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by aboutruby 7y ago
For me, I learn mostly for practical use, so for instance I want to build a markov chain generator: - I refresh up on probabilities in general - I look at the markov chain wiki article - I look at related pages to see what else I could do -
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by aboutruby 7y ago
I will say it: Wikipedia. You do need to have the common knowledge used to describe the topics but Wikipedia is an amazing source. (out of your list, I mainly looked at Game Theory, Probability, and Statistics there).
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by aboutruby 7y ago
Chrome has a built-in ad blocker that blocks the ads Google finds too disruptive for the users: https://www.zdnet.com/article/google-chromes-built-in-ad-blo...
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by aboutruby 7y ago
Seems to be a lightweight shell that links to their wiki: https://code.jsoftware.com/wiki/Jd/Overview
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by aboutruby 7y ago
I'm having trouble with the google cache version too, so here is the archive.org version: https://web.archive.org/web/20190408150115/https://misfra.me...
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Wat Is Up with WebAssembly(blog.jfo.click)
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by aboutruby 7y ago
The "thank you" emails seems to be a tradition/expectation of the classic corporate culture where the employer has a extreme amount of candidates for each opening and each candidate must please the interviewer at all cost. (e
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by aboutruby 7y ago
What would be interesting is that we move away from domain blacklists (e.g. adblocks, /etc/hosts, pi hole, etc.) to domain/ips whitelists (like firewalls).
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by aboutruby 7y ago
> If you want another database such as PostgreSQL, MySQL et al, you must deploy them in another container as an addon. Sounds like a pain.
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by aboutruby 7y ago
Hi, do you handle something similar to buildpacks and heroku addons? The price is very attractive. I should get around to try it this week.
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by aboutruby 7y ago
> On the last day of trial, Serrin Turner, the NY lead prosecutor, addressed the jury and stated that none of the six contracted murders-for-hire allegations occurred.[28] One charge of procuring murder was originally filed in October 20
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by aboutruby 7y ago
Maybe "meaningful" would be a better choice of word, not sure.
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by aboutruby 7y ago
> Issues may not be added to the sprint I don't see this happening, even if that's a good rule, because issues come up that take higher priority than existing issues.
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by aboutruby 7y ago
I think he puts Twitter there because he doesn't use it. If you follow the right people it actually promotes intelligent discourse.
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by aboutruby 7y ago
> If your app or website uses a Unicode character which isn't supported on a device, the user will usually see � - a replacement character. If you include Unifont, they'll see the correct character. Neat idea. I think the trans
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by aboutruby 7y ago
They do all kinds of caching, image compression, etc. I think most of those are in paid plans though. Just mentioning it as it's quite a simple, fast, free change that doesn't cost any developer hours.
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by aboutruby 7y ago
Would be cool to see what the performance would be with Cloudflare in front of those sites.
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by aboutruby 7y ago
They often offer either the simple option or the custom-built option basically: - Stripe Checkout ( https://stripe.com/docs/checkout ) vs implementing your custom credit card form and using the API directly ( https:&#x2F
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by aboutruby 7y ago
archive.org version: https://web.archive.org/web/20190401005430/https://www.jemja... And original link: https://web.archive.org/web/20190401004514/https://www.jemja...
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by aboutruby 7y ago
I've found HackerRank to be great at acing the algorithmic/data structures questions during interviews. You don't even need to finish Cracking the Coding Interview (which is incredibly hard to do with ruby as it's mostly
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by aboutruby 7y ago
Thought it was going to be a phishing testing service which I don't remember the name of (maybe https://www.getusecure.com ). (Seems like tallpoppy is focused on harassment)
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by aboutruby 7y ago
You could use "hacker for hire" services on Tor. You could also hide a bounty somewhere (e.g. in an email, in a private Github repo, etc.). You don't even need to mention this is your account, e.g. "I want the email pass
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by aboutruby 7y ago
# Code of Conduct This is a dictatorship, I do what I want. Thanks.
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by aboutruby 7y ago
Wouldn't most of those use cases be illegal? For instance tracking license plates of cars is already illegal as far as I know.
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by aboutruby 7y ago
Hi, if you are interested in helping people with their ruby/rails issues, there is also reddit / ruby discord / rails slack / and stack overflow. I'm trying to be active on Reddit and the Discord but not very active
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by aboutruby 7y ago
Applying what you are learning to a project you are working on, you get free "spaced repetition" that way every time you use that bit and/or come back to re-read/edit it.
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by aboutruby 7y ago
Looks like Uber would be a $90B - $120B valuation, so about ~1/4th of Uber. Uber has ~15 millions daily trips, while Lyft has ~2 million daily trips.
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by aboutruby 7y ago
It's a redirect to: https://erik.itland.no/what-did-google-get-right (I was just checking for url shorteners)
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by aboutruby 7y ago
Stack Overflow is such a mess I prefer helping people on Reddit / Discord / Slack nowadays. SO is becoming read-only in my opinion.
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by aboutruby 7y ago
Preaching what I like, and I'm not into extreme performance much: - Ruby for most things (most generalist language I know) - JS for whatever can't be done in Ruby - Other languages when anything really can't be done (or a mag

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