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by robotpony 4y ago
Around Vancouver our heat pump has performed adequately even down to -15C/5F. This may be related to it being a deep ground loop geothermal setup (vertical instead of horizontal), and the type of building (concrete). We do have a gas f
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by robotpony 5y ago
I like the Serious Eats format, where they provide both a brief recipe and an optional backstory. Some of the research and reasoning is interesting for certain recipes (like pressure cooker French Onion soup), though when actually cooking t
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by robotpony 5y ago
Wow, I had forgotten how retro-industrial those Atari language cartridges were. I also forgot how rich the language was, given the constraints. Great memories!
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by robotpony 5y ago
That's less bad than I thought the early pricing would be (and isn't far from the highest end sushi I've seen around the west coast here).
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by robotpony 5y ago
> "Data dominates. If you've chosen the right data structures and organized things well, the algorithms will almost always be self-evident. Data structures, not algorithms, are central to programming." ~ Rob Pike
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by robotpony 5y ago
I used Markdown for recipes for more than a decade, where UL were ingredients, OL were steps, and you could use as many sets of both as needed. With some CSS and JS it worked pretty well, but wasn't super accessible for family members
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by robotpony 5y ago
The price isn't even that bad, but it produces so much more packaging waste than cooking from scratch. We enjoyed the recipes, the price was good enough, but our recycling load doubled or more.
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by robotpony 8y ago
Previous gen didn't, so I doubt the new gen does.
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by robotpony 8y ago
I've had several things hosted on Dreamhost for almost 20 years now, and they have been pretty great.
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by robotpony 8y ago
That was my first thought. A company grows into its funding, not what it needs to do (and they raised more than $300M over the years).
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by robotpony 8y ago
A promise is a promise ...
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by robotpony 8y ago
I should have said that there is no technical reason for delaying a streaming release, nor does it really affect the quality of the watching experience (assuming people have good streaming setups).
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by robotpony 8y ago
This is the crux of the issue: that cinema hasn't caught up with streaming services. There's no reason to force people to wait to stream a movie, i.e., they could show movies and stream simultaneously, maximizing consumer choice (
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by robotpony 9y ago
A lot of guys are boring, especially for people who have studied and focused in their specialties for years and years. You have to find common ground, and that can become increasingly difficult unless your friends share parts of your core
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by robotpony 9y ago
I've never found developers resisted reasonable unit tests, though teams may squabble about what _real_ unit tests are, or may have been burned by poor approaches to unit testing in the past. If you can find the cause of resistance, al
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by robotpony 9y ago
It's not exclusively a benefit, but it does have some powerful upsides: * Less commute time and cost (I save 8-10 hours a week, plus a few hundred a month in parking, fuel, and insurance) * More freedom and flexibility (not every gig o
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by robotpony 9y ago
Most of these points all relate to having empathy for the developer and being kind, and focusing on the point of code reviews (which is to improve quality and reduce ongoing costs). Example: > Unhelpful behavior: overwhelming with an ava
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by robotpony 9y ago
Clean French press, fresh / burr ground beans (12:1, so usually ~60g ground), temperature controlled H20 (96C), 4:30 minute brew.
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by robotpony 9y ago
""considered harmful" considered harmful" _considered harmful_
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by robotpony 9y ago
> merde(`partout`);
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by robotpony 9y ago
I've had a few servers (and previously shared hosting) at DH over the last 20 years. While they have had their fair share of major downtime, it has been on par with Rackspace, AWS, etc., who have all had day+ events in the last. I have
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by robotpony 9y ago
I'd like to see the actual distributions of foods (and micro/macros) in these studies along with the human stats (ages, activity levels). I suspect that the factors are for more multi-modal than the buckets of "low carb"
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by robotpony 9y ago
Also tried to apply. At least 60 years worth of experience, if you consider accelerated rate of practice. Disappointed in 500. Thhhbbbttt.
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by robotpony 9y ago
DSLs can be great abstractions and interfaces, in that they can provide a way to state program knowledge in a form that non-programmers may be able to work with more easily. One example that stuck with me early was the Quake (and Doom) shad
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by robotpony 9y ago
Side projects and life-long learning are the only way to stay relevant. Stop feeling guilty for not finishing side projects (only finish the good ones). Adapt not just your skills, but your learning techniques (you're not in college an
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by robotpony 9y ago
I tell my teams this regularly: you'll hate all legacy code you work with, especially your own. This means, in essence, that you always hate your past self. Pushing that hate for legacy code to your own self is important, as it as a go
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by robotpony 10y ago
No need to replace your console either, they tend to last for ages. We still play our Game Cube and N64 regularly (as well as Wii/Wii U), so total lifetime is pretty huge. It's enjoyable to play these old systems, where a video ca
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by robotpony 10y ago
Vancouver had more like 12 murders last year ( http://vancouver.ca/police/Planning/2016YED.pdf ).
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by robotpony 10y ago
LemonStand | Canada (Vancouver) | Full-time Full Stack | Onsite | Remote This is position is open to remote team members living within Canada, or for Vancouver folks to work (mostly) in our lovely downtown office. We're looking for a s
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by robotpony 10y ago
I have two setups: one large single monitor, and one dual setup. I had always thought that the multi setup was better, but have found over the years that it's only better at certain things (for me). I've found the single monitor s

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