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by jarrett 12y ago
Do you recommend any particular alternative to New Relic? In particular, I'd be interested in something that helps answer the questions "How much memory am I using, and what's using it?" New Relic helps a lot with the la
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by jarrett 12y ago
I think most people would be OK with an additional flat fee so long as the notice is clear and conspicuous. For example, if I were renting a space daily and had to tack on a flat cleaning fee, I might write something like this: $99 per day,
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by jarrett 12y ago
Hypothetically, what if you actually believed it in every instance? That is, what if you genuinely felt (as I do) that nearly all jobs are hard. Granted, some may be harder than others, but I've never met anyone who worked a job I woul
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by jarrett 12y ago
> common tooling like benchmarking and profiling tools And might I add: A debugger! For both shaders and the entire GL state. Yes, 3rd party tools exist. But more often than not, I find they won't even compile or execute on a given
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by jarrett 12y ago
> I really liked the modified Platinum UI from MacOS X DR2 code named Rhapsody, though it could have used some polish Interesting. I feel like the current OS X UI is just that: Rhapsody with a lot of polish. The core concept seems to be
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by jarrett 12y ago
Which one is your favorite? Googling turned up several.
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by jarrett 12y ago
> but they don't age well...In general, a flat icon tends to age better and reduce "eye exhaustion" Two thoughts on that: 1) Is that just an opinion? (If so, there's obviously nothing wrong with that.) Or is there som
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by jarrett 12y ago
Philosophically or practically: What's the justification for nearly everyone switching to flat design? Is there any articulable reason it's "better" than the rich, three-dimensional style[1] that was previously popular?
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by jarrett 12y ago
> I can't think of any better way of describing black. That's probably the most precise and scientific definition of true black, but it's not how most people imagine a black material. Any black material you'll encount
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by jarrett 12y ago
It's not a Rails vs Django feature comparison that gives Rails the edge. Convergent evolution means they're pretty much on par with each other all the time. The difference is in the size of the ecosystem as a whole. The Ruby web d
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by jarrett 12y ago
I think we have almost the same opinion, actually. I said Ruby's " web dev ecosystem ...feels much larger to me." I agree that Ruby's strongest niche is web dev. And I think it has an edge of Python there. Outside web de
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by jarrett 12y ago
> Silencing the ongoing debate, even if one side or the other is obviously delusional, is completely contrary to the spirit of science. A news outfit does not have the power to silence scientific debate. Real, productive scientific debat
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by jarrett 12y ago
Other than the scientific method, how would you propose humankind gather the information needed to make important decisions?
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by jarrett 12y ago
> Climate change scepticism is not a fringe view, but moderately widely held Amongst 1) the general public, 2) scientists in general, or 3) climate scientists specifically?
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by jarrett 12y ago
My take on Ruby vs Python is this: While Python has a healthy web dev ecosystem, Ruby's feels much larger to me. That's almost certainly because Rails is so wildly popular. And Rails is an excellent, mature framework. So for web d
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by jarrett 12y ago
For any given fringe view that the media properly marginalizes, some people will go on believing it. But that doesn't mean the number of believers (or undecided people) will stay the same. It's quite possible, and in my view pro
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by jarrett 12y ago
Apparently it's being used at Facebook. If they actively injected life into the D ecosystem to the same extent Google does with Go, the momentum might pick up substantially. Look at how late Go arrived--it was announced in 2009--and ho
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by jarrett 12y ago
True--in principle any language can be executed in the JS runtime. A lot of them can even be executed reasonably quickly. Though I suppose the parent comment was asking whether a mature compiler from D to JS currently exists.
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by jarrett 12y ago
> Most of this frameworks enable sessions by default True, but in my experience, the major frameworks don't automatically lock out users with cookies disabled. For example, on a Rails app with no before_filter on the homepage, you c
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by jarrett 12y ago
I understood this to be something different from what Schneier describes. (Though I could be mistaken.) I took this to be primarily an API for Internet applications to verify an end user's identity claims. I realize there are physical
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by jarrett 12y ago
There are a few scenarios where I, as a developer, would find it very helpful to be able to verify real-world identities. For example, I've worked on applications where there were incentives for Mallory to impersonate Alice and attempt
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by jarrett 12y ago
Depending on the implementation, it would be possible to limit the government's collection of data to the following: 1) The underlying identity info such as SSN, photo, name, birthdate, etc. Which most governments already have even wit
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by jarrett 12y ago
Good to know. In that case, probably the biggest distinction between HuffPo and HN is that HuffPo displays the content on their own site. For some writers, that might be a plus. For others, it might be a minus. I've heard some professi
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by jarrett 12y ago
What are Huffington Post's intellectual property terms? That could be a big distinction between Huffington Post and HN. On HN, nobody signs over any IP, nor does the copyright holder necessarily grant a license of any sort. (If you dou
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by jarrett 12y ago
Oh yeah, absolutely! I didn't mean to imply you should never ask "How can I get this code to run." I meant that you shouldn't stop there. And it sounds like you're not stopping there. > My knowledge of design p
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by jarrett 12y ago
Do you feel like your skills are steadily improving? Do you critically examine your code from a year ago, and have the urge to rewrite it because you could now do better? When you're coding, do you think "What's the best poss
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by jarrett 12y ago
Have you had a discussion with your cofounders and employees about establishing goals for work/life balance in the company? If so, what did they say? Realistically, I don't think owning a company will give you massively more freed
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by jarrett 12y ago
The part about being dedicated enough to donate weekends and vacation time struck me. I'm of multiple minds about that mentality when it's applied to a large company. On the one hand, there's something beautiful about having
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by jarrett 12y ago
I suspect that collecting on such commissions would be a real challenge. I'm not saying the service's customers are dishonest, but...it's easy to "forget" to pay your commission when it's on the honor system. O
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by jarrett 12y ago
If the package maintainer has exposed their private key, and yet the package itself in intact, what harm is there (at the moment)? With the key compromised, you could have been MITMed, but you weren't. You could be MITMed in the fu

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