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keithgabryelski

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    Comment #21295798

    seems like the commit messages lines are in reverse order. tell me what you did. then tell me why you did. leave the saga for the end text so I don't have to read through your musi…

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    Comment #13792859

    it's a practical guide, not comprehensive -- for most people this is a great start, especially if they are familiar with ASCII you'll notice I didn't cover collation -- why? becaus…

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    Comment #13791644

    Here is my take on this subject: A Practical Guide to Character Sets and Encodings or: What’s all this about ASCII, Unicode and UTF-8? https://medium.com/@keithgabryelski/a-practic…

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    Comment #12781064

    Here is my version of a lisp interpreter in python: https://github.com/keithgabryelski/plisp it's not meant to be pythonic -- it's meant to readable and organized my inspiration wa…

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    Comment #12544835

    I wrote this a while back: https://github.com/fiksu/partitioned supports partitioning in rails. It's best to start here: https://github.com/fiksu/partitioned/blob/master/PARTITIONI…

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    Comment #12419109

    I just wish they would teach the common curtesy of putting (page#/totalPages) on each slide of their power point presentation so I can decide whether I can make it through the deck…

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    Comment #11469641

    after traveling to London (from Boston) every third sunday night for two and half years (arriving heathrow at ~6am, shower at airport and arrive at work for first meeting), I still…

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    Comment #11469604

    seems like this would work out well except for every flight i've been on there has been at least one person unwilling to close their damn window shade.

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    Comment #10645462

    Shameless comment: i'm in that video: https://youtu.be/jvJjFYHGTnU?t=34m29s The Amiga was a good product, the engineering team was solid: the love for the product did not translate…

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    Comment #10642379

    article seems to suggest we are at the mercy of governments and corporations to do the right thing instead of individuals to protect themselves in fact, not a single action by an i…

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    Comment #10555556

    one can target specific editors... for instance, if I know you are using VI I can create a series of characters that will escape out of insert mode and run a shell command (note: ^…

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    Comment #10555187

    I do this also, although it is only a little safer: if someone added a ^D to the text it could thwart your attempt at protection: as: git status ^D echo foo

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    Comment #10201578

    You basically need to know three options for tar: -x EXTRACT -c CREATE -f - USE STDIN/OUT to create a tar file of the current directory: tar -cf - . | gzip > /tmp/foo.tar.gz to ext…

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    Comment #10154449

    Jebbit,Inc | Boston, MA | Full Time, ONSITE | http://jebbit.com | Front End Lead and Coder for Post Click Marketing Startup. We're using EmberJS/Ruby on Rails. You should know mode…

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    Comment #9848383

    Jebbit, Inc. [ http://jebbit.com ] | Boston, MA # Javascript & Frontend Developer Jebbit is a young adtech startup that powers Post-Click Engagement™ for some of the World’s larges…

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    Comment #9848340

    Jebbit, Inc. [ http://jebbit.com ] | Boston, MA # Mid-Senior Ruby on Rails Engineer Jebbit is a young adtech startup that powers Post-Click Engagement™ for some of the World’s larg…

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    Comment #9835815

    there is no reason to believe intelligent extraterrestrials will be at all polite -- predators and scavengers are the best guesses or to put it in the words of Zoe: If we meet alie…

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    Comment #9607746

    haters gonna hate. The real issue: don't write power-points that are meant to be studied -- power-points are meant as a presentation addition. the only things I demand on a power-p…

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    Comment #9549137

    meh, this seems to be equivocation. basically, warm blooded (and cold-blooded) are no longer used (because they found animals didn't cleanly fit into the features of each), so they…

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    Comment #9512121

    I call these types of questions "stump the chump". It is the most common major flaw in tech interviews I see and I try to teach interviewers to avoid these types of questions by ha…

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    Comment #9390453

    came here to say exactly this. if you don't take care to replace the focus object with something else in the same area in the cut scene the viewer will notice. the author seems to …

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    Comment #9197806

    that's not how NDAs work publicly available information can be talked about. you may be held to any constraints in the NDA associated with disparaging comments -- but about the act…

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    Comment #9187743

    which part? that racist elements exist in a game that characterizes and increases/decrease stats depending on race or that different races in D&D simply don't operate well together…

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    Comment #9158956

    it will, in general, instantiate N-n/N records (even distribution, right - N=total records, n=sample size) that is still too much data to fetch to the client for any large data set…

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    Comment #9158730

    doesn't your implementation require you to fetch all data into the client process for ruby to iterate over? isn't the movement of such data -- when you have billions of rows simply…