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by ryankshaw 10y ago
Prophets of Doom It was fantastic! it talked about the anabaptist takeover of munster https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M%C3%BCnster_Rebellion .
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by ryankshaw 10y ago
the last part of that where paul irish live edits sass looks pretty awesome! good job chrome team!
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by ryankshaw 11y ago
(noob question) why would the libuv threadpool choose to use a static 4 instead of something like matching the number of processor cores available by default?
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by ryankshaw 12y ago
I disagree. I hate IE, especially it's older versions. Dealing with ie 6-10 and all of their crappy warts and stagnation have made my life more difficult and objectively held the entire web back for years. But the reason why they are s
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by ryankshaw 12y ago
your comment is spot on! see my other comment on this thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8358527 spacemonkey does exactly that
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by ryankshaw 12y ago
I just want to point out that spacemonkey (spacemonkey.com) handles this very elegantly. spacemonkey was designed from the beginning to handle storing much more data than you'd ever be able to store on your laptop hard drive. The way
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by ryankshaw 12y ago
Both when I read this and when I heard amazon's announcement, I, like most people I see here, thought about the "get whatever I order off the internet to my doorstep, asap" use case--and I think that's still a ways off (
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by ryankshaw 12y ago
This reminds me of the old "Good is the enemy to great" saying. The author's thoughts rang very true to me. As programmers, it's true, times are good, salaries are high, employment is easy to come by. Sometimes I can&#
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by ryankshaw 13y ago
"Full support for streaming objects through from the backend on a cache miss. Bytes will be sent to 1..n requesting clients as they come in from the backend server." is an awesome feature in and of itself. thank you varnish team,
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by ryankshaw 13y ago
it does, indeed, send the request when it is actually opened. see: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6895876 /me goes to go find and turn on the "block third party images" feature.
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by ryankshaw 13y ago
as I read that I kept wanting to say "No, we're so past that! i need client-side everything w/ json apis" (as I'm sure a lot of people and the mindshare of the interwebs are going) but then I read the last part:
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by ryankshaw 13y ago
The other day I was talking to someone that had a source at one of the satellite companies (I can't remember if it was dish or directTV) that said they were working on putting a digital antenna in their box. Basically, the idea was tha
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by ryankshaw 13y ago
is there a road map for future things that want to be added to angular?
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by ryankshaw 13y ago
So why not un -tie it from the OS? If Chrome, FF, & Safari can do all that they do without deep os integration, why not IE? someone said "One of the core reasons is that new IEs uses security support from the OS, like low privile
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by ryankshaw 13y ago
oh, cool the site built with AngularJS ( view-source: http://www.google.com/nexus/5/ and http://www.google.com/nexus/vendor_src/autofuss/js/n5.main.m... ). It's nice to s
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by ryankshaw 13y ago
this was a good reminder to me to try to judge a movement/action/thing based on it's merit and not just discredit it because of who's behind it. I agree with others that at the first sight of "Hatch" I though
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by ryankshaw 13y ago
I can totally relate to "they just keep adding things on top of it to keep BC as much as possible which is why it feels so dirty at times. I too get (extremely) frustrated with Angular at times "
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by ryankshaw 13y ago
Somewhat off topic but I've been wanting to to get into an electric cycle. There's been a lot of innovation in the space recently. I've seen some kickstarters and stuff. I feel like we're on the brink between clunky, exp
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by ryankshaw 13y ago
> Dangerous for you may not be dangerous for someone else He said in his comment that he's a cat 1 racer. I'm willing to bet if something's unsafe for him, it'd be unsafe for any strava user.
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by ryankshaw 13y ago
I have an old saying: "If you want to make good money you can do something that either: a. no one else can do or b. no one else wants to do but if you want to make really good money, do something no else can do AND no one else wan
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by ryankshaw 13y ago
great article! a couple orthogonal notes: 1. if you were going to actually do something like the 'scroll' example, make sure to debounce the scroll handler. it's a good practice for any 'scroll' or 'resize&#x27
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by ryankshaw 13y ago
from the article: if he looses "He can be forced to pay a fine" (but does not specific fine amount) and that he sold the shares "avoiding a $750,000 loss on the holding". I wonder how much, if he does end up loosing, th
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by ryankshaw 13y ago
does anyone know if there was a presentation that went along with these slides. it would be great to be able to see it. @briantford if you see this, we'd love to see more of the meat behind the bullet points. cool stuff though!
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by ryankshaw 13y ago
Some time ago I saw something that Microsoft gets $15 for every android device sold while google gets 0 (because of patent extortion). It would be pretty funny to see something now that says "Microsoft makes more in Q4 off iPad re-sal
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by ryankshaw 13y ago
often, even though I normally work in my office, I will take a few hours to go work under a tree in a park. I used to worry a lot about my wifi hotspot situation but I've found that sometimes, not having the internet at all is good to
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by ryankshaw 13y ago
canvas[1], the LMS that a lot of of universities have been adopting is open-core and has been quite successful over the past few years. 1. https://github.com/instructure/canvas-lms
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by ryankshaw 13y ago
you might want to take a look at https://github.com/rpflorence/ember-tools
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by ryankshaw 13y ago
the owner of that company, pete ashdown, is an outright great guy. he even tried to run for a senate seat last election[1] -- without PAC $ and a focus on passing a constitutional amendment to overturn citizen's united. But instead u
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by ryankshaw 13y ago
IMO, at that price point, the real question is "is it worth it to wear them and look like one of those guys that walks around with a Bluetooth earpiece in at all times"?
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by ryankshaw 13y ago
since they are disabling this, it would be nice if they provided a URL that you could hot-link to that just gets served from CDN and only updates every 5 minutes or so. best of both worlds: they dont need to have it hit their full stack on

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