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Re: How to Sell Your Old iPhone

davedash — Fri, 09 Sep 2016 16:16:01 -0000

Gazelle offered <$200 for a 128GB iPhone 6S Plus. T-mobile will give me more.

Re: The Best Gear for Travel

davedash — Tue, 16 Aug 2016 19:54:58 -0000

I'll need to give those a try. This might be TMI, but I noticed Airism retain smell. Apparently there's a reason for this:

http://gizmodo.com/sweaty-s...

But if they have a different material, that might help. Right now I wear them sparingly, and definitely not on trips where I might not be able to wash my clothes immediately.

Re: The Best Plug-in Hybrid

davedash — Mon, 10 Aug 2015 19:24:37 -0000

The Audi is a Sportback, not a Sportwagen (it doesn't quite have the length).

Re: The Best Cheap Printer

davedash — Thu, 09 Apr 2015 17:09:19 -0000

He's saying "many" not "most", I think his statement is still valid and raising it as an issue that others should be aware of is helpful.

Re: The Best Cheap Printer

davedash — Sun, 05 Apr 2015 13:26:46 -0000

I really don't recommend the Samsung M2835DW - I bought one a few months ago, and in an all mac, all iOS household it's been problematic. Airprint stopped working (maybe some incompatibility with newer iOS/Mac OSes). Printing with the Samsung drivers is hit or miss. It's definitely slow when it does work. In iOS (might be an iOS problem) if a print fails, it keeps trying and the printer keeps making noise which can be annoying and hard to stop (unplugging it works). The status lights are confusing.

I may try to unload mine on Amazon and get the newer Brother pick.

http://media.giphy.com/medi...

Re: The Best Wi-Fi Router (for Most People)

davedash — Fri, 13 Mar 2015 00:17:05 -0000

I think they spell it Securifi: http://www.securifi.com/ Kind of pricey, but very pretty.

Re: The Best Earbuds Under $50

davedash — Wed, 31 Dec 2014 22:58:22 -0000

Iphone6

Re: The Best Earbuds Under $50

davedash — Tue, 30 Dec 2014 00:32:46 -0000

I bought two pairs of these. One of these I noticed that if you bump the jack it triggers Siri. Something is a little off in the wiring (or maybe the button is permanently destroyed). It's very frustrating, and not really useful with my phone. The other pair doesn't exhibit this issue, so it might be a quality issue. Check yours if it does this and return it if it seems off.

Re: Configuring a Jenkins Slave | Django Web Development | Raleigh Durham Chapel Hill | Caktus Consulting Group

davedash — Tue, 30 Oct 2012 15:27:47 -0000

Thanks Colin,

This was a lot easier than I thought.

-d

Re: Pinternationalization | dave dash

davedash — Wed, 18 Jul 2012 10:17:09 -0000

That's hard for me to say. It's important to scope a product early on, and marking strings, if you've never done it before, isn't easy, by any means.

I've seen quite a few mistakes where people treat the _() gettext function as some sort of magic marker that'll just magically work, regardless of how a string is marked. For example:

_('Hello,') arthur _('how are you')?

instead of:

_('Hello {firstname} how are you?', firstname='arthur')

This type of mistake will be noticed when strings go live and translators or worse users start complaining.

There's also extra work that needs to happen. When I worked on Delicious (2007-09) we marked strings for translation, but we had not translation plan in place. It felt like busy work. I think had we been more growth focussed that wouldn't have been a problem.

So, tl;dr: Do it if you know how and you have a plan on internationalizing soon.

Re: Pinternationalization | dave dash

davedash — Mon, 04 Jun 2012 16:54:13 -0000

* We probably will not translate user content. Definitely not in the near term.
* Strings are updated to transifex weekly, so translators have them right away. We can also push strings immediately if we need to quickly translate. There are some edge-cases we want to clean up in this process, but so far it's working.

Re: DjangoCon Testing Tutorial | dave dash

davedash — Wed, 16 Nov 2011 13:11:35 -0000

I have some slides on http://lanyrd.com/2011/djan...

