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stewars
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About stewars
Developer and founder of Grit Design in Detroit.
www.grit-design.com / @mox4
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Comment #7588565
What license is the code distributed under? It is not clear from the site or the code that is available through npm.
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Comment #6785116
Not bash. '~~' gets replaced by the MANTA_USER environment variable by the manta command line tool mput.
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Comment #6345477
S3 claims 99.999999999 (eleven nines) of durability. This is not comparable S3.
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Comment #4610209
I think in this case it's phase inversion of one of the signals as opposed to a phase shift which would imply a time difference.
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Comment #3962163
Tortoise git is the windows git gui of choice at our work and is the one I recommend to install for our clients who use windows. Haven't tried any others though. Since I know the c…
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Comment #3427692
Very cool. I had a flashback this fall after discovering an old book I made for some school project about programming the Apple 2. Code looked horrible (to my 2011 eyes) but with a…
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Comment #3227738
Swiffy saved the day for us recently on a project where we needed an animation to support IE7+ as well as iPad. We were able to have our designer create a flash animation and uploa…
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Comment #2574692
A related interview here with the researcher: http://www.smartplanet.com/blog/pure-genius/as-brain-pathway... How significant is the degradation? It’s hard to have absolutes. It’s …
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Comment #2519876
Node does not create a new V8 context for each request so the 2ms => max 500 requests per second scaling problem does not exist with Node.
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Comment #2458249
Probably not what you're after but the computer history museum videos are great: http://www.youtube.com/user/ComputerHistory
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Comment #2225940
I believe IPv6 provides a start for what is necessary to solve Step 2. IPSec is part of the protocol so these connections can be trusted. Also no NAT issues so connecting directly …
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Comment #2170024
You don't need to allow others write access to your repositories on github. Simply have them fork your public repository but don't add them as a collaborator. They can commit all t…
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Comment #2007153
I've just recently ported a python/Django site to c#/.NET. The switch was not done for performance reasons (or community for that matter) but as a consideration the .NET version wa…
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Comment #1781927
Re-thought for-loops hurt the brain. Please don't do that. "Debugging is twice as hard as writing the code in the first place. Therefore, if you write the code as cleverly as possi…
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Comment #1662717
Can confirm it works great with a Wacom tablet. Pressure and erasing works. Info on using the Wacom plugin is here: http://www.wacomeng.com/web/release_notes.htm
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Comment #1658371
Another complication to note is that pitch != frequency. Pitch is how we perceive the thing. The same frequency at different volumes can be perceived as different pitches. So you r…
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Comment #1483800
"He's like the early hackers at MIT such as [open source advocate Richard] Stallman who fought for people not to have passwords or secrets." .. and now fights for people not to con…
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Comment #1469645
I was looking at the terms of service here: http://www.MusicTrainer.com/lgl/tos/ "ALL PERSONS UNDER THE AGE OF 18 ARE DENIED ACCESS TO THIS WEBSITE. IF YOU ARE UNDER 18 YEARS OF AG…