jwpeddle

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by jwpeddle 12y ago
Best Buy, the place where I had to literally explain to three employees six times that I did not want an extended warranty on my television? I'll pass.
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by jwpeddle 13y ago
Not sure what you're refering to by "count" here. There's nothing to count. What matters is everybody coming into the knowledge that everybody knows at least one person has blue eyes. This takes a prompt about that, whic
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by jwpeddle 13y ago
No information is added, it just gives all islanders a synchronized reference point to sort themselves into groups. It's the synchronization that matters, not the info itself, per se. Once they all start sorting themselves on the same
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by jwpeddle 13y ago
They won't, because they only know that everybody else has brown eyes. They do not know if they themselves have brown/pink/green/purple eyes. They only know they don't have blue eyes.
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by jwpeddle 13y ago
I used to think that, but I've found there's way more to gain with Ctrl and using ctrl+[ instead of escape (or imap jj <Esc>)
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by jwpeddle 13y ago
Hofstadter's Law: It always takes longer than you expect, even when you take into account Hofstadter's Law.
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by jwpeddle 13y ago
no trackball has more than 300DPI My 1600DPI L-Trac disagrees.
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by jwpeddle 13y ago
My eyes are pretty messed up. Red and green look the same and I can't definitively tell dark blue from grey from purple. However I have no trouble with the default bootstrap buttons. That said, I find the most helpful thing people can do is
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by jwpeddle 14y ago
The only thing that drives me irrationally bonkers is the increasing use of "loosing" instead of "losing", even here on HN ( https://www.hnsearch.com/search#request/all&q=loosing ). Mostly because I cannot comprehend how anyone can not
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by jwpeddle 14y ago
Maybe even closer than you think. We've already done simulated tactile feedback in monkeys! http://io9.com/5846275/biotech-breakthrough-monkeys-can-feel...
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by jwpeddle 14y ago
I love the idea of this, but the benefit doesn't outweigh the cost when I can get a VPS for less. EDIT: that said, I do normally only use 2 networks, and I'm fine with the first tier cost. It's just those occasional times I need to connect
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by jwpeddle 14y ago
I've seen a couple of articles that have suggested both "don't use the orm" and "load fixtures using loaddata in your datamigration". These things contradict each other. loaddata uses your models, which will be potentially out of date. We h
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by jwpeddle 14y ago
For everyone criticizing the app name, you are aware that domain names are a finite resource that cost very little to sit on forever, right? Often naming your company comes down to what memorable domain name you can snag, even if you have t
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by jwpeddle 14y ago
I think you underestimate how much attention HN can get you and overestimate the effort of doing what they did here. Seems like a great time investment to me.
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by jwpeddle 14y ago
Is there some reason you think your browser of choice would bother to implement new technologies if people weren't taking advantage of them on other platforms? This comment doesn't need to be posted every time a bleeding edge demo gets pos
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by jwpeddle 14y ago
There's a temp charge on my credit card, but nothing in Google Wallet, and I never managed to see the confirmation page. Crossing my fingers. EDIT: about 20 minutes later it showed up in Google Wallet as pending. There is hope!
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by jwpeddle 14y ago
I'm not sure why you feel this niche requirement requires three question marks. The point of modules like this is to make it easier to do the tasks that 95% of developers are likely to need to do regularly, at the cost of not covering all r
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by jwpeddle 14y ago
Also there- loved it. I think the key is what he said about writing the readme first. Write the docs on how you'd want to use the software, then hold yourself to that API when you actually write it.
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by jwpeddle 14y ago
Some feedback from reading this page: - Why is your example logger named d? It might seem nitpicky but it's hard to read an example with a meaningless single character variable. - "d.close() # stop logging" - what is this? What do
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by jwpeddle 14y ago
It was reposted today because he gave the talk again this morning at Pycon Canada, I suspect.
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by jwpeddle 14y ago
I prefer HTTPie because after years of using curl, I still have to Google simple use cases. HTTPie has a very simple a intuitive api.
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by jwpeddle 14y ago
Probably the 1000th person to name themselves "import antigravity", but I'm still giggling about it.
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by jwpeddle 14y ago
It's no coincidence that people that have tried to verify this by comparing to email notifications have posted as much, and people that have "confirmed" based on memory have yet to do so and post the result of their verification. Do not tru
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by jwpeddle 14y ago
They aren't confirming anything. People are looking at wallposts and thinking/remembering they are private messages, but everyone that has tried to verify using email notifications has found only wallposts. Until someone shows that a verifi
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by jwpeddle 14y ago
Or not? I'm confused. Why did they tweet this?
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by jwpeddle 14y ago
The article was posted in 2010, but the headline changed and bold text were added in the past two hours.
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by jwpeddle 14y ago
At the risk of downvotes, religion used as anything other than philosophy is bad science. Even if there was/is a creator, it can't be "magic". Science doesn't allow for magic.
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by jwpeddle 14y ago
I map left/right to next/previous tab, and up/down to next/previous buffer, since if I switch files my hand is often coming from the mouse and the arrows are along the way.
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by jwpeddle 14y ago
Agreed. I scrolled past it and actually thought "oh, must not be indexed yet"
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Linux Signals for Laymen(typh.com)
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