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_mayo

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_mayo··on Long range WiFi antenna from Illy coffee can
Just FYI, your second link is returning a Malware warning in Chrome.
_mayo··on Number of job listings with the term “ninja” have increased 2,505% in past 6 yrs
Not a programmer, but doesn't Jason Calacanis refer to himself as a Samurai?
_mayo··on CSS Hat translates Photoshop layer styles to CSS3
It's still pretty prevalent. I'm currently consulting for a largish e-commerce site, and their creative department sends all their page designs over as PSDs.
_mayo··on The Game Engine Dating Guide: How to Pick up an Engine for Single Developers
Just FYI, You can use Unity with XNA.
_mayo··on RIM reports Q4 miss; Balsillie resigns as director, CTO out
Shipped does not always equal sold. They could be devices sitting on a palette in the back of some warehouse.
_mayo··on LG begins mass production of first flexible e-ink displays
Not necessarily. A piece of glass can be thin, but will snap if bent.
_mayo··on Poll: What's Your Most Disliked Programming Language?
Could you elaborate on this? I think node is great for quickly prototyping evented applications.
_mayo··on Your Facebook password should be none of your boss' business
gotcha, I didn't think about that.
_mayo··on Your Facebook password should be none of your boss' business
Would it be considered "hacking" if you where "willingly" providing your password to them?
_mayo··on Why Chicago Doesn't Produce Innovative Startups: Midwest Mentality
I'd say 37 Signals fits the point of his article. He's not saying that Midwestern startups can't succeed, but rather the mentality grows startups cautiously, with less investment capital and slower growth.
_mayo··on Best Ultrabook for Linux?
I'm not sure if it helps but I head the HP Folio 13 support Ubuntu well out of the box.
_mayo··on A "real" user proves Windows 8 fails on the desktop
On the lock screen you can hit any key and the image will slide up and reveal the log in dialog. I do agree though, the issue that Windows 8 seems to suffer from is it's not that intuitive on a desktop. My biggest issue is there seems to be no indication of the hot corners when you first begin to use it, and even when they are activated, they feel finicky (especially the 'recent apps' pane on the left).
_mayo··on Messenger.js - dead simple API for multi-server communication in Node.js
How does this compare to AMPQ solutions? This definitely looks like a great use of Node though.
_mayo··on I am a great programmer, but horrible algorithmist
This book is great. I would also suggest Bruno Preiss' site, which has his data structures and algo book that target specific languages (one in ruby, one in java, one in python, etc) available for free. link: http://www.brpreiss.com/
_mayo··on How Trigger.io Forge works and why we’re proud of it
I'm getting a connection refused in Firefox 9
_mayo··on My idea to "Kill Hollywood"
That's what IndieGoGo is.
_mayo··on Ask HN: How can I self-evaluate my programming skills?
I'm not sure if this helps you out or not, but I've found working through practice problems, such as Project Euler, to be helpful.
_mayo··on Why 13th Chords
Major 7 chords are explicitly written as such. So in the case of a C chord with a major 7, it would be noted as Cmaj7.
_mayo··on Ask HN: Who is Hiring? (November 2011)
Just a heads up, it looks like the links to your product[Samurai] are not resolving.
_mayo··on The Greatest Hacks of My Life
It's also a great way to get a trip to the hospital too.
_mayo··on Hipster: The Dead End of Western Civilization
Nothing, and it looks like this article is over two years old.
_mayo··on Python and Django on Heroku
Does anyone know if the stack will only support WSGI or could I also run a Tornado instance on the cedar stack? I know when I tried dotcloud several months ago it only supported WSGI.
_mayo··on The Best Science Fiction Books (According to Reddit)
I'm surprised Slaugher House Five wasn't on the list.
_mayo··on Ask HN: Should I move my home server to the cloud
Do you have an Amazon Web Services account already? If not they have a fee usage tier which gives you a micro instance for a year. I use mine for testing/code repositorty/ssh hop and it works great. It's worth checking out.
_mayo··on Why "Coupon Code" Should Not be a Field on Your Payment Form
I've had a ton of them work, especially for NameCheap and GoDaddy.
_mayo··on Why Van Halen had brown M&Ms contractually removed
I'm not sure about national acts, but I know when my band would play venues we would bring our own amps and mic up to the mixing board if needed.
_mayo··on Compiling executables on Heroku
Ah, I totally forgot about heroku console.
_mayo··on Compiling executables on Heroku
Does anyone know if this this an actual feature implemented in Heroku or is it an open vulnerability? I'm not finding any documentation on this command.
_mayo··on Java 7 is now available
Does anyone have a link to the changelog?
_mayo··on Use pythonbrew to manage multiple python installations
Just curious, but how does this differ from Virtualenv?
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