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by tpz 14y ago
In the form of periodically-interspersed sponsor posts which are explicitly stated as being such and which are never mixed with actual content. As feed monetization goes, its about as above board as it can get. Of course, being as above boa
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by tpz 14y ago
Not quite. Gitlab merge requests are very useful but only act between branches of a single repo, not across repos. Hence "merge" request, not "pull" request.
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by tpz 14y ago
Seeing as we're splitting hairs... :) In the Ruby version I wouldn't use that selector with any parens. The resulting line would be one character longer than the ObjC version but use the Shift key one less time and would avoid two pinky tri
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by tpz 15y ago
It pains me to feed the trolls, but just in case someone finds their way to this page in the future and actually tries to wade through all of the bullshit: Apple uses IPS displays in every product except perhaps the iPod Nano and/or Classic
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by tpz 15y ago
I intend no ill will with this response, but it is worth pointing out that "the first two" "bigger issues" have nothing to do with your revision control system. Lack of builds is something about which you and your CI server need to have a c
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by tpz 15y ago
Since no one else responded with this: you're right, it is not an accident that he would be considering 48fps, the reason being that a good amount of 24fps film projection occurs at 48fps on equipment that double pumps each frame. Such equi
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by tpz 15y ago
Mono directly benefits their biggest competitor. Mono directly benefits Oracle?
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by tpz 16y ago
Your point is a very important one that I was surprised to find was not expressed by other commenters. It convinced me of something that was bouncing around my head while reading the article and the comments before yours: If, as everyone se
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by tpz 16y ago
I honestly doubt that the various Git-knocking commenters on this story have any real experience using Git on Windows. They are likely just parroting what they have heard about the early days of Git on Windows. All of my Windows work during
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by tpz 16y ago
My mother suffers from severe (but now under treatment) sleep apnea and believe me when I tell you that if left untreated it could cause you far larger problems than wanting to feel fresher when you wake up. Please, please, please see your
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by tpz 16y ago
Thanks for the details. I will have a think about what other questions I might like to ask you and will try to fire them over to your contact email in the next day or so.
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by tpz 16y ago
Since the site doesn't describe this in any detail: can you define 'necessity'? In other words, can you tell us anything about how and when your service decides to scale up or down, for dynos and for workers? And what have you done to avoid
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by tpz 16y ago
Thanks for that bit of info. At the moment things like Passenger are obscured from my view/concern, as I'm not managing the servers myself, but should that change I'll definitely keep that tidbit in mind.
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by tpz 16y ago
Regarding backup, I definitely understand the feeling.
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by tpz 16y ago
AFAIK, if you have a Rails app that will be accepting files from users, Rails is probably not the best thing to use. Ruby likewise, short of using something evented (and I say this as someone thoroughly enjoying working with both Ruby and R
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by tpz 16y ago
The tool you mentioned forgetting in your original list is almost surely Terminitor: https://github.com/achiu/terminitor
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by tpz 16y ago
Very nicely summarized. I would like to add one minor note regarding entertainment, just in case anyone considering Vancouver is a concert addict: I find myself driving to Seattle for concerts more often than I would like. Lots of acts come
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by tpz 16y ago
You're also right, to a point. :) I suspect that at some point in the past, and perhaps even today for some limited set of careers (though none that would really apply to anyone on HN), the regular job and the infrastructure are at odds mor
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by tpz 16y ago
For some reason I find myself reminded of the whole RIM Playbook "coping with family" faux pas. It is almost as if WP7 were being promoted on the basis of selecting a phone based on wanting to avoid something: in the WP7 case, avoiding u
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by tpz 16y ago
Agreed. I am happy with Heroku so far (I am pre-launch so the effect hasn't been great), and intend to stick with them for at least a while (I might have most of two decades as a dev in this business, but zero of those are as a sysadmin), b
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by tpz 16y ago
US: Netcraft confirms Microsoft is dying. UK: Netcraft confirm Microsoft are dying.
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by tpz 16y ago
I figured that either the original situation went over your head or that your post went over mine, so at least now I know which. That and that I should have gotten more sleep last night. :) At least you were able to work the system there fo
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by tpz 16y ago
Don't kid yourself. You were called into those meetings because, like at many companies, there was a promise of time in return for extra time put in but, like at many companies, that promise was never intended to go both ways. The first mee
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by tpz 16y ago
And why would you think that a novice on the web with Photoshop _couldn't_ do better than a 'professional' with blah blah blah, especially when this new logo is amateur hour at best and utter crap at worst. I sincerely hope that the entire
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by tpz 16y ago
Not quite. Japan can and does defend itself just fine against neighbours like North Korea, Russia, and China. The American taxpayer does something different than you state. In actuality, they fund the projection of force everywhere that the
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by tpz 16y ago
Don't write Vancouver off quite yet. There's Vancouver and then there's Vancouver. Vancouver proper can be expensive or not so expensive, and then there are the numerous very closely-located suburbs which are less expensive and situated wel
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by tpz 16y ago
"I am amazed at how trivial this error is." Agreed. However... "Probably their QA got fired after this event." I doubt it. I have seen many QA staff at a variety of companies get so used to IE's various oddities that over time they will sim
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by tpz 16y ago
I pre-ordered mine (64GB 3G) when they became available for pre-order in Canada. It has very nearly replaced my computer for casual computer use, leaving my computer for work, occasions where I need to do especially tab-heavy surfing, and t
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by tpz 16y ago
I use mine every day and it gets the full 10-11 hours most people are getting for non-gaming activities, somewhat less for gaming activities, and charges way faster than I can drain it (though I haven't tried this while gaming I suspect it'
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by tpz 16y ago
In the current version of WHS (I can't speak for the upcoming "Vail" release) you can think about its redundancy in terms of file-level software RAID 1 without integrity checking. Pros and cons abound in that setup, of course, but setting a

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