Jacob4u2

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by Jacob4u2 15y ago
The example happens to use "munging" text, but I think the GP is trying to make the point that you can't use sed (effectively) to parse, for instance, a collection of database entries from an SQL server in the same way that LINQ would be ab
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by Jacob4u2 15y ago
Thats not exactly apples to apples. The powershell equivalent is probably more comparable. Also, it all depends on what you value; cryptic one liners definitely will get you geek cred, but working with other people not as smart as you will
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by Jacob4u2 15y ago
I respect your trying to bring attention to incivility on HN, but in what way is the user anonymous? Their account seems old enough and has plenty karma to make me respect their opinion. Also, in my case, the GP expressed the same opinion
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by Jacob4u2 15y ago
More like over zealous fans of the original author. And, of course, the original author of the post. I believe new accounts don't have up votes though, so I don't think they can "game the system" if you're worried.
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by Jacob4u2 15y ago
There is an html5 / OSX widget available at: http://employees.claritycon.com/eklimczak/rhythmandscale/
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Design for Software: Typography Part 1(blogs.claritycon.com)
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by Jacob4u2 15y ago
Reminds me of a Radiolab podcast about parasites and the improvement of productivity in the deep south as a result of the introduction of outhouses. http://www.radiolab.org/2009/sep/07/ (it's the part about farmers, not sure about a speci
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by Jacob4u2 15y ago
There is a polyfill out that handles the lack of File API in IE and earlier versions of Safari; http://sandbox.knarly.com/js/dropfiles/ . Also, great list of polyfills available at the Modernizr github repo; https://github.com/Modernizr/M
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by Jacob4u2 15y ago
Have you tried to do the same thing with MySQL and had success? There's a lot of things in your example that could be causing you grief other than the type of SQL Server you are running; i.e. Network Security, Local Security Configuration
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Design for Software: a playbook for developers(blogs.claritycon.com)
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by Jacob4u2 15y ago
Regarding costs and licensing, have you heard of AppHarbor ( http://appharbor.com ). It's like Heroku but for .Net, free (at least right now) for small web apps and has SQL Server and MySQL database options. Also, I've heard mention of Biz
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Show HN: My Weekend Project - Twilio Powered Magic 8-Ball(8ball.apphb.com)
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by Jacob4u2 16y ago
His response to a hopeful Aeronautical Engineer on becoming an Astronaut: "Be better than the competition." Wisdom.
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by Jacob4u2 16y ago
I sometimes have a hard time justifying how much time I spend on HN, but this quote about creativity really put it in perspective for me: "A current favorite is Hacker News. Look, someone is describing how they did the effects for Tron
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How do you calculate the overhead of an employee in a consulting firm?(programmers.stackexchange.com)
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AppHarbor HTML5 Boilerplate .Net MVC 3 Site in 3 Easy Steps(jacob4u2.posterous.com)
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by Jacob4u2 16y ago
Flash animation showing examples of East to North and North to West turns - http://www.michigan.gov/documents/mdot/MDOT_Roads-Travel_mic...
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by Jacob4u2 16y ago
I agree. This seems more like a "rage quit" post than a reasonable/rational response to the challenges of multi-platform development.
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by Jacob4u2 16y ago
Florian continues to comment on the post, posts this link for confirmation of the source files still being in Android source http://android.git.kernel.org/?p=platform/libcore.git;a=tree...