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by mtkd 12y ago
Very useful thanks. In 10 years the before example in a before/after vid will still look like it does in that video - just as it did 10 years ago. The before example shots never seem to evolve - which makes me cynical about display tec
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by mtkd 12y ago
Procrastination will always find an outlet. You've turned all that off then focused on writing a piece about turning things off - so another outlet appeared almost instantly. Embrace it - there is probably a reason you are not ready to
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by mtkd 12y ago
I find articles like this quite useful for developing my thoughts on algorithms I use - my first reaction when reading was 'could this be applicable to machine learning?'.
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London's cabs plan 'severe chaos' for capital in protest against taxi app Uber(independent.co.uk)
4 points by mtkd 12y ago|0 comments
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by mtkd 12y ago
First came across Tom's code in the Grit gem (around 2008 possibly). Unfortunately people who can write inspirational and innovative code like that are not always the most perceptive to the complexities and risks of HR in a large organ
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by mtkd 12y ago
I can recommend Iberital MC2 grinders. Getting grind consistent and not too fine makes a big difference to taste (esp. reducing bitterness) when making non-espresso.
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by mtkd 12y ago
I look at tools for DOM manipulation right now - and I look at what people dream of doing with the DOM, especially with apps. Then I think back to what Delphi was doing in early 90s - then I wonder if just some of that magic was available f
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by mtkd 13y ago
Underneath all this is the problem of identity generally. How will someone born today have any hope of any kind of usable identity in a system that allows only one instance of a name.
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by mtkd 13y ago
> Maybe one or two in ten people have trouble working in that environment In my experience they are the one or two that do all the heavy lifting.
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by mtkd 13y ago
Apparently it was hourly and Inmarsat calculated two arcs (north and south) which it could have taken, but then focus seems to have moved to the southern one in last few days. I wonder if they flew test flights along both arcs and compared
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by mtkd 13y ago
> It's human nature not to prepare for a theoretical risk That's a substantial generalisation. Some people, especially in software engineering, spend a great deal of their day thinking how best to prepare for theoretical risk.
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by mtkd 13y ago
It's not that binary. Some weeks 60+ hours can be very productive - but it's important to recognise when you're not being productive and take a proper break - I still find that a challenge.
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by mtkd 13y ago
Github should have hired him last time.
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by mtkd 13y ago
Sadly it looks like / is 301 to WSJ already. This was posted last night and still available: http://allthingsd.com/20131231/some-of-our-fave-d-conference...
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by mtkd 13y ago
Getting increasingly harder to unsubscribe. - Some big vendors (Dell, HP?) don't seem to use unified opt-out lists or they use agencies that don't share unsubscribes - Unsub pages with complicated unsub process (double-negative qu
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by mtkd 13y ago
Whilst history is punctuated with previous ponzi schemes, it is also punctuated with periods that required a store of wealth outside of a national currency. I shared the author's view when BTC == $30, I'm tempering that now and st
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by mtkd 13y ago
But the browser won't cache the image? Also, you can't post the page to Google+ and have the image show in the post or post a link to the image direct etc. I only noticed because I couldn't post it.
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by mtkd 13y ago
What's the benefit of using src='data:image for the images?
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by mtkd 13y ago
But we're seeing a layer appear with companies like Bitpay that solves the volatile exchange rate issue.
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by mtkd 13y ago
Take a look at Michael Feathers - Working Effectively With Legacy Code
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by mtkd 13y ago
I suspect they're probably at work right now.
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by mtkd 13y ago
Sat with a fellow student at 3am in a UMIST lab in early 90s. Trying to resolve 'levi.com', 'cocacola.com' etc. on some early rev Mosaic ... rarely find a registered brand ... "someone needs to make page with a list
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by mtkd 13y ago
If you're going to make a bold prediction about Meteor killing Rails be prepared for some heat - your responses to that heat may progress or regress the argument.
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by mtkd 13y ago
If he'd kept one foot in the codebase - he might not have made so much money - but his software legacy might have turned out differently.
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by mtkd 13y ago
I maintain a lot - and they work for me. One recent addition to the set has been a 'simple/tired' list - where I queue mind-numbing renamings etc. It's useful when I just want to do something that requires no thinking at
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by mtkd 13y ago
I think a lot people who are doing (successful) distributed web apps - are learning that performance actually does matter - and it can be painful to optimise poor architectural decisions. People who 5 years ago were sermonising to me on pre
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by mtkd 13y ago
It is a simple abstraction of something that many people find very complicated - or choose to not spend time understanding / configuring. (You could say same about Github, Travis etc.)
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Increasing logical display resolution on OS X (HiDPI)
3 points by mtkd 13y ago|0 comments
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by mtkd 13y ago
Next generation may just decide they don't want to be tracked, segmented, attributed, targeted. They may just turn off. Entertainment may be gardening, stockmanship, fishing, painting ... Everything that's cool to us right now is
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by mtkd 13y ago
A pattern I've seen on a lot of the negative Mongo articles has been people using it for things they probably shouldn't. I've yet to use it for any load, and am struggling to triangulate from all the articles I read on whethe

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