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1. Brett Slatkin ()'s status on Tuesday, 22-Oct-2013 03:28:00 EDT Brett Slatkin

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   aboard vs. on board - These two terms mean nearly the same thing and in some uses are interchangeable. "Aboard" is the preferred usage. Use "on board" as two words, but hyphenate on board when used as an adjective. "Aboard" means on board, on, in or into a ship.
   

   - U.S. Navy Style Guide
2. Brett Slatkin ()'s status on Tuesday, 22-Oct-2013 02:15:00 EDT Brett Slatkin

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   Fun post on twisting geometry.
   
3. Brett Slatkin ()'s status on Wednesday, 04-Sep-2013 16:39:00 EDT Brett Slatkin

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   These properties don't interact correctly in Android Chrome or Android WebView: background-attachment: fixed background-size: covered Work-arounds (like a position-fixed div) also don't work because of mobile Chrome's scrolling behavior: When you scroll up, the tabs disappear, causing the whole viewport to shift upwards. The viewport shift happens before the position fixed background updates, c…
4. Brett Slatkin ()'s status on Wednesday, 21-Aug-2013 02:39:00 EDT Brett Slatkin

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   Reader is gone, but I'm still subscribing to new RSS feeds. The world is okay.
5. Brett Slatkin ()'s status on Tuesday, 20-Aug-2013 21:13:00 EDT Brett Slatkin

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   Issue 6 of Offscreen magazine is available now!
   
   My desk is in the Workbench piece (not the one depicted here though). Overall it's a really nice magazine.
   
   
6. Brett Slatkin ()'s status on Tuesday, 20-Aug-2013 15:01:00 EDT Brett Slatkin

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   New Firefox icon is pretty.
   
   Details on their Mobile OS branding is interesting too.
7. Brett Slatkin ()'s status on Tuesday, 20-Aug-2013 12:45:00 EDT Brett Slatkin

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   BlinkDB looks cool: BlinkDB is a massively parallel, approximate query engine for running interactive SQL queries on large volumes of data. It allows users to trade-off query accuracy for response time, enabling interactive queries over massive data by running queries on data samples and presenting results annotated with meaningful error bars. Why use Dremel when you can use almost-Dremel 10x fa…
8. Brett Slatkin ()'s status on Tuesday, 20-Aug-2013 01:00:00 EDT Brett Slatkin

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   It's fun to see predictions in the REST paper (from 13+ years ago) that turned out to be spot on. Here's one about cookies: 6.3.4.2 Cookies An example of where an inappropriate extension has been made to the protocol to support features that contradict the desired properties of the generic interface is the introduction of site-wide state information in the form of HTTP cookies [73]. Cookie inte…
9. Brett Slatkin ()'s status on Sunday, 18-Aug-2013 21:31:00 EDT Brett Slatkin

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   Hrmm. Which of these seems easier?
   
   

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10. Brett Slatkin ()'s status on Sunday, 18-Aug-2013 18:35:00 EDT Brett Slatkin

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    Not a joke.
    
    

    In quantum field theory, penguin diagrams are a class of Feynman diagrams which are important for understanding CP violating processes in the standard model.
    

    
    
11. Brett Slatkin ()'s status on Sunday, 18-Aug-2013 13:29:00 EDT Brett Slatkin

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    The road to launch is totally different this time, because what we built last was a world-class research platform. Now answering questions like, "what would users think of X?" or "what should X be called?" is trivial. I can't imagine launching in the dark ever again.
12. Brett Slatkin ()'s status on Saturday, 17-Aug-2013 21:01:00 EDT Brett Slatkin

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    Spent a super old $10 yesterday. Still no idea where I got it.
    
    
13. Brett Slatkin ()'s status on Saturday, 17-Aug-2013 20:28:00 EDT Brett Slatkin

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    I've been digging into the seminal REST paper, written 13+ years ago, to find antiquated ideas: 4.1.4.1 Anarchic Scalability ... Anarchic scalability refers to the need for architectural elements to continue operating when they are subjected to an unanticipated load, or when given malformed or maliciously constructed data, since they may be communicating with elements outside their organization…
14. Brett Slatkin ()'s status on Friday, 09-Aug-2013 15:23:00 EDT Brett Slatkin

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    Practically speaking there are only two HTTP verbs: read and write, GET and POST. The semantics of the others (put, head, options, delete, trace, connect) are most commonly expressed in headers, URL parameters, and request bodies, not request methods. The unused verbs are a clear product of bike-shedding, an activity that specification writers love. With HTTP 2.0 maybe we should remove the usele…
15. Brett Slatkin ()'s status on Wednesday, 10-Apr-2013 12:40:00 EDT Brett Slatkin

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    "Today we can officially confirm the release date for the Mac version of SimCity is June 11". Sweet.
16. Brett Slatkin ()'s status on Tuesday, 09-Apr-2013 01:49:00 EDT Brett Slatkin

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    John Carmack's magical sqrt(). Came up in conversation again tonight. It's amazing!

    
17. Brett Slatkin ()'s status on Tuesday, 09-Apr-2013 00:44:00 EDT Brett Slatkin

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18. Brett Slatkin ()'s status on Sunday, 07-Apr-2013 16:03:00 EDT Brett Slatkin

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    The feeling when the domain you want for your project is available.
19. Brett Slatkin ()'s status on Sunday, 07-Apr-2013 03:07:00 EDT Brett Slatkin

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    I dislike dubstep because it's so desperate for attention.
20. Brett Slatkin ()'s status on Sunday, 07-Apr-2013 02:41:00 EDT Brett Slatkin

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    Woah, end of an era.
    
    

    subprocess.CalledProcessError: Command '['java', '-version']' returned non-zero exit status 1
    

    
    I don't even have it installed.

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