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by AndrewO 17y ago
Ok, so the answer is, "because Rubyists have redefined that phrase"? ;-) Well, by name dropping I was hoping to avoid the appearance of that. :-) Fowler certainly writes about Ruby a lot, but I'd hope he's perceived as general enou
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by AndrewO 17y ago
Haml is an external DSL. Sinatra is an internal DSL. Rubyists insist on using the term so much because Ruby's linguistic flexibility makes it easy to define them, so they're constantly doing it. Martin Fowler is often credited with coming
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by AndrewO 17y ago
I really debated whether or not to upvote this. I'm guessing that HN has a higher percentage of people who like (or at least know of) Randi than the general public, so it certainly fits the "general interest" guideline. But I'd also (like
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by AndrewO 17y ago
> If I just have the spark of an idea now, I can get a designer in Taiwan to design it. I can get a factory in China to produce a prototype. I can get a factory in Vietnam to mass manufacture it... And I can do all this at incredibly lo
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by AndrewO 17y ago
Well, after that much of an XML binge, it's going to take them awhile to go through detox. We just have to be patient and loving and make sure they get the help they need and are kept away from the bad influences/vendors.
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by AndrewO 17y ago
> It is highly unlikely that he ever thought of the concept of parallel processing or the idea that a computer might be used for anything other than problem solving and the execution of instruction sequences. Well that pinged the old po
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by AndrewO 17y ago
I was interested at first, but it seemed more and more that the author was referring to a context that he thought was shared but was actually obscure. When using examples from novels I've read or exchanges between bloggers, I find some lig
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by AndrewO 17y ago
Agreed—I've watched many events, shown in their entirety, where the US (and often Canada) were not even factors. E.g. just recently I've seen multiple biathlon and cross country skiing events where Europeans dominate. There's cursory ment
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by AndrewO 17y ago
Poppycock: when a company decides that it doesn't want to be seen as demeaning to women by profitting off of the sale of pornography (a highly subjective label, but one that they're going to take to safest, most conservative definition of)
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by AndrewO 17y ago
I agree with both points. In addition, from the sound of the article, it seems like the biggest problem with having 80k employees is the jealousy and feudalism at the management level when it comes to actually implementing the great ideas
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by AndrewO 17y ago
I's say it's reasonable to think that it will always be around as long as someone has the code and the ability to compile it. It probably won't be the VCS of choice in 30 years, but for people with that kind of interest, I'm sure it'll be
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by AndrewO 17y ago
I think it's fair to say that Git is going to be a major tool for software archeology and cultural studies of our little subculture. I can almost imagine someone reading through Rails commits in 30+ years who will have no idea what a LOLCa
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by AndrewO 17y ago
Doesn't PEP 20 say that there should be only one way to do it? :-)
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by AndrewO 17y ago
I love how that guy was so incensed that they'd devoted so much to iPods instead of making better servers. Just imagine a world with no iPods, but beefier Xserves... Oh, and Apple going out of business before 2005.
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by AndrewO 17y ago
http://www.alwaysinnovating.com/wiki/index.php/Faqs#Does_the... > Does the Touch Book support multitouch? > No. And we don't think that it's an issue. Multitouch is interesting when you want to zoom in / zoom out. At 1024×600, the
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by AndrewO 17y ago
Yeah, but there's no reason to think that they will either. In fact, I would highly doubt that they'd do that given that they haven't for the iPhone and they're notoriously minimalistic when it comes to making different versions of the sam
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by AndrewO 17y ago
It's ironic that Steve's much criticized initial suggestion of "why don't you make web apps?" in lieu of an SDK when the iPhone first came out is now more and more acceptable. Certainly Safari advances and all the negativity about the appr
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by AndrewO 17y ago
Good call—I completely missed the date and thought it was recent. Pretty much everything that comes up when you google the name is about this, so it doesn't look like anything came of this, which is a shame. Also, it being 1999, I'm guessi
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by AndrewO 17y ago
While reading this, I couldn't help but think of one thing: Comic Book Guy from The Simpsons. While I'm certain that the creators were drawing from existing characteristics, I wonder how much has been reabsorbed and amplified as a common f
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by AndrewO 17y ago
The laptop in the top banner appears to have some kind of curly-brace language code open in Eclipse. By the look of the syntax highlighting and flow of indentation, my guess would be Java (or possibly C++). > It will never happen of co
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by AndrewO 17y ago
I hadn't heard of either before. I'm somewhat interested (nice design—especially the signup form), but not quite sure if I understand it completely. I think a demo video and/or some examples of good user newspapers would help clear this u
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by AndrewO 17y ago
I'm sure all of this will make it's way into the sequel(s)...
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by AndrewO 17y ago
What about the "Edit in TextMate" command?
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by AndrewO 17y ago
Ack in Project to the rescue: http://github.com/protocool/ack-tmbundle Sure, it's not the native find in project, but it's way faster. Not a day goes by that I don't use it.
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by AndrewO 17y ago
I hope you take this as constructive criticism (and not me just being a jerk :), but I see a couple of problems: 1) JSON gives no benefit over a Ruby DSL (like ActiveRecord migrations). Is the schema file going to be consumed by client pro
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by AndrewO 17y ago
Wait, so the author says we should design our own schema definition DSL, write some JSON that uses that DSL to define a database schema, and implement whatever transformations are required to generate a working migration from that DSL? How
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by AndrewO 17y ago
Not to criticize this one, but it's interesting to see the difference between a diagram like this one and the ones linked. Definitely gives me an appreciation of technical illustrators that can make something that preserves information and
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by AndrewO 17y ago
I'm surprised that the fact that it was the first robotic submersible to cross an ocean wasn't in the headline. I have to say, the whole glider idea is pretty cool.
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by AndrewO 17y ago
tl;dr summary: author presents several straw-man arguments that are predicated on a shallow understanding of not only Christianity and its views on the afterlife, but humanity's bounds. One of the better comments (by "Matt"): "I really don'
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by AndrewO 17y ago
Out of curiousity, how does the industry not have to fulfill Cal/OSHA now? Is it that performers are not currently employees and the proposed law would change that?

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