AndrewO

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by AndrewO 16y ago
I'm with him on most of this, but I just can't agree that frameworks like Sproutcore or Uki are good fits for all or even most of the the web apps out there. We've spent years showing off the beautiful things you can do with HTML & CSS
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by AndrewO 16y ago
I was with him until the last paragraph. The NoSQL trend is about bringing more options to the table when solving your specific problem, not trying to take a solution to a specific problem and make it general (as he claims OpenID, AtomPub,
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by AndrewO 16y ago
I admit there was some slight hyperbole there. Let's say it's one better than giving out your password because it cuts down on the password reuses issue and you can revoke. If that's all that OAuth will ever get us, then it's a failure: eit
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by AndrewO 16y ago
I see a couple of responses saying users don't care about this and they'd never read a dialog box. Honestly, if that's the case, what's the point of OAuth then? Why don't we just go back to handing over usernames & passwords and trustin
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by AndrewO 16y ago
Which brings up another point: I think that if anything is going to threaten Google in the coming years, it'll be the quality of their social graph. Gmail gives them a lot of data, but if my inbox is any indication a lot of it is somewhat a
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by AndrewO 16y ago
It seems to be a particular affliction among our group (by that I mean anyone who spends a lot of time here) that once we learn to apply one revolutionary/disruptive idea, we can't stop even when we probably should. I'd say it's because we'
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by AndrewO 16y ago
I see a lot of people asking what happens when a group of people downvote a site just to ruin its ranking. Sure that's a problem, but there's an easy solution on Google's end: your blacklist only affects you. Yes, that means all of us have
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by AndrewO 16y ago
I would love to hear the narration that goes along with this.
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by AndrewO 16y ago
Just got it and I'm pretty impressed. Two things I'd like to see though: 1) the ability to bring up a keyboard (I had to lean forward to type something in. C'mon! :-) 2) the ability to pinch-zoom Switcher window previews. One of the frustra
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by AndrewO 16y ago
This is great when combined with Dropbox's public folders. I recently developed an app where I pushed 40+ builds out to testers. On every bugfix or new feature, I just had to Build & Archive, save the IPA directly to Dropbox and then gi
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by AndrewO 16y ago
It's sites like these that have made me wish I could downvote or mark-as-spam from the search results. Why can't I tell Google that I never want to see results from certain URLs ever again?
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by AndrewO 16y ago
Agreed. I'll hand it to Jason Fried though: it's good to see someone try to relate the concepts in Mythical Man Month to non-programmers. I recommended MMM to a friend when problems at his workplace sounded like things that came up in softw
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by AndrewO 16y ago
Wow—now I kind of want to see what could have provoked that kind of response... I like Steve Martin as a comedian, but he's pretty talented in other areas as well (e.g. banjo). Sounds like a lot of people missed a chance to see another side
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by AndrewO 16y ago
I feel like I cheated on BASIC: I didn't know the creators, but it was the only big one from that era I didn't have yet.
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by AndrewO 16y ago
Good points (I'd forgotten about FasterCSV and Psych). I guess it's a mixed blessing if your library becomes part of stlib. On the one hand, it's gotta feel great to have so many people using your code. But on the other, your release cycle
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by AndrewO 16y ago
I got the updated version of the Pickaxe recently and skimmed through all of the 1.9 updates. I was appalled to see REXML is still the blessed XML parser. I liked it when I started using Ruby and I still see it in the wild, but to me that's
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by AndrewO 16y ago
In addition to what the others said, these two pages make the arguments that convinced me: http://blogs.msdn.com/b/scottdensmore/archive/2004/05/25/140... http://www.c2.com/cgi/wiki?SingletonsAreEvil I don't know the particulars of how
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by AndrewO 16y ago
It makes my skin crawl to see the first example use case be combining inheriting from singleton and the array class. It looks like PHP is finally getting advanced OOP features and the first thing someone wants to do with them is make a sing
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by AndrewO 16y ago
People are aware of Facebook’s Cassandra system, but now they’ve built something new called hBase... As in Apache HBase? Not to be too pedantic, but that's not really something that Facebook "built". I'm assuming that was an error on TC's
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by AndrewO 16y ago
By "language" does 2.22 mean programming language or i18n?
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by AndrewO 16y ago
I'm not sure if this is the most, but Cantor's Diagonal Argument[1] is the first that comes to mind, probably even more as an example of a creative approach than for its implications (although those are pretty huge too). Charles Petzold's "
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by AndrewO 16y ago
Here's the one thing I don't get: what's the difference between the $25 pair of Levi's and the $169 Joe's Jeans? I've never understood what you're actually getting for that. And I've heard label, label, label and a ticket into the hip crowd
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by AndrewO 16y ago
I tried typing /turboboost and /lightningbolt and it did nothing. I was a little let down. Still, it's a good demo of some new technologies. You can make your own fun though. I swam past a bunch of other tadpoles yelling "Don't go that way!
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by AndrewO 16y ago
If you keep asking a person in different ways if they're always in the middle of a party or standing next to the wall, you'll eventually find out if they consider themselves to be introverted or extraverted. Likewise for the other traits. B
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by AndrewO 16y ago
Knowing personalities is certainly essential. But, I think if you want to find that out, it's better to interact with them and form your own opinions and talk to others who've done the same. Using a 4-dimension set of binary states (just to
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by AndrewO 16y ago
Nope—Leo. But I just read the description of Sagittarius and, wow, it sounds a lot like me. ;-) (I'm also a Phlegmatic, and we're a naturally skeptical bunch.)
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by AndrewO 16y ago
I couldn't let this pass without bringing up the Forer Effect [1]: basically, that people will believe just about any vague generalization as long as they think it's been tailored to them. For all of the "science" that goes into building th
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by AndrewO 16y ago
"NoSQL" has come to symbolize a number of different things, depending on who you're talking to and when. I've seen all combinations of one or more of the following: 1. The rejection of what some see as an overly complicated and inflexible q
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by AndrewO 16y ago
I especially liked the joke at the end. It came through as playful dig at one of the key design differences between the languages and was answered in that spirit. Kudos to both of them.
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by AndrewO 16y ago
That's a great idea. I'd really like to see a "raw" format option on the server that would give the code and metadata in a structured format. With that one could write a tool that suggests improvements to code as it tests it using this as

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