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by theOnliest 7y ago
(I also work at Fastmail, on the server side.) It does describe APIs in general, and that is one of the reasons I like it so much. All of our internal APIs are JMAP: when you need to do something with a user, you call User/set; with a
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by theOnliest 7y ago
It’s less the risk of them getting stuck together than it is the fact that they sound better if you don’t create that partial vacuum.
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by theOnliest 7y ago
Yep; this was in Pennsylvania, which is apparently one of the more onerous states. The stated purpose is so that you can't change your name in order to (for example) escape debt. So the way to do this is to pay to put an announcement i
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by theOnliest 7y ago
Depending on where you live, changing your name can be much more of a hassle than this. My wife did it recently, and the whole process took several months and cost nearly $1000 all told. It involved filling out a bunch of paperwork, taking
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by theOnliest 8y ago
Hey, thanks! We've updated that to link to both the relevant blog posts.
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by theOnliest 8y ago
We (FastMail) use it in production, and all backend development is in Perl for all the products. Booking.com, cPanel, Craigslist, and ZipRecruiter all have sizable Perl codebases, as do many others.
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by theOnliest 8y ago
Perl has logical xor, which is occasionally useful. I usually reach for it when argument checking, where it makes sense to have either this param or that but not both.
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by theOnliest 9y ago
All of FastMail is in Perl5 (minus the Cyrus parts, which are in C).
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by theOnliest 9y ago
But this doesn't really need to be responsibly disclosed: it's not something someone can use to get into your machine, but rather a way you could accidentally broadcast your credentials somewhere unexpected. Announcing on Twitter
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by theOnliest 9y ago
AucTeX in Emacs can do this, and it’s really nice.
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by theOnliest 9y ago
They also removed your username/display name from your default highlight strings. We often just use names with no @, and this week we noticed that other people were no longer getting pinged for those. Now you have to go to your prefere
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by theOnliest 9y ago
You could use https://metacpan.org/pod/Amazon::Dash::Button , and write your own handler in Perl using an ordinary Dash button.
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by theOnliest 9y ago
I've recently started watching woodworking videos on YouTube. I read somewhere that Matthias was one of the early employees of RIM (Blackberry) and as it turns out, he has a bunch of those patents in his name: https://www.go
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by theOnliest 10y ago
My local taxes (county) do this. Whenever you pay property (house, car) taxes, it tells you $x goes to the county schools, $y to roads, and so on. (Usually including something like $0.67 to the county library!) It's really nice...sure,
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by theOnliest 10y ago
I have a very uncommon name (3 of us in the country, as far as I can tell), and this happened to me for the first time this weekend. Someone bought a stereo at Best Buy 500 miles from me and gave them my email (<firstname><lastname
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by theOnliest 10y ago
I was being a bit hyperbolic; certainly it's not impossible to look at, and I quite like a lot of it. My experiences showing it to students is that people often find it foreboding on first glance, and part of that has to do with all of
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by theOnliest 10y ago
Fair enough. It's still pretty common...it's hard to pin down any numbers exactly, but I'd guess it's probably half and half for solfege vs. other systems. We teach solfege at my school (although I prefer numbers myself)
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by theOnliest 10y ago
> Why does notation allow for seven pitches, not 12? Because music is at most built out of 7-note scales, not 12. This answer is good, but I wanted to pick one tiny nit, which is that not all music is built out of 7-note scales. A lot of
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by theOnliest 10y ago
This is (sometimes) a legitimate gripe about the standard notation system, which is that it's optimized for music in a key. Sometimes there is a difference between E-F and C-C#. In the key of F major, E-F is the leading tone moving t
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by theOnliest 10y ago
Nearly all aural skills classes (learning to hear/sing music) for music majors use solfege or something like it. Some people use scale degree numbers instead (so a IV chord in a major key is "4-6-1" rather than "fa-la-do
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by theOnliest 10y ago
I have a desktop and a laptop that I use regularly, plus a work laptop. And I teach in a classroom that has a PC in it, so I regularly access Dropbox from 4 separate machines, not counting mobile devices.
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by theOnliest 10y ago
If you're actually marking up text, JSON doesn't really work. XML works alright for its intended use as a language. (That doesn't mean I hate it any less.)
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by theOnliest 10y ago
And Ilnur Zakarin (also from today's stage) showing how others aren't as good! Starting at about 2:00 in: http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x4l18sa_flamme-rouge-etape-...
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by theOnliest 10y ago
Ditto...this (along with the fact that the width of tabs expands to fill the entire bar) is one of the main reasons I stopped using Safari and went back to Firefox.
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by theOnliest 10y ago
This is definitely the case in photos. When I draw a bike it's always pointing to the right, because that's how most pictures I see/take are.
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by theOnliest 11y ago
http://www.xkcd.com/1601/
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by theOnliest 11y ago
This looks pretty cool, and would be really useful as a kind of scratchpad to get ideas down without having to deal with the hassle of opening a Finale file or finding some scratch paper around. Is there (or are there plans for) an export t
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by theOnliest 11y ago
> Their inaugural members go so far as to include Feminist Frequency. Why is this going "so far"? Anita Sarkeesian has been the source of a bunch of online (and offline) harassment, and has been outspoken against it, especially
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by theOnliest 11y ago
Swinsian ( http://swinsian.com ) is good...it's like what iTunes used to be (when it was actually usable).
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by theOnliest 11y ago
I don't think it's just Apple's fault. Every time I try to use the Youtube app on my iPhone, I can never find the things I'm looking for, because they seem to ignore all of Apple's interaction guidelines and impleme

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