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by penguindev 12y ago
Thanks, but doesn't change a thing for me. It's still breaking out of a containing div to the right. And I forgot to mention that the vertical alignment was/is also a PITA. Got the image where I want it, and other text elem
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by penguindev 12y ago
Yes and no. Having design N written up decently might make designing N+1 easier / faster. I also agree with the article that readme-driven-development can make dev (of N) smoother. I've found the hardest thing is really deciding
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by penguindev 12y ago
Maybe they can use this money to hire someone who can fix their !$!@# pinit button [the small gray button with numbers on the right] to actually stay where I put it (and not move to the right 20px and bleed over other content). Really, it&#
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by penguindev 12y ago
See also http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intel_Insider#INTEL-INSIDER DRM inside Intel CPUs.
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by penguindev 12y ago
I've used it recently as excel on steroids . As in, you have a lot of data and you want to make a 20 page .pdf report with lots of charts and nice page breaks. I did this by editing a python script in vim that did everything, and jus
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by penguindev 12y ago
This is an amazing writeup. I have run into this before (running out of sockets) stress testing a web proxy, and when I did, I cursed the TCP designers for designing only 32 bit sequence numbers and 16 bit port numbers. That said, maybe
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by penguindev 12y ago
In addition, GO failed to advance the art of error handling in any way, in fact I'd call it a step back. I can already do multiple return values in python, or I can choose to use exceptions rarely or frequently depending on the proble
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by penguindev 12y ago
... and in the same sense that most things humans do are [pyramid] schemes :-)
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by penguindev 12y ago
> I am new to the industry That's painting with a broad brush, as software is used in a huge variety of businesses. But I'd plan on any organization without mega-income-$$$ (and even that is no guarantee) being pushed to their
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by penguindev 12y ago
> As with most things in software engineering the technical problems are symptoms of the economic causes. FTFY. Seriously - #2 & #3, not enough money for a 'co pilot'. And for 2, at least there is some ostensible owne
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by penguindev 12y ago
Talk about the tower of babel. This article, although totally excellent, didn't even mention unicode normalization problems. So basically, once everyone starts talking unicode, then we can start trying to figure out what is _meant_.
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by penguindev 12y ago
You can read about this in Securities Analysis (1940). Basically you don't trust management, so companies can trade for less than liquidation value [edit: and investors don't trust / overlook that a negative subsidiary can b
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by penguindev 12y ago
Is the navy project similar to power-to-gas projects in europe, like Audi? Reading about that is probably one of only two positive things I've read about in the last decade. The other being birthrates dropping in the US and elsewhere.
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by penguindev 13y ago
I don't think even ipv6 without nat would guarantee 100% (not that we can count on ipv6 coverage in the next decade anyway). 1. Stateful IPV6 firewalls still need hole punching to connect peers, thus a stun server. 2. Think about a c
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by penguindev 13y ago
And it still scares me that python 3 has hackery to fake unicode dirlistings on unix. (surrogate escaping - pep-0383). I guarantee that will bite people in the ass and cause security bugs. 'explicit is better than implicit' - hah
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by penguindev 13y ago
that is just freaking cool. took me about 4 times to grok it. it sort of reminds me of utf-8, and how you can synchronize that easily.
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by penguindev 13y ago
> Please note that if you combine this policy and at the same time disable copy and paste into the password fields (I look at you, Blizzard!), I hate you. oh man. disabling paste is the worst, because it breaks keypassx. (Apple did this
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by penguindev 13y ago
Ah, I see. Thanks for clarifying.
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by penguindev 13y ago
How about you point me to a study that took a hundred years (to look at effect on future generations), controlled all other variables, had no dropouts, and didn't rely on self reported information. No? Ok, well when you're playi
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by penguindev 13y ago
> and it says so for a reason. And yet you don't know the reason. It's because others may have merged your work or be dependent on it. In my case, that doesn't happen, because it's a private branch. I'm the on
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by penguindev 13y ago
I base it off of the simple doctrine of first do no harm. If you view food as being equal to a medicine/drug in power, I think the hippocratic oath applies. There's also a curious study comparing ancient wheat with modern wheat (
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by penguindev 13y ago
This. If it's not a double-blind random crossover trial, it probably means nada. Thus, most nutritional, health, and economics 'science' is trash. Unfortunately, it also means it's very hard to prove things are safe or
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by penguindev 13y ago
The ACA arguably makes a few things more 'fair' but it's still profiteering sick care via cost shifting. Drug companies seem to have an incentive to get $5000/yr treating type 2 diabetes (i.e. carb intolerance) rather th
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by penguindev 13y ago
It really blows my mind that you say those two aren't equivalent. I now must read the man pages... Edit did you mean to say (plus)feature or is something ruining the formatting? That seems to be how to specify only one branch. Yuck.
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by penguindev 13y ago
you have a private feature branch on git hub, clean it up via rebase (or just rebase to latest master) before review, and you need to force push it. on long running features, you 1. want to save your state off of your laptop and 2. keep it
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by penguindev 13y ago
... due to force pushing multiple branches?
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by penguindev 13y ago
>The obvious solution to rapidly rising prices is to decrease demand. FTFY. Seriously, there's two parts of a fraction. Why are we subsidizing immigration and children?
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by penguindev 13y ago
Try the sculpt wireless. No mushy spacebar. I just don't like the esc key - small and different switch style - since I'm a vim user, but its not a blocker. I couldn't stand the 4000.
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by penguindev 13y ago
Thank you for that post. I think of the saying 'hurt people hurt people'. I really like your last thought of 'that period in your life where you don't really know how life works, there's nobody to show you'.
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by penguindev 13y ago
So why did Apple switch to ARC?

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