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Re: Ride. Reuse. Recycle: GREPP Gripper Bar Tape Review

edwelker — Wed, 27 Sep 2023 15:52:06 -0000

I’ve used it about a year, and I actually find the texture pretty harsh on my hands (no gloves), plus it holds onto humidity for a long time.

Thinking of going back to Neubaums, as it doesn’t shred my hands the same way. Just wish I could get it without adhesive.

Re: Dear EFF: please don't pick the wrong fight

edwelker — Fri, 04 Oct 2013 21:38:21 -0000

Good post. Spent an hour+ crafting a response, then ended up mostly agreeing.

Just another example where wiping away the fire and brimstone shows how weak an argument actually is. That said, I think the practical implications are tiny. The better everyone does what they're supposed to do, they better off everyone will be.

Re: I love checkoutmanager and dotfiles

edwelker — Fri, 08 Feb 2013 12:29:23 -0000

Damn it, Re: footnote#2, I know we've talked about it too, but I can't remember either, and it's going to be driving me crazy. I remember that you need gfortran to install scipy, which requires the full XCode, but that's not what we're thinking of.

Re: Startups: How to Share Data with Academics

edwelker — Sat, 19 Jan 2013 15:04:51 -0000

That's great. I really appreciate your hard work being open and allowing access for reasons such as this. Thanks!

Re: Xtreme Makeover: Legacy Codebase Edition

edwelker — Fri, 04 Jan 2013 16:31:30 -0000

Out of curiosity, how many lines of code are we talking about for JS and CSS? What are the future plans?

Re: Case Study: URL Design for petcheatsheets.com

edwelker — Wed, 21 Nov 2012 12:33:56 -0000

Needless to say you know more about your app than I do, but with your current scheme, how do you get a list of an owner's pets? For discussion's sake, I'd have preferred the old scheme, adding that ownership has been transferred, the app simply issues a 301 to the new url including the correct owner.

Re: On URL readability

edwelker — Tue, 30 Aug 2011 13:24:20 -0000

By the way, if you think about a full hierarchy using slashes, vs. other suggestions like foo.com/futurama-season-6-e... or foo.com/futurama/s6e9 from an information architecture perspective, or as a tree... the full hierarchy has the advantage of balance... it prevents either really wide structures (both of the previous examples would perform poorly if the episode count got really high), or really deep structures (I think /season/6/episode/9 is too deep).

The easiest thing is to stop thinking about "seasons" and "episodes" as types, and rather think about "sixth season" and "ninth episode" as specific resources. That way you could have:

foo.com/futurama
foo.com/futurama/season_six
foo.com/futurama/season_six...

which would greatly simplify your unease with mapping key-value pairs to a hierarchy, as well as keeping the tree balanced in terms of both breadth and depth.

Re: Joining the National Geographic Team | mathematism

edwelker — Thu, 03 Jun 2010 17:41:02 -0000

Congrats! Sounds fun. Non-profits are, to be honest, a blast.

Re: Build a Microblog with Django

edwelker — Wed, 21 Apr 2010 16:02:23 -0000

In the 1.0/1.1 correction for the dispatcher, I think you meant to write "create_tumble_item", but instead wrote "create_tweet_item".

Re: http://www.dpawson.co.uk/nodesets/entries/080521.html

edwelker — Thu, 22 May 2008 00:36:15 -0000

Keyboards do need breaking in, but if you're on a bad one, they never change as much as you'd like :( My favorite keyboards are still the old click-y ones. I like the tactile feel indicating the key has been pressed.