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by vandahm 8y ago
I don't know, but at that point we've left this problem domain and entered a new one: archiving digital data. That sounds like a daunting problem, but one that lots of people and institutions are strongly motivated to solve. If th
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by vandahm 8y ago
I think the iSmell, at least the way it's described in the article, was a terrible idea. Whatever the scent-enabled equivalent of a Rickroll or a goatse link would have been, we're better off without it. That said, the technology
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by vandahm 9y ago
I worked as a software developer at a nonprofit for four years, mostly because of the organization's mission. It didn't pay nearly as well as the for-profit sector, but the job had quality-of-life advantages that mostly offset tha
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by vandahm 9y ago
Yes, there was skepticism, but there wasn't much, legally, that skeptics could do to prevent these products from being sold. If you're interested in this stuff, you should check out a book called "The Poisoner's Handbook
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by vandahm 10y ago
I kind of want to find out!
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by vandahm 11y ago
There weren't many options for aftermarket pickups in the 1970s. He was almost certainly installing secondhand pickups extracted from broken guitars. Those would have been significantly cheaper than a distortion pedal, especially consi
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by vandahm 12y ago
The ads are fantastic!
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by vandahm 12y ago
For my personal stuff, I'm happy to pay GitHub to host my private repositories, but it's not always that simple. I work for a large, bureaucratic corporation in a heavily regulated industry. If something costs money -- even a doll
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by vandahm 12y ago
Thanks for the link to uBlock. I've been growing frustrated with Ghostery and AdBlock Plus, but didn't know of a good alternative. I'm giving uBlock a try, and so far, so good.
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by vandahm 12y ago
I'm not familiar with HackPad, but I don't think that's what's happening, because the `img` tags point directly to goatse.info. I think someone edited the document, removed whatever content was once there, and replaced i
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by vandahm 14y ago
What worries me about a compulsory buyback here in the United States is the massive number of firearms for which the government would have to provide compensation. If the owners of each of the 300 million guns in the United States were com
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by vandahm 14y ago
Not exactly -- the founder in the story is a fictional man named Tom. The author, Miracle Jones, has a website with a number of bizarre, but well-written short stories: http://miraclejones.blogspot.com/
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by vandahm 14y ago
It is entirely possible that I don't know what I'm talking about, but I don't understand how this plan could possibly work. If developers thought they could make money writing Blackberry apps, wouldn't they already be writing them? Since I
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by vandahm 14y ago
I think the presenter was referring to the Django Pony -- Django's widely known but unofficial mascot -- and not trying to invoke a My Little Pony meme. http://djangopony.com/
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by vandahm 15y ago
Not if they're losing business.
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by vandahm 15y ago
I know software developers who wouldn't be able to figure it out.
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by vandahm 15y ago
I use two of them and they haven't given me any trouble. Pinboard[1] adds a menu option, which I have positioned next to the address bar. Pinboard Right[2] adds a 'Post Page to Pinboard' link to my right-click menu. 1. Pinboard: https://ch
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by vandahm 15y ago
It's true that the overall unemployment rate is alarmingly high, but my understanding is that the employment rate among software developers is quite low. In my area, at least, my sense is that there aren't enough developers looking for work
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by vandahm 15y ago
It really whips the llama's ass! Back in 1997, I had a massive 2 GB collection of MP3s. Edit: The best part was having to sort everything into 45-minute playlists so I could run a cable from my computer's sound card to a tape recorder to m
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by vandahm 15y ago
This looks amazing, and I'm looking forward to compiling and running it on my Windows machine later today. I'm accustomed to simple and elegant apps like Sparrow and Mail.app on OS X and get really frustrated when I have to use clunky Wind
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by vandahm 15y ago
> "If your provider doesn't support Ruby, you need to get yourself a $20/month Linode box. If Linode and a $20/month price point isn't mainstream, I don't know what is." True. And if nothing else, you can run Python on Google App Engine
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by vandahm 15y ago
Where I work, we've standardized on PHP and I have no choice but to use it. It isn't as bad as people say that is! Our organization's product is a large application written in object-oriented PHP with unit tests for every method of every
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by vandahm 15y ago
Short answer: it doesn't. Long answer: In http://www.stevesoutfit.com/js/tutorial.js jQuery is used to implement some sort of AJAX contact form, but I don't see the code in tutorial.js used anywhere.
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by vandahm 16y ago
This is a lot harder than just paying $4.99 for Xcode, but I wonder how difficult it would be to adapt GNUstep's developer tools to Cocoa development.
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by vandahm 16y ago
I like this a lot. I can already think back to a number of times when I or a friend could have used this. I can't imagine it being simpler to use, and I like the nice, clean presentation of the text.
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by vandahm 16y ago
I agree that the scene in which he sees his children's faces is suspicious -- everything after he wakes up is a bit convenient. Cobb breezes through customs, Michael Caine's character is right there waiting for him, and his kids are right
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by vandahm 16y ago
Liquibase: http://www.liquibase.org/ The contents of our personal development databases are not synchronized, just the schema. Each developer has enough mock data to run our app for development purposes. At a previous job, all developers