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by ssmoot 12y ago
I'm only 1 season in, but clover is nice. A part of the grass thing I think is the fairly recent desire to have a pure Fescue/Bermuda/etc grass lawn. I don't remember why, but a few months ago it popped into my head: You
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by ssmoot 12y ago
I'm sure thought has been put into it. I just wonder why the OCAs aren't caches? I'd imagine a cache you be a lot more (mostly bandwidth) efficient for the ISPs and scale much better. I request a stream. It's proxied thr
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by ssmoot 12y ago
After looking at this post, I kinda want to try out Foursquare as a Yelp alternative. I've never signed up for Foursquare before. So that seems significant. But two apps? Why? Granted I don't check-in on Yelp very often. But if I
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by ssmoot 12y ago
> well, his duty is to the shareholders so having that as a priority sounds like a good thing to me. I think it's pretty tone deaf in a letter to employees. But tomato/tomato I guess. I didn't say anything about keeping re
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by ssmoot 12y ago
Making the public earnings call the centerpiece seems like a real bad morale move. If I were a 'Softie it would be a strong signal where the leadership's priorities lie (stock price). It gives the talk of "lean" and &quo
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by ssmoot 12y ago
I clicked on the link and saw the "Welcome Home" message with a lady sleeping in the background. A second or two later she moved and I realized I'm watching a short video of some lady sleeping. Which felt very creepy. I just
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by ssmoot 12y ago
Piggy-backing on premature optimization: Yes, 100% agreed. Totally needs to go away. I encounter it most used as a crutch for otherwise skilled programmers to ignore any analysis what-so-ever in any area of software development. IME they pr
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by ssmoot 12y ago
I only buy HD on iTunes, but I only watch SD for 99% of my TV shows. Movies it depends. If it's a kid's movie we've seen already: SD. Also if it's the latest action rental: SD. I rarely rent in HD unless cinematography p
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by ssmoot 12y ago
When we're talking about minimum wage however (other comments he made), that's just patently untrue though. Even if a service job could get by with fewer labor hours without impacting their sales negatively, there are always plent
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by ssmoot 12y ago
Any (significant) temperature delta is fine? It doesn't have to be capable of running a boiler or whatever? Just curious about the feasibility of geothermal.
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by ssmoot 12y ago
It's a weird assumption you seem to be making that businesses (especially small businesses paying minimum wage) are keeping more employees around as they actually need. Maybe you've never worked for minimum wage. When I was pushin
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by ssmoot 12y ago
Yes, but better wages don't necessarily equate to higher prices. During the domestic auto bankruptcies it was a bit grating to hear people ramble on about the "high" wages of union workers being at-fault for the domestic&#x27
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by ssmoot 12y ago
As a former Ruby developer: Please for the love of all that is holy do not make SBT more "Ruby-ish". Rubygems, Bundler, RVM and friends don't do anything SBT doesn't already do. And SBT does it with less set up and cerem
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by ssmoot 12y ago
IntelliJ keeps most of it's buttons hidden (in v13 at least). Might be worth a shot. I'm not entirely sure what you mean by "fuzzy code completion", but IntelliJ supports case-insensitive-in-order-partial-symbol matching
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by ssmoot 12y ago
As a counterpoint to this popular meme: Most developers I know are VIM converts (from TextMate). I've never seen their choice of editor improve their coding speed. Haven't seen it on videos online. The idea that being fluent in VI
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by ssmoot 12y ago
After over a year of working with Scala and IntelliJ I don't know how to create a project from scratch through the IDE. I just create a build.sbt, project/build.properties, and then open my SBT project in IntelliJ. Since they adde
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by ssmoot 12y ago
The raids are very common. Just because people don't die very often doesn't mean they're reasonable. Pointing rifles at innocent people practically indiscriminately ("wrong place, wrong time, now STFU citizen"), not
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by ssmoot 12y ago
There was no death in this case (yet). The previous comment was referring to the raids in general (at least how I read it). And those are actually not all that uncommon.
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by ssmoot 12y ago
> for code that does not heavily rely on generics Does adding Generics heavy code move the needle in Java's favor? As a Scala developer your comment just jumped out at me because even doing a lot of Akka this past week, there's
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by ssmoot 12y ago
So on point. The biggest issue with the modern web (IMO) is JS (but mostly JS frameworks). They're just so miserably slow on mobile. Slow to download. Laggy. Supplanting native controls with ones with a noticeable input delay. It'
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by ssmoot 12y ago
On a related note: It's amazing how miserable many popular "mobile first" "hip/modern" sites are to actually use on a mobile data connection/latency. The modern web may be pretty, but it feels like general
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by ssmoot 12y ago
I wouldn't call the iOS keyboard "hunt and peck". You only need the visual for alignment. Otherwise your touch-typing skills seem to transfer pretty well. I mean, I don't have to wonder where the T key is before my thumb
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by ssmoot 12y ago
I mentioned it one time. I guess that's some sort of definition of "constantly". ;-) I'm not confusing anything though. I just have an expectation that I won't be dialing into some arcane menu system to retrieve jus
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by ssmoot 12y ago
> You don't go buy an $699 unlocked phone and use it as a Specifically Optimized for Carrier X phone. The point is you don't need to with an iPhone. I bought my 5C used and unlocked. No problems hopping onto AT&T with it. I
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by ssmoot 12y ago
This doesn't actually address any of his points. I feel like you could change the "4" in your comment to a "5" in a couple years and feel equally justified. If anything, it's a bigger sin today now that Android
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by ssmoot 12y ago
Ah. You're right. I stand corrected. I could see how that could be useful if I were, for example, an Instagram user.
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by ssmoot 12y ago
iOS has choices in Photos believe it or not. The iOS7 "intents"-alike screen is pretty ubiquitous. The issue here is they were both installed OTB (according to the article). If he'd installed Photos himself he'd presumab
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by ssmoot 12y ago
4. The MotoX lock screen sometimes unlocked with a swipe of a dot, and sometimes up from the bottom depending on wether there was an unaddressed notification. Incredibly annoying. You can unlock an iPhone 100% of the time blindly while pull
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by ssmoot 12y ago
"the point" is that it's not explained what the consequences are. If I choose Photos to view images in Messaging, it's not made clear that only Gallery is an option to attach images. If it were, why would anyone choose
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by ssmoot 12y ago
Why does AT&T, Google, Microsoft, et all get a pass on billing for their work, probably with similar expedition fees on a very similar schedule (probably suggested by his lawyer after all), but Levinson doesn't? If the government w

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