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by santry 16y ago
Syncing with Simplenote ( http://scrod.posterous.com/interesting-facts-about-simplenot... ) to get the notes on iPhone/iPad is great, so is Syncing with Dropbox ( http://wiki.github.com/scrod/nv/synchronizing-with-dropbox ).
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by santry 16y ago
I believe Patrick was suggesting he negotiate with potential future employers for a fair salary, not with his current employer.
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by santry 16y ago
http://vodpod.com/watch/1616920-funny-hugh-laurie-stephen-fr...
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Widespread Gmail outage?
3 points by santry 16y ago|0 comments
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by santry 16y ago
And it once actually contained cocaine. http://www.snopes.com/cokelore/cocaine.asp
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by santry 16y ago
Seems to me he should just use Subversion. He has a mental model of how version control works (based on his prior use of CVS) and apparently doesn't wish to invest the time to learn git's model.
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by santry 16y ago
Is this technology derived from their acquisition of EtherPad? Or is this from Google Wave? Or both?
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by santry 16y ago
The article discusses a new feature that's different from the "like my friend's wall post" feature you seem to be talking about. This new feature provides "Like" buttons on third party web sites, like http://cnn.com . If you are 1) logged
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by santry 17y ago
What percentage of people play social games on the iPhone? I know anecdotes aren't data, but I've had an iPhone since day 1 and have never bought or played a game on it.
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by santry 17y ago
Though not explicitly written in the article, it seemed to me that JJ was recommending this approach for dealing with short-lived 'topic' branches like bug fixes and small features. At least, that was the nature of each example branch he ga
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by santry 17y ago
I think squashing is useful for a feature branch whose history looks like: 1d9322f Added model & migration for feature x 3fa93f9 Unit tests for feature x 38ce239 Fixed intermittent failure in test_feature_x_foo 6728eca Added v
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by santry 17y ago
I'm with you. One of the great things about git and its ability to 1) easily branch and 2) rewrite history is that I can go down a certain path in a feature branch, realize I need to approach it differently, make mistakes, fix those mistake
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by santry 17y ago
Notational Velocity http://notational.net/ From the description on the site: The same area is used both for creating notes and searching. I.e., in the process of entering the title for a new note, related notes appear below, letting users
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by santry 17y ago
Unlike the litotes in your Orwell quote, "not uncommon" and "common" mean different things.
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by santry 17y ago
You reminded me of this episode of the NPR radio show This American Life ( http://www.thisamericanlife.org/Radio_Episode.aspx?episode=2... ) entitled "A Little bit of Knowledge". In the third act "Sucker MC-Squared" an electrician and ama
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by santry 17y ago
I started down a similar path about 4 years ago with some partners and we created e3f, "education for everyone, everywhere — for free" ( http://e3f.com ). We were doing it as a side project, and each of us ended up going in a different dire
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by santry 17y ago
I worked from home for a couple of years and just recently gave it up to work in a co-working space. It took me almost two years to realize it, but the isolation of working at home nearly drove me crazy. Depending on my roommate's or girlfr
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by santry 17y ago
Yes. Hisses even: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AxyBxbGF-Qg That's Roberto Alagna getting booed in Aida at La Scala in Milan in 2006. La Scala has a reputation for this sort of thing. Boos were also heard (directed at, well, the direct
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by santry 17y ago
Having spent the last 15 years as a developer, I'm now working toward a career as an opera singer (I'm a tenor). Admittedly I find it difficult to identify many similarities between opera and software development. People often make a connec
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by santry 17y ago
Is that like Go‽
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by santry 17y ago
Subversion is a blub FTFY. (The pg article that coined "Blub" ( http://www.paulgraham.com/avg.html ) uses it as the name of a middle of the road language between machine language on the low end of the power scale and Lisp on the high end.
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by santry 17y ago
The title, which _is_ from the original article is a bit misleading, no? The performances of the methods he worked have been bumped up 63% in maximum, 8% in average. His patches were applied to Ruby trunk in Oct. 5 this year. I'm not knoc
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by santry 17y ago
I tried a ball but found the lack of air circulation made the backs of my legs sweat uncomfortably. Went back to my Steeelcase Leap. It's not mesh like the Aeron, but the cushion was a lot better than sitting directly on rubber all day.
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by santry 17y ago
http://www.virtualbox.org/ FTFY
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by santry 17y ago
Launches on Nov. 15 for $20 (according to the video).
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by santry 17y ago
> Under 3.0.1 if you record video from within the Dropbox app that video couldn't be saved to your iPhone photos directory, so if your upload was interrupted for any reason the video would be lost.
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by santry 17y ago
Not to speak for roc, but I believe the comment was intentionally written in the style of the original article, probably to mock it.
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by santry 17y ago
How did the illustrator get such an abstract-but-faithful-to-the-original illustration of goatse past the editors of The Economist? That must qualify as a skilled bit of social hacking…
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by santry 17y ago
Works great. No problem.
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by santry 17y ago
FWIW, I've been using the tethering hack from http://help.benm.at on an iPhone 3GS and visual voicemail has been working just fine.

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