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by chewbranca 15y ago
The only problem with that comparison is the first six example results have nothing to do with "Ruby on Rails".
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by chewbranca 15y ago
This graph is biased by the fact that you're searching 3 words versus one. I personally qualify searches with "rails" throughout the day, but hardly ever actually search "ruby on rails". I imagine most other rails devs do as well, so this g
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by chewbranca 15y ago
As someone who is 6'8", 310lbs and spent 12 hours flying last week, I would have to strongly disagree. Until airlines provide a means of adjusting available room to compensate for height, its not appropriate to charge taller people more at
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by chewbranca 15y ago
Try: http://beta.manning.com/ Lists all of your ebooks with quick download links and last updated times for meap books. Been using it for a while now with no issues.
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by chewbranca 15y ago
Sounds more appealing than "Windows for Submarines" - http://www.strategypage.com/htmw/htiw/articles/20081225.aspx
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by chewbranca 15y ago
Alternatively, take advantage of your commute. I switched from driving to public transit and I've found the time can be incredibly productive, as its in between work time and at home family time, which makes it much easier to concentrate on
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by chewbranca 15y ago
The issue with that is the ability to disable secure boot is not included in the spec, and therefore is not required by any of the OEMs to include. Edit: reply to comments on spec and disabling boot loading. FYI, I haven't read the spec, an
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by chewbranca 15y ago
Hrmm... sat here thinking about the question, then thought 'a weather API would be nice, let me see if anyone else already answered that'.. ctrl-f weather.. oh great, the one guy who mentioned a weather API is also from Seattle.
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by chewbranca 15y ago
For those looking for more information, check out the specification page which has a nice introduction and more in depth documentation: http://www.lambdassociates.org/specification/shen_1.7.htm
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by chewbranca 15y ago
I agree that the value add isn't significantly high for small cluster type of situations, and I would much rather just have a caching API available that charges on usage and allows you to specify an amount of redundancy. However, the automa
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by chewbranca 15y ago
Nice trick using a proxied netcat command to forward ssh connections through a server. Was not aware of that, and I spend a lot of time running through a front ssh server, thanks!
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by chewbranca 15y ago
For those of you just getting into this book, there is also a great course with video lectures up on MIT's OCW site: http://ocw.mit.edu/courses/electrical-engineering-and-comput...
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by chewbranca 15y ago
Focused on javascript, but this is a great introduction to closures: http://jibbering.com/faq/notes/closures/
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by chewbranca 15y ago
A great way to dive into functional programming is to read the book that this topic discusses.
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by chewbranca 15y ago
To clarify for the downvoters, I'm talking about this in the context of CouchDB, which I believe was a fair assumption to make seeing as Damien Katz is one of the principle people involved and it was announced today at CouchConf. In CouchDB
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by chewbranca 15y ago
The data is not necessarily unstructured, it just doesn't have a strictly inforced schema. So I'm very intrigued by this if they're adding it as a layer on top of CouchDB views. If they are, you could use your views to selectively filter on
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by chewbranca 15y ago
It can be a tricky problem because you have a 1 to 1 correspondence of hacker news posts to web pages, so you can't combine articles from multiple sources into a single discussion. Its a design choice that has pros and cons. One related pro
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by chewbranca 15y ago
I keep seeing these (admittedly cool) redis based job queues popping up for different languages, such as resque, pyres, now kue, etc, however I'm disappointed to not see any standardization among them. Obviously they're different projects c
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by chewbranca 15y ago
Ahhhh that would be why, I didn't notice the 'future' billing change that is supposed to happen tomorrow. I'll edit my original post to clarify. On a more serious note, thanks for the great work Heroku! Very excited to see you guys turning
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by chewbranca 15y ago
Following the steps in that gist, I have a heroku clojure app up that just created an invoice line item for 1 worker. It was only for a few minutes, but I definitely just got charged for it.
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by chewbranca 15y ago
This does actually work, however be warned this will incur costs on your heroku account. EDIT: False alarm, Heroku billing has changed so the application did not fall into my free dyno range.
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by chewbranca 15y ago
I'm sad to hear his attitude towards android, I've been anxiously waiting for an android version of the app, and have been holding off on becoming a subscriber until he moved in the android direction. Knowing this, I will sign up as a subsc
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by chewbranca 15y ago
Silence is great, but sometimes silence can be, well, too silent. I bounce back and forth between coffee shops and my home office, because sometimes I want to sit at home in silence or listen to music, and othertimes sitting at a coffee sho
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by chewbranca 16y ago
Yes, I just got home from a code for america datacamp hackathon at socrata in seattle, was a lot of fun and quite productive.
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by chewbranca 16y ago
This looks interesting. I've been using his masonry plugin for quite a while now and its worked out very well. Excited to see that masonry appears to hook into isotope as well.
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by chewbranca 16y ago
There is a great book about the Higgs boson called 'The God Particle'( http://www.amazon.com/God-Particle-Universe-Answer-Question/... ) I haven't read the new version, but I thoroughly enjoyed the original book, highly recommended.
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by chewbranca 16y ago
Same here, I can spend all day working on a computer, but reading on a computer monitor tires my eyes out. I picked up the new standard size kindle, and while it does not do well at all with pdfs, it does a great job with ebooks. The Oreill
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by chewbranca 16y ago
I'm not exactly sure what the underlying issue is on android devices, but at least for linux desktops, the problem is netflix uses silverlight which does have support for DRM, whereas the linux version moonlight does not. It could be a simi
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by chewbranca 16y ago
Well give the Matrix (Reloaded) some credit, in the scene with trinity hacking the power grid, she used nmap to attack a known ssh exploit: http://nmap.org/movies.html
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by chewbranca 16y ago
Lately I've found the best way for meto consistently exercise is to incorporate it with hacking and work. I've started using my bike as my primary mode of transportation when I leave the house to program. So instead of driving to a coffee s

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