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Gambitious ditches Kickstarter’s “backing” system for actual investment(penny-arcade.com)
1 points by msmith 14y ago|0 comments
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Amazon, Linux, Nginx, blitz.io, New Relic, Oh My...(geekbeing.com)
1 points by msmith 15y ago|0 comments
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by msmith 15y ago
I've done a fair amount of resume screening and it's definitely useful to be able to filter out the obviously unqualified or uninterested candidates. I checked out the EDITD test and it's a little more involved than Parse's.
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by msmith 15y ago
I'm not sure how it compares in performance, but I've always used scp -r for this: $ scp -r remote foo /where/to/unpack
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by msmith 15y ago
This post is talking about changing TCP, not SPDY. The changes mentioned here would probably benefit SPDY as well, but to a lesser degree than HTTP, since SPDY was designed to handle multiple concurrent HTTP requests on a single TCP sessio
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by msmith 15y ago
FWIW, I caught the tail end of the stream and the quality was fine. I'm looking forward to being able to watch the entire recorded session when it's available. If you're at all interested in the issue, I recommend that you watch this and m
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by msmith 15y ago
12:19PM central time - The chairman, Rep. Smith, was asking whether this bill would impact our ability to implement DNSSEC. He seemed legitimately concerned that it could weaken security on the internet. I have no idea whether there's any b
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by msmith 15y ago
Did not recognize my unicode snowman, but it got pretty close: Ṏ Ổ ồ
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Facebook's "Open Compute" Server tested(anandtech.com)
4 points by msmith 15y ago|0 comments
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by msmith 15y ago
How do you do the code obfuscation? rubyencoder or something homegrown?
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by msmith 15y ago
I learned recently that you can also do this on the command-line with "git diff -b"
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by msmith 15y ago
Ah, I see. Thanks for the pointer.
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by msmith 15y ago
You failed to launch the project that was going to help people launch projects.
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by msmith 15y ago
It's interesting that someone went out of their way to obfuscate the interim.html script: document.write('<s'+'cript language="JavaScript" src="'); I guess they were intentionally trying to evade some tool that looks for '<
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by msmith 15y ago
I'm sure it's monthly. The price tiers are the same as the full Heroku platform ( http://heroku.com/pricing ), which is billed monthly.
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by msmith 15y ago
No, Java and Scala syntax are quite different. I can really only think of a few cases where they share syntax.
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by msmith 15y ago
It's calling the fromFile method on the io.Source object. Package names are lower-case by convention, class and object names are capitalized camel-case, and methods are lower-case camel-case. Also, 1.upto(10) can also be written as (1..10)
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by msmith 16y ago
That's a really good explanation.
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Apple adds SSD TRIM support to Mac OS X 10.7 Lion beta(appleinsider.com)
93 points by msmith 16y ago|55 comments
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by msmith 16y ago
To be honest, I didn't really understand what he was trying to say, but I am certain that the first two problems he mentions are not what DI is intended to solve.
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by msmith 16y ago
This is not at all the definition of Dependency Injection. The wikipedia article [1] does a pretty good job of describing what it really is. DI is a pattern that is intended to reduce coupling between components in a large system. It appl
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Wired and Shrewd, Young Egyptians Guide Revolt(nytimes.com)
3 points by msmith 16y ago|0 comments
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by msmith 16y ago
Or maybe his paying customers would worry that they're relying on a service that's considered to be a side project.
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by msmith 16y ago
I'm pretty excited about Account Manager, the identity management feature, that's scheduled for Firefox 5. It has the potential to make the web both more secure and simpler to use. Usually those goals are opposing. Of course, the biggest ob
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by msmith 16y ago
This is not hacker news.
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by msmith 16y ago
I'm not sure if I'm following your point. Are you suggesting that anonymous inner classes aren't useful in a well-designed Java program? If so, I'd have to disagree. As an example, the Java Collections API (one of the most well-designed J
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by msmith 16y ago
Nope. In the FAQ, it says "You will not be able to switch back to the old design after upgrading."
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by msmith 16y ago
How long does it take your software to crack the other half?
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by msmith 16y ago
The thing that bothers me the most about this is that children are subject to the same pat downs. I can't imagine the difficulty of trying to explain to a child why it's OK for a TSA officer to touch you in this way, but it's not OK for an
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Engineering a better climate(economist.com)
3 points by msmith 16y ago|0 comments

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