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by nmjohn 12y ago
> Twitter has, for me, become a news stream and very little more. It has for me as well. I just checked and I have tweeted exactly once in the last year, it was when I was on vacation in march. Before that, it was August 1, 2013. However
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by nmjohn 12y ago
Des Moines, IA | Relocation: Yes | Full Time Fullstack developer - Ideally looking to work more on the backend but I am flexible. Backend: Node.js, Redis, MySQL, PostgreSQL, MongoDB. PHP (Haven't done anything interesting in PHP in wel
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by nmjohn 12y ago
> I wonder who supplied the chips that do the mining and how much energy that facility uses. Probably part of the reason this is in china - close to the factories where the majority are produced. The owner could walk into a chip manufact
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You are completely ignoring the issue. Just because a majority of money exists electronically doesn't mean a lot of money isn't spent on paper and metal versions. The United States alone spends tens of millions of dollars a year o
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> Obviously, this has massive flaws. You just answered your own question on why bitcoin was deliberately made difficult. Security and fairness. There has yet to be a proposal that has come close to offering a better solution without mass
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There is a lot of it depends. On an empty stomach 20 minutes does seem a bit long. However you're also conditioned to the feeling you expect coffee to provide, so the initial jolt of energy may have almost nothing to do with the actual
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There are programs that do this, such as sandboxie [0], or even a VM. But none of them are very user friendly to computer novices. [0]: http://www.sandboxie.com/
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It amazes me how this is always overlooked, why are web apps used over desktop apps? Because it's easier for the end user. Have you ever tried to get a user to install a piece of software? It is hard. They don't know what is going
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by nmjohn 12y ago
I completely agree - I don't necessarily know what better would exactly look like - but explaining the why as opposed to the what is a great place to start. IFTTT really is not that complicated, it is something that many people realist
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You articulated perfectly exactly what I was thinking. I realize it is a popular idea among society - that college is a career training center - but that is patently false. It is an unfortunate idea too, because it leads to lots of people w
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> Prediction: like all other human behavioral traits, sleep length will turn out to be influenced by multiple genes, each with small effect. That is the consistent finding of all human behavior genetics research in the genome-wide-associ
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For me, it's a modified home screen. If I get around to it I am going to port a dashboard I built for the chromecast to act as the normal home screen. The problem with how it works now is you would manually have to re-cast the dashboar
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by nmjohn 12y ago
Yep. A BS in biology provides virtually no job prospects. At all. Advanced degrees are only marginally better. Thank god I started programming when I was ~10 and was able to fall back on that after I decided against going to medical school,
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by nmjohn 12y ago
Honestly I think you should coin your own term... I, like both other commenters had the same questioning nature when I heard the word app. But when I read your original explanation to the parent post, I realized that this actually is a pret
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by nmjohn 12y ago
I'm going to give you the benefit of the doubt, being that you are sufficiently educated to comprehend the studies you're reading - both biology and statistics - and have actually invested a non-trivial amount of time ensuring you
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by nmjohn 12y ago
It depends, who is your actual target audience? If it's a general anyone and everyone, gif is the way to go. If it's a more technical audience, who probably know what webm already is, then webm may make more sense And from a more
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by nmjohn 12y ago
> People used to play around with Mercury and even ingest it since it's not supposed to be reactive. Turns out it's stupidly toxic but nobody figured that out until recently. Well that's only partially true. The toxicity o
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by nmjohn 12y ago
Firefox + pipelight + UA switcher has been working flawlessly* for me for the last six months or so. It doesn't work on chrome anymore unfortunately after the update where they disabled NPAPI plugins. Native support still can't co
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by nmjohn 12y ago
I should have added a conclusion to my post but I sometimes feel they don't always further technical discussions because once a conclusion is applied, dissenters tend to ignore the logic leading up to it no matter how valid. But I do a
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by nmjohn 12y ago
I don't disagree, but unfortunately believing that humans - no matter how logical CS people tend to be - will always think completely logical and rational is a flawed line of thinking. Yes, people _should_ get over changes in version n
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by nmjohn 12y ago
The cheaper ones aren't scammy - quite frankly it is the expensive ones that are the scammy ones! I have used cheapssl.com (now ssls.com) for a number of years, probably a total of 20 sites, without a single issue. That being said, nam
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by nmjohn 12y ago
Yes. People in general are really bad at grasping the concept that $programming_paradigm are not all equally suited for a given problem. Object Oriented, functional, async, strict type system, etc. I've noticed an almost evangelical na
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by nmjohn 12y ago
Yikes, I think people missed your point. From the beginning of the internet until maybe 3 or so years ago - in a majority of cases, design was an afterthought. Only functionality mattered. More recently this has changed. Is calling your app
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by nmjohn 12y ago
> A recent count of one such table in my work resulted in over 600 attributes and 14 joins to access a single object, using the preferred query methodology At some point between inception and having 600 columns someone had to have steppe
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by nmjohn 12y ago
Yet it is. When you attend a wedding, you have absolutely no say in the venue. Yes, the bride and groom may have agreed to the terms, but the attendees did not have a choice. So if they get shitty service and want to post a review about it
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by nmjohn 12y ago
Because it is extorting guests into not leaving bad reviews online - regardless of service. I'm not really sure how one would think this is okay!
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I have this in my home. I don't think it's been used at all this year, but last summer it was on multiple occasions. How it works (in my area at least) copied from your linked site. Essentially, radio signal. > If the demand fo
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I think there is a very large difference. Reddit doing it, although some would argue unethical, was meant to make reddit even usable. It was one of those sites where it takes a critical mass to become usable, and without that critical mass
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I've also noticed that when someone disagrees with one of the types of people you're speaking about, they tend to get downvoted very quickly - even if they present a well thought out critique that isn't rude or negative whats
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by nmjohn 12y ago
You made the comment. People might disagree with your views - such is life. If the comment is picked up by the news - again, you said it. Don't publish things to your name you aren't comfortable having everyone in the world know.

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