jz

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by jz 14y ago
> When the number of "moving parts" created by your abstractions outnumbers the actual bits its abstracting, then you know your design took the wrong turn somewhere. This is an interesting point which I agree with and is usually where
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by jz 14y ago
Part of the zen of Python is "Flat is better than nested". Until recently, I always thought of this at a code block/function level. Recently I realized that this is also important when modularizing and adding layers of abstraction. The more
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by jz 15y ago
I needed this in a rake task under Rails 2 a while back; I ended up doing the following: require 'action_controller/integration' app = ActionController::Integration::Session.new module CurrentUserHack def current_user @u
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by jz 15y ago
I am genuinely surprised at how much others spend on software. I started totaling up his list (excluding monthly services like dropbox) and stopped when I reached $500, which was right around Cornerstone.
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by jz 15y ago
Looks like someone stepped up: https://groups.google.com/forum/#!msg/django-non-relational/...
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by jz 15y ago
You down voted my question but still did not provide a concrete example.
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by jz 15y ago
> Money moving from one place to another does not always help the economy. When money flows from the corporate coffers directly into the private accounts of its executives, generally little of that money actually flows into the greater
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by jz 15y ago
When I first looked at Haskell, the 'Maybe' concept was new to me and seemed like a useful concept for other languages. http://haskell.org/ghc/docs/6.12.2/html/libraries/base-4.2.0...
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by jz 15y ago
I agree that the change will cause a lot of pain, however early adopters tend to have a high tolerance for pain. If you don't want to deal with the pain or are running a server (your EC2 mention sounds like a server), you probably want to a
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by jz 15y ago
Check out Mondrian: http://mondrian.pentaho.com/ I used it a couple years back at a startup. It's written in Java and IIRC works (only?) with MySQL. Mondrian took a bit of work to get setup, mostly due to my lack of OLAP knowledge at the
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by jz 15y ago
Background: http://sheddingbikes.com/posts/1306816425.html In all fairness, the guy was being a dick (no pun intended) to Zed. However, Zed should have kept the insults to the troll and left Github, Powerset, Engine Yard, and the Ruby com
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by jz 15y ago
Looks interesting, however I really dislike iTunes' "everything under then sun" motto. If you are looking for something much more lightweight for playing music, check out mpd http://mpd.wikia.com/wiki/Music_Player_Daemon_Wiki . There is a
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by jz 15y ago
The girlfriend mentions seemed irrelevant and out of place. I've noticed lately that more and more technical bloggers try to inject this fictional writing style to draw in readers. Most of the time it's so out of place that I immediately st
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by jz 15y ago
Although not as featureful as pv, try hitting CTRL+t under OS X or any of the BSDs during a long running process. It provides status of the current running process without having to prefix the command with pv. I blogged about this a while b
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by jz 15y ago
I purchased my first CD set yesterday. They provide great tools (OpenSSH, tmux, and of course OpenBSD) which save me time and money and make my life easier.
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by jz 15y ago
I work remotely 100% of the time (and not always in the same location). The use case for me is to quickly show a feature to coworkers without having to commit/push to a remote server. Especially if the feature needs immediate feedback and i
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by jz 16y ago
I saw Aaron Patterson's presentation at RubyConf this year, which I have to say was just as funny as informative. It was essentially all about squeezing every bit of performance out of ARel. He ended up rewriting a good portion of ARel as w
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by jz 16y ago
A little late to the party, but I went through a bout with wrist/arm pain for over a year. I did physical therapy for more than 6 months, saw a doctor that said I needed to have surgery on my arms, neither helped (did not have surgery BTW).
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by jz 16y ago
If you work for any employer that actually cares about you, convince them to keep you on their insurance and take a 6 month sabbatical. If they are not sympathetic to your situation, quit your job immediately since they have no regard for y
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by jz 16y ago
I thought the exact opposite. I'm in Chicago and the spill covers a 1/3 to 1/2 of Lake Michigan. After zooming out though, it clearly would cover Lake Erie or Lake Ontario. The thing that was put in perspective for me was the shear size of
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by jz 16y ago
I've been programming exclusively in Ruby for almost 3 years now and came across this while I was looking at tempfile's source. I was gonna write about it but turns out this guy sums it up pretty good. I apologize since this is a news site
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Ruby's Hidden do {} while () Loop(archive.jvoorhis.com)
2 points by jz 16y ago|1 comments
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by jz 16y ago
I've switched to Chrome on my Mac because of its speed and quality of dev tools as well. It's a shame though since Firefox and Firebug were both revolutionary and "raised the bar".
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by jz 16y ago
As a BSD user, I recall some of the porting problems were because of the reliance of ALSA instead of OSS. Anybody know offhand if it still uses ALSA?
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by jz 16y ago
Ever wonder why Dells, HPs, and Gateways come loaded with a lot of crap software? It's because ISVs know that your typical user won't spend more than he has to. You are forgetting that Dell, HP, etc get kickbacks from the software compan
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by jz 16y ago
3 years ago I bought my first Apple computer. Coming to the Apple platform, I was amazed by all the apps my fellow co-workers would buy for their Macs. Most of them were just simple stupid things that cost only a few bucks but I could never
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by jz 16y ago
I'm fed up with the snarkiness from Apple lovers and haters. I have several Apple products, MBP, iPhone, and Airport Base Station and I have never touted that they are superior or better than other offerings out there. I just silently go al
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by jz 16y ago
This has been my experience too. I'm downloading now to see if performance has improved.
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by jz 16y ago
When I think of long exposures, fireworks and lightning come to mind. Those photos are absolutely amazing.
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by jz 16y ago
Other: Midori I use this on my FreeBSD workstation. I would prefer Chrome (which is what I use on my MBP) but Chrome on FreeBSD is not quite there.

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