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by nmcfarl 13y ago
Yeah - but it doesn't unless you it quite a good bit of it. And of course it's super yummy. It would of course be better if it was just labeled as escolar (as it is at my local sushi joint)
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by nmcfarl 13y ago
I’ve used the perl one as well. And while I’ll agree the XML handled needs to be simple, I’d say the the use case needn’t be. At one job dealt with 10 and 20 Megabyte XML files on a daily basis - and I never thought of throwing XML::Simple
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by nmcfarl 13y ago
I agree completely with this. Additionally I wouldn't worry about the formality of the approach – if pinging them on Twitter is the best way to get the right person on the phone or out to a coffee - then ping them on the Twitter.
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by nmcfarl 13y ago
Interesting theory. But it seems to indicate that the best piss off those higher up in the corporate food chain, and do it repeated, without results, until they get fired. From my perspective, both tact (and associated political skills), a
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by nmcfarl 13y ago
This is probably a nature of how the MailChimp plans are constructed. I know that the Zencoder plans get cheaper when you level up to the next one (and it’s worth while switching before you hit the minimum included minutes.) Plans can be
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by nmcfarl 13y ago
So I’ve been listening to the demo in the background for a bit now. And I think it does convey info in a non-intrusive way, though I’d imagine it’ll take a long while to know exactly what’s going on just by listening. It seems like the b
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by nmcfarl 13y ago
I treat Vito’s as a restaurant (a very, very lounge-y one) - this is pretty much a personal choice, as I like their kitchen (and their mocktails). I should check Rumba’s mocktail selection. And I don’t find other cities more mocktail friend
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by nmcfarl 13y ago
My wife is pregnant and as a show of solidarity I’m not drinking around her (which cuts out the majority of my drinking). Which is not quite this experiment, but has shown me one thing where his and my experiences differ: Socializing. As i
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by nmcfarl 13y ago
This could be an argument for doing what the Gap Brand sites do and sticking a banner with a coupon code in it at the top of every single page. Then everyone feels special. Though I do suspect it A/B tests differently :)
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by nmcfarl 13y ago
I’ve done the same - though in at least one case I did purchase eventually when I caught the promotion. However that was still reduced and delayed revenue for the vendor over not having the box. And how many times have I completely given u
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by nmcfarl 13y ago
A good question. The reason I expect a good designer know something about the media they are working in is because this is been very traditionally part of the job. Designers have been expected know what inks can and can't be reproduced
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by nmcfarl 13y ago
The only time I remember being blocked from using a mailinator email it was a client side regex form validation - using one of Mailinator’s "alternate domains" got around that. I would suspect that a lot of companies are willing
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by nmcfarl 13y ago
I've worked with really truly horrible designers who started as coders. But the worst UI designer I ever worked with knew how to draw pretty pictures and utterly refused to view the web as a separate media from print. Technical constra
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by nmcfarl 13y ago
This seems to be a common complaint but I can't see any reason you can't give it a once over when it's hosted on the web…
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by nmcfarl 13y ago
> There's no need for comments unless you are trying to use it for something other than raw data. Is this a true statement? Even books have margins, and word docs comments. I think it’s not infrequent that pure data calls for m
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by nmcfarl 13y ago
Not if it matters much, but I have no problem with the argument that some things should be written in C or on top of the JVM for performance reasons. My problem is with people claiming that some popular scripting language, say Ruby, is mass
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by nmcfarl 13y ago
As a counterpoint: For my social circle it's not remotely in the obscure category. I suspect that none of my friends or coworkers would have to look it up on Google... This is what a liberal arts education is for. -- Of course I realiz
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by nmcfarl 13y ago
That kind of shows my point. (Although not as well as some of the others.) On that particular benchmark Perl is faster than the fastest JRuby, and Python benchmarks. And faster than 11 other benchmarks, but the secondary perl benchmark pr
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by nmcfarl 13y ago
When I look Alioth I really don't see this, particularly the "slowest but JRuby" claim. What is your methodology? --- Edit: What I do see is all the fastest test program for the interpreted languages, ruby, python, etc are al
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by nmcfarl 13y ago
My tl;dr - The author says people are currently writing "perls" that add features that he likes and remove features that he doesn't like - and he would like us all to consider them all the perl not just the one binary. IE the
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by nmcfarl 13y ago
There is also a problem with messaging even after the bill has been paid due to unclear standards of tipping. I have a friend here in Seattle, who likes to consider himself a generous tipper. As such a 20% tip is for truly horrible service
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by nmcfarl 13y ago
This of course demands that the information be on the web site in some form. I find that FAQs often approach information form another angle, and the answers to the questions are not on the site at all. Though supporting information or the
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by nmcfarl 13y ago
A clear example of Betteridge's law, "Any headline which ends in a question mark can be answered by the word no." - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betteridge's_law_of_headlines Why? This is a pretty s
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by nmcfarl 13y ago
The last system I worked on that actually stored it’s own CCs (Lately it’s been all tokens, all the time, for me) did roughly this with the added, fun, feature no SSH or remote shells on the backend box. You sent messages to add or charge
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by nmcfarl 13y ago
As a paperboy I carried a portable fog horn. I was good with dogs, and only had to use it once in my 6 years of delivering papers (5-11 grades). But it stopped the dog - quick - and he never bothered me gain in the next 2 years which I d
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by nmcfarl 13y ago
Indeed it indicates that the bikes are about 40 years old - and that they were not a new idea at the time, and references the Long John Bikes from 1920s in the 4th paragraph. http://www.google.com/search?q=long+john+bike h
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by nmcfarl 13y ago
"We do not have a threat model for the NSA, they are somewhere between a usual state level attacker and Cthulhu" just about made my day! Awesome description.
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by nmcfarl 13y ago
Of course you need men to change their attitudes - the majority of people at the top of the food chain are male, and they’re the ones that make the hiring decisions. But you are right - it’s not an exclusively male problem, and woman are p
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by nmcfarl 13y ago
I completely agree with going one by one through list, and focusing on what you're most interested in first (for whatever reason maybe curiosity or maybe straight economics) maybe for years at a time. But I don't believe that bein
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by nmcfarl 13y ago
All of them! But as you probably want to slightly more concrete list I would go with JavaScript, Java, Clojure, Objective C, Ruby, SQL, Prolog. In that list we have a few of oo languages of varing purity, a few scripting languages, a coupl

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