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by swdunlop 14y ago
Just don't put it on your development workstation yet; XCode 4.4 is blocking the install of Command Line Tools for some developers. This means Homebrew doesn't work, VIM doesn't work (no /usr/include for pyconfig.h), and things are general
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by swdunlop 14y ago
I whole-heartedly agree with the terms, if not quite the tone. I've had to chase companies that had the cash to waste visibly for late payment. I've had to chase companies that wanted to change terms after there was acquisition interest.
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by swdunlop 14y ago
Right. Early in learning golang, many people will get tired of typing: ..., err := doStuff() if err != nil { return err } The usual text editor features, like templates, reduce the typing, but the point is that the
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by swdunlop 14y ago
You should try Fry's Electronics, which often seems to have the position of "if anyone's going to be defrauding anyone, it'll be US, buddy!" Sorry, still sore about that repackaged and bricked WRT54g.. If anyone's going to brick things, it
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by swdunlop 14y ago
I used it infrequently as a consultant; my company actually introduced me to the service -- but we used it to supplement traditional rentals, not replace them. Got to run out to play pet engineer for a scoping meeting? Grab a zipcar. Stuc
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by swdunlop 14y ago
The researchers deserve a lot of derision, here. It's not like people decide to rent a car by the hour to save the whales. The only intangible benefit in my mind when renting a zipcar is the knowledge that I won't have to direct one of Se
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by swdunlop 14y ago
That's essentially what Zipcar is. It's a pay by the hour car rental service with a good interface. They call it "sharing" just to get around a lot of legal and cultural baggage associated with rental.
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by swdunlop 14y ago
That's why they are filing in east Texas, it's a jurisdiction that is friendly to patent trolls. Lunacy is the business model.
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by swdunlop 14y ago
These friendly high abstraction build systems show their teeth when they meet configurations that deviate from abstractions. Go's a great example -- if $GOROOT or parts of $GOPATH are not owned by the build user, "go build" will occasional
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by swdunlop 14y ago
My problem with many modern build systems is that they try to cure the user of using shell commands for compiling and linking, in a misplaced effort to make things "more portable." They walk right by the real reason I'm there, which is to
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by swdunlop 14y ago
Our engineering team logs into it daily, and some of us stay logged in throughout the day, checking off lists and hashing out ideas in the cards before importing them into engineering docs. It's a great way to manage features and organize
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by swdunlop 14y ago
I thought the Segway killer was the cost and confusion about how to integrate it with traffic codes. The Ryno doesn't appear to solve either of these problems.
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by swdunlop 14y ago
"That is turnkey privacy. It’s turnkey anonymity. It’s turnkey security." These are three things that are not offered as "turnkey" for a reason. They have serious usability impacts and in all but the most disruptive configurations tend to
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by swdunlop 14y ago
I thought exactly the same thing.. I was totally on board and excited until I saw, duhnduhnduhnn... "github.com/adobe/brackets" Then I fled. And a lot of other people probably will, too -- Adobe has a lot of things to make up for with the
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by swdunlop 14y ago
A key part of a lot of these pygtk players is that they rely on gstreamer to do the heavy lifting. Organizing a pipeline of "this source, this format, that sink" is not a performance problem -- it's a plumbing task. :)
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by swdunlop 14y ago
I find Quod Libet to be my tool of choice, now. The query language is a bit ridiculous, but Mutagen is great for cleaning up crappy tags from my mp3 purchases. Despite being a PyGTK app, it has been fairly responsive and snappy despite my
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by swdunlop 14y ago
tl;dr -- retail jobs pay low wages, Apple included. What I took away from it? Apple is paying market rates for its semi-skilled employees in a high unemployment market. The market is the problem, not the employer.
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by swdunlop 14y ago
Yeah, looked at Seattle -- what is typically an insane 60m commute (the 520 floating bridge) is a cheerful 20-25m. NYC was also pretty laughable -- traffic really matters outside of sprawl cities with six lane highways masquerading as main
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by swdunlop 14y ago
"Most conferences are a crap shoot when it comes to video. Half the time they won’t record your talk, and the other half of the time it may take months before your talk is published. Something I’ve been doing recently is making a screen rec
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by swdunlop 14y ago
Ah, Netscape Composer, we hardly missed you.
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by swdunlop 14y ago
The most honest answer is that we've got a ton of Linux servers with well understood and managed configurations, and then these brahmin storage servers that fall outside of that discipline because they have very different update cycles and
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by swdunlop 14y ago
You can look for yourself using smartctl -- they still respond after the mechanical failure. Aside from pasting internal emails (not happening :)), you'll have to google for yourself on this one. We didn't do anything novel with these dri
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by swdunlop 14y ago
Love ZFS, hate having to use it in FreeBSD or Illumos, so I like seeing someone successfully using it in Linux even if licensing concerns keep me from doing it. When I saw that he was using "WD Caviar Green" hard drives, though, I cringed.
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by swdunlop 14y ago
This sounds similar to spaced repetition, which is a practice of revisiting memorization of facts with increasing intervals instead of over-drilling with repetition. (See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spaced_repetition for the theory, and
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by swdunlop 14y ago
From the article, I understand "Slow Web" to be six paragraphs without getting to the point. Sort of an antithesis to TL;DR. But, now I know about an interesting new noodle shop, and a task list app.
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by swdunlop 14y ago
Welcome to the internet generation, where we can look into someone's private conversation and comment "citation needed."
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by swdunlop 14y ago
Well, it is somewhat relevant to Forbes, since Best Buy has been giving all the indicators of following Circuit City into oblivion and Forbes has commented about it recently. The Apple Store (and Sony Store) is a contrast in how a well tun
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by swdunlop 14y ago
Actually, "indent-nazism" is a big thing in the Go community. The Gofmt utility, which takes an AST of your code and normalizes it to a common style. Nobody agrees that the style is perfect, a lot of people have religious preferences whe
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by swdunlop 14y ago
I always think of unix as the Disintegrated Development Environment, and I'm happy to keep it that way. Every time I go down the rabbit hole of trying to integrate build, debug and edit into a single tool, I eventually go back to using ind
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by swdunlop 14y ago
Hell, I do this twice when dealing with in-laws. The first time to make sure I can restore the OEM partition, and the second time so I can restore the thoroughly sanitized install when they filthy it up with malware and browser bars.

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