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b0b0b0b 3 years ago | link | on: The Case for Slow Programming

I cannot relate to this at all:

My wife often comes out into the yard and asks me: “are you coding?” Often my answer is “yes”. Usually I am cutting twigs with a garden clipper, or moving compost around.
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  caboteria 3 years ago | link
  
  I find that when I get stuck on a problem the best tactic is to back away from it and do something else. Without me consciously trying, new ideas on ways to solve the problem just pop into my head. That’s what he’s talking about - by doing something that’s calming and unrelated to his programming he frees up his subconscious to crunch on his problem. Everyone’s different, but you should give it a try!

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b0b0b0b 4 years ago | link | on: "Tracking All The Things" at Groupon

I don’t get it. Tracky posts all sorts of stuff that is available in the http headers anyway. There are still multiple invisble pixels (at least on the home page).
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  ironchef 4 years ago | link
  
  If i recall they did that (duplication of the http header info) so they had essentially denormalized records (everything in one flat record) in the json logs..it tends to make certain kinds of analysis quicker / easier when you get to the analytics systems.