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by dowskitest 7y ago
These lines from The Silmarillion really hit me the other day. It relates pretty well to death and impermanence in general. "But of bliss and glad life there is little to be said, before it ends: as works fair and wonderful, while stil
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by dowskitest 10y ago
Agreed. I had a brief (~10m) online chat and then received a new Charge HR a couple days later for one with a broken power connector.
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by dowskitest 13y ago
Ah, product placement. Immediately brought this to mind: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8lgLYGBbDNs
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by dowskitest 13y ago
I've promoted this idea at my last two jobs. I called it lame vim users anonymous though. Because really, we're all lame vim users.
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by dowskitest 13y ago
Amidst all the recent fervor surrounding law enforcement and privacy, I think the documents at the linked site are a good reminder that there are people in law enforcement working to protect the innocent.
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by dowskitest 13y ago
You should have a look at Nitro. http://gonitro.io/ It's still young, but it grew out of some frustrations with using ZeroMQ in large-scale deployments. http://docs.gonitro.io/#faq
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by dowskitest 13y ago
Here's whit537 explaining the name at PyCon 2012. http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=iv7...
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by dowskitest 13y ago
"Also, note even the paper of the user guide and the rivets used to bind the paper." It looks like they're just standard brass fasteners. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brass_fastener Nothing special. Elem
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by dowskitest 13y ago
I'm on one of their pre-paid plans with a Nexus 4. I don't see any DNS hijacking and tether occasionally without issue. I'm in the Midwest and the coverage is good in urban areas (HSPA+ and good voice). Voice at best in rural areas though.
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by dowskitest 14y ago
"Your funnel has a hole in it." Hopefully it has two ... a big one at the top and a small one at the bottom. The funnel metaphor has always thrown me off. IRL I don't pour stuff into a funnel and expect less than 100% of what I've poured in
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by dowskitest 14y ago
Thanks for the tip - this worked for me as well, although I felt kind of dirty doing it (the poor servers!).
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by dowskitest 14y ago
Please add support for HTTPS. I don't want to sign up or login without it.
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by dowskitest 14y ago
I think this is one area where dashboards can help. Chart the metrics that are important to your organization, and prominently display them. Chart the number of users on your site throughout the day. The number of times they do X or Y, that
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by dowskitest 14y ago
I have a six year old son with this same fascination. Sometimes I'll walk into my home office and find some mailer with a QR code sitting there waiting for me. His inquisitive mind just has to know what the phone will do with the code.
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by dowskitest 14y ago
Geonames data + geohashing.
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by dowskitest 14y ago
Regarding party mode, every photo that I take is not worth sharing. I'll often snap 2-3 trying to get one that looks halfway decent. I don't want to automatically share the poor quality ones along the way.
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by dowskitest 14y ago
A post on this same topic > 1 week ago that didn't get any traction: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4101870
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Parallel computing and the cost of TLB shoot-down(lifecs.likai.org)
1 points by dowskitest 15y ago|0 comments
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by dowskitest 15y ago
> Discipline. Yep, agree 100%. I've been telecommuting full-time since 2006. It's not just discipline to work though - as someone else mentioned in this discussion, you've got to pull yourself away from work too. So discipline and balan
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by dowskitest 15y ago
It worked here, but only when I did a right-click and "save as".
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by dowskitest 15y ago
"I am truly sorry this happened, and I apologize for the inconvenience." Sorry, but this is more than an inconvenience. It's a violation of user privacy that Valve didn't prevent. I thought that the response from Newell was right on until t
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by dowskitest 16y ago
Take some time to forget about being productive and be creative. Draw a picture. Bake something delicious. Write a poem. Then share it with someone.
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by dowskitest 16y ago
As soon as they defined that 1000 char limit, they set a hard edge. The use cases that hit that limit are then the edge cases, at least in the minds of the developer(s). I was just suggesting that there should be more consideration of how s
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by dowskitest 16y ago
I think this is a good reminder to thoughtfully consider how we handle edge cases. I know that I often treat edge cases with the least care. This is certainly a situation where the opposite required.
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by dowskitest 16y ago
Yes. Most browsers support all of the HTTP methods via the XmlHttpRequest object. http://annevankesteren.nl/2007/10/http-method-support
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by dowskitest 16y ago
I use 'watch' to continuously run my suite of unit tests. I write a new test, it starts failing while looping under 'watch', then I write code to make it pass.
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by dowskitest 16y ago
Sounds like a side effect of relying on MMAP (and not doing compaction). "Basically, the issue is that if data migrates to a new shard, there is no re-compaction yet in the old shard of the old collection. So there could be small empty spo
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by dowskitest 16y ago
"Now with 100% less crazy socket monkey patching!"
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Facebook and Apple Should Both Be Scared(chmullig.com)
16 points by dowskitest 16y ago|6 comments
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by dowskitest 17y ago
To my eye the tabs in Chrome make more sense visually too. The tabs appear connected to the document being viewed and not to the address bar like they do in Safari.

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