reedlaw

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by reedlaw 14y ago
There's certainly a trade-off between having the convenience to talk to someone next to you and having a distraction-free environment. Working from home I enjoy hours of coding in the zone that makes me much more productive than in the offi
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by reedlaw 14y ago
On the other hand, why pay for a 3G plan for every device when you pay for just one and share the connection? Extra batteries are cheap compared to 3G data plans.
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by reedlaw 14y ago
How will Substance be an improvement on TeX/LaTeX? You can write content in LaTeX and use Pandoc to convert it to just about any other markup language. And it produces beautiful print proofs.
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by reedlaw 14y ago
The video is of a 30 story hotel built in 15 days. Your links are to a 15 story hotel built in 6 days. I agree the entrance is plain, but maybe that was a design decision for that particular building. Overall the design is consistent, proba
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by reedlaw 14y ago
I should have used the qualifier "alone".
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by reedlaw 14y ago
I doubt that eating less and getting less exercise will really lead to longer life. It would be hard to measure such a thing, but my guess is that with less exercise and eating there would be a corresponding decline in happiness which alone
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by reedlaw 14y ago
Sounds pretty uncomfortable to me.
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by reedlaw 14y ago
I agree that standing all day is not much better than sitting all day. But for someone not ready to jump to a walking desk, alternating sitting and standing would be a step up at least. Also, sitting on an exercise ball for periods of time
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by reedlaw 14y ago
Is standing long hours really healthier than sitting? (See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Long-term_complications_of_stan... ) Personally, I feel both sitting and standing for long hours are uncomfortable and prefer walking. But a walking de
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by reedlaw 14y ago
Can anyone comment on the code quality in Haiku? From the FAQ it appears most of the code is new and little was carried over from BeOS. Also, will it include the GNU toolchain and standard libraries such as SDL? How difficult will it be to
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by reedlaw 14y ago
With the source code open it wouldn't be too hard to exploit this to do just about anything. Sure you could the same with a free Heroku instance but this lets you do it anonomously. Not that I would do such things but when I see these kinds
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by reedlaw 14y ago
Any instructions for Linux?
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by reedlaw 14y ago
> "I don’t even let Forstall out of the office." Maybe a joke, but one only a very controlling person could make.
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by reedlaw 14y ago
Here's just one example of the controlling nature of Apple from the article: > Andy Miller, who joined Apple as a vice president after Apple bought his mobile advertising company in 2009, asked Jobs if he could join the board of an inde
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by reedlaw 14y ago
It's sounds incredibly controlling, which would explain the lack of freedom on iOS and Apple's various platforms. It's not enough to own the entire ecosystem, anything outside is not allowed to run on the hardware (at least for iOS devices)
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by reedlaw 14y ago
Probably Amazon is charging more to offset the cost of their unlimited free 3G usage. Before I had a 3G phone, I purchased a 3G Kindle partially to take advantage of this incredible offer. With a 3G Kindle in the US I could freely browse th
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by reedlaw 14y ago
So in other words, this is such a politicized issue there's no way to have any discussion about the facts?
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by reedlaw 14y ago
Looks like it's based on Chosen.
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Heroku vs. Amazon Web Services(smashingboxes.com)
6 points by reedlaw 14y ago|1 comments
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by reedlaw 14y ago
> 512MB of RAM, 1GB of swap. Total = 1.5GB RAM What!? Swap is considered equivalent to RAM? From my experience, a single Heroku dyno performs better than a micro EC2 instance (613 RAM) but significantly worse than a small EC2 instance (
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by reedlaw 14y ago
Aren't app specific passwords simply single-factor auth tokens, thus defeating the purpose of using two factor auth? Wouldn't a sufficiently complex pass-phrase be just as secure?
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by reedlaw 14y ago
All other things being equal, I'd still prefer a free (as in speech) game over a non-free one. The idea that I could go in and change some behavior is so compelling that I would probably spend more for such a game than its closed-source cou
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by reedlaw 14y ago
Great idea! Reminds me of my https://github.com/reedlaw/ruby-mmo
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by reedlaw 15y ago
So the app-specific passwords are single-factor authentication keys. Why not just skip the two-factor authentication altogether and use a longer password/phrase?
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by reedlaw 15y ago
You're right, but for me another challenge was to try to circumvent cheating. If I see players that try to win by pure Ruby hackery I'd like to see if there's a Ruby way to make sure that hackery doesn't work (inside Game, Player, or Player
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by reedlaw 15y ago
Nice hack. Yes, this is not cheat proof by any means. But Ruby is by its nature hard to prevent someone from doing whatever they want. I did try to make it semi-cheat proof by using a delegator PlayerProxy that sends method calls to the rea
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by reedlaw 15y ago
Yes, ruby-warrior was an inspiration. The challenge is just a bare minimal RPG at the moment, but I hope to find time to improve it. To-dos: https://github.com/reedlaw/ruby-mmo/wiki
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by reedlaw 15y ago
Good point. We got the idea for this challenge from this: http://www.chrisstucchio.com/blog/2012/one_hiring_filter_tha... We debated how to implement this and decided on using github because of the added bonus of being able to view github
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Ruby programming challenge as job application(smashingboxes.com)
40 points by reedlaw 15y ago|16 comments
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by reedlaw 15y ago
That's because you have to have Spotify installed for this to work.

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