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by skimbrel 14y ago
I hope you never find yourself in a situation where you need medical care and can't pay for it. Because the rest of us, who are in possession of at least a few scraps of human decency, would have to shell out to save your ungrateful ass. A
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Smartphone password managers are largely insecure(elcomsoft.com)
52 points by skimbrel 15y ago|21 comments
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by skimbrel 15y ago
I presume this is not strictly a Rails problem. You can check in things that shouldn't be checked in with any language/framework. If you have done this, here's how to fix it: http://help.github.com/remove-sensitive-data/
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A single tweet page is 2.0 MB(mike.teczno.com)
293 points by skimbrel 15y ago|110 comments
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by skimbrel 15y ago
But when the model is accessed from four different controllers representing different privilege levels (e.g. public profile page, user settings page, internal admin page) and user experiences, is it really still the model's job to figure ou
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by skimbrel 15y ago
To defend myself here (a day later), I was not assigning the causality in that direction. The "Because I took care of them" clause goes with the "I get to keep them", as in "I made sure to clean them and not let them get cavities, so there
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by skimbrel 15y ago
My wisdom teeth actually fit in my mouth. Because I took care of them (and the rest of my teeth) as they started growing out, I get to keep them. Dentists far too often recommend extraction for wisdom teeth when it's unnecessary, probably b
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by skimbrel 15y ago
The key here is that you aren't sampling the same uniform distribution each time. You shrink the sample space by one each time you remove a card and append it to the end.
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Anil Dash: Foursquare is the best-executing startup today(dashes.com)
8 points by skimbrel 15y ago|0 comments
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Zynga IPO peaks at $11.58 before settling near $10(blog.sfgate.com)
1 points by skimbrel 15y ago|0 comments
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by skimbrel 15y ago
It's not a subset of static typing at all. If multimethods were a subset of static typing, then regular methods would be too. Methods are dynamic by definition: the type of the method's target is inspected at runtime and used to dispatch to
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by skimbrel 15y ago
Begin blocks execute during compilation, immediately after they've been parsed. They're compiled themselves, and execute within the Perl interpreter before it finishes compiling the rest of the containing module. So they don't really exec
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by skimbrel 15y ago
There should be more of it.
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by skimbrel 15y ago
I remember being shown call/cc briefly in CS 61A at Berkeley and then forgetting about it until recently when I saw an article on it while I was in the middle of writing an event-driven web application using Perl and Plack. I immediately sa
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by skimbrel 15y ago
COME FROM is the reason INTERCAL is among my favorite esoteric programming languages. That and the fact that its name is for "Compiler Language With No Pronounceable Acronym". From Wikipedia: An actual example in INTERCAL would be too diff
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by skimbrel 15y ago
They weren't originally intended to provide namespacing, as far as I know. They were there to make the compiler's life easier. The reason that an array subscript is "$foo[0]" is because the $ sigil means "HEY COMPILER, the expression here i
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by skimbrel 15y ago
Got a source that isn't behind a pay wall?
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by skimbrel 15y ago
Awesome. The digital imaging space keeps moving so fast due to the heated competition between Canon and Nikon. I upgraded to a 7D from my old 40D this year and it feels like there are way more than two years' worth of improvements in there.
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by skimbrel 15y ago
Oh, awesome. I use the stash constantly and always run into the wall of having to add untracked files before doing it. upgrades
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by skimbrel 15y ago
Reminds me of the course I took at Berkeley where the homework was issued as PDF files. Not just any PDF, though; these were designed to be submitted back after you had filled out the form blanks in the file. They used the latest and greate
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by skimbrel 15y ago
Concur. Walk to work instead of driving if you can, walk somewhere a little farther away for lunch, whatever it takes. Would that more of us spent even a fraction of the time we spend developing our minds on taking care of our bodies.
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by skimbrel 15y ago
I don’t think it’d be fast enough. Even in damn-near-perfect signal conditions I have a RTT over 100 ms when I’m on AT&T 3G. That and how lame would it be if Siri ceased functioning entirely (not just the maps/other network-requiring bi
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by skimbrel 15y ago
I'd love to see this sorted by hue rather than in random order. Who knew IBM and Intel’s blues were that close?
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by skimbrel 15y ago
We can only hope. x86 has so much backwards-compatibility baggage at this point — it’s too complex for its own good and all that extra silicon is just a power drain.
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by skimbrel 15y ago
There's a lot of editorializing from the Android camp that seems to think Siri is just Apple playing catch-up to Google's voice search. Guess we'll see who's right in five days.
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by skimbrel 15y ago
This. If Siri works as well as advertised, it will be a triumph for natural language processing as a field, not just Apple. Getting that sort of parsing and semantic analysis into a form where it can be done by a mobile device must have tak
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by skimbrel 15y ago
If this is true, I have to start wondering whether Apple plans to port OS X to ARM. Granted, they’d probably have to evolve ARM into a 64-bit architecture, but the power savings would be incredible. A MacBook Air with the battery life of an
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Plink, a multiplayer HTML5 music game(labs.dinahmoe.com)
329 points by skimbrel 15y ago|74 comments
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by skimbrel 15y ago
No, it's a fine example. Last.fm has always been an opt-in service, and you know what you're opting in to because you have to go to the trouble of installing an iTunes plugin. This is opt-out.
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by skimbrel 15y ago
As GP said, not if you're creating a new branch. There's no history in the new branch to potentially overwrite your uncommitted changes in the working tree, so nothing for it to object to.

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