timrobinson

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by timrobinson 16y ago
"You could always upgrade to Chrome" -- I'm already running Chrome (well, Chromium from about a week ago)
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by timrobinson 16y ago
An SSH service would be of real benefit to Windows users, too. As the page says, the Cygwin sshd is much too intrusive when all you need is a Windows command prompt. A terminal services implementation would make an interesting project. The
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by timrobinson 16y ago
I thought about this some more over the weekend, and one thing that occurred to me is that virtually all of my photos go via Adode Lightroom. The image files don't change; instead, all of the metadata and retouch history lives in Lightroom'
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by timrobinson 16y ago
"The average market rate for developers is significantly higher" is a very strong argument. If you quit, they've have to pay somebody else average market rate. If you stay, and they raise your pay to match the market rate, then the company
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by timrobinson 16y ago
You could run it on the server side, like https://github.com/timrobinson/try-fsharp/ .
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by timrobinson 16y ago
Drawing some calculus on a window doesn't count as a new theory of relativity.
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by timrobinson 16y ago
Maybe they'll respond in a month.
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by timrobinson 16y ago
Thanks for this. Photography and CouchDB are two of my favourite things. I've been looking for a Flickr replacement, so I might try a similar setup to yours.
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by timrobinson 16y ago
DropBox for photos? It's a great idea.
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by timrobinson 16y ago
Maybe the app developer would be better off using the phone's camera to detect nearby bananas.
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by timrobinson 16y ago
Duplicates normally have slightly different URLs: maybe an extra /, or HTTPS instead of HTTP, or added query string parameters.
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by timrobinson 16y ago
Looks useful, but do I really have to give my AWS secret access key? You could do a lot with that...
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by timrobinson 16y ago
I don't have any suggestions, but I'm not sure you want to figure it out by hand: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Travelling_salesman_problem
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by timrobinson 16y ago
Web development - HTML, CSS and Javascript - is not hard, but it's a different mindset from PC programming. Your program's state can't live in global variables: it has to fit inside the HTTP interface. Unfortunately circa-2003 ASP.NET was a
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by timrobinson 16y ago
Because I use OS X, which has decent Unix tools along with a nice user interface.
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by timrobinson 16y ago
This is based on http://tryfs.net , which GitHub reckons is 52% F# code and 48% Javascript (server-side code run through CouchDB). I don't think F# is all that common for web development.
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by timrobinson 16y ago
F#
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by timrobinson 16y ago
Javascript
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by timrobinson 16y ago
> With proper sub-typing the implementation of the current execution path should be easier to read I'm not sure how the existence of virtual functions makes the execution path easier to read...
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by timrobinson 16y ago
Also, I'm finding myself using Vim more, in preference to editors like Visual Studio. The Vim approach is to work out what you want to do, then type the sequence of codes that makes the computer do it for you. The traditional approach is to
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by timrobinson 16y ago
For me, command lines are like delegating a task to somebody else: "Find me all the temporary files older than a week and delete them". In a GUI, I'm doing the task myself: "Hmm, where are the temporary files kept? OK, which are the old one
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by timrobinson 16y ago
Maybe I should have pointed out that I work in derivatives...
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by timrobinson 16y ago
> But just like I don’t use custom HTTP headers because of concern that proxies may strip them off Is this an actual problem? HTTP headers are normally significant in REST APIs (well, in HTTP generally), so it seems unreasonable that
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by timrobinson 16y ago
I prefer the unhedged call option analogy: http://www.m3p.co.uk/blog/2010/07/23/bad-code-isnt-technical... - Debt is predictable: if I know the price in the future, and the rate of interest, I know the price now. If I knew what the cost i
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by timrobinson 16y ago
In the Shakespeare play quoted in the article.
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by timrobinson 16y ago
According to http://www.iaea.org/newscenter/news/tsunamiupdate01.html , "all units at the Fukushima Daini, Onagawa, and Tokai nuclear power plants are in a safe and stable condition (i.e. cold shutdown)". Dai-ichi is Fukushima I: 'ichi' is
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by timrobinson 16y ago
"units m^-3" is another way of saying "units per m^3", i.e. radiation per cubic metre. For comparison, speed is "m s^-1" and acceleration is "m s^-2". Radiation per cubic millimetre would be "units mm^-3".
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by timrobinson 16y ago
Give him bugs to fix. Make them small enough that you don't have to give him an excessive amount of supervision, but large enough that he gets exposure to a few parts of the application.
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by timrobinson 16y ago
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sievert But I don't know how many Sieverts the map represents. Or if it's even depicting rate of dose over time.
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by timrobinson 16y ago
"The screensaver mode can be disabled" - the first app wants to enable the screen saver. The second app wants to disable it. What happens? "will most likely lead apps to crash" - you're a developer who's attempting to hack somebody else's a

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