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by ryanthejuggler 12y ago
The icons need color for easy differentiation. These crisp monochrome icons are nice in theory, but when you're quickly scanning for an icon it all goes to mush in your vision.
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by ryanthejuggler 12y ago
Is Tor broken? I've heard that its anonymity was proven to be broken, but I'm not sure how reliable my source was. I'm interested in getting involved but hesitant to do so until I have some solid info one way or the other.
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by ryanthejuggler 12y ago
I'd be glad to see a public key on whitehouse.gov and a signed message on the GitHub account. Anyone could register this name. [edit] whoops, didn't realize it was a bot
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by ryanthejuggler 12y ago
This would be really cool to participate in, especially if it could be packaged à la Folding@Home/SETI@Home and widely distributed. I wonder if there's some clever method using crypto that can provably discourage bad actors if the
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by ryanthejuggler 12y ago
Good point; your explanation makes more sense. I pretty much only use Bitcoin to buy lunch and laptop stickers, so I forget that people with significant amounts of it have to shuffle it like this.
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by ryanthejuggler 12y ago
The implication is that Bitcoin isn't "real" money. Never mind that money is a social construct and is useful whenever two parties agree on a common value.
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by ryanthejuggler 12y ago
As a convention, there ought to be a [paywall] tag appended to the title in these cases. IIRC HN already uses [video] and [PDF].
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by ryanthejuggler 12y ago
I was wondering the same thing, but I think that a part of the project is exploring the concept that perhaps one day prostheses will no longer just bring those who need them up to parity with the rest of the population, but will instead ext
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by ryanthejuggler 12y ago
Interesting comment; it seems to imply that some people will learn Spider before JavaScript. Whenever I come across one of these compile-to-JS languages I take it as "this makes you more productive, as long as you've learned JS fi
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by ryanthejuggler 12y ago
I can't tell you how many times my IDE has "helpfully" tried to autoindent my CoffeeScript for various reasons. In CoffeeScript, if your indentation gets thrown off, your code is going to do something completely different. Th
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by ryanthejuggler 12y ago
Implicit returns are the norm in ES6's arrow functions. I use CoffeeScript for most of my personal coding, and I can think of exactly one situation where an implicit return got me in trouble. Generally, if you don't care enough ab
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by ryanthejuggler 12y ago
This is great! It scratches the same itch as http://thingsorganizedneatly.tumblr.com/ except is perhaps more practical.
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by ryanthejuggler 12y ago
Doctors do have to be historians; any diagnosis they make (unless it's a disease that's never been seen before) will be in terms of other diseases. I was diagnosed with a fairly rare disease, and my specialist knew a bit about the
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by ryanthejuggler 12y ago
I'm going to go ahead and ask the question on all our minds: can you really run Apache/Perl on an Arduino?
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by ryanthejuggler 12y ago
Seconded; I think the swishy UI interactions and the sound effects are perfect for each other. There's nothing worse than a terrible site hiding a great product, but you guys nailed it. Purchased!
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by ryanthejuggler 12y ago
> _Oh yeah, did I mention I also wanted a beefier machine at home so I could manipulate large virtual machine images?_ I think he's looking to create a setup where he can spin up and destroy networked VMs, which would indeed make th
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by ryanthejuggler 12y ago
> "You open Uber , ask for a driverless cab. Sometime during the ride the car tells you the ride costs $ 15.00 and asks for a payment. As you tap into 'My Wallet', the screen tells you 'You are inside Lyft #412...&
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by ryanthejuggler 12y ago
http://www.twelvesouth.com/product/bookbook-for-macbook-air-... Cue infringement suit in 5, 4, 3...
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by ryanthejuggler 12y ago
I was excited to read this, but unfortunately it was more "here's what's going to happen" rather than "here's what has happened, here's how our lives have changed, here are the pros/cons, and here are
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by ryanthejuggler 12y ago
You can use Scala for Android right now, as people are pointing out. However, it feels like a "second-class citizen" because the Android JVM has been optimized for enterprisey, Java-style coding with fewer, longer-lived objects th
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by ryanthejuggler 12y ago
I'd imagine it's just because earlier comments have more time to gain points than later ones, and as a comment gains points it also gains visibility, which kind of snowballs. If you think about it, it wouldn't really make sen
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DigitalOcean down (site, admin panels)(digitalocean.com)
15 points by ryanthejuggler 12y ago|8 comments
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by ryanthejuggler 12y ago
I don't think it seems silly... VentureBeat [1] seems to think the same thing: Mitchell Hashimoto, the guy who created the popular Vagrant tool for setting up development environments, has gone and built another useful to
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by ryanthejuggler 12y ago
Read this backwards at the first go. "CEO of Mozilla named Chris Beard."
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by ryanthejuggler 12y ago
This is pretty neat; I'd definitely use an app that did this. Not really a "new algorithm" as they say, though; when you boil it down it's really just A* and MTurk. However, it's a really cool application, and what
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by ryanthejuggler 12y ago
I originally discovered this through the "fortune" program that's still available in many Linux package managers.
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by ryanthejuggler 12y ago
I read this as a satire, and laughed thoroughly. I do agree that GitHub provides a good look into a coder's abilities, though, and many companies agree. It's disappointing that, 2 years after this article came out, you still can&#
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by ryanthejuggler 12y ago
I've never been exposed to Phabricator before today, but its site[1] reminded me distinctly of http://xkcd.com/1293 . Pretty sure Phabricator is maintained by Beret Guy. [1] http://phabricator.org/
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by ryanthejuggler 12y ago
Maybe it's silly, but I'm pretty happy with the $5 USB lamp I got from Amazon [1]. When I'm at my desk, it's plugged into the USB hub on my overhead shelf, illuminating my whole desk; when I'm at my workbench I plug
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by ryanthejuggler 12y ago
Paywalled :-/

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