pjungwir

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   by pjungwir 10y ago

   I agree it is very nice, although you should know one caveat: deleting/yanking with / and ? will do whole lines, so it may go past the match. deleting/yanking with t, T, f, and F will go up to just the char you want, but it w
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   by pjungwir 10y ago

   SEEKING WORK - Portland, OR or Remote I'm a polygot, full-stack developer with 16 years experience. My specialties are Rails, Postgres, Chef, and Angular/Ember, although I'm comfortable on a variety of platforms. I am reliabl
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   by pjungwir 10y ago

   Around 2009-2010, EBS volatility was leading a lot of people to run their database on instance storage instead of EBS. (At the time I suspected that even Heroku was doing this.) That seems pretty crazy, since the other name for instance sto
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   by pjungwir 10y ago

   You might enjoy On Moral Fiction by John Gardner, who argues that good literature is about the characters, especially their decisions and transformations, rather than cleverness in language and plot. His model is Anna Karenina, and I thin
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   by pjungwir 10y ago

   I would like a vi for spreadsheets. It should run in the terminal, and be able to read/save csv/xls/xlsx/ods files. It should understand formulas. I should let me navigate with vi-style keys, and have a separate mode for
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   by pjungwir 10y ago

   I am very fond of pushing as much validation into the database as I can, so I use `NOT NULL`, foreign keys, `CHECK` constraints, and whatever I can to let the database do the job of ensuring valid data. All of us make mistakes, and making s
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   Data on the Outside versus Data on the Inside (Microservices)(blog.acolyer.org)

   2 points by pjungwir 10y ago|0 comments
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   On the criteria to be used in decomposing systems into modules(blog.acolyer.org)

   1 points by pjungwir 10y ago|0 comments
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   by pjungwir 10y ago

   I am reading Ben Bova's 1985 Privateers novel, where the Soviet Union controls all access to space, and a private American company is trying to find a niche. Almost all his other solar-system novels were written after the fall of the U
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    by pjungwir 10y ago

    I had a project last year where we had to deploy to a few executives' laptops, running in a company that was so paranoid they had no Internet connection. But they expected to release this app as a SaaS product eventually, and so wanted
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    by pjungwir 10y ago

    SEEKING WORK - Portland, OR or Remote I'm a polygot, full-stack developer with 16 years experience. My specialties are Rails, Postgres, Chef, and Angular/Ember, although I'm comfortable on a variety of platforms. I am reliabl
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    by pjungwir 10y ago

    Ha ha I knew someone would point out that vacuum isn't "cold", because lack of matter means heat can't transfer away from hot things. My comment about superconductors and computers tossed a bunch of stuff together I prob
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    by pjungwir 10y ago

    I keep daydreaming about what a killer business might be. A few other ideas that probably won't pan out but are interesting to think about: - Since nuclear reactors are dangerous, what if we build them on the moon instead? Is there any
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    by pjungwir 10y ago

    I'm curious if there is any good solution to use sprite sheets with background-image, possibly with a hover effect, and still get the accessibility benefits of alt tags? For instance: <a class="fb sprite" href="
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    by pjungwir 10y ago

    SEEKING WORK - Portland, OR or Remote I'm a polygot, full-stack developer with 16 years experience. My specialties are Rails, Postgres, Chef, and Angular/Ember, although I'm comfortable on a variety of platforms. I am reliabl
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    by pjungwir 10y ago

    I agree with the recommendation here to read Expert C Programming: Deep C Secrets by Peter Van der Linden. As for practice: the challenge in learning new tech is always to find a small-scale project that motivates you to build something.
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    by pjungwir 10y ago

    I think the more interesting question is: when can something crazy like this work? I started writing a comment about that here, but it got long enough I turned it into its own blog post. Here is my submission: https://news.ycombi
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    When the Inner JSON Effect Works(illuminatedcomputing.com)

    5 points by pjungwir 10y ago|0 comments
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    by pjungwir 10y ago

    I appreciate how the vacation is no-nonsense and clearly spelled out, unlike the trend of "unlimited vacation" or combining all PTO into one bucket. At first I thought 3 weeks was a little low for senior people, but when you add i
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    by pjungwir 10y ago

    It does seem like tectonic pressure could be a great source of clean, renewable energy! :-) Maybe some day in the future there will be no earthquakes because we'll have a way of pulling out the energy gradually and putting it to use. A
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    by pjungwir 10y ago

    I'm curious if anyone here from USDS or 18F has deployed Postgres in a FIPS 140-2 environment, and if so what challenges they had. The VA seems to be saying that Postgres should not be used: http://www.va.gov/TRM/T
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    Postgres custom range types for geoip(illuminatedcomputing.com)

    2 points by pjungwir 10y ago|0 comments
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    by pjungwir 10y ago

    SEEKING WORK - Portland, OR or Remote I'm a polygot, full-stack developer with 15 years experience. My specialties are Rails, Postgres, Chef, and Ember, although I'm comfortable on a variety of platforms. I am reliable, easy to wo
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    by pjungwir 10y ago

    Yes that is fascinating!: However, we are able to support schema changes between the present and the “as of” time. For example, if a column is deleted in the present but exists at some time in the past, a time-travel query reque
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    by pjungwir 10y ago

    Unfortunately the Postgres temporal_tables extension is about the first kind not the second kind: "What did the database look like on April 1st?" not "What did this customer look like on April 1st?". From your link: >
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    by pjungwir 10y ago

    Just to throw out a few references, since they seem unmentioned so far: The Ship of Theseus is an ancient recognition of a similar problem. Greg Egan has written two stories that deal with copy-vs-continuity of consciousness: Diaspora and P
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    by pjungwir 10y ago

    I'm not a security specialist, but I found this summary of a 2014 article accessible and fascinating. As best I understand it, processes include a secret 8-byte "canary" in each stack frame, so that they can detect buffer ove
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    Hacking Blind: Defeating stack overflow canaries(blog.acolyer.org)

    1 points by pjungwir 10y ago|1 comments
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    by pjungwir 10y ago

    If your budget is $300/hr, then I would either contact the core developer(s) or use one of the consulting companies specializing in that software. Also there is a lot of cross-over in those groups, which you can use to filter the latte
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    by pjungwir 10y ago

    Thanks, I enjoyed your review! This article calls Ramanujan an "experimental" mathematician: https://backchannel.com/who-was-ramanujan-83b4d5b05665 Also Prime Obsession by John Derbyshire kind of describes Riema