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by samdk 8mo ago
Most of that stuff isn't necessary just to replace Plex, the OP's saying them Jellyfin started them on a journey they're presumably enjoying, not that they needed everything there to replace it. I think you're right the
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by samdk 3y ago
It's not that postgres can't handle large tables, it's more that many of the ways it uses system tables aren't particularly optimized for them being large, so you're operating outside the territory the table/qu
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by samdk 4y ago
The Little Schemer was what finally got me to internalize how to solve problems recursively. I'd taken a couple of college classes and could do it some already, but it took a lot more thought than solving those same problems in other w
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by samdk 6y ago
Postgres doesn't natively support multi-master. (Although there are a variety of open source/proprietary offerings that add support for it to various degrees.)
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What we’ve learned from seven years of working to make RC 50% women(recurse.com)
2 points by samdk 7y ago|0 comments
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by samdk 8y ago
I think it's unfortunate the first/often only exposure people get to FP is a build-up-from-the-foundations approach that emphasizes recursion so much, I think it leaves most students with a poor understanding of why functional par
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How to Hire Your First Engineer(triplebyte.com)
3 points by samdk 8y ago|1 comments
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RC is moving(recurse.com)
1 points by samdk 8y ago|0 comments
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Working remotely, 4 years in(jvns.ca)
424 points by samdk 9y ago|199 comments
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by samdk 9y ago
This is very reminiscent of Charlie Stross' Halting State/Rule 34
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by samdk 9y ago
This is not the same thing, but you might be interested in taking a look at the excellent online Terra Mystica implementation ( https://terra.snellman.net/ ) if you haven't seen it already. It's a web interface, but
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by samdk 9y ago
Thanks for writing this! One nitpick: the guide says "If you're curious why it's important to not have a phone number on your account, see the security key FAQ", but the linked security FAQ doesn't actually appear t
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by samdk 9y ago
I use it on my laptop and am generally very happy with it, although I don't do all that much technical work there and certainly wouldn't want it to replace my primary workstation. (I'd be dearly sad if I had to give up xmonad
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by samdk 9y ago
You can have Goodreads do something like this, in the newsletters and other mail section you can check the 'send me the monthly new releases email', 'only send this to me if it includes an author I've read', and cli
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Compressing and enhancing hand-written notes(mzucker.github.io)
3 points by samdk 10y ago|0 comments
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by samdk 10y ago
"Back-end web understanding" seems oddly specific compared to everything else on that list. Why that and not something more general which might encompass other kinds of domain-specific knowledge? There are a lot of companies on yo
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An Antarctic Appeal(idlewords.com)
2 points by samdk 11y ago|0 comments
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by samdk 11y ago
I've had issues with chrome/xmonad not regaining focus properly that were fixed by adding the code mentioned in the 'usage' section of this page: http://xmonad.org/xmonad-docs/xmonad-contrib/XMo
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Navigating like A Star(gperco.com)
5 points by samdk 11y ago|0 comments
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Hexapod Project – Inverse Kinematics(gperco.com)
2 points by samdk 11y ago|0 comments
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HEX Project Intro(gperco.com)
4 points by samdk 11y ago|0 comments
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by samdk 11y ago
Have you tried contacting the Gnome Accessibility folks? ( https://wiki.gnome.org/Accessibility/ ) It's not exactly on-topic for them, but I bet you'll find some people there with ideas/contacts.
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by samdk 12y ago
Finding out you spend all day in meetings still tells you something, especially with a few follow-up questions. Who do you spend your time meeting with? What about? How many people are typically involved? How long do meetings last? (That sa
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by samdk 12y ago
Note: after 25 minutes answering questions for a job you really want it’s kinda hard to shift to a question-asking mode. When I was looking for a job I found that it helped enormously to write down a set of questions ahead of
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by samdk 12y ago
I think you may be under-weighting the value of Python being a great exploratory tool a bit. For the (relatively small) amount of research I've done, the bulk of the time spent working with code was spent exploring large-ish sets of da
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by samdk 12y ago
My initial reaction to this post was similar to many of the other commenters here. There's a real danger in making "negative" comments taboo. But I don't think Nick's saying "don't make critical comments&q
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by samdk 12y ago
You're missing some big ones, I think. In the last few years protest movements have effected regime changes in Tunisia, Egypt, and Ukraine. Those transitions have been at all smooth, but it's hard to claim the protests in each of
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by samdk 12y ago
Board game designers will very often give permission for things like this so long as there's not an official money-generating version in existence, or at least ignore their existence. I think the most visible case of this happening is
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Sweden’s School Choice Disaster(slate.com)
2 points by samdk 12y ago|1 comments
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by samdk 12y ago
Did you read the article? The entire thing is about a school that for years did things like have teachers change test answers after the fact in order to increase their overall test scores. That's what I mean by gaming statistics. edit

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