nmcfarl

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by nmcfarl 14y ago
That lists almost all organizational changes, with fairly few benefits to the users (though quite a few to the organization, which it helpful for it’s continued existence). However reading the comments here it does seem like there are some
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by nmcfarl 14y ago
It would have been easy to have just stored that bit of session state to the server. It’d also be pretty easy to alter the HTML board to a prerendered image with imagemap click detection. At which point someones writing custom image feat
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by nmcfarl 14y ago
This ID is pretty much the only thing employers get to ID the workers, and thus track the quality of their work. (Which is particularly important on Turk, as anonymity seems to encourage fraud.) Everything else is push: web service calls
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by nmcfarl 14y ago
Sorta - I find I spend an increasing proportion of my workday in Google Hangouts. (And of my holidays on FaceTime calls....)
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by nmcfarl 14y ago
Good question - but it is 90% of what I see people using HTML parsers for grab the content of a single tag from a page. Which is why I often recommend "parsing" HTML with a regex. Particularly on throwaway projects. The overhead of a real p
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by nmcfarl 14y ago
Yeah - this is 3D drawing.
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by nmcfarl 14y ago
I agree completely with this. As you point out the act is standard - but the outrage is evident in the usage of the phrase "watered down". (And it's been used repeatedly in different places across my news feeds). This means - to me at least
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by nmcfarl 14y ago
The bigger problem is that it also doesn't capture the purpose of the post.
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by nmcfarl 14y ago
I’d actually guess that this is because we aren’t automotive mechanics. I’d bet there is at least a small group of automotive mechanics that are interested in increasing diversity in their field.
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by nmcfarl 14y ago
Looks like the set out to do this, and succeed with just a few simple changes to the marketing plan and adding Yoga to the days line up. The last seems like a nice technique to me as it sends the message that "women are welcome here" while
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by nmcfarl 14y ago
Boy is this new title lame. Formerly it was something like: "Pivory: the forum software that had a chance" , which told us that we weren’t supposed to be looking at the thread, but rather the software used to implement it. Which is pretty
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by nmcfarl 14y ago
The paper mentions that a numeric suffix scheme works fine if "you have a lot of machines and there are no reasons for any human to distinguish between them". I’d say modern production setup with a ton of configuration managed machines th
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by nmcfarl 14y ago
For something published in 1990 it holds up remarkably well. It is however almost entirely conventional wisdom at this point. Which does raise the question of weather the points made became conventional wisdom because of this papers publi
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by nmcfarl 14y ago
I've got a user CSS file that just colors that text the same color as the header. It's not perfect - for instance right now I'm on my iPad (no browser extensions) and I can see it - but it sure helps.
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by nmcfarl 14y ago
I'm always surprised when I write a scraper/proxy (usually in perl) at how little added latency is involved. If I host the thing on a fat pipe (say an EC2 instance), it's not even noticeable at home.
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by nmcfarl 14y ago
Or the iPad. Took 5, increasingly slow and methodical tries to actually get what I was trying for.
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by nmcfarl 14y ago
From my time working with academic researchers it was clear that they absolutely coveted publication in the above journals as they are so widely read - unlike the niche journals in their fields. To paraphrase one of them "They're crap, but
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by nmcfarl 14y ago
Where I live in America, Seattle, has a amazing reputation for pedestrians being highly obedient of walk signals and drivers being highly observant of crosswalks (and generally polite). But in fact everyone I know who commutes on foot has
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by nmcfarl 14y ago
Walk outside. My god, yesterday some guy didn't like me walking in the crosswalk, when he wanted to make a right turn so he swerved into the oncoming traffic lane to make his right (and cut me off). This versus wait 5 seconds. Annoying, ov
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by nmcfarl 14y ago
I work remotely not by choice but rather because the people I wanted to start this company with don't live in Seattle, and I love Seattle. So remote it is - and for the last 7 years it's been worth it. However the issolation is an issue -
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by nmcfarl 14y ago
If we're going to be limited to the title of the original piece why not enforce this, in the code? Fetching the page and parsing out a title tag really shouldn't be too many LOC - and would stop the debate.
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by nmcfarl 14y ago
I believe most states allow the address of your registered agent, to be your corporate address. And of course you can hire a registered agent, so I don't think this is a major problem.
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by nmcfarl 14y ago
Which is AWESOME. After years of fighting crappy PDF generators, I found wkhtmltopdf and am very very happy!
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by nmcfarl 14y ago
That’s something I’d like to see :)
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by nmcfarl 14y ago
I assumed, with the wooden border, it was for web only - as all textures of this sort fail pretty badly in anything less than a professional print job, on good paper. However the export options are PDF and Website, so print is probably one
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by nmcfarl 14y ago
No need to build it - Zencoder already does it. -- Edit: looks like they only support these audio codecs: aac, ac3, amr, eac3, mp3, vorbis, and wma https://app.zencoder.com/docs/api/encoding/format-and-codecs...
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by nmcfarl 14y ago
I disagree - with all my personal and business accounts I have around 15 pins. I of course have to write the down.
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by nmcfarl 14y ago
A use case would be a document like this one: http://worrydream.com/TenBrighterIdeas/ or this one: http://worrydream.com/ExplorableExplanations/ Both by Bret Victor who as far as I can tell invented the idea. At the very least he’s cer
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by nmcfarl 14y ago
First up a clickable link to the project: https://github.com/harthur/replace --- When I see a project that reinvents the wheel I tend to think that the author needed a very particular wheel and decided to start with first principles. And
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by nmcfarl 14y ago
My wife is a doc as well. Her opinions and experiences map to you wife’s, mine to yours. This is not about life being better than death. This is about the amount of pain and suffering you cause yourself and others while fighting off death.

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