russfrank

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by russfrank 5mo ago
If you're not familiar with his blog, he also occasionally does benchmarks of databases & extensions. He starts every post by outlining his setup.
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by russfrank 7mo ago
The USA.
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by russfrank 2y ago
A mod might remove it if enough people flag it. I think it's still interesting as an example of a new type of fraud, though. The site's been up since January of this year and Amazon and the actual owner of this brand don't se
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by russfrank 2y ago
I don't think this is actually created by the company that owns the brand, Zwilling J.A. Henckels. I think someone managed to get this domain and generated this page (rather quickly, it looks like) to try and make money via Amazon affi
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by russfrank 3y ago
What? No, this was always supposed to be a parody. Did you find this 10yrs ago and think it was serious?
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by russfrank 4y ago
That's Bonappetit for you. All of their videos of this nature have wildly unqualified folks. One of them featured Alex Delaney who I think was the editor in chief's assistant before he became drinks editor. I'm sure the guy c
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by russfrank 4y ago
No no no no, it is absolutely necessary to salt the different components that go into a dish. Many things will absorb salt during the cooking process. Salt can also draw water out of an item which will change the way it cooks as well, for e
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Ask HN: What are some US universities with lesser-known, but great CS programs?
7 points by russfrank 5y ago|2 comments
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by russfrank 7y ago
If you only have six people, maybe :] But we're commenting on a post that's talking about the best time to introduce an OKR process. At my company we don't have an "API guy" and an "Android app guy", we
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by russfrank 7y ago
No, they are completely different things. Real time chat doesn't make people feel like they understand the overall goals of an organization. If someone says in Slack "we really need to get x done because the customers want it&qu
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by russfrank 13y ago
This sounds awful.
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by russfrank 13y ago
http://downforeveryoneorjustme.com/instagram.com
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What are the hottest startups in The Valley right now?(facebook.com)
19 points by russfrank 13y ago|4 comments
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by russfrank 13y ago
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/9323416/using-memory-allo...
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by russfrank 14y ago
this is cool. Watching the comment counts rise is mesmerizing
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by russfrank 14y ago
http://justquillin.com/
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by russfrank 14y ago
Nobody said you aren't allowed to share it, I simply disagree with you. As I said, I use a very similar pattern in a large project; I've used new/this/prototypal style OOP in other projects; and I prefer the traditional new/this/prototypal
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by russfrank 14y ago
Cloudspeaker is 'up', but it has to be 'started' by some controller. Going to the page just makes you a minion in their system.
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by russfrank 14y ago
Your approach is essentially the 'module pattern'. This article describes some other reasons you might not want to use it: http://snook.ca/archives/javascript/no-love-for-module-patte... I lead a somewhat large (~10000 sloc) project whic
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by russfrank 14y ago
That's because "override the 'general' toString() function" doesn't make sense. This is a method. It must be overriden for a particular class of objects. The first part of your example is due to the conversion between primitives and objec
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by russfrank 15y ago
"... all the linux users are going to switch to windows because they hate change." Where the hell did you get this from? Made me lol.
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by russfrank 15y ago
Well, it'll toss all of your templates into a convenient object, rather then having to do _.template($('#thing')). Still, doing the templating fully on the client seems a little wasteful, when it's easy to at least precompile the templates
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by russfrank 15y ago
http://vimbits.com/ http://vim.wikia.com/wiki/Vim_Tips_Wiki Your .vimrc is essentially just going to be a collection of snippets that you've found that seem to do some good. Many of mine have been taken from other people's dotfiles, fr
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by russfrank 15y ago
are these still available?