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Re: The 773 Million Record "Collection #1" Data Breach

pitosalas — Thu, 17 Jan 2019 08:04:12 -0000

All this complaining. I came here to complain too. But then I read this thread. I asked myself, “self, what did I pay for this service?” And then I realized that I should appreciate what I got for free, and drop my complaints. Thanks Troy.

Re: Fermat's Library | The Psychology of Human Misdgugement annotated/explained version.

pitosalas — Tue, 03 Oct 2017 14:21:34 -0000

is there a way to print the paper?

Re: Cruz Won't Criticize Trump, But Offers His Own Plan To Bar Refugees

pitosalas — Wed, 09 Dec 2015 12:54:10 -0000

As broadcast, this was such a softball interview. I don't know why our "journalists" treat politicians of all stripes with such kid gloves. Check out how it works overseas, for example the BBC HardTalk.

Re: Azure App Service and Its Impact on Existing Azure Services

pitosalas — Tue, 24 Mar 2015 20:09:03 -0000

I can't tell what support there is, if any, for ruby and rails. How similar/different is this from Heroku? Or is it more like EC2 and friends?

Re: Getting Started Configuring Bash/Zsh

pitosalas — Fri, 15 Feb 2013 20:11:17 -0000

Thanks for an awesome post!!

Two questions: how come your alias file doesn't say the word 'alias' on each line?

And, why does it matter that your sort the files that you execute in the source command? After all they are just being executed not listed... Thanks!

Re: Students Endlessly E-Mail Professors for Help. A New Service Hopes to Organize the Answers.

pitosalas — Tue, 22 Jan 2013 14:27:52 -0000

I am using Piazza for a few courses this term at Olin College. When I looked for a user forum where I could trade questions and experiences about Piazza I found none. So I formed one. Would you like to join? https://groups.google.com/f...
The company doesn't seem to have anything like this and they encouraged me to try forming such a group.

Who knows it might be really useful!
https://groups.google.com/f...

Re: Students Endlessly E-Mail Professors for Help. A New Service Hopes to Organize the Answers.

pitosalas — Tue, 22 Jan 2013 14:27:14 -0000

Who knows it might be really useful!
https://groups.google.com/f...

Re: Students Endlessly E-Mail Professors for Help. A New Service Hopes to Organize the Answers.

pitosalas — Tue, 22 Jan 2013 14:26:33 -0000

The company doesn't seem to have anything like this and they encouraged me to try forming such a group.

Who knows it might be really useful!
https://groups.google.com/f...

Re: Students Endlessly E-Mail Professors for Help. A New Service Hopes to Organize the Answers.

pitosalas — Tue, 22 Jan 2013 14:24:12 -0000

I jus started using Piazza at Olin College. To share ideas and experiences I thought it would be a good idea to have a piazza user forum, but no such thing exists. So I created one. Want to join? https://groups.google.com/f...

Re: Sublime Productivity: Code Like… by Josh Earl [PDF/iPad/Kindle]

pitosalas — Mon, 22 Oct 2012 10:33:01 -0000

I bought the book about a month ago. Are there updates, and how would I get them?

Re: Welcome to the JBS Group Blog

pitosalas — Thu, 17 May 2012 13:51:16 -0000

Great. This is really a good blog. The theme is decent. (Really Pito is testing whether comments work!)

Re: The Management Team - Guest Post From Joel Spolsky

pitosalas — Mon, 13 Feb 2012 09:59:36 -0000

This reminds me of a meeting years ago with a few AT&T people, some top executives and some lesser folks. As they went around the room introducing each other they would say things like "I am Joe, and I support Jane and Jack", and then Jane would say, "I am Jane and I support Fred and Clara". As they went around we tried to write down the org chart and figure out who was who and who was in charge.

It was total confusion. Because AT&T had done some business social engineering and decided that it was politically correct for a boss to say that he supported his underlings - I guess saying that they "work for me" or "report to me" was too icky.

