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by wiremine 10y ago
If you're a Ruby dev, it's worth your time checking out Crystal. As others have pointed out, it isn't a one-to-one replacement for Ruby, but if you enjoy the Ruby syntax and general way of approaching problems, Crystal is a h
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by wiremine 10y ago
I worked on a real-time analytics product based on Snowplow, and I came to the conclusion that bounce rate is fairly meaningless metric (at least, in and of itself). When you are able to track actual engagement based on active time on page,
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by wiremine 10y ago
> Added support for WebAssembly, an emerging standard that brings near-native performance to Web-based games, apps, and software libraries without the use of plugins. I've been watching this from the sidelines... what's the bes
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by wiremine 10y ago
They're missing In Rainbow's Disk 2, which includes the song "4 minute warning" which I'd consider the "most" depressing Radiohead song: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VtotpiSL700
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by wiremine 10y ago
Very helpful. Thx! > A few launches are at the very high end: the upcoming Echostar mission has such a high fuel requirement that SpaceX isn't even attempting a landing: they're just dumping the whole stage into the ocean like
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by wiremine 10y ago
Watched it this morning... extremely cool. I missed why they landed on land instead of on a barge. Anybody know?
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by wiremine 10y ago
> It takes months of steady investment (and yes, frustration), but the payoffs are spectacular. In my experience, most developers can't or won't put in this sort of investment. Which leads me to wonder what fields/niches w
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by wiremine 10y ago
From ESR's conclusion is this: > For comparison, I switched from Rust to Go and, in the same amount of time I had spent stuggling [sic] to make even a <100 LOC partial implementation work, was able to write and test the entire ex
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by wiremine 10y ago
Nice! Some quick feedback: * I'd default to the "light" theme, especially if you're presenting it against dark background. It will highlight the content better. * You could use some whitespace between the widget titles
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by wiremine 10y ago
Pretty sure Mom was talking about relationships, but whatever...
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by wiremine 10y ago
My mom sums it up this way: "There are givers, and there are takers. Be a giver."
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by wiremine 10y ago
As mentioned, it was a discovery tool for podcasts that. I don't recall the timing with podcasting support in iTunes, but I recall them having problems before iTunes started supporting it: it didn't seem to ever have a business mo
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by wiremine 10y ago
I'm something like twitter user 1019, and joined on day 2 or 3 after it was launch. Before twitter was Odeo, a podcasting company. Their blog post announcing twitter back in the day went something like this: 1. Odeo isn't doing we
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by wiremine 10y ago
Side note: The web design reminds me of the late 1990s... funny how it comes around.
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by wiremine 10y ago
I'm not a big fan of regulation, but it feels like there is very little _internal_ motivation for a place like Yahoo to take security seriously. Not sure what the solution is, but unless there is a financial reason to create, I don&#x2
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by wiremine 10y ago
I remember using Google for the first time in college. It was like a breath of fresh air after using Yahoo, Northern Light or any of the other search engines back in the day.
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by wiremine 10y ago
Not disagreeing, but is there any hard, independent third-party research to back up this claim? As an engineer, I tend to lean this way. As a father of two, I want to see some numbers to back up statements like "still safer than a huma
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by wiremine 10y ago
I'm almost there and it's all totally true.
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by wiremine 10y ago
Maybe. It feels like the quality of online discussion is related to the narrowness of the topic/community. For example: I find the comments that make it to Reddit's homepage humorous, but not really that helpful/insightful&#x
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by wiremine 10y ago
One of Lewis' best works. "Prosperity knits a man to the world. He feels that he is finding his place in it, while really it is finding its place in him."
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by wiremine 10y ago
I very clearly remember using Logo in 1st grade over 30 years ago. Looking back, it was clearly what hooked me to get into CS. Thanks Dr. Papert!
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by wiremine 10y ago
Thx for the tip, I'll give that a try!
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by wiremine 10y ago
Spun one up and ran some quick numbers on a 100GB volume: root@ubuntu-1gb-nyc1-01:~# time dd if=/dev/disk/by-id/scsi-0DO_Volume_volume-nyc1-01 of=test.dat bs=1024 count=10000000 10000000+0 records in 10000000+0 records o
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by wiremine 10y ago
Cool concept! Is the spec for the dependency.yml file open source? Would be cool to see something like it become a standard: it's a concern for the project owner, but also for the project clients/users.
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by wiremine 10y ago
> Then PHP came along and made things a great deal easier because managing a server was hard, and PHP just worked pretty much everywhere. In that sense PHP was amazing. This. My first web programming was in Perl [1], and using PHP was mu
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by wiremine 10y ago
> then browse down a list of products i've purchased before (both online and instore) and chose which ones I want to be delivered That's cool. So they keep a history of everything you've purchased? Do they do that by credi
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by wiremine 10y ago
What is the ordering experience like? Do you have a set order that comes on a regular basis? Or are they one-off orders, or a mix?
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by wiremine 10y ago
The github page links to a screencast which I found more helpful than the github writeup itself: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T5Bpu4thVNo
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by wiremine 11y ago
I don't think a day is reasonable either, but 2 weeks is. You get to a point where you just sort of run out of concepts to learn... it's a weird feeling at first, to be honest with you.
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by wiremine 11y ago
I can't speak to that, but I have seen a few Sinatra/Express like frameworks. I used Gin [1] for a production project and it held up well under load. [1] https://gin-gonic.github.io/gin/

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