Re: DjangoCon Testing Tutorial | dave dash

davedash — Wed, 10 Aug 2011 16:55:34 -0000

Good question :)

http://djangocon.us/tickets/

Re: Groupon is poor value | dave dash

davedash — Sun, 10 Jul 2011 15:40:49 -0000

So in my Hobees instance, I've already shown them that I'm a good customer, I don't think I need to be lumped in with other customers who are less so. No bad customer service is bad, even if it's because the restaurant in question is being screwed by Groupon.

As I mentioned in IRC... Groupon is a disruptive start-up... in the worst possible way.

Re: http://davedash.com/2011/05/17/better-querying-for-elasticsearch/

davedash — Sat, 09 Jul 2011 23:42:35 -0000

Yes, I'm relying on you for that ;)

Re: Moved to Jekyll and Disqus - 0xDECAFBAD

davedash — Thu, 09 Jun 2011 12:59:50 -0000

You are worse than Delicious!

Re: Moved to Jekyll and Disqus - 0xDECAFBAD

davedash — Thu, 09 Jun 2011 09:51:27 -0000

There is a migration script for posts. I may have had to adjust some
minor things. Risqué has a migration for comments. it wasn't too
bad.

Re: Moved to Jekyll and Disqus - 0xDECAFBAD

davedash — Wed, 08 Jun 2011 19:59:33 -0000

It caused a few things to happen - speed up my deploy time and force me to check things into git. Also my codez build tags and stuff...

Re: Moved to Jekyll and Disqus - 0xDECAFBAD

davedash — Wed, 08 Jun 2011 19:02:15 -0000

Les,

Check out what I did - I actually host my site on github thanks to TofuMatt's suggestion. It works well and I have archives and whatnot. In fact, most of my links didn't break. This also means that I don't have to regenerate and sync, since github knows jekyll:

https://github.com/davedash...

Re: elasticsearch - tutorials - Setting up elasticsearch

davedash — Wed, 16 Feb 2011 14:38:10 -0000

The servicewrapper doesn't seem to be part of the elasticsearch package.

Re: Interviews with Fibonacci | dave dash

davedash — Sat, 29 Jan 2011 11:40:00 -0000

Many web developers come from non compsci backgrounds and that's more than
fine by me - I always explain how the sequence works, and give them a
sufficient amount of time.

Re: Interviews with Fibonacci | dave dash

davedash — Sat, 29 Jan 2011 11:35:25 -0000

So, yes, there's formula to solve this, but the question isn't so much: "Do you know an efficient formula for solve Fib(n)?", it's "can you program?" Although I'd give high props if someone did know that formula in an interview ;)

Re: http://davedash.com/2010/11/19/pythonic-string-formatting-in-javascript/

davedash — Wed, 12 Jan 2011 10:49:59 -0000

Yes, this looks like it would be better.

Re: http://davedash.com/2010/11/19/pythonic-string-formatting-in-javascript/

davedash — Wed, 12 Jan 2011 10:48:27 -0000

"/" is the designates a regexp boundary.
"\{" is an escaped "{".
The parenthesis "()" indicates we want to capture the contents.
Square brackets "[]" indicate a character class.
"^}" within brackets mean we want to match characters so long as they are not a close mustache ("}")
The "+" indicates 1 or more repetitions of the previous character (in our example, anything other than a close-mustache.
The "\}" is an escaped "}".
g at the end of our boundary indicates we want to match globally, in other words don't just find the first instance, but find all instances.

Therefore strings like:

"{hi} there"
"{hi} {there}"
"{hello!!!}"
"{h}"

will all get matched with captures of hi; hi, there; hello!!; and h respectively.

However "{}}}" this will not match anything.

Re: The Python textcluster Package | dave dash

davedash — Fri, 06 Aug 2010 14:16:24 -0000

Yeah, I wasn't at the summit this year :( Next time.

I'll update those links.