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by sjs 3y ago
Plus Shopify and GitHub must drive most development of Rails so it’s basically an in-house dependency to some extent. I know that’s simplifying things.
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by sjs 5y ago
Users care they just don’t know why many modern websites are bad websites. Every website is now an app whether that actually makes it better UX or not.
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Shopify CEO says long hours aren't necessary for success(twitter.com)
552 points by sjs 7y ago|238 comments
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by sjs 8y ago
In some countries what you read may be sensitive info for many people.
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by sjs 10y ago
Touch screens and gestures for one thing.
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by sjs 12y ago
Time Machine + SuperDuper! clone + Backblaze + Arq (to S3 Glacier). I'm ready for meteors, bring it on.
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by sjs 12y ago
I have to fly or take a ferry to get to an Apple Store. There isn't one on Vancouver Island. So it's great when you can get to one, but if you can't the support is not so good.
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by sjs 12y ago
Please put dates on things that are published. It can be important information for readers. Leaving off dates is frustrating and doesn't make the content any fresher in any way.
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by sjs 12y ago
Simpsons did it. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Treehouse_of_Horror_XII
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by sjs 12y ago
I have the fastest upload available in my area (5 Mbps) and my initial backup may have taken a month or two for something to the tune of 900 GB. You certainly don't need 1 Gbps to backup remotely but 500 Kbps might not be quite enough.
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by sjs 12y ago
Code is text last I checked. I see what you're getting at, but "text editor" encompasses that already. For everyone I talk to anyway.
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by sjs 13y ago
It's a crummy pattern. broccoli.js FTW!
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by sjs 13y ago
Colloquially they are synonyms. Especially amongst people who don't make software. It's not derogatory and not worth getting bent out of shape about. BUT ... (Bet you saw this coming) Coders turn detailed specs into code. No real
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by sjs 13y ago
I had a Creative Nomad jukebox and it was so bad I went back to an MP3 discman (all the while laughing at the $500 iPod). I had never owned an Apple product. After trying a Mac I saw first-hand that Apples makes great products so I tried an
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by sjs 13y ago
Anand is excellent, but he looks at things and writes from a completely different perspective. They are not comparable in my opinion.
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by sjs 13y ago
That is not a popular stance. See cable television.
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by sjs 13y ago
His wife is a pro photographer but he is not. He just gets to play with high end equipment because it's available to him.
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by sjs 14y ago
Facebook has dealt mainly with software till now, but look at all the projects Google has tackled. Self-driving vehicles, fiber Internet service, blanketing cities with wifi, Google Glass, fighting for net neutrality. Google has the talent,
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by sjs 14y ago
More outdated than unconventional.
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by sjs 14y ago
The easiest and naive way to fix that is to buffer the whole thing. Don't use this to do `ls-comma -lR ~`, but only on small directory hierarchies. https://github.com/samsonjs/bin/blob/master/ls-comma It's a disgusting hack and it works v
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by sjs 14y ago
You can check for many things on either side. Even if you're paranoid checking 2-3 of these should suffice. There's nothing bullet-proof if someone is trying to fool the test. In the browser: window, window === this, document, navigator, ma
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by sjs 14y ago
The definition you're looking for in this context is: Glib; flippant
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by sjs 14y ago
Racist?
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by sjs 14y ago
It's most common use is to take some stuff on stdin and then use those as arguments to a command. Here is a fancy way to do `ls * `[1] using xargs: find . -print | xargs ls `find` dumps the results to stdout, the pipe shuttles `fin
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by sjs 14y ago
No, they have <thing> and <thing data> tables for each entity. This is a grave misunderstanding of what was actually said.
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by sjs 14y ago
> Window and Linux applications are not disposable, they can be launched more than once. But when the last window is closed the application quits. What if I want to keep it running because I will switch back and open something in a minu
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by sjs 14y ago
It sounds like you expected a clone of Windows and were predictably disappointed. > I got maybe three hours of the supposed 7 hour battery You should have taken it back. Seriously. > Perhaps I'm set in my ways You hit the nail on th
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by sjs 14y ago
> It's silly to pretend that Mac is somehow perfect in these matters. Straw man. Nobody said OS X was perfect. > In my experience it's only been marginally better than Linux, if at all. I used Linux on my desktop for several years a
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by sjs 14y ago
How is it not a product? Technically I would call it a service but regardless, how is it not a product or service?
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by sjs 14y ago
In Canada (at least in southern BC) almost everyone uses their credit or debit card for almost everything. Cashiers assume it and if you hand them cash they'll often have to back out of the transaction they already set up on the debit machi

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