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I don't know how this actually works, but this can't _always_ be the case if they run national ad campaigns [1] for $5 meal deals, right? Unless they're baking a lot into "pricing …

I've been slowly working on a web app that keeps track of cocktail recipes and all the liquor bottles in my home bar, then it tells me what drinks I can make right now. It's been a…

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This definitely seems like the "Kafka" way to solve this problem, but I fear there are implications to this partitioning scheme I'd love to see answered. For example, partition cou…

Some of this may be valid, but you don't have to go very far to disprove your first point. A picture critical of Chinese investment in Reddit is in the Top 10 posts of all time on …

For what it's worth, I don't think ruby achieves this goal either. I've been programming full time in Ruby for nearly three years and things like this [1] still surprise me. Ruby f…

This is such an interesting topic that is extremely difficult to discuss as people on both sides rapidly devolve to name calling. There's this[0] episode of This American Life whic…

I've had one for a couple months now, and it largely goes unused on a daily basis. I remapped caps lock to escape for vim usage, so my most common theoretical use of it isn't neces…

I totally agree that things got pretty uncomfortable at times during the show, and the Brian Reed covered some perhaps excessively personal things, but I'm curious if you can go in…

Generally systemd manages enabled/disabled services through symlinks in /etc/ (/etc/systemd/system/ on my Fedora 24, for instance), which you can add/delete in the shell if you wan…

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At least locally within your repo, it's actually very hard to lose work completely with git, via any combination of resets or rebases. The reflog (git reflog) stores all the moveme…

As someone working at a consumer hardware company, it's easy to see how you can get bogged down by details and micromanagement, like Tony Fadell seems to have done at Nest. Hardwar…

I worked at Aereo back when it closed down, I can assure you the individual antennas were real, and were really used to tune and stream your videos.

This may have more to do with my ignorance of the possibilities out there, but as a soon to be college grad who would love to work in a growing community such as Chattanooga, where…