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by jaymon 10y ago
I'll second someone else's recommendation for The Martian, that was just a really fun read you can just burn through because it is so enjoyable. If you want another really fun read, Ready Player One was fantastic. I've also e
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by jaymon 10y ago
You could try a plugin I wrote to quickly comment/uncomment blocks of code: https://github.com/Jaymon/vim-commentify It's a no frills plugin that only does one thing, but it does it pretty well.
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by jaymon 12y ago
I've added it to my list of books to inspire my kids. So if they ever come to me and say, "Dad, what is chemistry good for?" I can just give them The Martian and say, "read this and you'll know"
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by jaymon 12y ago
Did you like The Atlantis Gene? I've almost pulled the trigger at Amazon a couple times but the reviews seem hit or miss and my reading list is already so long.
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by jaymon 12y ago
I started The Martian by Andy Weir about 3 days ago and I'm really enjoying it. It's a really entertaining book that I highly recommend! Last week I finished The Paradox of Choice and Zero Day. I enjoyed both of them, although I d
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by jaymon 12y ago
Just a note so people don't get confused, while specifying packages with >=1.1,<1.2 seems to be similar to the tilde in npm, in practice it isn't. Basically, when you use >=1.1,<1.2 it will install the best version tha
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by jaymon 12y ago
Medicare and medicaid have traditionally underpaid regular commercial insurance with the result that more and more doctors have dropped it over the years. So it makes sense that payments would concentrate around certain doctors that are sti
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by jaymon 13y ago
I've got a semi-similar python library that I've been adding to for a few years called testdata: https://github.com/Jaymon/testdata testdata has a lot of unicode and file system stuff I've found really u
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by jaymon 13y ago
I'm pretty sure milesskorpen was just referencing this post by Matthew Yglesias: http://www.slate.com/blogs/moneybox/2013/01/29/amazon_q4_pro... The quote, while probably not wholly accurate, i
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by jaymon 15y ago
The problem I have with analysis like this is it doesn't take into account what Yahoo actually needs to do to grow. For the most part, the companies on the list are innovative companies, led by talented CEOs/entrepreneurs and are leaders in
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by jaymon 16y ago
Reminds me of a story about Larry Ellison: "He told me a story of how Larry Ellison actually got efficiencies from teams. If a team wasn’t productive, he’d come every couple of weeks and say, let me help you out. What did he do? He took awa
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by jaymon 16y ago
I wrote this a few years ago to archive my Gmail emails to text files (and the attachments to whatever they are). I haven't ran it in awhile but when I did it worked and was able to download my emails from the very beginning without crashin
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by jaymon 16y ago
This reminds of the Evan Williams quote from "Founders at Work" pg 124: "luck comes in many forms -- and often looks bad at first. I always look back on the deals that we didn't do and the things that didn't work out, and realize what seeme
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by jaymon 17y ago
A lot of what is "best" has to do with how specific you want to be. Appending "every" to a date is great if you want something to occur every N. But what if you want it to occur every other N? Or the first N of every M? There's a reason why
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by jaymon 17y ago
If anyone wants to know more about how the Penguin logo was designed, Alex (the designer) has a great blog post here: http://blog.iso50.com/2010/03/10/plancast-penguin-developmen...
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by jaymon 17y ago
The site looks great. It's very clean, which I love. One of the things I would do is split the main page into left and right and move the "Recent Artwork" to the right of bullet point list on the left. This will let prospective users see ar
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by jaymon 17y ago
You are not alone in your desire for better privacy controls. Here's kind of what our roadmap has been/will be: The last few weeks have been focused on the iPhone app and API. I'm guessing the next few weeks will be focused on keeping the s
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by jaymon 17y ago
I know right? I wanted to be manly about it but that little Penguin just melted my heart.
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by jaymon 17y ago
Touche.
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by jaymon 17y ago
We have been going back and forth on how to do this, the problem is we really don't want to clutter the simpleness of "what, when, where" with lots of other dialog boxes, so we are trying to find the best way to integrate advanced functiona
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by jaymon 17y ago
Funny story, turns out I forgot to commit our latest date_parser before Thanksgiving break and then accidentally over-wrote it with the one from the repository because I thought it would be the most up to date. So, the current date parser h
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by jaymon 17y ago
Of course not everyone is going to want to broadcast every move they are going to make, but that isn't half of what Plancast can offer you. For example, a couple weeks ago I learned that Marcy Playground had released a new CD and was tourin
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by jaymon 17y ago
While we don't have full integration yet, every page does offer an iCal feed so you can at least subscribe to your Plancast feed in Gcal to get a one-way stream going.
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by jaymon 17y ago
We're working on it, judging by the amount of emails we're getting about an API, I'm thinking we're going to drop all our other upcoming features to get the API up and running for everyone. The only thing that stands in our way are all the
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by jaymon 17y ago
I was going to mention this but I decided it wasn't really necessary to make my point. I was just trying to show that no matter how hard certain people push real-time it usually still comes down to polling in a desktop situation. I think pe
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by jaymon 17y ago
The thing that really gets me with all this real-time hype is people attribute the rise of Twitter to all the awesome desktop clients built for it so you can receive your tweets in real-time, the problem is they aren't actually real-time, a
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by jaymon 17y ago
Since it's a design patent you would have to be really, really, close to the design laid forth in the patent to infringe it. Will this invalidate all search type pages with a logo on top, an input box, and a search button? No. Will this sto
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by jaymon 17y ago
My favorite part of this article was a part in another article linked in the "Related stories" section: Indeed, exercise was more strongly associated with weight loss than any other factor, including diet. Overall, the more the women exerci
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by jaymon 17y ago
I had a professor that was instrumental in creating the IEEE floating point standard (or something like that, I don't quite remember) and was heavily recruited by Apple back in the day, so heavily in fact that Steve Jobs personally took him
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by jaymon 17y ago
in a word, yes. I carry around this Moleskine pretty much everywhere I go: http://www.moleskine.com/catalogue/classic/cahier/cardboard_... They costs about $8 for a set of three which last me 2-3 years usually. The thing I like about this

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