dstorrs

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by dstorrs 13y ago
I gave up on reading newspapers and watching TV news over a decade ago and I can't point to a single way that it's ever harmed me. My basic theory is as follows: - I miss out on the fearmongering - I save a tremendous amount of time - If an
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by dstorrs 13y ago
http://www.nephoscale.com/nephoscale-cloud-servers $7.30 / month for a 0.25G instance (on the members plan) $11.68 / month for a 0.5G $22.63 / month for a 1G I've worked with them a lot, and they are excellent. The underlying hardware is
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by dstorrs 14y ago
Actually, it stood for "Editing MACroS" [1]. There are other expansions though -- see [2] below. [1] http://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/emacs-faq.html#Origin-of-t... [2] http://www.gnu.org/fun/jokes/gnuemacs.acro.exp.html
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by dstorrs 14y ago
What you're talking about is a great example of good-faith communication. Unfortunately, it relies on both parties dealing in good faith, and I've had too much experience with people who won't do that -- they won't give an honest assessmen
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by dstorrs 14y ago
As a developer, I'd just like to say: thank you for doing this. A good PM is literally worth their weight in silver (at today's price, anyway).
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by dstorrs 14y ago
Ok, tell me if I have this correct: module Foo def hello puts "Hello World" end end ...in a different file... foo = Foo.new.msg Q: What does that print? A: There is no way to tell. It depends on what the 'u
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by dstorrs 14y ago
Let me preface this by saying that I'm actually pretty much onboard with a lot of the Libertarian policies that I've heard. Like anything, of course, I think it can be taken too far. So, when you ask for a "very specific example", this is
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Starry-eyed lover melts meteorite into engagement ring(dailymail.co.uk)
1 points by dstorrs 14y ago|0 comments
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by dstorrs 14y ago
From the site: limit is $100 per transaction
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by dstorrs 14y ago
After a marriage and a divorce I can expand on this (marital lessons reframed for business though). There's a second question to ask: how often do you fight? If you are generally in alignment but disagree sometimes / occasionally, that's go
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by dstorrs 14y ago
I'll ignore the ad hominem and the argument by implied assertion and assume that we have different definitions of "making people's lives better". What's yours?
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by dstorrs 14y ago
The kindest thing I can say here is that I find your interpretation odd and that it contains some substantial And unusual interpretation of the text. Melanie said she tried the standard (accellerator leading presumably to VC) route, it didn
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by dstorrs 14y ago
I consider Zuckerberg to be rich. As far as I can tell from his and FB's public-facing personas, he's a failure at the things that really matter -- integrity, positive impact on others, respect of peers for anything other than wealth acquis
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by dstorrs 14y ago
"I am doing a startup because...." So, to you, it's not a startup unless it's what the OP calls the "go big or go home" approach. The OP asserts that that is not a critical element of starting up a business, nor a healthy one, nor necessari
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by dstorrs 14y ago
Actually, anyone is allowed "who is willing to be called Ben for the evening".
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by dstorrs 14y ago
Hey yakshaving, I like the idea and you've got an interesting internal page, but your front page ("What if deploying your code...") is literally unusable on an iPhone and probably on other mobile platforms -- the button is not visible, noth
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by dstorrs 14y ago
Perl 5 actually has several ways of doing macros without using source filters -- pragmas are one example.
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by dstorrs 14y ago
Sign me up. Email's in my profile if you're serious.
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by dstorrs 14y ago
"Should you invent something that can be used for both good and [evil]?" Don't worry about this. Literally every invention since fire falls into this category. (Edited for content.)
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by dstorrs 14y ago
They aren't happy. They are drugged. Any time anyone starts to have any questions or qualm of any kind, they have been trained to drug themselves into insensibility rather than think about it. Anyone desiring individuality is a pariah. Furt
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by dstorrs 14y ago
Those aren't underground jellyfish, they are underwater. That part of the word (west of center, where the ships are) is ocean. But yeah, it's confusing at first.
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by dstorrs 14y ago
Sure it exists. Have a services that is free to use but includes charges for one particular highly desirable function. One example is a game with in-app purchasing of new levels, character wardrobe, etc.
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by dstorrs 14y ago
Why the ShakyCam? It was so bad it made me dizzy.
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Oil-funded climate change skeptic reverses self(latimes.com)
3 points by dstorrs 14y ago|0 comments
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by dstorrs 14y ago
Finding a good woman is certainly difficult enough. Vastly harder, however, is knowing that you found the right one and building a solid relationship with her.
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by dstorrs 14y ago
You do realize that Tit For Tat is the dominant strategy of PD, right? [1] [1] Ok, not strictly true. Other strategies can dominate under certain conditions (finite and pre-known number of iterations, possibility of signal error, etc) but
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by dstorrs 14y ago
So, you're saying that it's complicated?
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by dstorrs 14y ago
FTA: "...I decided to migrate the existing system into a single table setup." "Alternative Proposed Solutions: MySQL Partitioning and Redis" I'm surprised he didn't consider at Mongo, Couch, etc.
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by dstorrs 14y ago
It's a fork of MySQL that provides substantially better durability, admin tools, an easy hot-backup solution, better instrumentation of your DB, etc etc. Deploying is it a question of "stop db, replace mysql server binary with percona serve
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by dstorrs 14y ago
Actually, Postgres has had an Array data type since at least v8.0. http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.0/static/arrays.html But yes, you're right that maps require a join table.

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