MikeCodeAwesome

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by MikeCodeAwesome 13y ago
I've used JungleDisk, CrashPlan, and now Arq. I left JungleDisk because it went sideways and S3 was too expensive. After that was CrashPlan; I liked its free remote backup option. But then my backup destination disappeared behind carri
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by MikeCodeAwesome 13y ago
Two guesses: cellular location services and custom radio telemetry systems. Maybe that's one guess.
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by MikeCodeAwesome 13y ago
Following the same procedure, you can also choose not to display your endorsements in one shot: rather than click "Manage Endorsements" instead click the down-arrow next to "Display your endorsements" and choose "No
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by MikeCodeAwesome 13y ago
Homejoy also got a writeup at AZ Tech Beat when they "launched" in Phoenix last month http://aztechbeat.com/2013/07/homejoy-an-online-booking-home... .
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by MikeCodeAwesome 13y ago
I, too, switched to the RT-N16 after my WRT54GL died unceremoniously one day. The RT-N16 is a pretty good router but I want to caution any one who, like me, was awestruck by its 128MB RAM without considering NVRAM. The short version is that
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by MikeCodeAwesome 13y ago
Yet another fun use of watch, one of my favorite tools! I use it daily in combination with curl and grep to look for certain output of my JSON/XML services during development. The -d flag is especially useful in this regard. watch -d -n
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by MikeCodeAwesome 14y ago
Same here; and love that it doesn't clear the command line you're currently typing. Does anyone know if there's a key command for clearing the scroll buffer?
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by MikeCodeAwesome 14y ago
I kind of hate to say this but I'm glad there's at least one other person out there who has troubles with TeamViewer on Linux. My remote coworker uses Ubuntu with two screens and we're unable to make the mouse work on the correct screen con
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by MikeCodeAwesome 14y ago
I wasn't aware of this, but mildweed posted later that PDO is coming. http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4907099
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Sky's infrared background light may be from stars that linger between galaxies(jpl.nasa.gov)
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by MikeCodeAwesome 14y ago
As the article surmised, one of the engines did indeed fail and the craft corrected for the failure. " Falcon 9 detected an anomaly on one of the nine engines and shut it down. As designed, the flight computer then recomputed a new ascent p
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by MikeCodeAwesome 14y ago
Here's one more: Michael Chiklis in The Shield.
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by MikeCodeAwesome 14y ago
Checks are frequently turned into ACH transactions. You may be interested in http://www.occ.gov/topics/consumer-protection/depository-ser... .
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by MikeCodeAwesome 14y ago
Given your scenario, you are indeed correct: throwing implementation-specific exceptions leaks internal details and further couples clients of the API. Can you imagine using such an API which forces you to continually handle new exceptions
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by MikeCodeAwesome 14y ago
My team consists of four people, two of which are remote, spread across three adjacent timezones. We find that a regular three-way conference call is sufficient. This arrangement has worked well for three years. The idea of using Skype has
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by MikeCodeAwesome 14y ago
I have a fondness for geography and maps, so I am delighted to see this posted here. Big Think covered this back in February, 2011: http://bigthink.com/strange-maps/502-hung-out-to-dry-a-taxon... . The above article is part of Big Think'
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by MikeCodeAwesome 14y ago
> Based on this, I will boldly make the following prediction: in 10 years' time, the most popular languages will still be some variant of Java and C#. Your conclusion may very well come to pass. This reminds me of another article, Be
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by MikeCodeAwesome 14y ago
The Executive Veto power serves this purpose. Every new law may reviewed and rejected by the President. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Executive_veto#United_States
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by MikeCodeAwesome 14y ago
I'm unaware of a specific name, but it's not a new idea. See The Moon is a Harsh Mistress by Robert Heinlein. (link to Google Books reference http://goo.gl/IdBoU )
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by MikeCodeAwesome 14y ago
Indeed. According to the August, 2012 print edition of Popular Science, there are 500,000 people being transported in air at any given moment.