davnola

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by davnola 8mo ago
One of the many reasons to visit Pembrokeshire, Wales: https://www.internalfire.com/ Lots of running kit you can get close to or hands on with e.g. 4000hp jet generators, telephone exchanges, steam engines etc. plus knowled
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by davnola 11y ago
Yes, but even the best agency will every so often run into a bad client. I think that's analogous to what happened here.
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by davnola 11y ago
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by davnola 12y ago
This is essentially the same approach as https://github.com/snowplow/snowplow/wiki/Setting-up-the-Clo... . What's neat and novel to me about this implementation is the use of delimiters vastly simplifies
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by davnola 12y ago
Here's a summary of the discussion (RAML vs Swagger vs Apiary vs RSpec...) we had at Lonely Planet: https://lonelyplanet.atlassian.net/wiki/display/PUB/API+Spec... 5 months in, we're happy with API
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by davnola 12y ago
What do you mean by "brand name tests"?
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by davnola 12y ago
Or well-known URIs http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc5785
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by davnola 12y ago
> marked incompatible with nexus 7 FWIW works perfectly on my 2nd-gen Nexus 7.
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by davnola 12y ago
See also Wong Kei's in London's Chinatown. Its notorious rudeness is/was part of the attraction. http://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/wordofmouth/2014/feb...
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by davnola 12y ago
1. Start scraping all images from http://developer.android.com/training/ inside div.gc-documentation 2. Inspect manually 3. Profit Fun!
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by davnola 13y ago
We're trialling cutting packages from Rails apps with fpm[1], plus prm[2] to create the apt repository on s3. There's a bit of footwork needed to include built gems and correct asset manifests in the package too, but we now have 1
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by davnola 13y ago
This is so much fun. Thanks!
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by davnola 13y ago
Last month Jobbik rallied against the World Jewish Congress in Budapest, protesting "against what it said was a Jewish attempt to buy up Hungary". http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-22413301 They frame th
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by davnola 14y ago
Because in general, delegation tends to lead to object schizophrenia. Specifically, SimpleDelegator will leak the original delegatee object when a delegated method returns `self`. s = "foo" d = SimpleDelegator.new s
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by davnola 14y ago
We use StatsD and Graphite a ton at lonelyplanet.com: http://bit.ly/lp-perf-and-metrics
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by davnola 14y ago
Haha. I'd love someone to release a greasemonkey/userscript for that status page to make degraded service more obvious.
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by davnola 14y ago
Brings back happy memories of hacking on the BBC Micro. > MODE 7 > PRINT CHR$(136);"GOODBYE CEEFAX!"
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by davnola 14y ago
veewee is being merged into vagrant.
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by davnola 14y ago
I recommend Elise Huard's recent talk on Ruby GC: http://skillsmatter.com/podcast/home/ruby-bin-men (Also, I'd love to see the Hungarian Folk Dance interpretation of different GC approaches http://t.co/l8ADbEQR )
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by davnola 14y ago
Lovely. We do something very similar in front of EC2 clusters with http://openresty.org/
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by davnola 14y ago
Cheers! Really enjoyed making it! I compiled a JSON index of all the tracks from various sources. The site loads the index and calls the YouTube API to find the best match video. Simples! I manually blacklisted and whitelisted some video id
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by davnola 14y ago
In the meantime, you can listen to every track from every John Peel Festive 50 at http://peelplayer.com Disclaimer: it's a site I hacked together in a few hours for John Peel day last year
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by davnola 14y ago
IIRC "zo" is also valid. It's a Tibetan yak hybrid. Hmmm... Yak butter tea.
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by davnola 14y ago
I've heard it called "splay" before e.g. `chef-client` will take an interval option and a splay option. Splay is a random amount of time added to the interval to prevent thundering herds.
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by davnola 15y ago
The students' anticipations of the exam are their anticipations of the exam. I don't see the circularity yet. It's clearer in the Liar Paradox.
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by davnola 15y ago
Perhaps it can, but the challenge then is to identify what's different about the professor's statement from a statement like "It's raining". Why doesn't the first have a definite truth value, but the second does? (What the professor himself
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by davnola 15y ago
The truthmaker for whether it is a surprise or not clearly depends on their own belief states. They are reasoning about what they would or would not believe in different circumstances, so they should include a premise about their belief sta
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by davnola 15y ago
No, the Russians occupied several Georgian cities, including Poti, Gori, Senakie, and Zugdidi.
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by davnola 15y ago
and also https://github.com/ezmobius/super-nginx , an even bigger Swiss Army knife.
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by davnola 15y ago
To give just one example, microdata and RDFa (as well as microformat) contribute to Google search snippets, map location etc.: http://www.google.com/support/webmasters/bin/answer.py?answe...

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