nmcfarl

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by nmcfarl 14y ago
I've heard the argument used against any editor that's not vi (and once against any editor that wasn't notepad), and against the use of source control it's self - "cvs won't be on every machine, it's better to just learn to use tarballs and
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by nmcfarl 14y ago
I've been told that in northern New Mexico most of the mineral rights where sold off long ago, in the 20's and 50's, and sold off pretty comprehensively. Meaning there are parts of the state you just couldn't live in if you refused to live
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by nmcfarl 14y ago
That there is - but there is no API that gives access to this functionality, which means if Apple doesn't want to provide it, it's not happening.
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by nmcfarl 14y ago
I met my wife via OkCupid, in Seattle. So it certainly worked for me (with more than a few of the standard dating misstarts).
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by nmcfarl 14y ago
This is a commentary on "Perl is not Dead, it is a Dead End" which was discussed on HN here: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5049457
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How Forking Perl 5 Could Work(modernperlbooks.com)
3 points by nmcfarl 14y ago|1 comments
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by nmcfarl 14y ago
True. But if we assume everyone put on the stand in a trial is a paid shill, lieing for one side or the other, we also have to assume that that the court system is a sham and there's no point in a trial. I'd rather assume that we can find
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by nmcfarl 14y ago
This is really much much uglier than reported earlier, and that was pretty ugly. CBS has rather gutted CNET here - their product reviews where the best part of the site, and that is absolutely not to be trusted any more.
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by nmcfarl 14y ago
But that doesn't mean the expert witness is wrong.
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by nmcfarl 14y ago
This is worth reading, in spite of it's inflammatory title, as it's really about a new project: moe ( https://github.com/stevan/moe ) an "ultra-modern perl 5" written in Scala.
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by nmcfarl 14y ago
PG's recent answer to this is that Startup=Growth http://paulgraham.com/growth.html and that revenue is the best way to measure that. In the same article he says that funding helps start ups grow faster (and presumably since that's what a
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by nmcfarl 14y ago
Clickable link: http://subvertapps.com/Tulip
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by nmcfarl 14y ago
One of the videos of this thing does indeed show stylus support.
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by nmcfarl 14y ago
And without a working prototype? Wow.
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by nmcfarl 14y ago
I use S3 directly (+ Route53) for my static sites, with EC2 micro instances for things that need a CPU. Previously I used Linode and was happy, but when I decided to cut administrative overhead, and go with just one vendor I went with amazo
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by nmcfarl 14y ago
Honestly, I down vote on the iPhone all the time, by accident. I'd assume that if I was you...
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by nmcfarl 14y ago
The light grey zone coloration (In the last 2 maps) is hugely distracting in these images, though I don’t remember that being the case in real life. Perhaps it’s an artifact of the size.
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by nmcfarl 14y ago
For non-recurring tiny payments I use PayPal for Digital Goods* for one of my side projects. It works about as well as paypal in general - but it is oddly hosted on even slower servers. It’s 5.5% + $0.05, so you don’t want to use it
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by nmcfarl 14y ago
And widely used in the perl world. It's a good idea for a lot of simple programs.
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by nmcfarl 14y ago
Well that makes it harder on the cops and the DA - and in the end your elected officials. But it's not society's job to make things easy for the Cops/DA/Lawmakers (It's really sorta vice versa.) When serious crimes are committed they should
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by nmcfarl 14y ago
I did this and found it was as good as Joel says it is. But I was constantly missing meetings and forgetting to pick up the groceries. So now now I let: Phone, Messages, Reminders, Calendar, and a couple other job or relationship apps thr
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by nmcfarl 14y ago
CS2 is not a Universal App on Macs, so this takes a PowerPC Mac, or Mac OS old enough to run Rosetta (Snow Leopard).
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by nmcfarl 14y ago
This ones tough. In my life I do 2 things: 1) Logging. Measure what you want to improve, and then actually track the measurements. Also: log interesting things - your git repo tells all kinds of stories, if you want to put the effort in - b
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Why Felix won't take off...(erik-poupaert.blogspot.com)
1 points by nmcfarl 14y ago|0 comments
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by nmcfarl 14y ago
I'm gathering the goal of this is to be a polyfill, for older browsers, as ES6 comes online, allowing for a faster transition. If that's the case it seems to be well ahead of the curve...
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by nmcfarl 14y ago
Interesting Idea. Things it needs: 1) A browse feature, so you can see other peoples screens 2) A mobile optimized homepage, so using it from the iPhone is more attractive. 3) A reminder of how to take a screenshot on an iPhone :) 4) A bett
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by nmcfarl 14y ago
I know - I’ve been there. The obvious starting place is to hire people who know this isn’t 9-5 gig, (so nothing is sudden). But of course that drives up wages a bit :) Boy is this an expensive problem to solve.
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by nmcfarl 14y ago
Clickable Link: https://www.kwixer.com
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by nmcfarl 14y ago
I was actually using submissions as a poor man’s substitute for HN search :) I found the tutorial ( http://felix-lang.org/web/tutorial.fdoc ) to be a bit info sparse when I had no clue what I was looking at. Once I’d poked a round a bit
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by nmcfarl 14y ago
On this note - I didn't get surgically altered, and if there is one thing that drives me bats (daily) about the 5 it's the bigger screen. Man do I wish we could go back to the 4's screen size!

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