AndrewO

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by AndrewO 16y ago
Yeah, you might be right... I probably need to talk to more laymen. :-) Maybe I should have said "managers with a decent technical background" instead.
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by AndrewO 16y ago
Wow—that's a great way to explain those concepts to the layman.
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by AndrewO 16y ago
To add to your point on bribery, let's not forget that many countries have laws against bribing foreign officials. In the US it's the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foreign_Corrupt_Practices_Act ). I'd assume
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by AndrewO 16y ago
This is really awesome, but I have no idea what this is a reproduction of. (I haven't seen a Daft Punk video in at least 5 years). Anyone who's more versed in Daft Punkology have a link to whatever this came from?
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by AndrewO 16y ago
I've been a little wary of the MongoHQ option because it's a separate service and I was worried about latency. But, I guess if it's all hosted on EC2 that doesn't matter as much...? Does anyone have any experience using MongoHQ on Heroku?
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by AndrewO 16y ago
(You meant "The Russians (land of Pavlov...", right?)
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by AndrewO 16y ago
Very interesting, although it seems odd to hear a software engineering describe Gödel's incompleteness theorems as a "cheap trick used to try to frighten mathematicians back in the thirties." Still, I chuckled when I read it.
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by AndrewO 16y ago
Here's the post this one is follow-up to, which has a little more background: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1486017
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by AndrewO 16y ago
...also, it looks like some of the links didn't make it in. This one ( http://github.com/rjurney/Cloud-Stenography ) showing the code driving the Pig editor in the demo was one I particularly wanted to see in the parent.
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by AndrewO 16y ago
Just remember that we're talking about a company that managed to migrate its entire product line to an entirely new processor with few people (inside and outside the company) really knowing until they unveiled the first demo machines. Compa
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by AndrewO 16y ago
MacRuby has already reimplemented most of Ruby's classes on top of equivalent Cocoa ones (String < NSString, Hash < NSDictionary, Array < NSArray). That removes a big part of bridging problem that existed with things like RubyC
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by AndrewO 16y ago
Apple is fortunate that they're the only ones they have to check with to change 3.3.1. When the hardware has gotten ample and the software is mature enough, I for one won't be surprised if we see revisions. Meanwhile, a blanket ban will ac
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by AndrewO 16y ago
Stephen Fry touched on this in his book/miniseries on the US and made a pretty interesting observation: in his opinion, the flag takes the place in Americans' minds that is occupied by a royal family in other countries. The problem is that
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by AndrewO 16y ago
Anyone know why this wasn't tried earlier? Lower estimated chance of success than other previous strategies? Would have precluded other options if it failed? Some other kind of complication?
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by AndrewO 16y ago
Anyone know if this includes Rough Cuts?
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by AndrewO 16y ago
Ok, I think I missed the genesis of whole rainbows and ponies meme. Someone mind clueing me in? I seem to recall first hearing it connected with Django somehow, but I figured it was a reference to something I didn't get...
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by AndrewO 16y ago
Well, let's not forget that the pay-off for that particular thought experiment was relativity. :) I (and possibly others) would probably be a little less cranky about the whole article if he'd followed his steps rigorously and arrived at so
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by AndrewO 16y ago
if (you_have_to_learn_one_language) { make_highly_subjective_claims(); eliminate_good_candidates_for_specious_reasons(); arrive_at_questionable_conclusion(); } else { broaden_your_understanding_of_program
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by AndrewO 16y ago
Well, if you look at it that way, a blog isn't any different than a traditional homepage either. :) But if not for the structure that blogs impose and the fact that non-technical people can edit them, the web would still be majority "Welcom
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by AndrewO 16y ago
Answering my own question here from the linked Q&A with Luis Villa: http://joindiaspora.com/2010/04/30/a-response-to-mr-villa.ht...
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by AndrewO 16y ago
I was just searching for something like this yesterday. I came across DiSo ( http://code.google.com/p/diso/ ), which at first glance appears to be somewhat stale and a bit of a protocol soup. Anyone know if that effort is still under way?
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by AndrewO 16y ago
I dunno—the Star Trek reboot reinvigorated the series after lackluster box office performance. If you're looking for things ignored by the active user base and promptly forgotten, I think a better comparison would be the Ewoks movie... :-)
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by AndrewO 16y ago
Thanks—I'll check those out!
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by AndrewO 16y ago
It has been said that Ruby is Smalltalk with a perly syntax. Perl6 extends on that: Perl 6 is Lisp with a perly syntax. Interesting idea, but I would have loved to see some examples or comparisons. For all of the mindshare that
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by AndrewO 16y ago
I think most of these are probably still valid (haven't paid much attention in the last year)—which in itself is probably a good point to make. Katz intentionally chose an inflammatory and attention-grabbing title. Although the overall mes
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by AndrewO 16y ago
It's probably worth mentioning that this is over 2 years old.
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by AndrewO 17y ago
While Adobe is going to bear the brunt of this, this looks like a calculated move against Android as well. By precluding things like PhoneGap (if it turns out that it's "an intermediary translation or compatibility layer"), they're forcing
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by AndrewO 17y ago
Agree 100% about the Path Finder music (and the Prince pricing). This was a job for a professional publishing house, so the cost was justified. At the time I used it, that was about the only way to use general CSS3 features. It was like t
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by AndrewO 17y ago
Things I couldn't live without (or at least would push back on if pressured to use something different): git (GitX for viewing), TextMate (AckMate bundle for searching w/in a project), Basecamp, Chrome (any WebKit or Gecko browser will do t
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by AndrewO 17y ago
Ugh, April is the cruelest month for techies if only because of today.

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