russelldavis

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by russelldavis 7y ago
Stripe returns HTTP 402 ("Payment Required") when a card is declined.
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by russelldavis 7y ago
The same logic can apply to flop donk bets. Some flops favor the donking player's range more than their opponent.
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by russelldavis 7y ago
This idea is baked into the core of Deno. See, for example, https://deno.land/manual.html#permissionswhitelist .
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by russelldavis 8y ago
This approach comes pretty close to solving the problem, but a couple issues are dealbreakers for me: 1) It mutes all notifications, not just non-whitelisted calls. As much as I hate notification overload, I do want a select few to come t
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by russelldavis 8y ago
Amen. The existing spam call blockers are all based on blacklists, and it's a losing battle against spammers who can simply keep spoofing new numbers. I'm working on an app (iphone & android) that solves this the way you sugge
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by russelldavis 8y ago
Has anyone used both Ktor and Javalin and have any advice for choosing between the two?
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by russelldavis 8y ago
Scrolling on chrome (via the keyboard) has become incredibly slow and janky. One example: log in to twitter, click any tweet, then click outside the lightbox to return to the main page. Then hold the down arrow key. It's unusably slow
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by russelldavis 10y ago
Another thorough review of water filters: http://thesweethome.com/reviews/best-water-filter-pitcher/
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by russelldavis 12y ago
The branch equivalent is `git checkout foo --`. I wrote a simple shell script[1] that makes that the default, requiring you to do `-- <file>` for files, so there's never a possibility of ambiguity. [1] https://gist.git
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by russelldavis 13y ago
> won't give you cancer. Untrue. "Smokeless tobacco is a major cause of oral cancer, pancreatic cancer, and esophageal cancer." http://www.webmd.com/smoking-cessation/features/snus-tobacco...
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by russelldavis 13y ago
No need to clutter your code with a bunch of try wrappers like this suggests. There's a much better way. It turns out that in a typical web app, a handful of operations account for the vast majority of new execution contexts: - set
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by russelldavis 13y ago
Personally, I'd prefer a world with suppressed donations over one with suppressed accurate objections. Or, you know, we could work towards a world where we have neither.
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by russelldavis 14y ago
X-chromosome inactivation is actually consistent with X-linked "recessive" conditions, but it's a little tricky, and the wikipedia page doesn't really explain it. Basically, X-linked phenotypes aren't dominant/recessive in the same way as
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by russelldavis 14y ago
For a similar library with a slightly different take, check out plumbum: http://plumbum.readthedocs.org/en/latest/index.html Here's the explanation on the differences: "The project has been inspired by PBS of Andrew Moffat, and has borrow
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by russelldavis 15y ago
There's no consensus that "reducing the damage done by some security holes" is a good thing? Bernstein mentions it as a distraction (which may be true), but it's better than doing nothing.