thenonsequitur

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by thenonsequitur 14y ago
The parameter count is enforced for each command. For GET, it needs exactly one parameter or it won't be treated as a command. So from your examples above, the longer lines would tweet fine. I agree with treetrouble, however, this was a rea
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by thenonsequitur 14y ago
I agree. But I'd add that even tasks that only require a quick-and-dirty solution can frequently benefit from quick-and-dirty automation. A few throw-away lines in an interpreter environment like irb, for example can often shave several min
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by thenonsequitur 14y ago
Turns out if you trace the etymology of sycophant, you end up with "fig-shower" (sykon = fig in Greek), where "showing the fig" meant something along the lines of "flipping the bird" today. http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?search=sycoph
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by thenonsequitur 14y ago
Agree with the colors. That would turn your screenshot there into a Jackson Pollock :). It could also use some more base shapes, I think (triangle, line).
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by thenonsequitur 14y ago
This. Many people seem to have this Platonic form in their head for "start-up", complete with brogrammers, X-box, and 70-hour work weeks (okay, perhaps a bit of an exaggeration, but you get this gist -- there are certain aspects with lots o
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by thenonsequitur 14y ago
This is pretty silly thing to watch out for. Being a zealot about anything, especially something like unit tests, is certainly not a good idea when searching for a good job. Setting aside the fact that whether unit tests exist and how the
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by thenonsequitur 14y ago
I can second this data point. I love DDG, and tried it out as my default search engine for about a month, but just got tired of how slow it was compared to Google and switched back to Google as my default (on DDG I found myself adding "!goo
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by thenonsequitur 14y ago
I like this because it allows me to ssh into a machine and then run lynx to browse the web. Meta-browser, baby!
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by thenonsequitur 14y ago
It's not clear that this strategy is possible within the the framework of the game show though. The host instructs both players to look at the concealed choices before they're allowed to talk to each other. To employ the blind strategy you'
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by thenonsequitur 14y ago
Metacrawler was awesome at this time.
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by thenonsequitur 14y ago
The detection may not be more sophisticated, but the UX is a bit better now. Now it says "Our automated system will not approve this name. If you believe this is an error, please contact us." The "contact us" links to https://www.facebook.
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by thenonsequitur 14y ago
Well done. I'd like to see some more pro tips!
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by thenonsequitur 14y ago
The truth is, programming is honestly not so hard. It just seems that way to you because it's so easy to convince yourself of that. I want to emphatically remind you that it's not. You have to believe that it's not hard before you can get g
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by thenonsequitur 14y ago
Interesting. As a professional web developer with ten years of experience behind me, my cure (well, one of my cures) is the opposite: getting re-acquainted with making desktop games. They let you make something fun that can instantly be pla
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by thenonsequitur 14y ago
Have you seen the book "Imagine: How Creativity Works" by Jonah Lehrer? It explains how the above process works in a general way, and it's really interesting. It's a pop-science book, to be sure, but still a really good read. http://www.am
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by thenonsequitur 14y ago
Cute :)