mr_olive

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by mr_olive 1mo ago
Hah, I was dealing with this problem today. My approach: Add entries for my localhost apps to `/etc/hosts`, and set up nginx as a reverse proxy. Now when I go to ` http://myapp.local ` in the browser, `/etc/hos
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by mr_olive 6y ago
On the contrary, in my experience such stateful APIs are a great use case for state machines. You just approach them differently. Instead of doing a blocking call, you introduce a "waiting for <something>" state. You leave t
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by mr_olive 8y ago
The "Pale Blue Dot" photograph strikes the same chord for me. Carl Sagan's reflection on it can be especially moving [1]. [...] The Earth is a very small stage in a vast cosmic arena. Think of the rivers of blood spilled by
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by mr_olive 11y ago
There's a whole (short) chapter on changes in "Peopleware" [1]. I've just skimmed through it, here are the key points I've found: 1) Change is not a single step. It involves several stages, one of them being chaos.
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by mr_olive 12y ago
I think it's only partially true. Technology products may get pretty depending on who is the consumer. Computers, phones and cars get nice exterior design, because the "general public" uses them, and they are, as you said, so
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by mr_olive 12y ago
These radiators exist specifically to deal with power which has already been used. As stated in the article, the station needs a few kW of electrical power. Eventually all this power ends up as a waste heat energy. There is nothing that can
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by mr_olive 12y ago
I second the OP. The "emotional" motivation has brought me quite far in my life. I always enjoyed learning. I got into programming because it was easily triggering the "reward circuits" in my brain. But as life follows,
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by mr_olive 12y ago
Nobody has mentioned it yet, so I feel obliged to link keyboard.io: http://www.keyboard.io/ They are currently in prototyping phase and they expect to go to Kickstarter this summer. I'm not from their team, I only want