DanI-S

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by DanI-S 14y ago
This would be great. I'd love to have a place to go to check out the current state of the art. There's a huge amount to learn from other people's projects. Additionally, votes cast there would be meaningful in terms of seeing which projects
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> What's bad is that departments appear to be excessively pressured into open source, which is not a good idea. It's important to go for the best tool for the job and the things you can manage the most effectively, which might not alway
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Twitter is used in a lot of developing countries, through a lot of outdated browsers, on a lot of slow computers. I'd imagine that this plays into their choices somewhat.
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This makes sense when developer time is not an issue, but if it is, favour simplicity.
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by DanI-S 14y ago
This is great advice. Chances are, you're not building an operating system. Since your software is less complex, try to figure out the decisions you need to make. It may require a few iterations, but it's the right thing to do.
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Thanks - I've actually played with Noir a little, but wasn't sure whether it was worth taking the time to explore fully. I'm glad to hear that it is!
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I've been playing with 4clojure[1] in my off time for weeks, and it's been a great introduction to the language, although it obviously doesn't help with learning how to package and deploy an application or service. How did you make the firs
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> We understand that directing your user outside of your app may not be the user experience you prefer to offer your users. However it is a common experience in a variety of iOS apps. That doesn't seem like the kind of uncompromising
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by DanI-S 14y ago
There's no need for the aggression. We're two grown-ups here, having a discussion about a subject we both find fascinating. That aside, here's some elaboration. Trillions of meteorites have landed on the Moon's surface since its formation.
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How could we possibly eat all these pigeons? There are flocks, 300 miles long, that turn the sky dark. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Passenger_Pigeon
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With any luck, in a few decades, it won't be.
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> There is nothing there to abuse, no "environment" to foul, no natives to exploit, nothing, not even bacteria. I agree with the sentiment of your post, but this is incorrect. The Moon is a uniquely pristine environment that holds irre
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"Mars for the average person" - how I think Elon Musk will hack space(situnayake.tumblr.com)
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I wonder if they've tried painting this stuff on the underside of a boat?
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by DanI-S 14y ago
The thing that draws me to Vim, really, is the extensibility. There's a steep learning curve to creating a powerful Vim extension, but there are still a huge number of them. Imagine if Light Table can make editor extension something you can
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by DanI-S 14y ago
Put another way, you got 400 customer interactions for free , many resulting in additional sharing of your content. Isn't that worth something in a world where an Adwords clickthrough can cost $10+?
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In a way, this demonstrates quite well how the premium of buying a Mac makes sense for a lot of people. The extra few hundred dollars aren't too significant if it genuinely saves them time.
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Only if you earn less than (52*495) $25,740 per year, and that's not considering vacation.
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There are a shocking number of people here with no outward empathy, understanding nor willingness to see outside of their own limited experience. The world is not the tech industry. Not everybody has the same perspective as you. In fact, mo
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by DanI-S 14y ago
I think everybody should learn the fundamentals of programming for the same reason that we learn the fundamentals of physics - not because we're going to be reproducing Newton's experiments at home, but because we live in a world powered by
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by DanI-S 14y ago
The Bay Area is one of the most beautiful places in the world, and if they turn it into another Los Angeles I will cry. This country is phenomenally huge and there is no reason whatsoever to live clustered together in vile, concrete scabs.
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by DanI-S 14y ago
It's an altogether unpleasant feeling to see my country and its people become a plaything for the rich and powerful. Too many government decisions are made in order to procure glory and gratification for those at the helm. Britain has a lot
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by DanI-S 14y ago
I have a Verizon iPhone 3GS, which I bought specifically so that I could use it in the US and the UK. After three months, which is Verizon's minimum wait period, I called them up and had them unlock the phone for an international SIM. On tr
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by DanI-S 14y ago
The idea that here, in the 21st century, any successful entrepreneur must garb oneself in rarely-worn, extremely expensive and generally inconvenient Victorian-era ceremonial dress in order to arrange a business transaction is utterly ludic
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> Not everything on the web needs to be 'beautiful'. Is there anything in nature that isn't beautiful? Beauty comes from the optimal intersection of form and function; in nature, this balance is reached through evolution. That's what w
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I'm not sure where you derived 'subsistence wages' from. If I were going to suggest a solution, it would be more centered around increased government funding of drug research, specifically with the aim reducing manufacturing costs. Funding
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by DanI-S 14y ago
For me, issues like this raise the question: Does capitalism still make moral sense in a world where a large proportion of the population is so poor as to be unlikely to participate in the free market during their lifetime? Even at $150 per
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As a developer who loves using git, I am more than happy for others to go to the effort of selling it to business stakeholders. Why wouldn't I be?
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It certainly beats reading flash cards on my iPhone whilst sitting on the toilet, which was the previous cutting edge.
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> You're optimizing for programmer excitement. There's a famous graph of programmer excitement curves floating around on the net, with a peak at "new and shiny" stage. I at no point said that this should be the overriding factor. I said

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