tdavis

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by tdavis 11y ago
Kids, this isn't hard. Just apply a little logic. Statements like "all I care about is what you have done/created/accomplished" is predicated on the notion that everyone is already equal. That we all have the same a
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by tdavis 13y ago
Cool straw man, bro. Would have been even cooler had she actually made any claim that men were only capable of this "mistake". Or that your carefully constructed counter-argument weren't trivially proven false. But, whatever,
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by tdavis 13y ago
My setup is Emacs + workgroups.el + prodigy.el. No GUI apps to manage, everything configurable via elisp. It is grand.
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by tdavis 14y ago
Circus is awesome. In fact, this Mozilla team has made a bunch of very nice libraries available; with the latest project I'm working on, I use so many that I feel I practically work there.
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by tdavis 14y ago
shrug I will always bottom-post when context matters and always top-post when I expect the reader to know the context implicitly. And I will never read an email chain that requires me to start from the bottom and work my way up.
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by tdavis 14y ago
If you'd read the entire message, you'd know he already has many prescriptions.
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by tdavis 14y ago
What a silly straw man argument. No doubt why it is the #1 comment. If I write a particularly effusive post about my love of dogs--how I care for mine meticulously and spend time researching the best toys and vets and so forth--am I celebra
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by tdavis 14y ago
If your wife is anything like me—and her symptoms are identical to ones I had during an earlier stage of my depression—then they are real and should be examined. Even if they never worsen, they are needless anxieties to carry around. There
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by tdavis 14y ago
I can't overstate how important I think these sorts of habits are. A slow walk. A quiet meditation upon waking. In aggregate, they can really change your life. The problem is, these habits aren't easier to develop than any other. They take
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by tdavis 14y ago
Agreed. As is so often the case, "unique" is utterly misused here. That being said, having used Go, I really do enjoy the composition-at-core design.
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by tdavis 14y ago
The difference is that your application server doesn't render HTML; there is no view that produces HTML and sends it as the HTTP response. It's just flat HTML, served up by a generic web server. This means, among other things, you don't nee
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by tdavis 14y ago
Excited for the technical write-up as well. I've been building an app in Angular myself and I absolutely love it. Coupled with a REST-ish API library, it's a breeze in terms of testing and separation of concerns. After using Angular, I can'
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by tdavis 14y ago
I was reluctant to setup two-factor for a long time, perceiving it to be an unnecessary hassle. Then somebody tried to gain access to some of my accounts through my Apple ID. They were unsuccessful (I don't have any common passwords these d
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by tdavis 14y ago
As much as anything else, this is another great example of MySQL letting you shoot yourself in the face by default. I also love that you can save "y" to an integer field without complaint. It seems obvious that accurate data validation and
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by tdavis 14y ago
That was my immediate reaction, too. Though it sounds like the node.js server is doing more than your standard bouncer; ZNC support seems unlikely.
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by tdavis 14y ago
I wonder what I'm doing wrong, then. Almost nothing on my T420 worked OOB. I've written custom acpi event scripts for handling docking, monitor switching, etc. Forget about the Function keys... (okay, that last part may be xmonad-related)
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by tdavis 14y ago
See also: http://emacsrocks.com/
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by tdavis 14y ago
Instead of fake security solutions, how about using something like keychain ( http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/keychain-guide.xml )? Simply kill ssh-agent as part of the sleep event and you can have security and convenience. Trivial to implem
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by tdavis 14y ago
Especially when that slogan is grammatically incorrect.
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by tdavis 15y ago
Now make some other code use your "mock" without editing its source. Now assert on the calls made to "bar()," including arguments. Now make it raise an exception without writing a second class. And make it return something else without writ
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by tdavis 15y ago
Having spent many hours of my youth on technology forums, I feel I am qualified to say: this is the most banal "show your setup" post, ever. Save Noah, it's just an Apple Store. Sam's apartment/house looks great, though.
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by tdavis 15y ago
One of the many things I love about using next to no GUI programs and a minimalist window manager is the lack of notifications. The only time I get a notification is when I receive an email (assuming I have a terminal running mutt for that
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by tdavis 15y ago
Yes, it's probably an order of magnitude more expensive when accounting for the countless hours spent pre-optimizing everything, tracking down intensely opaque performance issues, dealing with the AppEngine team's tendency to introduce chan
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by tdavis 15y ago
Frankly, having worked on a serious AppEngine application for over a year, it most certainly is not. Of course, that isn't an absolute statement--perhaps some serious applications do exist on AppEngine, and leverage it in a way that doesn
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by tdavis 15y ago
There are two classes of programmers: the taught and the self-propelled. You can certainly teach someone to program--what they do after that defines the rest of their career. No CS curriculum will give all the information one needs to be
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by tdavis 15y ago
This may not apply to everyone, but I found the thing that consistently removed my procrastination was simply to stop working in isolation. Whether it's going to the office of an employer or renting a desk at a co-working space, being aroun
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by tdavis 15y ago
I, too, am a Productive Member of Society which means two things: I gave back the terrible Macbook my employer provided and seamlessly and painlessly upgraded from Fedora 15 to Fedora 16 earlier today. Here was my experience: 1. Run preupg
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by tdavis 15y ago
I think bad_user covers most of it, (although to be fair misses the mark on some things too; there is no 5000-entity limit per query if you use the query as an iterator rather than calling fetch(), which is a much better idea generally) b
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by tdavis 15y ago
After a year of working on a midsize AppEngine project targeted at large enterprises, I can honestly say that AppEngine's only truly redeeming quality is its Google integration. Our product is an add-on for Google Apps; AppEngine runs on th
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by tdavis 15y ago
I think it depends on numerous factors. For instance, I have spent so much time at a Kinesis keyboard that a laptop keyboard slows me down. Not by orders of magnitude, but enough to be annoying. I used to exclusively work at two 24" monitor

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