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jeffreyjflim

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About jeffreyjflim

Mensan / Technical Polymath. 12 years over the entire web stack: Performance, Sysadmin, Ruby and Frontend

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    Comment #11830288

    I am waiting for the Rust-based Firefox :}

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    Comment #6739603

    they have an FAQ item for that. But I would submit that the answer seems to be skirting around the issue of an actual (accidental or not) "finger" press.... Especially like when th…

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    Comment #6609988

    Well... I still look upon it with interest (although of course with not as much interest if it were here!). Signed, A Singaporean!

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    Comment #6609979

    about your question: admittedly, part of it might be rent-seeking (which would be systemic; I make no attempts at pretending to know everything about the banking system but I would…

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    Comment #6557249

    > A plugin from five years ago that hasn't been maintained in that time is probably going to hurt you a lot. Unless it just does some simple, or basic thing. In which case, you're …

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    Comment #6557223

    Wow. An actual critique of Rails??? +1!!!

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    Comment #6557219

    I'd be curious - what do u use, and why? I've been meaning to look into getting my own blog restarted, but just haven't gotten down to the question of which static site generator t…

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    Comment #6557173

    I don't know about Firefox doing that on purpose, but the addon that I've written (Link Exposé) has seen several releases of firefox (19.* to 24.*) without having to do an (api) "u…

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    Comment #6550230

    on passion vs grinding: don't you think that this guy is presenting a false dichotomy here? Couldn't I (and I would!) lend to the guy who loves his job... AND is prepared to work h…

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    Comment #254308

    a somewhat late response to all the application-tire/dread, perhaps?

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    Comment #254302

    ...and use an f5 box. But of course. http://news.ycombinator.com/submitted?id=lmacvittie

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    Comment #254263

    Indeed!! I concur.

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    Comment #252262

    nah, it's not just you. "CS" would be? Counter-Strike? I havent read those comments, btw. Knew something like that would happen.

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    Comment #252245

    yep. That's just precisely (and only) what it is.

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    Comment #252242

    some food for thought: for something that's still supposed growing in terms of raw numbers, the active usage seems to be going down??!

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    Comment #252236

    the only 3 things that will consistently bring users back: 1. utilitarian value 2. entertainment (fight the habituation battle or pace your users?!!) 3. community (and let's face i…