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by nickyp 4y ago
Scribd | Software Engineers | Amsterdam, Netherlands | Full time | ONSITE or REMOTE (NL) Scribd is a reading subscription that gives you access to the best books, audiobooks, magazines, podcasts, and more. Our mission is to change how the w
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by nickyp 6y ago
Scribd | Software & SRE Engineers | Amsterdam | ONSITE Scribd is a reading subscription that gives you access to the best books, audiobooks, magazines, and more. Our mission is to change how the world reads. Beginning of last year we hi
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by nickyp 6y ago
Scribd | Software Engineers | Amsterdam | ONSITE Scribd is a reading subscription that gives you access to the best books, audiobooks, magazines, and more. Our mission is to change how the world reads. Beginning of this year we hit 1M payin
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by nickyp 7y ago
Scribd | Software Engineers | Amsterdam | ONSITE | VISA Scribd is a reading subscription that gives you access to the best books, audiobooks, magazines, and more. Our mission is to change how the world reads. Beginning of last year we hit 1
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by nickyp 7y ago
Scribd | Software Engineers | Amsterdam | ONSITE | VISA Scribd is a reading subscription that gives you access to the best books, audiobooks, magazines, and more. Our mission is to change how the world reads. Beginning of this year we hit 1
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by nickyp 14y ago
At 20 inches, this thing could BE your coffee table!
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by nickyp 15y ago
Interesting observation. I checked a couple of my 1Password files and you're right: usernames & passwords are encrypted, but not the website/URL they're associated with.
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by nickyp 15y ago
It's not 'compliancy' as much as they're reinventing the wheel. REST was born out of a philosophy that the HTTP protocol already solved much of what you wanted to do. HTTP not only solved this, but solved this a long time ago and with 'grea
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by nickyp 15y ago
For those who want to take this kind of approach (object prevalence) in Common Lisp see http://common-lisp.net/project/cl-prevalence/ Sven Van Caekenberghe (the author of cl-prevalence) and I used this approach to power the back-end/cms o
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by nickyp 16y ago
Learned that soon enough, only 2 Xserves were used and the rest of the rack quickly went back to Linux ;-) Although those puppies are still up-and-running of course (my Xserve adventure was in 2003)
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by nickyp 16y ago
I concur! Ran a couple of Xserves a while ago to run web application stacks on it and most of the time I diverged from using the GUI to administer things I shot myself in the foot (Apache, firewalls, initscripts, networking etc.). The nice
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by nickyp 16y ago
You're right, but I find that there are so many tap targets because of the table rows and cells that one double-tap zoom ('auto-zoom') is a hit-or-miss affair in mobile Safari . Even on the iPad, where the default font size is less of a pro
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by nickyp 16y ago
HN _looks_ decent on mobile browsers, but doesn't handle all that well on them. On iPhone: font sizes are really too small, voting arrows are practically not hittable without zooming in and trying to zoom in on the articles list confuses Sa
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by nickyp 16y ago
Excellent article & advice, especially for those who procrastinate all the time but don't even know it. On the other hand: knowing that giving up in mid-flight has it own set of consequences will often lead to not starting at all aka 'G
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by nickyp 17y ago
The Logitech G13 game controller works flawlessly on Mac OS X and is a hell of a lot more comfortable if you want to game on your laptop. It can also store keymap profiles on the device itself so you can use it on any computer.
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by nickyp 17y ago
The article is very thin on the particulars, but my guess is that they're reading the draft on Scribd and a well-known plugin keeps crashing. You can't approve something if you can't read it IMHO!
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by nickyp 17y ago
Wow, that's 4 minutes of my life I won't get back, and I'm a subversion (and git) user ;-(
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by nickyp 17y ago
I love the abundance of 'XXX is sued by MPEG LA' press releases on their 'media' page! I guess they designate lawyers using 'squad/platoon/battalion' instead of boring old 'department' ;-)
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by nickyp 17y ago
There's also Common Lisp: First Contact: http://homepage.mac.com/svc/CommonLispFirstContact/index.htm... A very nice 15-page PDF hands-on introduction, in a nice layout optimized for screen-reading on our fancy widescreen displays ;-)
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by nickyp 17y ago
You're correct, that was the gist of it. The main reason for building that mini reddit clone was that the Reddit developers had just switched to Python and to use something different than a mini blog platform for a screencast. And of course
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by nickyp 17y ago
the little clone is part of the examples of the KPAX web application framework: http://kpax.wolf359.be/kpax/dynamic/reddit/ More little KPAX live examples: http://kpax.wolf359.be/kpax/dynamic/welcome
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by nickyp 17y ago
It might be just me, but watching this felt like watching 'The Inconvenient Truth of the food industry'. So all we need now is a meeting of the leaders of the world in Copenhagen to ignore this huge problem with the processed food everybody
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by nickyp 17y ago
He made sure Carrie Fisher got her daily dose of ...euh... 'Rouge'! Oh, wait... that was on on 'War Of The Ewoks' (aka Bikini Harvest).
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by nickyp 17y ago
Agreed! If it was 1997 I'd actually might read an article published on a CNET website, but it's not so I made this superfluous comment instead.
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by nickyp 17y ago
Control-zoom is awesome indeed, but has been available for a long time using the scroll wheel of any mouse. Enable it in Universal Access > Zoom options > Use scroll wheel modifier to enable zoom > ^
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by nickyp 17y ago
Basically: people who need to fill the slots to connect hardware that's as expensive as their computing platform and/or are running a software stack that can also cost as much as an iMac. In generally these people fit the 'Pro' suffix ;-) H
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by nickyp 17y ago
You mean without rewriting it so it is not an ad hoc informally-specified bug-ridden slow implementation of half of Common Lisp? ;-)
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by nickyp 17y ago
Hear, Hear! Also went to 20Gb (up from 8Gb) on the Mac Pro in the summer. Best 300$ I ever spent on hardware upgrades. Never close apps anymore, and never experience a swapstorm anymore. Only one very, very big drawback: you'll want that mu
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by nickyp 17y ago
Good point, but unfortunately that only applies to the performing arts. And even then the issue of control comes to play. I know for a fact that if you want to play a certain big festival in my country you have to agree that t-shirts can on
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by nickyp 17y ago
Definitely contains interesting ideas. But the problem with the lottery ticket mentality is that I think it mostly stems from the fact that the 'greedy and seedy suits' exert so much control over other peoples art on top of collecting all/m

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