Viewing profile — dowskitest

These lines from The Silmarillion really hit me the other day. It relates pretty well to death and impermanence in general. "But of bliss and glad life there is little to be said, …

Agreed. I had a brief (~10m) online chat and then received a new Charge HR a couple days later for one with a broken power connector.

Ah, product placement. Immediately brought this to mind: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8lgLYGBbDNs

I've promoted this idea at my last two jobs. I called it lame vim users anonymous though. Because really, we're all lame vim users.

Amidst all the recent fervor surrounding law enforcement and privacy, I think the documents at the linked site are a good reminder that there are people in law enforcement working …

You should have a look at Nitro. http://gonitro.io/ It's still young, but it grew out of some frustrations with using ZeroMQ in large-scale deployments. http://docs.gonitro.io/#faq…

Here's whit537 explaining the name at PyCon 2012. http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=iv7...

"Also, note even the paper of the user guide and the rivets used to bind the paper." It looks like they're just standard brass fasteners. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brass_fastene…

I'm on one of their pre-paid plans with a Nexus 4. I don't see any DNS hijacking and tether occasionally without issue. I'm in the Midwest and the coverage is good in urban areas (…

I'm on one of their pre-paid plans with a Nexus 4. I don't see any DNS hijacking and tether occasionally without issue. I'm in the Midwest and the coverage is good in urban areas (…

"Your funnel has a hole in it." Hopefully it has two ... a big one at the top and a small one at the bottom. The funnel metaphor has always thrown me off. IRL I don't pour stuff in…

Thanks for the tip - this worked for me as well, although I felt kind of dirty doing it (the poor servers!).

Please add support for HTTPS. I don't want to sign up or login without it.

I think this is one area where dashboards can help. Chart the metrics that are important to your organization, and prominently display them. Chart the number of users on your site …

I have a six year old son with this same fascination. Sometimes I'll walk into my home office and find some mailer with a QR code sitting there waiting for me. His inquisitive mind…

Geonames data + geohashing.

Regarding party mode, every photo that I take is not worth sharing. I'll often snap 2-3 trying to get one that looks halfway decent. I don't want to automatically share the poor qu…

A post on this same topic > 1 week ago that didn't get any traction: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4101870

> Discipline. Yep, agree 100%. I've been telecommuting full-time since 2006. It's not just discipline to work though - as someone else mentioned in this discussion, you've got to p…

It worked here, but only when I did a right-click and "save as".

"I am truly sorry this happened, and I apologize for the inconvenience." Sorry, but this is more than an inconvenience. It's a violation of user privacy that Valve didn't prevent. …

Take some time to forget about being productive and be creative. Draw a picture. Bake something delicious. Write a poem. Then share it with someone.

As soon as they defined that 1000 char limit, they set a hard edge. The use cases that hit that limit are then the edge cases, at least in the minds of the developer(s). I was just…

I think this is a good reminder to thoughtfully consider how we handle edge cases. I know that I often treat edge cases with the least care. This is certainly a situation where the…