oregondan

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by oregondan 3y ago
Related site on Slack/messaging etiquette: https://nohello.net/
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by oregondan 4y ago
Same (re: master / slave)... At a previous job, a coworker presented a compelling argument for removing "whitelist" and "blacklist" terminology from our codebases / jargon. Even though the etymologies of the wo
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by oregondan 5y ago
This doesn't directly answer your question, but there's a nice SMS interface framework available for Django called RapidSMS[0]. It's been a few years since I've played with it, and never got around to testing "in th
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by oregondan 8y ago
I wasn't coding when Altavista was around, but I totally agree that Google is terrible for searching code snippets etc. Fortunately, there's SymbolHound [0], which is designed for just that! Check it out [0] http://symb
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by oregondan 8y ago
That's exactly the point of the question, though: when/how did sloths transition from "ancient" to "modern"? If ancient sloths were massive and formidable prey, as per the article, what happened? Were there alw
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by oregondan 8y ago
> ...demographers say it will take decades for the ramifications of the bulge to fade away. heh
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by oregondan 9y ago
A Universal History of the Destruction of Books is a really good book on the topic by Fernando Baez. It is historical, but it almost reads like a collection of short stories. [1] https://www.amazon.com/Universal-History-Dest
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by oregondan 9y ago
It's in the section on Famine [1]. Main article [2]. > Although actual harvests were reduced, local officials, under tremendous pressure from central authorities to report record harvests in response to the innovations, competed wit
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by oregondan 9y ago
I forget where I got it from, but I have this JS snippet saved as a bookmark--it gets around the WSJ paywall by 'redirecting' from Facebook. javascript:window.location.href='https://m.facebook.com/l.php?u=&
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by oregondan 9y ago
That's funny, Apple pulled a Microsoft and skipped 9 ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
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by oregondan 9y ago
This definitely sounds like a service a lot of people could benefit from, and I wish you the best of luck, but my mind went straight to White Christmas episode of Black Mirror...
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by oregondan 9y ago
What?? This seems like a road that only leads to technical debt brought on by people who, as you say, know nothing about the code they're working on. Why would you feel that's acceptable to a company? Fortunately software developm
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by oregondan 9y ago
> So, JavaScript and its earlier version — Java are already becoming mature enough to use it for more than just programmatically finding good place to eat burrito. :( this guy...
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by oregondan 10y ago
Woah, you also made Photo Find? Hell yeah
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by oregondan 10y ago
Apparently Ladino was used as a trade language throughout the Mediterranean/Adriatic, and Wikipedia lists it as being "native" to Italy [1]. There also are regional Judeo-Italian dialects, including two from Corfu [2]. My int
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by oregondan 10y ago
It is a bit of an anachronism, yeah. Soon, though, we'll have template literals [1], and this example will just be out of date. [1] https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Refe...
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by oregondan 10y ago
I just discovered that PhantomJS has a built-in web server that serves generic WebKit-based dev tools (basically identical to Chrome's)[0]. It's obviously not helpful in terms of seeing the layout of the site, but it's a he
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by oregondan 10y ago
There's also noti ( https://github.com/variadico/noti ), which I use. Just add noti to the beginning of a command you run (i.e. "noti eb deploy"), and you'll get a notification when it finishes.
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by oregondan 11y ago
I recently discovered the Photo Find app for iOS, which does the same thing: https://itunes.apple.com/app/id939480376
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by oregondan 11y ago
The country's (and the author's) claims of "sound democratic leadership" are also disputed. Levitsky and Way, in Competitive Authoritarianism, ( https://books.google.com/books?hl=en&lr=&id=NZDI05
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by oregondan 12y ago
I've had this thought for a long time, as someone who used to use exclusively PCs, and now lives in an Apple-centric household. I'm no lawyer, but the only reason I can think of why Apple hasn't been sued for this is their ma
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by oregondan 13y ago
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