thomasmeeks

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by thomasmeeks 12y ago
Yes, I caught that too. Bob definitely comes off as very insulted, and the post is largely emotion rather than facts. Personally I am so tired of hearing lines approximating Bob's statement (if you don't do x you should feel bad)
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by thomasmeeks 13y ago
BFGMiner and CGMiner (3.7.2 -- you must use an old version) are both good choices for ATI or CPU. CUDAMiner if you are using a Nvidia card. CPU mining is not profitable. But absolutely reasonable to do if you just want to mine a small amoun
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by thomasmeeks 13y ago
I used truecar (through overstock.com, I don't think overstock uses them anymore though) 2 years ago to buy a sonata. It was a great experience, and quite a lot off sticker. Zero negotiation, walked in with the paper, that's the p
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by thomasmeeks 13y ago
Basically you just ask for a varying amount of Bitcoin based on the current value and immediately turn the Bitcoin received into US Dollars. Coinbase is a good example of a service that makes this easy. As an example, you want $10 for a wid
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by thomasmeeks 13y ago
The average consumer would use an online wallet -- like coinbase. Especially to get started. There are other issues that make it less convenient than amazon one-click (like funding that wallet). But Bitcoin-Qt really isn't the problem.
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by thomasmeeks 13y ago
OpenStreetMap is pretty amazing. Leafletjs is a great way to display that data on the web. Tiles from cloudmade or mapquest compliment it nicely. Really nice replacement for gmaps should you ever need it.
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by thomasmeeks 13y ago
>At worst, debris may cause a flat if it punctures one of the tires. That's just not true. I had about $2k in damage on a Mini Cooper (2006, stock) that hit the remnants of a blown out semi truck tire in the road. Similar situation
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by thomasmeeks 13y ago
Been using Zurb on a free-time site for about 9 months. I've been consistently impressed with it. It gave me a good place to start, and customization has been a breeze.
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by thomasmeeks 13y ago
Documentation does not exist for your own benefit. It exists to help other people on the team, or the programmer that inherits your code, quickly understand your code. The key word here is quickly. Yes, a programmer can trace code & fig
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by thomasmeeks 13y ago
Just to toss it out there, because I also drool over awesome chairs (and lament their price tag): I recently picked up a standing desk (geekdesk). I still love my Steelcase, but the standing desk is a bigger improvement on the work day. Thi
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by thomasmeeks 13y ago
Your definitions are tangential to the argument. A body shot is risque, but they are not an open invitation to groping and fingering. Your point amounts to "her skirt was too short." Before you cry out straw-man, don't. Nowhe
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by thomasmeeks 13y ago
Given her (and the two other) accounts, this absolutely was sexual battery. A drunk, intimidated, or otherwise incapacitated victim does not give an attacker free reign to do whatever they feel like doing. Drunkenness on the attacker's
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by thomasmeeks 13y ago
Really the issue is that virtual hosts can affect each other quite a bit on Rackspace compared to, say, AWS. If your server behaves poorly, Rackspace can and will shut it off. One of our non-critical servers ran out of memory, thrashed swap
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by thomasmeeks 13y ago
The general point is that fresh coffee, from an awesome roaster, prepared with some extra love & care does not taste bitter to me or the people I've made it for. Thought I'd toss out enough to get started for those interested.
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by thomasmeeks 13y ago
How to get coffee without bitterness or acidity on the cheap! "Drip" coffee: Buy good coffee (stumptown, PT's, tonx, among others) whole bean. Try to finish the beans within ~3-4 weeks of the roast date. Grind it with a cheap
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by thomasmeeks 13y ago
A single X session cannot span two graphics cards. X just doesn't support it. You're waiting on Mir or Wayland for that one. If you manage to get all four monitors on one card somehow, X can handle the multiple geometries just fin
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by thomasmeeks 13y ago
Sure thing! 1. Two hard drives (msata & normal laptop drive). It has been handy to get ssd speed and a good size place to store larger files. 2. Two usable video outs. This is surprisingly hard to find in the PC arena. If linux supporte
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by thomasmeeks 13y ago
I program ruby most of the time, with some sysops mixed in here and there. A smattering of other languages as the need arises. OS is Arch Linux, and I use the i3 window manager. Coding is done in Vim. ZSH & Konsole are my terminal weapo
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by thomasmeeks 13y ago
At Home (Work is same, just aesthetically different) Black ikea desk, finely tuned height, otherwise plain Steelcase think chair Two 21.5" Dell Monitors, 1920x1080 IPS panels, usually in vertical position Kinesis Advantage K
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by thomasmeeks 13y ago
I've been through Redhat, Gentoo, Fedora, Ubuntu, Suse, OSX, and Arch over the past decade. Arch seems to be where I'm staying for a long time, for a few reasons. First, it is a great distro for tinkering. I (obviously -- by my list) enjoy
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by thomasmeeks 13y ago
Trying out a tiling window manager was the "last straw" that pulled me off OSX and back onto Linux. It started with Xmonad, but I've settled on i3 for the same reasons as you.
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by thomasmeeks 13y ago
Well, Ubuntu definitely messed up on their arguments regarding Wayland. That said, keeping Kubuntu going is not Ubuntu's responsibility. It may very well be that Kubuntu will need to fork off Ubuntu (or base off a different distro), and tha
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by thomasmeeks 13y ago
Ubuntu is not distancing themselves from anyone, least of all Open Source. Everything they are doing is open, and I'd argue in the spirit of the Linux community, as well (experiment, scratch your own it, prove your idea by building it, etc.
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by thomasmeeks 13y ago
There are advantages to TDD. It forces you to use your code as you write it, which is a very good way to ensure you have a reasonable API. For example, if you hate writing your tests, then there may be something wrong with your code. It als
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by thomasmeeks 14y ago
Hey hey, if you'd like to drop us a line at help.codeschool.com, we can look into the problem a bit more. I'm in the process of getting ubuntu desktop tossed up to test, but didn't want to keep you waiting. Thanks!
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by thomasmeeks 14y ago
I used to be, and the Kinesis works great there. It is a super configurable keyboard. You can swap the definition of any two keys (make enter -> backspace, caps lock -> escape, etc.) The only OS that I've had issues on is Windows. T
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by thomasmeeks 14y ago
Just to toss down what's worked for me in case it helps someone else: I was on the brink of RSI (numbness in the fingers) until I changed to a Kinesis Advantage keyboard, and a trackball mouse (thumb movement). Some lingering issues were cl
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by thomasmeeks 14y ago
Well, sure, I'm not sure I really care about what particular employers require of their employees. I think it is silly, but I doubt you care much about what I think, either. It was a minor point to me (not to you), which is why we've diverg
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by thomasmeeks 14y ago
That's cool, and I'm sure the author's conclusions are correct for that code base. However, the skeptic in me can't help but point out that this is not nearly rigorous enough to say his method can pretty reliably determine TDD vs non TDD co
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by thomasmeeks 14y ago
Well, yes, if you take it to the ship first vs what amounts to waterfall extreme, there will be profound differences in the code. I suppose if you make it your mission to analyze code to determine whether or not your programmers are using T

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