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by slowernet 12y ago
Go is faster than Ruby, but trying to show that with a benchmark that spends most of its time blocking on HTTP responses is kind of daffy.
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by slowernet 13y ago
Tangentially related, but definitely related: http://rms.sexy
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by slowernet 13y ago
Nicely executed, and very effective.
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by slowernet 13y ago
Anyone know if they are they using an open source tool to run the intro animation? Can't tell from the minified source.
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by slowernet 13y ago
Note that the included webfont variants have fairly enormous filesizes (WOFFs: 120K+, SVG: 1.2M+). Quickly running the .ttf through FontSquirrel at default settings produced versions several times smaller (caveat lector, not sure what glyph
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Raft Distributed Consensus Visualization(thesecretlivesofdata.com)
10 points by slowernet 13y ago|0 comments
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by slowernet 13y ago
I look forward to competing with you one day! Seriously though, you contest the idea that an interface with interactions which hide complexity and have been shown to be pretty intuitive could be decisive in how users value a product?
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Rubinius X, an experiment in modernizing Ruby(x.rubini.us)
34 points by slowernet 13y ago|22 comments
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by slowernet 13y ago
Pragmata non-Pro.
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by slowernet 14y ago
I've also been thinking about this irony the past year or so. The startups that most evidently have their shit together in terms of product, design, branding, etc. are in a way the least "believable in", since they seem likely to quickly be
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by slowernet 14y ago
Something in the JS on the individual gallery pages is mauling my CPU. Bad carousel implementation?
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by slowernet 14y ago
Trying to get a handle on what one gives up with the ST plan. Here's what I've got: no domestic or int'l roaming, no visual voicemail, hard data cap at 2GB/30days, and no streaming services (Spotify, Pandora) over 3G. That cover it? Thanks.
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by slowernet 14y ago
Epic humblebrag.
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by slowernet 14y ago
New York, NY - Full-time We're hiring a Ruby/Javascript developer at Curbed Network. Curbed Network publishes the sites Eater, Curbed and Racked nationally and in local markets all over the US. Our tech team is small, no-bullshit, and produ
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by slowernet 14y ago
You may find a better market for this one in Australia.
46.
by slowernet 14y ago
5. redis-stat from https://github.com/antirez/redis-tools
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by slowernet 14y ago
One can see that the companies share some design language in Loewe's current product line: http://www.loewe.tv/int/produkte.html
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by slowernet 14y ago
S/he means font-feature-settings. http://dev.w3.org/csswg/css3-fonts/#font-feature-settings-pr... http://caniuse.com/#feat=font-feature
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by slowernet 14y ago
Yeah, "lore" is nearly synonymous with "myth" to me. Funny choice.
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by slowernet 14y ago
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leaky_abstraction
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What Every Start-up Should Know about PR(thedailymuse.com)
3 points by slowernet 15y ago|0 comments
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by slowernet 15y ago
The takeaway here is not "Startups bad", it's "Life-hostile startups without meaningful equity and reasonable liquidation preferences bad".
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Need to Hire a Digital Salesperson? Good Luck With That(adage.com)
1 points by slowernet 15y ago|0 comments
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by slowernet 15y ago
"Streaks" for iOS: http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/streaks-motivational-calendar...
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Facebook's .js tool for measuring end-user RTT and DNS latencies(facebook.com)
4 points by slowernet 15y ago|0 comments
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by slowernet 15y ago
#constraints #value #cognition #paradoxofchoice
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by slowernet 15y ago
May I ask where you sourced your neighborhood boundary KML? I could use this.
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by slowernet 15y ago
We were significantly harder hit than either you or Marco, looks like. Our entire stack of 3 servers - app server and db master/slave - disappeared and remains offline to this point. I'm curious about what happened, but ultimately I put thi
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Apple develops shutdown technology for iPhone camera at concerts?(nypost.com)
1 points by slowernet 15y ago|0 comments
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by slowernet 16y ago
Did it occur to your girlfriend's Dad that the name "Hamburger" might indicate something about the origin of the dish? I wonder if that would impact his interest in trying it. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hamburger#First_beginnings

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