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Engineering Signature Rendering on iOS with UberSignature(eng.uber.com)
8 points by shebson 9y ago|0 comments
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by shebson 11y ago
I generally agree with your post, but I think there is a critical difference between your argument and that of the blog post. Of course teams are more productive with technologies they know, but that isn't necessarily an arbitrarily-de
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by shebson 11y ago
A more appropriate example might be Python. It didn't ship with Pip by default until Python 3.4 (released in 2014).
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by shebson 12y ago
I just want to say thank you. VB was my first introduction to programming. I was in fourth grade and I asked my parents for VB6, and they thoughtfully also bought me "Visual Basic for Dummies." I was quickly hooked - I especially
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by shebson 12y ago
A friend and I built http://usefixie.com/ with it to learn Go. Like artursapek's project, Fixie was a good fit because it involved concurrency and networking, and latency was critical. It was also nice that we could l
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by shebson 12y ago
Yes, several of those convictions carry the potential for a life sentence. Additionally, the New York Times reports that the two most serious convictions carry minimum sentences of 20 years and 10 years ( http://www.nytimes.com&#x
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by shebson 12y ago
I tend to agree, but there is still a place for this app. SF's parking enforcement and the appeals process is thoroughly broken. I know several people who have lost appeals when they parked at a broken meter despite having taken photos
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by shebson 12y ago
Berlin may be worth considering as well. Opportunities for developers in Berlin are comparatively plentiful, and while it would be nice to know German if you live there, many tech companies in Berlin use English as the official language bec
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by shebson 12y ago
I'd assume it's an XLSX simply because that's the format they received it in from the Defense Department.
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by shebson 12y ago
Love this idea! I signed up and am looking forward to seeing what kind of items are available in the coming weeks. One little thing confused me about the dashboard: I can see that I have "free item alerts" on, but I can't fin
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by shebson 12y ago
Jekyll with GitHub Pages is a great solution, but it's worth mentioning that other static site generators serve the same purpose and may be a better fit for you, depending on your preferences. Hyde is a very flexible static site genera
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by shebson 12y ago
This is cool, but the naming is unfortunate as Polyglot is already a somewhat popular library for doing internationalization in Javascript: https://github.com/airbnb/polyglot.js
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by shebson 12y ago
As a result, app deploys are also down.
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by shebson 12y ago
You shouldn't trust it just because of your UI. With developer tools, regardless of your UI, it would be trivially easy for a malicious user to send any arbitrary SQL query. This would allow them to retrieve sensitive data or modify&#x
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by shebson 12y ago
I would be so happy if Heroku passed along these price cuts to their customers, but based on past AWS price cuts, I'm not holding my breath.
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by shebson 13y ago
I love the idea of removing Backbone's jQuery dependency. If I could use Backbone without jQuery, I would gladly leave jQuery behind. For my use case, Backbone would also have to lose it's jQuery dependency for RESTful model persi
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by shebson 13y ago
I'm not sure it's a really a small subset of users. My personal gmail is down as are all accounts in two different Google Apps organizations I belong to.
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by shebson 13y ago
Exactly this. Serving fully formed html and picking it up by a client-side framework is great for crawlers and also great for performance. In addition to React, you should check out Rendr ( https://github.com/airbnb/rend
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by shebson 13y ago
It's great to see schema migrations move into Django core. South is great, but Django will be much better with schema migrations baked in, especially for newcomers. For anyone coming to Django from Rails, South seems anomalous. Outside
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by shebson 13y ago
It's certainly possible to do a kind of software development without much math, but having a strong basis in math definitely gives you tools to solve hard problems better. Even fairly trivial apps often need to solve problems (like rec
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by shebson 13y ago
An interesting effect of this is that everyone using ssl provided by CloudFlare's Pro tier now gets dropped to an A- because they use RC4 with TLS 1.1.
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by shebson 13y ago
My favorites: "Google is about to learn stats" "Progressive JPEGs: a new alternative to Node.js" "Canadians Just Became World's Biggest Problem" "Your Username Will Now Have Amazon Ads Pre-Installed&q
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by shebson 13y ago
I'm getting 38 FPS on a 2012 Macbook Air with Chrome. Didn't expect the HD4000/HD3000 difference to be so big.
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by shebson 13y ago
Both their site and their data API are down.
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by shebson 13y ago
One of the examples given of a startup that created a new category is Angellist. I generally agree, but it's worth noting that Angellist has embraced being described as "Facebook for startups" and "Facebook for companies
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by shebson 14y ago
They now have the DNS working for their own site, which means you can now log in and change your nameservers to another service like Route53.
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by shebson 14y ago
These are instructions on how to move your domain, not migrate to different DNS servers. Moving away from GoDaddy in general might be a good idea, but if you're just looking to migrate to another DNS service like Route53, this isn't what yo
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Last.fm is down(last.fm)
2 points by shebson 14y ago|0 comments
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by shebson 14y ago
Of course! I probably should have clarified and said something like "being able to run a real terminal alongside programs like Photoshop without having to us a VM has me hooked." I love linux, but there's a lot of software I use every day t
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by shebson 14y ago
It's only loosely an app, but having a real unix terminal (without having to run a VM) is the biggest reason I'm hooked.

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