jerhinesmith

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by jerhinesmith 8y ago
Especially on long distance trips, I try to avoid layovers because of the uncertainty it introduces. If I could be guaranteed that my first leg would leave and arrive on time, then I'd happily book two legs with a break in-between ov
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by jerhinesmith 8y ago
Listening to the live radio communications on a flight was eye opening. Turbulence aside, I can usually feel when the plane is moving to a new altitude (either up or down), and while I always assumed it was planned, being able to hear the p
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by jerhinesmith 8y ago
As an internet user, I really enjoy reading about all these performance improvements in V8 / javascript. As a ruby developer, I'm insanely jealous.
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by jerhinesmith 9y ago
No need to apologize - I kind of do that already with texts, but my last vacation was in Japan, so the timezone thing gave little overlap and it would have been nice to have something a bit more asynchronous.
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by jerhinesmith 9y ago
I have similar concerns, but I was just on vacation for 2 weeks and would have loved a way to check-in on my cat / cat-sitter to see how things are going. Are there products that would permit me to do this while still avoiding privacy
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by jerhinesmith 9y ago
I feel like piracy is going to continue to be an issue until we get a spotify/tidal/apple music-type service for video content. Netflix seemed a lot closer to that several years ago, but it feels like we're moving backwards.
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by jerhinesmith 9y ago
I think it was Netflix that said that: https://gizmodo.com/5980103/netflix-the-goal-is-to-become-hb...
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by jerhinesmith 10y ago
It goes on for pages. My guess would be someone phished an admin account and changed which subreddits are included in /r/all.
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by jerhinesmith 10y ago
I've been struggling with this a lot. Granted it's pretty much all speculation, but if it is a state actor that is giving Wikileaks this information, and if said state actor was trying to influence the election, I question the res
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by jerhinesmith 10y ago
JSON API seems overly verbose to me. It feels like like a direct descendant of the SOAP / WSDL era -- or maybe I'm just scarred from having written and consumed SOAP webservices.
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by jerhinesmith 11y ago
Yep, working now. Thanks!
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by jerhinesmith 11y ago
Sounds really interesting, but I'm getting a 503 from their site. :(
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by jerhinesmith 11y ago
Having grown up in the midwest where everything is a 10 - 20 minute drive, I absolutely love it here. It's literally life changing.
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by jerhinesmith 11y ago
If you're only visiting LA, you're going to run into traffic. LA has arguably the first or second worst traffic in all of the US. As a counter-anecdote, I live in what could be considered an Oakland or SF suburb, and I can get e
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by jerhinesmith 11y ago
Agreed. Top Thrill is great for the "thrill" of hitting 120 mph and dropping ~400 feet, but it's over in a matter of seconds. I think they nailed it with the drag race metaphor. There's very little anticipation, and t
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by jerhinesmith 11y ago
I switched from will_paginate to kaminari when I made the move from rails 2 to rails 3 and haven't looked back. It's a great library that works as advertised.
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by jerhinesmith 11y ago
I set up my first rails app on Linode about 5 years ago and used to scoff at people that went the "easy" route with Heroku. Now I'm using Heroku and wonder why I wasted so much time before worrying about disk space, permissio
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by jerhinesmith 11y ago
While I'm not disagreeing with the intentions of the quote, it's worth pointing out that there's no actual evidence that Einstein ever said that: http://www.snopes.com/quotes/einstein/bees.asp
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by jerhinesmith 11y ago
I was literally going to post the exact same article. Up until I read this a few days ago, I would have jumped into a debate with "desalination! just do it!" -- turns out it's much more complicated than that.
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by jerhinesmith 12y ago
I really appreciate what the omniref guys are doing, but I find these "posts" (maybe not the right word?) incredibly difficult to follow. I can't tell if I'm supposed to read the left pane, the right pane, the bubble?
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by jerhinesmith 12y ago
This was just posted a few days ago -- here's the discussion for anyone interested: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8594769
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by jerhinesmith 12y ago
RVM/rbenv/chruby are generally discouraged on production servers.
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by jerhinesmith 12y ago
Yep, I played around with different GC settings for ~2 days before I gave up and reverted back to 2.0. I keep hoping pressure from other hosting companies will push heroku to up the default dynos to 1gb ram (current is 512mb).
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by jerhinesmith 12y ago
For the person who wants to put time/effort into investing, where you suggest they start?
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by jerhinesmith 12y ago
I'm really interested to see if the r-naught is sustainable in developed countries. This paper ( http://www.eurosurveillance.org/ViewArticle.aspx?ArticleId=2... ) projects it as between 1.0 and 2.0 -- the nurse in Dalla
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by jerhinesmith 12y ago
Well, interestingly enough, it seems like you lose 2 close friends for every new romantic relationship: http://www.theguardian.com/science/2010/sep/15/price-love-cl...
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by jerhinesmith 12y ago
I don't believe severance pay is required by law in California. In that case, asking someone to sign a non-disparagement agreement in exchange for helping them land on their feet seems like a reasonable request.
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by jerhinesmith 12y ago
I don't think you're forced to sign. That point is also lightly touched on in the comment - "the non-disparagement we asked you to sign" and "Even if you don't sign the non-disparagement". I've signe
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by jerhinesmith 12y ago
What do you use to cook sous vide at home? Do you have an actual appliance? Or do you use one of the "improvised hacks" I've seen on blogs, etc. ("improvised hacks" is not meant to be derogatory, by the way -- jus
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by jerhinesmith 12y ago
Well, I share my desktop machine with my girlfriend. I could easily get by with a clean desk at home and just the MBA -- that said, it's not completely up to me. :)

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