tdavis

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by tdavis 18y ago
I assure you I have seen much suffering and death in my life.
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by tdavis 18y ago
I have since apologize for this stupid comment here: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=371638 I didn't reply here because I doubt the down-vote wave has crested.
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My Public Apology
151 points by tdavis 18y ago|108 comments
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by tdavis 18y ago
Seriously people? I didn't expect this to be taken well by most here (in fact it was an experiment to see if there was a limit to down-voting), but some of you seem to be on a war path now. It doesn't really matter what the Justin.tv CEO sa
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by tdavis 18y ago
This reply makes every down-vote worth it. Good show, sir!
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by tdavis 18y ago
Pills? If you're going to live broadcast your own death, make it more interesting than watching paint dry. Sheesh.
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by tdavis 18y ago
Hear, hear. I was going to post something like this because I have lived among people in third-world countries who actually have it hard (total understatement), but it's better that it came from someone with immediate family who lived it.
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by tdavis 18y ago
If you use a product made by a company that can't manage to fix something like that over the course of 4 years ("fix" because it goes against their own guidelines) you probably deserve to have all your fonts look like shit. Just sayin'.
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by tdavis 18y ago
Dammit, now I do too! I almost want to buy that app and I don't even use Subversion...
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by tdavis 18y ago
Your follow-up makes a lot more sense and seems less judgmental, thank you for clarifying. There is one part I have to disagree with, though: ...the loss to society is large. There will always be people looking for the quick buck, quick
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by tdavis 18y ago
Well, it's not me . This former banker taught himself a new platform, realized an idea, and created a game that obviously many people are entertained by. The real-world impact? He got to quit a job he (apparently) didn't like very much, cr
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by tdavis 18y ago
For TS we're trying to decide how to make sign-up dead simple. Since we want to support alerts and such, we'd like to simply use an e-mail/pw combo so that you only have to fill out 3 fields when you sign up (email/pw/pw confirm). Do you h
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by tdavis 18y ago
It's important to note that being a competent typist and being a competent programming typist are different things. On the test that Jeff linked to in his post, I scored 101 WPM. Throw in enough symbols and numbers and other non-standard
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by tdavis 18y ago
Sulking for 5 months isn't much of a life. Life is short. Exactly my thoughts. The author's tolerance for ignorance and blatant hostility is far greater than mine. I would have booked a flight back home as soon as I heard "We don't take t
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by tdavis 18y ago
One day we suddenly had a Slinkset site that was fully decked out in the TicketStumbler layout. They have magical gnomes working there, or something. And it's currently one of our top 3 traffic drivers! <3 Brett & John and fully rec
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by tdavis 18y ago
I think more surprising is how easy it is to be Geographically ignorant. I have been to roughly 20 different countries and would be hard pressed to locate some of them on a map. Honestly, who cares where Kyrgyzstan is? ;)
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by tdavis 18y ago
Despite only being 24 and having a life nothing like that, I felt suddenly motivated to do more than I already am after reading that...
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by tdavis 18y ago
Yeah, but if everybody did that you'd no longer get that free stuff... There are certain things you can't simply charge for successfully. Not many people would pay a subscription to read a blog, for instance.
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by tdavis 18y ago
Actually, the only reason I ever go to a bar is to get drunk. Perfect record!
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by tdavis 18y ago
Next time we're in SF we need to get Garry to take a bunch of "stock" photos of us then just give them to these publications. He's taken one random picture of me and it was good enough to replace my profile picture on every site that has on
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by tdavis 18y ago
I didn't file a bug report because I'm not entirely sure what I would file it as; "Excessive use of magic?". What happened in my case is that when using multiprocessing with Django, if a database connection is opened by the main process to
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by tdavis 18y ago
Anecdotal evidence is my favorite flavor of evidence.
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by tdavis 18y ago
...provide the optimum situation for bringing up kids... The fact that roughly 50% of marriages end in divorce (at least in the U.S.) makes whether or not marriages create said optimum situation the decision of a rounding error, more or l
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by tdavis 18y ago
I have had less than stellar success with multiprocessing in non-trivial applications. There seems to be a lot of undesired "magic" going on, such as workers having access to global imports which causes all sorts of issues. If I want a work
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by tdavis 18y ago
I wouldn't describe the title as "strong," I'd describe it as a good indicator of idiocy ahead. I'm glad that online advertising can either be booming or dead; if there were a middle ground I might actually have to use my brain. Disclaimer:
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by tdavis 18y ago
Everyone else in the vicinity of the smoker chose to be there, knowing that person was smoking. Back when it was legal, there wasn't some great mystery to it; you went to a bar where smoking was allowed, people were probably smoking. It's n
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by tdavis 18y ago
I absolutely love Merlin's Twitter name, I just can't decide why. "Hotdogs, ladies!" just sounds hilarious.
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by tdavis 18y ago
Awesome. I wish I had more than that.
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by tdavis 18y ago
When it rains it pours, eh? We just need to weather the storm ;)
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by tdavis 18y ago
I'm not sure what you're arguing here. I don't disagree that if two companies are providing the same value and one has no regulatory burden, that company will succeed while the other will fail. That in no way proves that deregulation is bad

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