wonnage

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by wonnage 14y ago
Potentially pointless anecdote: I've noticed sleep deprivation narrows my capacity for attention - to make an analogy with sight, it's like tunnel vision. As long as I have something to hold what's left of my attention span (e.g, work), I c
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by wonnage 14y ago
Espresso has a higher concentration of caffeine. Most espresso drinks are mixed with a ton of milk, so lattes, etc. do end up being less concentrated than drip. But dropping a shot of espresso in your coffee will up the caffeine concentrati
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by wonnage 14y ago
Seconded. I see this (and am guilty myself) often even in workplace emails, etc. where people are supposed to be respectful. It's not so much that you can't put someone on blast, but whether you can live with knowing you just called another
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by wonnage 14y ago
I'd be interested to hear how well this works with produce. In the past I've had qualms about using things like Safeway delivery - I'd end up with mushy fruit and wilted vegetables.
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by wonnage 14y ago
Some would say the distinction doesn't really exist.
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by wonnage 14y ago
You must not live in the US, as we have freedom of assembly here
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by wonnage 14y ago
While I couldn't agree more, I doubt he gives a damn what other people think and it's much easier to just ignore him. Don't feed the troll, right?
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by wonnage 14y ago
Most everything on the internet is owned by someone , and the whole meaning of things being free and open is that putting something up is putting it up for everyone. Your interpretation is just "you can use the things I let you use", which
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by wonnage 14y ago
It's probably a better idea to just run nginx on port 80 and proxy requests through in any sort of real environment. And if you're not in production...well, it doesn't really matter which port you choose anyway.
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by wonnage 14y ago
Cool guide. For beginners I'd also suggest restraint with your dotfiles. It's easy to rush into installing oh-my-zsh and using vim with every plugin you can find, but I found that made for a really confusing learning experience, especially
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by wonnage 14y ago
Not only is writing important for working with non-technical people, but it's a big part of interacting with your fellow engineers too. Think stuff like providing clear pull request feedback without offending the person you're reviewing. An
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by wonnage 14y ago
Well, we're in agreement there - and I'd go further to say if you find yourself concatenating strings and feeding them to hash algorithm you're probably doing it wrong too. It's insecure and it's more work, and it's stupid. I just wanted to
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by wonnage 14y ago
Security is a series of tradeoffs. Remember the Debian SSL fiasco? Turns out even when every Debian/Ubuntu user's SSH keys were essentially useless, the world did not explode. Or consider the state of the internet in the 90-early 2000s - se
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by wonnage 14y ago
As someone who types 100+WPM on plain-old QWERTY, I don't see the point - the limiting factor is obviously not the distance between keys or switching between hands. In any case, it's been beaten to death that in real work, you're never goin
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by wonnage 14y ago
While skeumorphism is a perfectly valid thing to debate, this might've been the most pointless article possible to write about it. Why would Jack Dorsey give a flying fuck if an Apple exec who happened to like it left the company?
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Show HN: timezone_field - wrangle timezone identifiers in Rails(wfxdevblog.wordpress.com)
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by wonnage 14y ago
This could make your code behave unpredictably, since you don't really know what events will be used or dropped. For something like a drag handler it's probably not an issue, but it's a little hard to reason about a function whose state dep
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by wonnage 14y ago
Uhh...Apple has plenty of customers in metro areas like the Bay Area or New York, Tokyo, etc. that rely heavily on public transit (I'm one of them). There are plenty of reasons to hate on Apple but stupid populist rage is not one of them.
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by wonnage 14y ago
The former ubiquity of Perl made most of these common knowledge. For example, $? works in both Perl and bash (actually, I don't know which did this first...). So in the context of shell scripts, where Ruby started, having these magic global
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by wonnage 14y ago
You could just as easily store the result in a plain file somewhere... a database seems like overkill.
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by wonnage 14y ago
Waste is bad, true. But where is it happening? The article is thin on that detail. It could be that people are buying food and throwing it away, but how would you even begin to evaluate/validate that number? So I think the study must focus
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by wonnage 14y ago
I do the same thing (sans the wife part) - it's a great way to always have fresh ingredients! Plus you never get stuck cooking something because it's about to go bad. Only downside is shopping on an empty stomach...
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by wonnage 14y ago
When I'm sitting in my chair and reading about bakeries throwing out day-old bread, it sounds wasteful; when I actually go to buy bread, I'm looking for the freshest, warmest loaf I can get. And thanks to privileged, illogical, fresh-bread-
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by wonnage 14y ago
That's a bit of a straw man. Fallout would obviously not be evenly distributed across Japan, it would be concentrated in the areas near the plant. I don't know anything about the details, but the food from those areas could conceivably beco
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by wonnage 14y ago
Nuclear plant failure statistics are meaningless as a measure of safety. You are pointing to the nonoccurrence of a rare event as evidence of its rarity. Even if coal plants cause more damage to the world, failures are local and manageable.
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by wonnage 14y ago
Personally I've decided to accept that buzzwords and titles will proliferate, and that this is impossible to prevent. Isn't the whole not-caring-about-titles thing part of startup culture? As long as you can do your job, I don't care if you
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by wonnage 14y ago
It's replacing a wholly-incorrect model with a potentially flawed, but partially-validated one. I don't think we have the body of knowledge right now to precisely model how a particular diet works vs. another, but we have observed that lo
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by wonnage 14y ago
What part of the laws of thermodynamics imply calories in -> calories out? This belies a total ignorance of their actual meaning. The first law of thermodynamics would be satisfied in any of the following scenarios: 1. Your stomach expl
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by wonnage 14y ago
Definitely! From what I've heard (I was at the graduation on Friday), there's a level of investigation at DBC that goes beyond anything I've seen in other programs like Codeacademy. Which makes sense, I guess, given the much greater time in
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by wonnage 14y ago
Disclaimer: I think Dev Bootcamp is awesome. My friend went through it with zero programming background and is in love with programming now, and is as employable as many a fresh 4-year grad. But this particular line is horrible: "For me, cl

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