cballard

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by cballard 10y ago
OK Cupid also has questions covering: - Evolution. - Whether or not dinosaurs were a thing. - If the Moon landing happened. - The relative size of the Earth and the Sun. - If Astrology is scientifically accurate. ... among others, all of wh
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by cballard 10y ago
Maybe this is not really an issue for homosexual couples, but I would never have considered Tinder because unlike OK Cupid, there's no way to filter out Republican-hates-the-gays-hates-abortions types. The question/answer filterin
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by cballard 10y ago
C# and Java optionals aren't very useful, since they would be reference types themselves, and thus could be null! I would submit Rust and Swift as "decent" type systems, if Haskell is the standard for "good". They d
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by cballard 10y ago
"Decent" is being very kind to any language that has a type system where every reference type is implicitly a Maybe (okay, Scala exists).
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by cballard 10y ago
GitX is my favorite, despite being quite buggy, because the others I've seen are all way too complicated. I really just want visual log and visual add -p and GitX nails that.
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by cballard 10y ago
The author of NSHipster works for Apple now and typically, Apple employees don't blog about work - possibly a policy?
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by cballard 10y ago
If you call 311, TLC will slap a $300 fine on them, so taking out your phone and doing that will instantly fix the machine.
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by cballard 10y ago
It's really not an issue in New York. 311/TLC doesn't mess around with this.
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by cballard 10y ago
There are so many cabs that I don't really see the need for this, and most cabs take Apple Pay now, so I've never really seen the point of this and the other one (is there another one? I think there is?). If I was somewhere where
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by cballard 10y ago
In New York, taxis are required to have functioning credit card machines. http://www.nyc.gov/html/tlc/html/passenger/passenger_creditc...
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by cballard 10y ago
Small PRs are an issue because PRs are dependent on other users and can't be dependent on a prior PR. Let's say we're adding an interface/typeclass/protocol and a concrete implementation. I'd say these should b
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by cballard 10y ago
This is a bad idea masquerading as a good idea. Before making a pull request (or doing any sort of merge), you should rebase against upstream master (or whatever you're going to push to). However, keeping distinct atomic commits that c
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by cballard 10y ago
I'd shorten that to: > Contrary to what this VC believes, it is NOT okay to expect someone to "work 60 hours a week at Facebook" Let's get one of these already https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Workin
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by cballard 10y ago
To be clear - this is a bike lane on a road with onramps ? Uh, what? There aren't even bollards (in the part without an onramp, obviously) or any semblance of protection.
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by cballard 10y ago
Non-"blatant spam" email advertising really isn't better. Purchasing a product from almost any non-Amazon company will instantly sign you up for an almost daily torrent of email. Even worse is when you're automatically s
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by cballard 10y ago
Using a language in which 1 + "1" == "11" instead of one of the best type and null-safe languages to be developed in the past few years is not exactly my idea of a delightful experience, but interface as a pure function
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by cballard 10y ago
In this case, though, as I understand it (I live in NYC and am thus not the target market for these types of products besides maybe lightbulbs), Apple's solution, HomeKit, does allow interaction between disparate products, and it&#x2
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by cballard 10y ago
You can also use .json (for almost every Reddit URL, actually!)
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by cballard 10y ago
Both you and the OP are incorrect. The file is not included in the app (only referred to), but is only downloaded by iOS itself - or anyone who points a web client directly at it, of course.
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by cballard 10y ago
> "HubSpot and John have decided to go separate ways" That's not much better. It's very rarely mutual. Either John has been fired, or John has found another job - perhaps at a company where no one lights cleaning equi
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by cballard 10y ago
I have dogs in my office. They run around and bark all the time. Their presence shows to me that serious engineering work is not important, but the image of being a "startup" is. The idea of a musical instrument being played while
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by cballard 10y ago
> play table tennis daily Do you still leave 8 hours after you arrived, or do you add the table-tennis time? If so, do people that do not play table-tennis leave 8 hours after they arrived, and, if so, are they viewed negatively by those
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by cballard 10y ago
Wearing headphones every day will permanently damage your hearing. If you really want noise , put on headphones. Respectful quiet should be the default.
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by cballard 10y ago
An eight and only eight character password? Less security than a social network, all aboard the American banking system!
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by cballard 10y ago
> Why work for peanuts of a salary when you can make way more in tips? This is why they won't pay servers minimum wage (i.e. Danny Meyer doesn't). Europe doesn't have tipping and service is perfectly fine -actually, bett
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by cballard 10y ago
This is illegal, in New York at least. The employer cannot take the worker's tips.
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by cballard 10y ago
I think that bad group chat behavior (which is encouraged by the UI of group chat applications that I've used) and dress codes both fall under the same category. They make me less productive, which generally translates into longer hour
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by cballard 10y ago
Does NPM offer a way to check in your resolved dependencies? While it would brick updates to dependencies, new clones and builds would work fine.
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by cballard 10y ago
That is the "limited multitasking". You're limited to two, your ability to view information is arbitrarily limited by the application displaying that information. Want to view two emails side-by-side? Use two emails apps, I g
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by cballard 10y ago
I'd argue that an open office, in the absence of strict library rules, is analogous to an all-day meeting, e.g. "quick question!". Meekan looks interesting, and they have the idea right (since as a third-party they are limite

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