KevinMS

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by KevinMS 17y ago
"One principle duct tape programmers understand well is that any kind of coding technique that’s even slightly complicated is going to doom your project." Like writing a custom compiler for your web app? http://www.joelonsoftware.com/items
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by KevinMS 17y ago
I upvoted you. Although it was self promoting are we not seeing the forest for the trees? HN is run by a startup promoter and it all about startups and promoting startups and monitizing startups. To me your idea is perfectly legit. Altho
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by KevinMS 17y ago
Problem is from historical conventions of what a square and rectangle are. A square is not really a thing, its a description of a thing. In this case, proportions of the sides of a shape. So when you translate this into object oriented lan
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by KevinMS 17y ago
Or local laws can be written and enforced about noise pollution early in the morning. Probably not that different from regulations that don't let your neighbors put a noisy windmill on their roof. I remember a long time ago the town where
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by KevinMS 17y ago
I'm a victim because I prefer to be able to open my windows or sit outside? I'm a victim because I can't sleep through the sound of landscapers early in the morning, even with the widows closed?
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by KevinMS 17y ago
Right now I'm relaxing with some HN and listening to the sounds of crickets and the occasional car passing by. I swear, if a neighbor installs one of these things, and I can hear it (whooshing noises, or it develops a noise from just normal
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by KevinMS 17y ago
Thank you lutorm and andrewf for the great replies. lutorm, I appreciate your example of the brightness of galaxies needing to be altered, pretty much just compressing the dynamic range (borrowed from audio, sorry). I will never picture ga
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by KevinMS 17y ago
Pictures like these bother me because I don't know which have been manipulated (brightness, contrast, color, etc), for public consumption or to highlight certain features for study. Anybody know if there are unaltered images from Hubble?
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by KevinMS 17y ago
Clearly, having hundreds of perfectly aligned, glossy and drop-shadowed images makes for a much better user experience. Will this be done in Flash or HTML 7? Giant image maps? Props for putting a gradient on absolutely everything.
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by KevinMS 17y ago
Rails does what he mentions ... [shell] ./script/console Loading development environment (Rails 2.3.3) >> nil.blank? => true >> "".blank? => true >> [].blank? => true >> {}.bla
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by KevinMS 17y ago
Didn't read, too wide!
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by KevinMS 17y ago
I have two questions, maybe somebody with expertise could answer them. 1. What is the breakthrough here? Delivery of medicine through feeder vessel? The idea of how to implement it (needle, robots, tube, etc)? Or just the actual design of
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by KevinMS 17y ago
Truthfully version control has never really helped me out on anything other than backing up and restoring. I still have to google svn command just to figure out how to go back to previous revisions. I would recommend you just learn how to
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by KevinMS 17y ago
So what did this explain? If you answer that, then my next question is, how can plotting shows like Futurama, Charmed and Buffy on the same Graph as SG1 and Bstar explain anything?
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by KevinMS 17y ago
As silly as this seems to me at first, I gotta admit, even though this is the solution to no problems I currently know of, who the hell really knows. Its probably unique, and because of that it might find its way into god knows what applic
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OpenID worth implementing?
5 points by KevinMS 17y ago|4 comments
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by KevinMS 17y ago
I don't believe I supported my post with any information from special interest groups, I gave you a link to what Freeman Dyson writes.
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by KevinMS 17y ago
"If anything else, no one will take a scientist's model seriously unless they use it to predict future events accurately -- this is a fundamental requirement of a model, after all." Except when it comes to many many people trying very hard
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by KevinMS 17y ago
After suffering through a project with complex css I felt a similar itch and tried to scratch it by developing http://moonfall.org/ Its very similar to this, differences I see are: It uses C/Lua, not ruby, so the cool kids probably wont u
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by KevinMS 17y ago
I do web development and erlang development and the thought of mixing the two horrifies me. First of all, I think erlang is a swedish word that, roughly translated means, "makes threading easy and everything else a total pain in the ass." W
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by KevinMS 17y ago
I call shenanigans on Dr Einstein. “Sheep May Safely Graze" is as pop-ish as Bach can get and it would not have been surprising if Bing Crosby put lyrics to it and sang it.
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by KevinMS 18y ago
I wrote something like this a while ago and just got reamed by all the CSS koolaid drinkers. But unlike Sass it doesn't abandon the cascade, and things look a lot simplier, at least to me. I guess because its in LUA it wasn't cool enough.
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by KevinMS 18y ago
Almost every email address carries an implicit username/password as well as a degree of identity provided by dns services (where the email goes) So thats not bad proof that the person that recieves an email to that address will receive the
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by KevinMS 18y ago
I remembered that baboon image from my Amiga! http://arstechnica.com/articles/culture/amiga-history-4-comm...
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by KevinMS 18y ago
"The ideal candidate is... posses a computer science degree" That's unfortunate, since computer science has almost zero relevance to what you do.
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by KevinMS 18y ago
If I may, I'd like to repeat and emphasize, these two points are very big, in my experience... 2. Makes it so you can't sign someone else up surreptitiously For some sites, the drop-off rate is worth the reduction in support hassle.
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by KevinMS 18y ago
Some people that score well on interview tests are the worst fuckuppited programmers you'd never want to work with. And some who blow it are a pleasure to work with. Those little tests don't account for documentation, architecture, scalabi
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by KevinMS 18y ago
Its been shown you can actually score well on the SATs, at least a while ago when it was on paper and multiple choice, without actually having to read the questions. To me thats a failure of a test. Maybe they've fixed this bug, but here's
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by KevinMS 18y ago
Anybody notice the trend of JQuery having "cooler" plugins then prototype.js? Or do they just get more attention?
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by KevinMS 18y ago
You know who also thought a web browser could become a replacement for the OS? Microsoft. So much so they freaked out and ruined netscape, tried to ruin Real Media, and tried to extend and extinquish Javascript and Java, and almost got thei

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