r4vik

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by r4vik 14y ago
I have never had a problem with hetzner doing this exact thing.
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by r4vik 14y ago
seems like you should be targeting burnt out games developers
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by r4vik 14y ago
and express is 2 fucking days in the UK, I'd call that a cultural faux pas, as 2 day shipping here is the crappy option. I've had amazon get things to my door in less than 14 hours given the right conditions.
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RIP VimClojure, Introducing vim-clojure-static and vim-foreplay(groups.google.com)
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On Snapchat:The Communication Ephemerality Creates(youngandbrilliant.net)
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Market Design at Google, Microsoft, Yahoo and Ebay(economist.com)
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37signals blog: comments marked as spam get font set to Comic Sans(37signals.com)
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by r4vik 14y ago
Meteor is kind of nuts: https://github.com/meteor/meteor , real time, database abstraction built right into the browser/js, no lag for saving as it uses background sync. Screencast is here: http://player.vimeo.com/video/40104996
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by r4vik 14y ago
AdBlock is for blocking (annoying) ads, not trackers.
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by r4vik 14y ago
they are? news to me
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by r4vik 14y ago
You're right, Jason has fixed it as you can see here: http://bl.ocks.org/4183701
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by r4vik 14y ago
it can be arranged: http://bl.ocks.org/4185745
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by r4vik 14y ago
It uses about 40% of one CPU here which isn't so bad. Yes HTML5 isn't a Flash replacement on it's own, but with the right tooling it's getting there: http://html.adobe.com/edge/animate/
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A tour of the world in d3.js(bl.ocks.org)
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by r4vik 14y ago
I suspect they are using pandoc at the backend to do something like pandoc -lean.pdf lean.markdown?
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by r4vik 14y ago
no
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by r4vik 14y ago
Datasift
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by r4vik 14y ago
Well the distance between Perth and Sydney is similar to New York and SF. And pings between NY and SF are usually in the same range ~(70-90ms) so not too shabby
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by r4vik 14y ago
I've never seen Discover either and it's quite normal to see AMEX not being accepted at small retailers in the UK
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by r4vik 14y ago
you should look into graphviz, this article posted a few weeks ago comes to mind: http://robrhinehart.com/?p=119
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by r4vik 14y ago
So I posted this, not to say "booking sux" but to spark a debate on the fine line between glorious code and shipping features. Booking are #1 in their market and are killing it. Does this mean that despite our disdain at copypasta code, may
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"Truth" about Booking.com(blogs.perl.org)
5 points by r4vik 14y ago|2 comments
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by r4vik 14y ago
I don't even buy the conference tickets anymore
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Use Contrast Ratio to easily calculate color contrast ratios(leaverou.github.com)
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Mobile games from the past [a post-mortem](hervalicio.us)
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by r4vik 14y ago
apart from the massive loan (£40 million) they have given to the Labour Party.
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by r4vik 14y ago
They don't charge you $1400 a month if you're earning less than that, you can defer. Your interest gets added to your principal in that circumstance. If you model a tax as an infinitely large debt, this scenario makes the loan resemble a ta
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by r4vik 14y ago
Are student loans actually debt instruments any more? They seem to resemble a tax. First off you can't default on them. The companies providing them are guaranteed by the government and have obligations to lent to pretty much anyone. You ca
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by r4vik 14y ago
I think it's not really a case of who booted who off. I assume that Google wouldn't let Apple have any of the good features like vector maps or turn-by-turn navigation. Google Maps on iOS was already the shittiest mapping app across all pla
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by r4vik 14y ago
also overlooked is the massive speed improvement for in memory sorting.. that's what I've been waiting for.

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