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At first I thought these were page load times until I read the description. On topicL I am not from the US, and I've never hear of Jet, but so have none of 8 randomly selectedfriends from the US.
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I find it amusing how GitHub's contact[1] form has (probably a recent addition): > GitHub Support is unable to help with issues specific to CocoaPods/CocoaPods. --- [1]: https://github.com/contact
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Maybe this was intended as a joke, but the sad truth is that more often that not, sometimes people consider this option. I myself came relatively close to committing suicide, but was pulled out of this vicious cycle by a friend. A lot of pe
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This is such a horrendous idea. Apart from the fact that this does virtually nothing, this is a prime example of the difference between security and obscurity and how neither is the other.
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I've been using a similar self-documenting technique myself for a while now, too. Although, my version preserved the traditional part where just calling `make` starts building the program and also supported short one line descriptions
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This is a project I wouldn't mind backing on kick starter! Have there been any successfully crowd-funded documentaries with a big budget at all? A quick google search didn't reveal much, all the ones I saw were relatively low budg
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Apart from Make, I actually like Rake too, too. It's very Make-like and works similarly to Make, but it's in Ruby, which isn't a bad thing.
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I am 22, and I have used jQuery. I loved jQuery, and it was a fascinating library that solved a lot of problems. It is still a great library, if one needs to support legacy browsers.I also think that jQuery influenced the DOM API to some
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Sadly, I don't know of any alternatives, short of coming up with a custom solution. I tend to like Jekyll for this type of thing, even though Jekyll isn't ideal either, because it also seems to be primarily oriented towards bloggi
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I agree that WP has certainly made it easier to do these kinds of things, but I still think it's a classic case of using the wrong tool for the wrong job. There is a whole lot of different "eco system" of features in there th
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This seems like a fun project and it is inspiring that the author challenged himself to make it, it's very commendable and something I was planning on doing myself when I get some free time. What follows is a tangentially related rant,
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Thanks for the tip! I did install hda-analyzer, but never ran it since other stuff came up. The sound thing wasn't such a huge issue, because I just play the music without headphones. Another problem is that the laptop has a 2.1 sound
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The clients are all open source; the server isn't, but the last time I checked they plan to opensource it as soon as they make sure there aren't any major exploits someone could use against it. Which I know might sound silly, beca
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> But in the real world no one ever fixes firmware bugs, so this is the best we can do. PREFACE: This is an anecdote, but I do believe it reflects on general state of hardware vendors, because when I Google'd, it showed that people
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This can be fixed with a 302 from the destination back to to the start/source of the 301, assuming that the old domain isn't redirecting any more (which would cause a redirect loop)
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I'd like to preface this with the fact that I have next to zero experience about the topic of pricing/charging for such service's, so what I say might sound naïve, but… Is it really that expensive, though? I mean I can see
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I assumed all companies did this actually. The company I work for (it's a relatively small one, ~60 employees) does this. Although, the actual interviews and results are kept secret from the rest of the company—apart from higher-ups—I
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> 1. If there are objective sources of stress (e.g. problems of economic survival), I don't perceive that to be an emotional problem. Emotional problems, as I would use the term, are problems which are strictly endogenous in nature
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Have you considered that there's something wrong with you emotionally? You sound like you're constantly under stress and even anxious about your economic survival. Those two can very effectively dig you into a slippery hole of dep
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They don't add much overhead during runtime; most of the time there is zero overhead, or sometimes they can (theoretically, not sure if it's done in practice) produce more optimal code than a "literal translation".
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But Rails (and Ruby) do offer that. I agree that there's a lot of it, but it is there. Its abstractions are consistent, and Rails is generally well documented.
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>> Which is how most beginners learn (myself included. cobbling together myspace and wordpress templates) > That right there is the problem: too many people are after quick wins and instant gratification and aren't willing to
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My friend was in the same position about a year ago, and she told her boss (directly, and in private conversation) that she's not interested, after he didn't interpret a few other subtle hints. She still works there. Furthermore,
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For exceptions: - A bit unpredictable (hard to optimize) - Introduce a lot of exit points which are hard to find - They deviate from the "pay what you use," since they generate some extra code - They can introduce some nasty perf
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Most of the time when I saw people develop "for Chrome" (like experiments), it would use standard stuff, but it only so happens that other browsers don't implement them [properly], yet. Or maybe I'm just awfully pedantic
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Well, compiling C11 with a compiler that only supports C98, or GNU-C "extensions" in contrast to vanilla C, but there's no runtime compatibility issues like with interpreted languages (if that is what you were getting at). Al
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How is it not problematic with PHP? It's just as problematic from my experiences (I work for a hosting company and we have various PHP setups). Unless you install PHP with a certain prefix—which you can do for other languages—I don
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This would be problematic for any programming language, though. However, if you do want an elegant solution for your problem, may I recommend ruby-install[1] and the companion for easily changing between versions, chruby[2]. Alternatively,
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These days, in modern browsers, you won't need JavaScript for 95%[1] of animations. [1]: Pulled that number out of my ass
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>> ease/speed of prototyping, pure performance, a good concurrency model > out of curiosity, which language + library/framework pairs do you think is a better tool than javascript + nodejs when evaluated along each of you
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