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by scottw 11y ago
Marginally related: an entertaining exhibition table tennis match between the author (Syed) and Barney Reed (worked at Google) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4ug0qbmi2Kw
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by scottw 11y ago
Phrased as perceived. The author is probably too young to appreciate what his mother likely did for him. Becoming a parent has a tendency to change your perspective on parenthood.
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by scottw 11y ago
You sure those are images? All we know for certain is that those are GET requests.
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by scottw 11y ago
Someone asked him a similar question at the last YAPC in Salt Lake City in June. "What's with the [colorful] shirts?" He replied, "I like the colors."
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by scottw 12y ago
> That quote is so insulting to me as an introvert because it takes such a solipsistic and ego-stroking view of the world: that people who are successful are successful because they fit into the world better, not because they are comfort
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by scottw 12y ago
This is not the same thing. Hamming worked with geniuses who knew the difference between "A moment Dick? Have you ever noticed how (some astute observation)?" and "Hey! Good weekend? (some bland filler)." See chapter 3 o
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by scottw 13y ago
Seems nice, but it seems to ignore the exif rotation/orientation data... is that something that should be handled when the image is uploaded?
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by scottw 13y ago
This is the kind of wisdom I wish I had when I started my career and assumed that everyone who did things differently from me was stupid. I wish I could give it to all my current smunderlings when they complain about "bad" code wr
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by scottw 13y ago
Is there a particular font that works better than others for this? I've tried all my fixed width fonts and the clock is barely readable in any of them.
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by scottw 14y ago
I built one of these: http://iamnotaprogrammer.com/Ikea-Standing-desk-for-22-dolla... and I've been using it since early July and spend most of my day at it. It has significantly helped how my back feels by the end of the day. It's plenty
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by scottw 14y ago
You can do it with an API call too: http://www.fakecall.net/
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by scottw 14y ago
Given the results of this group (I was 3 for google, 2 draw), I wonder if Google simply has a stronger technical bias than Bing.
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by scottw 14y ago
Orem, Utah Company: BetterServers is a small (but well-funded—see below) Linux and FreeBSD VM-in-the-cloud hosting company (pre-beta). Position: We need one or two awesome full-stack Perl or PHP devs. We have tons of work, including web des
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by scottw 14y ago
Wouldn't less ice at the poles (= more water at the equator = higher rotational inertia) mean a slower rotation? Maybe we can get that second back.
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by scottw 14y ago
Everything is a mashup; Perspective was taken from Percepto: http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/percepto/id419502225?mt=8 It's a fun little puzzle game that operates on rotating the perspective 90° (my kids have been playing it for over a yea
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by scottw 14y ago
Provo/Orem, Utah - BetterLinux/BetterServers Well-funded startup, full benefits. We're looking for Linux kernel hackers, QA engineers, and full-stack engineers. We use a lot of different technologies, so the ability to learn new things quic
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by scottw 14y ago
I think the point is that we vigilantly distinguish "that was stupid" from "that was a stupid person". Judging someone as stupid means we've stopped thinking about possibilities. Derek wisely says there's always more to the story (reminded
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by scottw 14y ago
That's what Chrome is for.
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How much caffeine is in chocolate?(amanochocolate.com)
1 points by scottw 14y ago|0 comments
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by scottw 14y ago
"Population declines following economic collapse" should be "Population declines following sustained drop in birthrate." The population is going to decline regardless of what the future economy does.
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by scottw 15y ago
> Computers are an extension of people's minds, not devices like a record player, typewriter, or printing press. Intrusion into somebody's processing and data should be treated the same as intruding into their thoughts. It shouldn't be
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by scottw 15y ago
Isn't that just a little ironic that the Unicode bullets have been converted to the prescription symbol?
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CircuitLab | sketch, simulate, and share your circuits(circuitlab.com)
14 points by scottw 15y ago|0 comments
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by scottw 15y ago
The claim that "Debugging is one of the most expensive steps in software development- so you want incur less of it" is something we can all agree with, but "even if it is at the expense of more typing" doesn't follow. Having programmed in b
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by scottw 15y ago
I like hearing the fan kick in on your laptop after you start a couple of parallel reductions :)
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by scottw 15y ago
More than one Unix Philosophy tenet broken here. It does, however, seem wholly consistent with modern Linux Philosophy.
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by scottw 15y ago
Thanks. I submitted this to hn earlier this summer, but must have hit the wrong time of day or something because it just languished. I don't think I got more than one karma point from it. The irony is that this coverage has only given me re
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by scottw 15y ago
Steve is pretty boring, but I have Big Plans to make his conversation a little more... customizable.
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by scottw 15y ago
Twilio just launched in Europe a couple of weeks ago I think; I need to get myself a Euro number and make a few code adjustments. Gimme a week or so.
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by scottw 15y ago
If you run OS X, look for my little applescript on the main page that you can bind to a keystroke. Very handy! :)

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