traviscj

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   by traviscj 9y ago

   I don't think the formula makes sense with "A" you have to include the Wikipedia link to. The point of "the uber for y" or "the apple of x" is that it plays off of our deep seated awareness of uber and App
2. 152.▲
   by traviscj 10y ago

   Irrelevant nit that doesn't undermine your point: the Bolt is made by Chevrolet.
3. 153.▲
   by traviscj 10y ago

   I'm most surprised processors/issuers want to take on the risk from allowing these transactions.
4. 154.▲
   by traviscj 10y ago

   Wise words -- a good set of indices are the first thing you need for real problems with realistic data sizes.
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   by traviscj 10y ago

   If this is the type of error you want to minimize, NATO phonetic alphabet [1] is worth learning. (Amateur radio is a good place to practice, though I'll admit I'm a bit rusty.) I actually kinda enjoy these minor discrepancies, bec
6. 156.▲
   by traviscj 10y ago

   Names need check digits, then? "Hi I'm Travis Johnson42"
7. 157.▲
   by traviscj 10y ago

   Indeed, but not surprising when `O(n)` beats `Maybe<?>`.
8. 158.▲
   by traviscj 10y ago

   From [1], the Ford Taurus [2]? Weird... [1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Flagship_vehicles [2]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ford_Taurus_(sixth_generation)
9. 159.▲
   by traviscj 10y ago

   Yeah, makes sense. Bookmark == pointer to bytes, Screenshot == bytes. If the bytes could save someone's life (or N doctor visits, or even 5 saved minutes), quite worthwhile to keep a copy. Same principal as pinboard.in's archiving
10. 160.▲
    by traviscj 10y ago

    I think a lot of publishers seem uninterested in untargeted advertisements though, so the distinction -- while existing in principal -- is not very relevant in practice. Certainly the untargeted adds I see (or even those I can tell are by v
11. 161.▲
    by traviscj 10y ago

    Trivial to defraud.
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    by traviscj 10y ago

    This was kinda my philosophy until other devs started working on my project. I couldn't bring myself to tell them "no ES6" in PRs, but wasn't actually a review without knowing it. At some point I took the plunge. It is a
13. 163.▲
    by traviscj 10y ago

    Argument against considering them the same level of abstraction: HTTP and especially TCP stand on their own to do useful things (e.g. gRPC + every video game ever), so it's not necessary to understand HTML to understand and use HTTP. H
14. 164.▲
    by traviscj 10y ago

    It seems like sometimes this is just how iteratively automating things works, especially on an internal-facing tool. You have some process that starts out being "deploy this app with this java code". You deploy once and while, so
15. 165.▲
    by traviscj 10y ago

    Different goals are allowed to have different execution strategies.
16. 166.▲
    by traviscj 10y ago

    Showing my own ignorance. My heuristics have been updated -- thanks!
17. 167.▲
    by traviscj 10y ago

    Your Java is showing :-)
18. 168.▲
    by traviscj 10y ago

    Legitimately gone down this path and hack on it to procrastinate. It's now redis-backed, supports dependent todos, and has a decent command-line interface. No idea how I am still employed.
19. 169.▲
    by traviscj 10y ago

    At work we have an ascii-art, most-of-80x40-filling version of our logo rendered in an environment-associated color on login + matching prompt. The ascii-art logo might not have helped in this case (if it was a long sequence of console inte
20. 170.▲
    by traviscj 10y ago

    You can "brew install coreutils" and then use "gdate " on macOS.
21. 171.▲
    by traviscj 10y ago

    Beware race conditions when writing to /var/trashlist (assuming you mean "a file with one path per line.") Proposed tweaks: symbolic link into /var/trashlist directory, where the name of the symbolic link is &q
22. 172.▲
    by traviscj 10y ago

    I think so, actually. The most effective places to set up a bomb are probably among the most dangerous for a covert operative to actually get to. This changes that.
23. 173.▲
    by traviscj 10y ago

    Gotta give everyone their fresh, daily dose of self doubt.
24. 174.▲
    by traviscj 10y ago

    I don't get this. How do you know that the v231 for that component will work with older versions of everything else? If you do, why not just compile it yourself? If you don't like that, why not upgrade everything to v231?
25. 175.▲
    by traviscj 10y ago

    All of that, and you can't understand why someone might want to go back and use the old medium?
26. 176.▲
    by traviscj 10y ago

    I also love welding. My grandpa wanted to teach me, but he didn't have a second helmet. So he has me wear the helmet because he can weld by sound , so he just looks the other way and lays down a bead that is more perfect than lots tha
27. 177.▲
    by traviscj 10y ago

    No, because before Google was guilty of using MegaCorp IP, but now, you're guilty of telling them they could, so you are responsible now, not Google.
28. 178.▲
    by traviscj 10y ago

    Data point: I read it the other way, that all employees could look at all of those things, and that the exceptions were un-named. I'd imagine the exceptions are some small black boxes that try to catch abuse/spam/etc in vario
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    by traviscj 10y ago

    Maybe the stock market just needs to introduce a new "Martian Stock Option" (along with American and European) that has an expiration date of the company's choosing, to be decided at a future date, with a penalty for or prohi
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    by traviscj 10y ago

    > standard, comprehensible ways I am not convinced that the problem is exactly the lack of comprehension -- it's that startups going public are a probabilistic thing, not a deterministic thing. Given a population you can talk about