Pewpewarrows

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by Pewpewarrows 4y ago
It's worth noting the quote the title is referencing, when examined with any level of scrutiny, is completely unfounded: https://www.reddit.com/r/AskHistorians/comments/hd78tv/does_... https:/
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by Pewpewarrows 13y ago
Oh awesome, thanks!
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by Pewpewarrows 13y ago
Does a setting like this also work for the iPad app? That's typically what I watch Netflix on while falling asleep.
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by Pewpewarrows 13y ago
Forgive me if this is a dumb comment to make, as I'm just barely starting to get into monitoring and the statistics knowledge that goes along with it, but adaptive fault detection does tend to scare me a bit. In the event that a proble
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by Pewpewarrows 13y ago
What's the difference between them offering snap-on Glass over existing prescription glasses, and offering an existing Glass model with snap-in prescription lenses? You need to have one or the other, and in both cases it's an addi
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by Pewpewarrows 13y ago
> Problem is…people who wear glasses can’t wear Google Glass. Uhh, what? I was under the assumption, at least from all their marketing material and everything that I've heard about Glass from other people on the internet, that there
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by Pewpewarrows 13y ago
Fabric to bootstrap new Salt minions, and Salt for the actual deployment.
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by Pewpewarrows 13y ago
Starting before 21 legally != Starting before 21 illegally You'd be surprised how much of a difference it makes when you remove the rebelliousness and allure of doing something illegally. You see this time and time again with parents shelte
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by Pewpewarrows 13y ago
This is an awfully wrong approach. As with things like Alcohol, if you teach your children how to operate and act responsibly, they get into less trouble with it as an adult. If you stilt their growth and don't allow them to touch a gun unt
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by Pewpewarrows 13y ago
The "killer features" all come from you using other Google products/services while signed-in to the same account that you use with Google Now. Search for "pizza" or a specific address on your computer while signed-in to Google Maps? The nex
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by Pewpewarrows 13y ago
And again, there's the belief that someone should have the legal right to perform an action, regardless of whether or not that action is reprehensible. Ex: You should have the legal right to believe that all green-skinned humans are inferio
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by Pewpewarrows 13y ago
There's a difference between HN believing that businesses should legally be allowed to do all of the above, and HN believing that it's socially / morally wrong to do any of the above. (Note that this is merely a reply to your comment in a v
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by Pewpewarrows 14y ago
It's impossible and immoral to have two projects with the same name. How dare they.
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by Pewpewarrows 14y ago
Completely unscientific, but if these outputs are any indication, this is going to be great news for Rubby users in the future... $ time ruby -e "puts 'hello world'"
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by Pewpewarrows 14y ago
Comparing conversion rates of a complete before and after revamp won't tell you anything about the effectiveness of individual components of the revamp. You'd need several A/B tests or a gradual series of changes to tell you whether labels
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by Pewpewarrows 14y ago
That's only half of the argument. The other half being that, after having text in there (say, in the edit form of a CRUD app), your user no longer remembers what that field was supposed to represent to begin with.
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by Pewpewarrows 14y ago
We do something very similar, but like you said there are the occasional sneaky devils trying to download their own dependencies. Nine times out of ten it seems like it's some version of distribute that they insist on fetching. The non-exis
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by Pewpewarrows 14y ago
True, "learned" does sort of imply that it's a best practice now used by nearly everyone in the community. I know that's far from the truth. "Encountered" is more appropriate, so I'll edit my OP.
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by Pewpewarrows 14y ago
This should also be a reminder to everyone that you shouldn't be reliant on a single point of failure for your deploys. It's something that we in the Python community have already encountered (and hopefully learned from) due to the historic
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by Pewpewarrows 14y ago
Obligatory link to the Sequelitis Mega Man UX video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8FpigqfcvlM&feature=playe... The article hit the nail on the head: the best walkthrough is the one that it nearly invisible to the end-user, yet still
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by Pewpewarrows 14y ago
As any gamer in the last 15 years will tell you: the Windows key is the bane of our existence. It's a classic case of know your audience and customer, because if you've ever played a video game on Windows and are now developing one, you kno
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by Pewpewarrows 14y ago
Not looking to get into a whole thing here, but... > he wouldn't have been able to if he didn't have easy access to firearms and a large cache of ammunition. There's no possible way you can know that. Guns are certainly more accessible
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by Pewpewarrows 14y ago
Hand-wavy terms are preferred if the text is end-user facing (and when end-users tend to not be too technical). Of course, a tooltip or "more details" link explaining the real technologies should then be used.
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by Pewpewarrows 14y ago
You can understand what sexism is while also acknowledging that there are extremists in every group. I can already picture a few such extremists calling this title sexist.
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by Pewpewarrows 14y ago
Sounds like the developers who wrote that code didn't know how to write comments. Here's some guidelines: * Anything that duplicates the line they describe in prose should absolutely be removed. They're worthless and become out of date imme
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by Pewpewarrows 14y ago
There are plenty of things that you can leave out when writing parseable source code, but don't because it would make the code horribly un-readable. That is, there's a reason for whitespace around operators, after commas, extraneous newline
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by Pewpewarrows 14y ago
I agree. But in all code that I write, regardless of pretty much whatever language it's written in, I always explicitly add parentheses around what I want the order of operations to be. "1 * 3 + 4 / 20 && foo" is unreadable. No one
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by Pewpewarrows 14y ago
So let me get this straight. You didn't like Django because after not taking the time to learn it, you couldn't get it to do what you wanted. So you switched to a very lightweight model (webapp2), and loved the learning curve and flexibilit
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by Pewpewarrows 14y ago
Afaik, Disqus uses websockets with Nginx fine. I believe they recently mentioned writing and using this module: https://github.com/wandenberg/nginx-push-stream-module
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by Pewpewarrows 14y ago
At the core developer Q&A during DjangoCon US this year, it was pretty much universally agreed upon that non-relational database support for the core of your app was too much of an edge-case to bother finishing work on. I used MongoDB f

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