Re: From the desk of a thoughtbot apprentice

pitosalas — Fri, 29 Jul 2011 16:57:08 -0000

Why do we need Trajectory if we already have Basecamp and PivotalTracker? I think Trajectory is really cool, but is this an instance of NIH?

Re: LAUNCH - Website Login

pitosalas — Mon, 13 Dec 2010 15:16:22 -0000

I think there's a flaw in your rule of shorter is better for company and domain names. Path might have a great pedigree and have a great short name, but if you read about (like I did) how great Path is and you are immediately drawn to load the App, nothing really helps you in understanding what the app is trying to do. The name doesn't. The terminology doesn't. The app doesn't.

Until Path becomes a phenomenon, and everyone is telling everyone to get Path, there need to be more hints and clues about the why of it. And I would say without those, it will not become a phenomenon.

(And don't use Twitter as a counterexample. They are a truly rare example, and at least they said "What's happening right now:" or words to that effect.)

Re: Disrupting Education: Khan Academy

pitosalas — Tue, 09 Nov 2010 15:56:31 -0000

You sound like you're close pals with 'Sal' :)

Re: How to run a single rails unit test - Flavio Castelli

pitosalas — Thu, 21 Oct 2010 12:46:39 -0000

Still it's a bug in the rake task. Only one test file is specifically specified. It makes no sense that the same test is run 3 times. I saw the same thing.

Re: How to run a single rails unit test

pitosalas — Thu, 21 Oct 2010 12:46:39 -0000

Still it's a bug in the rake task. Only one test file is specifically specified. It makes no sense that the same test is run 3 times. I saw the same thing.

Re: How to run a single rails unit test

pitosalas — Thu, 21 Oct 2010 12:46:39 -0000

Still it's a bug in the rake task. Only one test file is specifically specified. It makes no sense that the same test is run 3 times. I saw the same thing.

Re: Scripting News: Yes, Virginia, there are two ways to read RSS

pitosalas — Sat, 18 Sep 2010 09:31:45 -0000

I remember the 'River of News' debates back in the day. I've noticed something about Twitter: if you think about it, someone who tweets is kind of like a blogger who makes very short posts.

But what you have in tweet land that you don't have in blog land is an easy way to 'follow' someone. They pull that off by having the one-true-twitter server so there's one place to go to to follow.

And if you follow that analogy, then Twitter presents all the people I am following in the form of a 'river of news.' Everything old is new again. :)

Re: Thank You!

pitosalas — Tue, 26 Jan 2010 10:50:39 -0000

I am going to be honest. The book sounds very interesting. But I have no deep comment about the post and so won't be making up some fake deep observation :)

Re: HOW TO: Choose a News Reader for Keeping Tabs on Your Industry

pitosalas — Thu, 03 Dec 2009 14:36:33 -0000

Don't forget to check out BlogBridge (http://www.blogbridge.com/l... . It's free, runs on Mac, Windows and Linux, it's open source! It works beautifully with huge number of feeds. Oh, you can re-post with one click directly to your blog, and tweet directly too. It has better support for OPML than the other guys. I'd say it's worth a look!

Re: Ruby Best Practices - Structs inside out

pitosalas — Thu, 24 Sep 2009 09:10:44 -0000

Aha. Nice point!

Re: Ruby Best Practices - Structs inside out

pitosalas — Thu, 24 Sep 2009 08:38:24 -0000

Yeah pretty good use. Although in my case it was maybe a kludge because the fields are known and fixed, so a class would somehow feel more right; otoh struct is so lightweight that for something with a very short life it's seems more appropriate.

Re: Ruby Best Practices - Structs inside out

pitosalas — Thu, 24 Sep 2009 08:36:45 -0000

Not sure about this but wouldn't the use of Address = in the method cause all kinds of noise in your (unit) tests as 'redefining constant' ?

Re: Ruby Best Practices - Structs inside out

pitosalas — Tue, 22 Sep 2009 16:07:53 -0000

Talk about serendipity... I just today (1+day after you wrote this) was doing something and thought I;d try using Struct for the first time in practice, and got to thinking about what best practices might be for using Struct vs. other options. Thanks for a great writeup.