 MEEEE EEEEE EEEEE EEEEE (This is not the same as the better known FUCKM E1111 11111 11111 11111 password - you start with more stuff
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by mpd 13y ago
Sure - so far I've had to update postgres_ext, rails_autolink, redis-rails (part of redis-store package), and marginalia. I'm currently fighting with redis-rails in particular, as bundler doesn't seem to be seeing the dependency change in a
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by mpd 13y ago
The issue I keep running into when testing the RCs with larger apps is the number of gems that have strict dependencies on older versions of activesupport, etc. I am wading through my Gemfile (over 200 gems counting direct and indirect depe
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by mpd 13y ago
Quotes like this come off as a lot of hot air. Don't tell me what you're going to do. JFDI.
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by mpd 13y ago
So I type 'help', and a box pops down that says Help! Get help on using Storm Bar and nothing else . I can't click anything. What am I supposed to be doing with this?
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by mpd 14y ago
This looks to have resolved it for us as well. Thank you.
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by mpd 14y ago
It also allows them to offload a lot of the processing to the client, and not have to worry about infrastructure to deal with cropping, resizing, etc.
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by mpd 14y ago
And of those migration changes, the move to 1.9.3 will be the biggest change for shops still on 1.8. If you're already on 1.9, the move is straightforward. Switching find syntax over is rather simple, though tedious. Gemifying a plugin take
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by mpd 14y ago
True story: Piki was Stipple's original name, some 3+ years ago. I don't remember now why we changed it...
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by mpd 14y ago
I switched back to Mutt a few months ago after trying Mail.app (filtering wasn't up to my requirements, would hang often) and Thunderbird (bloated and slow under load). It's been a champion. urlview.sh is pretty awful, mis-parsing urls cons

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