youngian

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by youngian 4y ago
Exact same, Pocket is so close to being the perfect service and yet so far. I have a huge archive and their search is just terrible. I will have a specific keyword from an article I know I have in there, and yet all I get from their results
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by youngian 12y ago
Yeah, I wondered if I should add a caveat in there about this. I forewent it because I thought it would confuse people more than anything, and because I've never found this particular concern all that worrisome for the average develope
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Fix your Ruby environment problems(technotes.iangreenleaf.com)
10 points by youngian 12y ago|4 comments
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by youngian 13y ago
Author here. I posted a quick follow-up with some corrections and other items of interest that came out of the discussion: http://technotes.iangreenleaf.com/posts/2013-12-10-the-reddi... . And of course, if you would li
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by youngian 13y ago
`ups` and `downs` are whole numbers, so `abs(s)` will usually be >= 1, like 2654 or something. The log is there to reduce the influence of additional votes after a certain level of popularity. See footnote ^2: http://technotes
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by youngian 13y ago
Yes, that would be a great place to find more like this. CoffeeScript has added support for literate programming, so that might be a good place to go for modern, web-oriented code samples.
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by youngian 13y ago
Author here. > It's perfectly plausible that something that ends up on the front page gets only a handful of upvotes in the first twenty minutes, or half an hour. For example: this post.
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by youngian 13y ago
Roughly, yes. I'm just happy to see that there are 3 now, instead of only Amazon. It depends how you define "the space", of course. Dropbox, GitHub Pages, Heroku, and many more can be used to host static content. But I thin
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by youngian 14y ago
Looks like they're using CORS. The Access-Control-* response headers control that.
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by youngian 14y ago
Have you tried neoprene booties? They worked great for me in the midwest. My feet stayed plenty warm, and I didn't even bother to wear thick socks. The hands were always my biggest problem.
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by youngian 15y ago
If you don't want to use Gmail for sensitive email, by all means don't. But this is just a silly knee-jerk reaction. Even if Google is the evilest company in the world, how could their development and championing of an open WiFi standard po
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by youngian 16y ago
I think people would be a lot less confused if you said this first. Say "Don't salt bcrypt, bcrypt salts for you" and you'll have to explain yourself less.
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by youngian 16y ago
Yes please to OpenID. It kills me that an idea I was so excited about (single login) is being coopted by a site I hate so very much (Facebook), just because they are a behemoth. Offering both is great, but when I clicked through and saw onl
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by youngian 16y ago
Does anyone have a link to further information on the muscle repair stuff she cited? The part about how after 25, your brain might just give muscles up for lost?
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by youngian 16y ago
That's brilliant! It's such a simple feature, but such a huge step in UI magic. I always hated those needless extra steps in screenshotting. And then two months later your Desktop is full of things you forgot to delete and you had to figure
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by youngian 16y ago
But no one wants to live in Disneyland. A manufactured experience can be nice for a while - it certainly achieves a level of perfection that other experiences cannot. But in the end, a walled garden only extends as far as the walls. And t
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by youngian 16y ago
Thanks for finding the weirdly cynical lining to that cloud. You gave me a good laugh.
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by youngian 16y ago
I've actually taken to installing Windows on a separate hard drive, and disconnecting my primary drive before I even begin the installation, because I've had Windows screw so many things up.
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by youngian 16y ago
Oh! I forgot to mention: 1.5 If the hard drive is so badly failed that you cannot even get ddrescue running, try again tomorrow. And the next day. And the next. I cannot explain why a hard drive would come back to life, but I have seen it h
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by youngian 16y ago
Here's a better set of steps: 1. Use ddrescue ( http://www.gnu.org/software/ddrescue/ddrescue.html ) to copy a complete image of your hard drive onto another drive with lots of space. Let it work for a long time and it will probably get all
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by youngian 16y ago
Yeah, I just noticed that as well. CNN's World page has "He married a video game character," but not a mention of this. Things like this make it hard to feel bad about the looming death of Old Media.
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by youngian 16y ago
I think that's part of the reason it's so important that things like this become public. I think every American of voting age should have to watch this video, because this is the reality of war and we need to come to terms with what we're i
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by youngian 16y ago
I'm not crazy about their chosen marketing stance either. I've been careful not to say that I like what they're doing, just that I think I know why they're doing it. It's a little distasteful, but so are the various fundraising strategies m
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by youngian 16y ago
Oh, and who would provide the tracker? Who would make sure there were always seeders? Who would protect the servers when every person they've ever pissed off comes knocking? Wikileaks has managed to protect all their sources and repel all t
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by youngian 16y ago
I made a longer comment down the page about this. In short: Wikileaks is low on money right now, and my guess is that all the hoopla around this presentation is a marketing tactic to get noticed and get donations. I don't like it either, bu
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by youngian 16y ago
My impression is that this is a publicity move on their part to get people interested and get donations. The presentation seems part of that. They're pitching "hey, look at how useful we are." Before the shutdown, Wikileaks did present mos
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by youngian 16y ago
In case anyone hasn't heard, Wikileaks is badly in need of donations. http://collateralmurder.com/en/support.html . This video is a damn good argument for why what they do is important. Go give them a few dollars. I can't think of a cause
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by youngian 16y ago
Yes! I've been using that feature for quite a while now, and as far as I'm concerned it has completely solved the accidental sending problem. And even better, it does so in a way that seems perfectly intuitive and consistent with the rest o
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by youngian 16y ago
Quite possibly it's just quirks in the trendlines caused by small sample size or something. I would imagine the original paper has more numbers and information on methods, but sadly it looks like it's behind a paywall.
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by youngian 16y ago
No, it's very clear who funds Wikileaks. Individual donors do. They make it clear that they do not accept money from governments or corporations. They are, in general, very open about their finances, and the information is not difficult to

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