NatW

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by NatW 8y ago
I don't think VSCode is going away. It's built on Electron[1] and performs quite adequately for me, personally. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Visual_Studio_Code
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by NatW 8y ago
My experience is with bikes you can easily take one hand off the bike to signal a turn - what your traffic intention is. But with the scooters, it's not really possible to take your hands off the handlebars (you lose control!), and the
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by NatW 8y ago
> the same risk with conventional bikes I think the scooters are riskier in some ways. My experience is with bikes you can easily take one hand off the bike to signal a turn - what your traffic intention is. But with the scooters, it&#x2
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by NatW 8y ago
Coupon books are used in France. One coupon for each candidate. Voters privately choose a coupon from the book at the poll site and put it in an envelope. They're distributed and counted by volunteers very quickly and there are checks
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Ruby goes Serverless – Apache OpenWhisk adds native support for Ruby(medium.com)
2 points by NatW 8y ago|0 comments
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by NatW 8y ago
I've heard it said, "A data scientist is a better statistician than a typical programmer and a better programmer than a typical statistician." I 'graduated' from the Data Analyst Nanodegree @ Udacity in my spare tim
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by NatW 8y ago
>XML is a better format than JSON. That's quite absolutist - I can see why you see it as an unpopular idea. For me, the context where a tool is used is key. XML is good if you have document-oriented data or want to use XML's na
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by NatW 8y ago
Thanks for the link. I like their disclaimer: >Here at Veridian Dynamics, we care about you. That's why, by visiting this site, you agree to suspend all of your rights. Because we care.
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by NatW 9y ago
A bit oversimplified, but in France, voters are essentially given a printed coupon book, with each candidate on a different coupon. They just take their coupon/candidate of choice and deposit it into a box. There are no pencils needed,
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by NatW 9y ago
I'm a huge fan of ZMM and I enjoyed Lila - where he elucidates a metaphysics of quality. His writing is brilliant, but my theory is that he may have experienced mental distress, in part, because quality is actually _subjective_, not o
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by NatW 10y ago
What is the maximum disk space for this offering? Amazon's RDS peaks out at just 6TB currently.
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by NatW 10y ago
Ruby on Rails or Node.js for the backend (API) and React for the front end. Rails is excellent for database migrations. Postgresql / MongoDb / Firebase for the database, depending on requirements.
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by NatW 10y ago
Very nice - wish list items: adding css version numbers and browser compatibility.
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by NatW 10y ago
As a US driver living in France, I can share just the anecdote that French driving far less pleasant, more stressful, and feels more dangerous due to its narrow traffic lanes. I can also report seeing high numbers of highway accidents in Pa
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by NatW 10y ago
I'm curious if they looked into pf / CARP as part of their research into allowing horizontal scalability for an ip. See: https://www.openbsd.org/faq/pf/carp.html
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by NatW 10y ago
A very detailed breakdown of the basics of 'explain analyze' with various examples.
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by NatW 10y ago
FYI Amazon RDS now supports Postgresql: https://aws.amazon.com/rds/postgresql/
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by NatW 10y ago
You could try text top :): https://github.com/tombh/texttop
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by NatW 10y ago
For fun you could try texttop: https://github.com/tombh/texttop
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by NatW 10y ago
The Geo API allows it to work like a search engine. On my wish list would be adding a bounding box query to return results within a map displayed on the current screen: e.g.: https://www.algolia.com/doc/javascript#sear
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by NatW 11y ago
I've been perfectly content using RVM https://rvm.io/ - with all the functionality I need, and reliability, too. What am I missing out on?
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by NatW 11y ago
Autoprefixer 5.2 release name was “Dont tread on me”, motto from historical American flag historical American flag https://twitter.com/autoprefixer/status/603596652683866114
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by NatW 11y ago
Interactive demo: http://autoprefixer.github.io/ Autoprefixer works with Rails, too: https://github.com/ai/autoprefixer-rails
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by NatW 11y ago
If you want to search court cases today for free, check out https://www.courtlistener.com , part of http://freelawproject.org
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by NatW 11y ago
The Bugle: http://thebuglepodcast.com/ StartUp: http://gimletmedia.com/show/startup/ Reply All: http://gimletmedia.com/show/reply-all/ Planet Money: http://ww
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Some Theaters to Show 'The Interview' on Christmas Day(npr.org)
2 points by NatW 12y ago|0 comments
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by NatW 12y ago
This American Life had a great segment introducing this: http://www.thisamericanlife.org/radio-archives/episode/491/t...
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by NatW 12y ago
They've blogged about their enhancements here: http://www.rubyraptor.org/how-we-made-raptor-up-to-4x-faster... and Part II: http://www.rubyraptor.org/pointer-tagging-linked-string-hash...
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by NatW 12y ago
It's worth mentioning that This American Life (TAL) went all out promoting 'Serial' with on-air mentions, airing its first episode and using popups on the TAL website e.g.: http://www.thisamericanlife.org/radi
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by NatW 12y ago
Contrary to the article's title, LiFi doesn't _compete_ with the majority of WiFi use cases due to its limited propagation characteristics. The article confirms as much: "“We don’t want to replace Wi-Fi,” he says. “That’s not

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