nirvdrum

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901.
by nirvdrum 14y ago
I've been pretty happy with MyLifeOrganized. And while not officially supported, the author does try to make sure it runs well in wine.
902.
by nirvdrum 14y ago
Well, you could buy HBO through a cable provider, unless it's just completely not available in your country. In that case, it's extremely unlikely they'll offer Web access in your country either. So, really, you have another way, it's jus
903.
by nirvdrum 14y ago
I'm pretty anti-IAP. The core problem is I don't know what the purchases are or for until I've already committed to using the app. So, I naturally assume it's hobbled shareware. I'd much rather have a price and feature list in front of m
904.
by nirvdrum 14y ago
I've mentioned this elsewhere in the comments, but you're extremely unlikely to ever see a non-native speaker write "greater then" rather than "greater than." It's a pseudo-homophone (they really are pronounced differently) that just doesn
905.
by nirvdrum 14y ago
I guess I kept mine in tact by studying other languages and having to deal with people internationally. And my fondness for "The Elements of Style" and "On Writing" fostered it natively.
906.
by nirvdrum 14y ago
Effective communication is important for every job position I've ever encountered. Whether it was when I was a porter at Dunkin' Donuts, a research assistant, a cog in the wheel at Cisco, or running my own company. At the very least, you
907.
by nirvdrum 14y ago
No, it's as I stated initially. If you're unable to keep track of the rules of your native language, something that should be second nature, I have severe doubts about your ability to keep track of the rules in Scala, Ruby, or whatever els
908.
by nirvdrum 14y ago
Whenever you confuse the two, you cause me to have to reparse the sentence. "it's" becomes "it is" and then I have to determine that that doesn't make any sense and go back to substitute it. Vice versa. I also have a linguistics backgrou
909.
by nirvdrum 14y ago
I didn't downvote you, but my guess is you were downvoted for making a rather tenuous and almost insulting relationship. There's a big difference between someone with an actual disability and those that just don't care about what they writ
910.
by nirvdrum 14y ago
I like to amuse myself thinking of people trying to use "her's," "his'," "their's," "our's," or "your's." The possessive form is pretty consistent with pronouns.
911.
by nirvdrum 14y ago
Right. You should know the rules so you know when to break them. Stephen King hits on this point well in "On Writing." That book is a great read and takes a very non-parochial approach to writing.
912.
by nirvdrum 14y ago
While I could exhaustively ask about every aspect of every language you might have to work in, it's far simpler to use a proxy. The proxy in this case is your native language and seems to work rather well. And since your job certainly isn
913.
by nirvdrum 14y ago
Huh? I never said you had to communicate well in English. Even in your quoted text you can see that I said "in their native language." And clever use of "its" there :-)
914.
by nirvdrum 14y ago
Bah. My bad. I confused the parties in the thread. I'm sorry for the noise.
915.
by nirvdrum 14y ago
That sounds like a regional dialect. I've never heard it pronounced that way in the northeast US at the very least.
916.
by nirvdrum 14y ago
My issue is if you're unable to delineate between "it's" and "its" and it's the language you've been speaking natively for the past 25 years, I tend to doubt your ability to know what form of "const" to use in C++. At the very least, lack
917.
by nirvdrum 14y ago
Thanks for that. Very helpful and it looks like I have a new thing to research. To date, I've only employed SSDs in laptops.
918.
by nirvdrum 14y ago
Interesting. Do you happen to know if using LVM instead of mdadm is susceptible to the same issues?
919.
by nirvdrum 14y ago
Minor issue, but the App Store did not launch when the iPhone did. According to someone on wikipedia, the App Store isn't quite 4 years old yet. Still an impressive record if it truly is the first issue they've had.
920.
by nirvdrum 14y ago
I've never come across self-documenting code that can explain "why," which is what I was seeking. The closest thing I've ever come across was a PhD student working on a system called Seurat, but even that was really metadata attached to th
921.
by nirvdrum 14y ago
Do you have an example of good code that explains rationale or "why" without comments? I rarely come across code and can't figure out what it's doing, but I routinely come across code and can't figure out why it's doing something. And I h
922.
by nirvdrum 14y ago
Well, they also return errors if a zone is out of capacity. That seems like it would guard against the issue a bit. But maybe they just don't want to have to field loads of questions about that.
923.
by nirvdrum 14y ago
Ahh. Now that you mention it, I think I recall reading that before. It struck me as weird though because 1a was obviously the first one and 1e was recently added. So, would they rebalance my labels in that case?
924.
by nirvdrum 14y ago
What zone? I really wish Amazon would provide that info, instead of saying that it only affects one zone.
925.
by nirvdrum 14y ago
I currently us a combo because some of our emails are reports that take a bit to compile. So, the async method makes sense there. But every one of our nodes has a local postfix config and transport up to SendGrid. I trust Postfix will do
926.
by nirvdrum 14y ago
Since you're unlikely to be sharing memory with your background processor, what you'd really be doing is marshaling the object on enqueue and unmarshaling on decode. In that case, you're no more susceptible to further modifications to the
927.
by nirvdrum 14y ago
Maybe there was a basic expectation that he would use what the rest of the company was using and suggest it if he needed to go off the trodden path. To assume otherwise would be micromanaging.
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by nirvdrum 14y ago
One of the problems I really wanted to tackle was ensure consistency in web rendering across browsers and over time. Basically, automating the process of "does this page look right?" That culminated in my startup (Mogotest) and the concep
929.
by nirvdrum 14y ago
True, but it makes repairs quite a bit more expensive. I have to believe it costs Apple more money to swap out an entire logic board. I know it costs the consumer more when they get slapped with bill.
930.
by nirvdrum 14y ago
Have they really killed it? There's obviously more casual gamers carrying mobile devices around, but but they weren't buying handhelds to begin with. Everyone I know that previously used a DS or PSP for gaming still prefer that type of de

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