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Schwartz: A Python Shell for Quartz 2D(schwartzapp.com)
34 points by nmcfarl 13y ago|13 comments
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by nmcfarl 13y ago
Because, of course, the people responsible pushing this out are small fry. And people that will be punishing them will be the ones that just "won" the election. I think it's a shame when the peons get punished while the ones
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by nmcfarl 13y ago
I have a friend who for years said exactly the same things to me, and wondered why the cops were constantly harassing him. And then I got stopped in a traffic stop with him - as he speeds all the time - and he was shifty, dodgy, couldn&#x27
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by nmcfarl 13y ago
This is a simple enough misunderstanding I don't think that you own a digital ocean or ec2 instance - you rent them the same way you are renting the service this thread talking about. Given that chrismonsanto, is taking an even more ha
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by nmcfarl 13y ago
Which is an expensive way to run a company. Very few startup start with their own server rooms, because part of the "failing fast" is failing cheap. And if you are making infrastructure investments before you find product market
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by nmcfarl 13y ago
Dictators are almost always radical. As a rule they tear down, or kill all of the people who oppose them. Which leads to a radical shifting of institutions in a country, to such a degree that post dictator, the places almost never revert t
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by nmcfarl 13y ago
On this note I, during high school, worked at a large multiplex movie theater for about a year. During my shifts we had three car fires break out in parked, unoccupied cars. This was considered totally normal by both my employers and the f
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by nmcfarl 13y ago
Which is a good point - as it gives illustration to mikeash's point in this same thread. This doesn’t make logical sense at all - but there are practices based on it. And in this case both the "a token of our appreciation" a
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by nmcfarl 13y ago
Most useful comment in this whole conversation. Incredibly handy for home servers - for which I'd just resigned myself to the fate of running ssh on port 80.
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by nmcfarl 13y ago
I've lived in a couple of studios with my previous SO, for something like 3-4 years. In a huge number of ways I prefer it to live living in a 2 bedroom like I do now (however I much prefer living with my wife, so....) It enforces a min
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by nmcfarl 13y ago
My guess is that this isn't a matter of common - but one of knowledge. 2 of the 4 big US carrier sell GSM phones with sim chips, but as the phones are almost all locked down, only tech folk know this. To everyone else an AT&T phone
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by nmcfarl 13y ago
Given current roadway infrastructure I think that would preclude any sort of "plane" other than Harrier style VTOL craft, and from what I understand those are expensive and difficult even for the military. Your other option would
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by nmcfarl 13y ago
I've actually been involved in at least three projects to do precisely that. And mostly they worked fine. In two of the three cases I was converting between "the same language" but different incompatible versions of it and th
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by nmcfarl 13y ago
Larry Wall is a great man. And Perl was mighty force. An empire was built, and it may have crumbled, but all empires crumble. One day you will be repeating these words, to a youngster that says the heroes of your Ruby palace, (or your con
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by nmcfarl 13y ago
I'm still using 2.8 - if the other side cares about video, we'll use a google hangout, but skype's never getting upgraded again. Man was that a disaster.
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by nmcfarl 13y ago
It’s not the "promotions people" taking the seats, or forcing you to pay for an upgrade - it’s the Airlines. They determine which seats get placed in their planes how far apart, and how those seats are allocated. They could easily
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by nmcfarl 13y ago
or from here if you already know all the series codes: ftp://ftp.bls.gov/pub/time.series/
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by nmcfarl 13y ago
Looks like there is no CORS support: an OPTIONS calls result in a 403 Forbidden, and 'Origin' headers don’t get us 'Access-Control-Allow-Origin' response headers. Which is a shame because a Web-only client would have be
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by nmcfarl 13y ago
An interesting micro-site – it seems very much more aimed at people who know BLS data already, and much less aimed at coders. The FAQ answers the question "What is an API?", but doesn't even have a list of the IDs required in
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by nmcfarl 13y ago
More interestingly - in her case it’s the local culture as well. This story could easily be a case of cultural imperialism by contract coders.
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by nmcfarl 13y ago
This might work, but the people getting the message need that value communicated. Cute dinosaur emails do not say 'I'm throwing money around'. The site would need a complete redo. On the other hand the cute dinosaurs are very
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by nmcfarl 13y ago
I read this comment as normalizing violence and rape - saying that it is expected, as a matter of course. I disagree with that characterization. Bullying, violence, and rape should never be normalized, nor acceptable, regardless of the age
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by nmcfarl 13y ago
I actually think this should be the funding source. This is basically what Facebook is for as my very pregnant wife said as soon as she saw the site. But she was still pretty enthusiastic till she saw the 10$ cost. "Facebook it is!&q
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by nmcfarl 13y ago
So after your first comment I was wondering what GUI gives you as far as tools in an IDE that you couldn't have with curses style terminal-based interface. Emacs (and vi) do a wide assortment of refactorings, auto-completions, multipan
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by nmcfarl 13y ago
Some details on that ami: Specs: http://thecloudmarket.com/image/ami-cfa332ff--plan9-fossil#/... Link to launch via AWS Console: https://console.aws.amazon.com/ec2/home?region=us-west-2#lau...
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by nmcfarl 13y ago
Which is fantastic endorsement. GUIs and the Web may be nice for mucking about - but when I work - I work on the command line (or in emacs). All I truly care about is daemons and command line interfaces. Of course - my daemons and comma
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by nmcfarl 13y ago
I agree with talking to your customers, however one thing you wish to avoid is talking too much with your competitors and other "industry people". Some industries are broken because all of the players have the same mindset. If t
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Really the name belongs to a bivalve and everyone else is ripping off an entire species. I'm tired of thinking people are going to be able to pay for their tube fare with a mollusc - only to find out after reading it's really some
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by nmcfarl 13y ago
I also live in Seattle, and I also don't know anyone over 30 without a car per coupleº. But, like me and my wife, the vast majority of my friends own one car and that car is, indeed, largely used to get to Bainbridge, Rainier or Redmo
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by nmcfarl 13y ago
Perhaps. But this doesn’t feel like news or commentary. This feels like allegory. It’s a bedtime story about following your dreams, and the independence of children, and people in general. And it’s good. It reads well. Better than anythin

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