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by themckman 13y ago
You mean you don't want to see a medical supply startup that "moves fast and breaks stuff"? I'm surprised we haven't yet...
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by themckman 13y ago
May or may not be interesting, but: lambda x, y: pass will throw a syntax error because pass[0] is a statement and the lambda form[1] expects an expression: [0]: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ov_y5kYJQSY [1]: htt
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by themckman 13y ago
The biggest thing from RSpec I've missed since switching from Ruby are the describe/it blocks. I felt like they helped you, as you were writing tests, compose sentences that, in the end, should be true about the system under test.
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by themckman 13y ago
Looking at both the pictures from the Golden Gate and from the Space Needle made my palms sweaty. It's just odd thinking about someone being up there for no other reason than to be there.
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by themckman 13y ago
> Once your emails get into google servers, the NSA has made a copy of them. NSA copies your emails before you even read them. I haven't followed the NSA Prism story as closely as maybe I should have, but I'm curious: is this T
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by themckman 13y ago
It's kind of interesting that if the supplier of the good pandora was pushing was anything but an artist or musician, we'd be totally on their side for trying to get a fair price the goods they're providing. However, since th
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by themckman 13y ago
It gets me closer to adding value directly, instead of shoehorning my preferred solution onto a problem. But shoehorning my elaborate solution onto the problem is the funnest part. Providing value is easy and boring...
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by themckman 13y ago
I currently contract at 2 different companies. I have the machines I was given at both running headless and just bring my laptop in and SSH to them to do work (my workflow is tmux/vim based). I then keep 2 separate user accounts on my
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by themckman 13y ago
Nanex is a company that intrigues me immensely. I follow Scott (their founder, I think) on twitter and I wish I understood even a small percentage of what they produce on a daily basis. The stock market in general is something I wish I und
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by themckman 13y ago
I think the story goes that something not ready for production made it into production. I obviously can't say anything about their test suite, but it sounds more like a mismanaged merge/deployment process.
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by themckman 13y ago
This happened with the Puppet type reference search result. Still feel weird clicking it with the guy's picture next to it. Makes it feel like it's his page when I want to believe it belongs Puppet.
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by themckman 13y ago
Hold onto your butts...
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by themckman 13y ago
That said, I somewhat jokingly predicted this trend previously. With the explosive growth of digital information and electronics, I think we'll see a renaissance of analog, mechanical, and otherwise "physical" things. I'
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by themckman 13y ago
It's hideous; I agree. The prevailing argument here for the covers is fuel economy (i.e. reduced drag). Show me the numbers with and without the covers, but, I'd bet they're not so different that I'd sacrifice the look of the automobile by
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by themckman 13y ago
I, honestly, doubt very much. I'm sure you'll have a percentage of potential customers not make a purchase at all because the site is down, but everyone that is committed to buying whatever it was they were going to look for will just wait
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by themckman 13y ago
I get where you're coming from. Personally, I don't think a director's chair is visually appealing. This chair is visually appealing to me. I'd gladly pay a premium for something that looks amazing. I win twice in this case because it satis
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by themckman 13y ago
This is essentially how App Engine does scheduled jobs. You define the schedule and give it an endpoint in your app to hit. The tricky part with this is that all the limits that come with web requests are imposed on your jobs which may be a
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by themckman 13y ago
The brokerage and banking company Charles Schwab has strict length limits— passwords can be no longer than six characters. I'm a little dubious of this claim as I have several accounts (checking, savings and brokerage) with Charle
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by themckman 13y ago
Of course it would, because they'd be trawling through data I haven't given them. People have given Google their email, calendar and search history by using their services. We already know they have all of our data. Is it a little scary? Su
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by themckman 13y ago
I ended up watching that movie on Netflix after reading some article about the Alec Baldwin speech popped up here on HN. Fantastic movie and fantastic cast. Highly recommended.
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by themckman 13y ago
I recently just had great success using coroutines to build a sort of function pipeline that can work in both code and at the command line with minimal effort; I'm doing a lot of text processing. A contrived example that prints the numbers
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by themckman 13y ago
It still reads like Apple didn't want him anymore, because if really was all those things the article said and actually contributed to the organization in a substantial way, they wouldn't have just let him fall through the cracks. It feels
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by themckman 13y ago
Where can you find more information about becoming one of these certified software providers? It seems like it could be a pretty easy web service to deploy that once it's up, it really becomes a simple matter of keeping your database up to
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by themckman 13y ago
I am actively turned off when I click a "Contact Us" link and I'm taken to a form rather than seeing a new email pop up. Most of the time decide not to contact that business and look for one I can contact immediately via email only going ba
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by themckman 13y ago
Gosh that'd be eerie if it turns out to be these guys knowing they walked right past you and your friends and to have a photograph of it.
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by themckman 13y ago
I'm curious, I watched the conference on cnn.com and there was some guy going off about the FBI lying and waiving around photographs that the press seemed to swarm after the official press conference was over. He said a website a few times,
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by themckman 13y ago
Thanks for the tip on isync/mbsync.
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by themckman 13y ago
Off topic: Can anyone recommend a good command-line mail client. I'm used mutt quite a bit. Wondering if there are any more out there that are at least as good as mutt.
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by themckman 14y ago
Even as an experience Python developer, I love finding explanations like this. Sometimes you forget about obscure aspects of a particular feature once you get in a groove and reading things like this usually makes me think back and go "Ohh,
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by themckman 14y ago
That is a fantastic commit message. I try and convince anyone I work with that they should write commit messages like this. Slowly, but surely, they come around.

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