BrianHV

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by BrianHV 15y ago
I'm on board with his basic pedagogical point: don't tell people you expect them to struggle. I'm concerned that he's going a little too far in the other direction, though. It's great to come up with a simple or even tautological explanatio
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by BrianHV 15y ago
I've had the same feeling. When I learned about org mode, I actually spent a week using emacs exclusively trying to get used to it and failed. But whenever I feel this way I wonder why these sorts of applications don't exist for vim. I don'
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by BrianHV 15y ago
I've been fantasizing for months (if not years) about a wall-sized display that I could sync with my digital todo list. I don't care if it's monochrome, if it takes 5 seconds to refresh, or has pixels you can see from across the room. It ju
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Is WSGI Lite a Library or a Protocol? (And Why You Should Care)(dirtsimple.org)
3 points by BrianHV 15y ago|0 comments
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by BrianHV 15y ago
A lot of interview advice articles mention asking questions as a way of impressing the interviewers. I see that as a side benefit, and one that you earn only if you approach it the right way. Although it may not appear so to folks straight
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by BrianHV 15y ago
I'd encourage you to write some code, too. There's a lot of intuition you gain by manipulating the bits that you can't get by reading. You may think you know what a pointer is, but until you've had to debug a double-free segfault or a memor
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by BrianHV 16y ago
To elaborate, I got it to work this way: * Hold two fingers on middle of track pad * Click thumb on bottom of track pad; katamari should start to move at this point * Release two fingers on middle of track pad * Use single finger
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by BrianHV 16y ago
I forget where I saw this tip, but after making this mistake several times I remapped command-Q in Chrome to the "Zoom" command. (Keyboard control panel -> Keyboard Shortcuts -> Application Shortcuts). It's already saved me lots o
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by BrianHV 16y ago
As someone who's trying to sort through the frequently-conflicting information out there on health and diet, I found a lot of this article interesting, though I felt sometimes like the author was trying to sell me something more than he was
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by BrianHV 16y ago
Perhaps I misunderstand your assertion, but I do want to clarify that django does provide views for user management in django.contrib.auth.views. It includes login, logout, and password reset/change views. Granted, it doesn't include temp
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by BrianHV 16y ago
Where do you find fixed-bid web projects you can bid on for 25K? Do you have a go-to website, or connections with people who will solicit your bids?
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by BrianHV 16y ago
Piano and guitar are more similar than you think. A lot of guitar music, especially on the net, is written just as chords, which may be what you're thinking of. But the chords are the same notes whether you're playing them on guitar or pia
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by BrianHV 16y ago
The way you phrase your question is somewhat prejudicial. No one wants to claim that they'll "settle." However, everyone has some threshold of "good enough" for release. Even your option B alludes to that; if you're iterating, it means t
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by BrianHV 16y ago
Not safe for work.
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by BrianHV 16y ago
There's a tool-assisted speedrun of Monopoly for the NES that takes a different approach than the one described in this page: http://tasvideos.org/520M.html
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by BrianHV 17y ago
I don't have an hour to burn either, but I did find previous discussion here: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=644007
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by BrianHV 17y ago
I wonder if this might be a paradox of choice phenomenon as much as it is a feeling-at-home phenomenon. In the store, people are confronted with 20 choices, with a variety of technical numbers that sound important and little obvious visual
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by BrianHV 17y ago
I like to say that the two biggest mistakes I've made when building websites are using an ORM and not using an ORM. At my current position, we're using entirely hand-coded SQL. It's been a real pain, particularly when trying to fetch large
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by BrianHV 17y ago
I think perhaps in my quest for concision I failed to communicate. I certainly didn't mean to imply that TDD could provide certainty for the entire system. But I have to differ with you in one key point. TDD specifically proves that the c
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by BrianHV 17y ago
Thanks for this. I'm going to start paying attention to times when I want to change the API but feel inhibited by the tests. I haven't noticed it happening in the past, but it's possible I dismissed the idea of changing the API quickly en
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by BrianHV 17y ago
How do tests written after you've changed the code prove the state of the system prior to the change? Or put another way, what technique do you use to ensure the test is exercising what you think it is? I understand what you mean about ine
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by BrianHV 17y ago
I have to admit I've always been puzzled by the opposition to TDD. I don't see it as a novice thing, or a dogmatic thing. Yet many in this community see it as such, so I'm wondering what they're seeing that I'm not. To me, the fundamental
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by BrianHV 17y ago
I like it. It's actually very close to what I did with sawfish back in the day. Being a vim guy myself, I bound left/down/up/right to hjkl. I may steal some of your ideas as I experiment with my SizeUp bindings though.
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by BrianHV 17y ago
This is exactly what I've been looking for since I switched back to the Mac from Linux a few years ago. Thanks for the pointer!
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by BrianHV 17y ago
My understanding is the sales guy is correct. The place for a definitive answer would be the "My Verizon" section of the website. When I click "My Services" and "My Plan" I have "Email And Web For Smartphone" which says unlimited when clic
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by BrianHV 17y ago
I haven't used the iPhone much so I can't give a good comparison to that. I came from a Treo, and have been a Palm user for about 10 years. I knew when I bought the Droid that there would be things I'd be missing that I took for granted on