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by PLejeck 13y ago
It's absolutely genius, I just wish Apple had executed their part in it better. They needed to position the holes properly for this usage, and they failed to align them properly.
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by PLejeck 13y ago
Materials required: 1 roll of duct tape, 1 old physical game
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by PLejeck 13y ago
I'm rather disappointed by Onavo, despite getting in early and falling in love. They had a great product, but they kept having bugs and UX mistakes. But good for them, getting acquired. Assuming this wasn't a burning-building ac
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by PLejeck 13y ago
I dual boot OS X to be able to use Photoshop. It's slower and feels awkward coming from Linux, though, so I try to limit my stays.
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by PLejeck 13y ago
Not at all. I'm suggesting that arguing that doing nothing is better than doing something is something people do to promote complacency, and has no place in the world.
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by PLejeck 13y ago
My configuration for Linux is so much of a productivity boost to me that I'm planning to make my next laptop a Thinkpad, just to avoid the hardware issues. OS X just held me back. It was locking up at 20% CPU and 40% RAM usage, and I
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Ask HN: How did you learn to properly build tests?
6 points by PLejeck 13y ago|11 comments
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by PLejeck 13y ago
Complacency and apathy are not a form of protest.
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by PLejeck 13y ago
Linux is harder to learn and get set up, but it's just spending a bit more time now to be more productive in the long run. Of course, it's not more productive for everybody, but it is for some of us. Plus we have Docker.io instea
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by PLejeck 13y ago
I see everybody with the view that OSX is so much more productive, but I'll give a different view, as an OS X user turned Linux user. I switched entirely about 6 months ago, and it just sort of happened once Linux was set up to my lik
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by PLejeck 13y ago
It's entertaining for people who aren't perfect at it. Same goes for things like Tic Tac Toe. Entropy = entertainment
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by PLejeck 13y ago
It's rather disappointing that the case doesn't fit perfectly in that direction. Would've worked better on the iPhone 4-style symmetrical-side design. Pity they dropped that for the 5c.
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by PLejeck 13y ago
I've never been able to fully grasp mocking and stubbing.
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by PLejeck 13y ago
Linksys is owned by Cisco, who are well-known for their incredible spinelessness and ability to give into the US Government's requests. Their backdoors are intentional.
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by PLejeck 13y ago
When this originally hit HN last night, I didn't get paranoid. You see, if you read the backwards name, you'd realize it was some programmer who did it, not the NSA. Stop being paranoid, guys. It was just an idiot who got this th
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by PLejeck 13y ago
I do the same at my college. During my college's ongoing remodel of the library, they're increasing the coworking space and decreasing the shelving space. I think this is the future, and some libraries already realize that. We o
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by PLejeck 13y ago
I once read a post (that I can't seem to find now) talking about how startups need a "hacker, a hustler, and a hipster" to succeed.
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by PLejeck 13y ago
We still have huge user experience issues with decentralized systems which make it more awkward for the average person. It's sad, because I (like most programmers) want a distributed system, but it's rather hard to get it right.
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by PLejeck 13y ago
The problem I ran into was that I needed to perform roughly 20 interdependent queries in a short period of time. At most, I could do 5 queries in parallel due to the interdependent nature, but I still ran into trouble with the database bei
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by PLejeck 13y ago
It's okay, I totally just made up "documentation-driven development" too. And yeah, that's the best way I find. Always build a consumer and then build the supplier, you'll usually end up with a great experience.
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by PLejeck 13y ago
I don't think we should view tax increases as a serious solution to debt so much as a means to combat income disparity and provide safety nets. The US government has shown us that tax increases usually go to fund irrelevant wars on oth
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by PLejeck 13y ago
When developing an API, I like to practice "documentation-oriented design." The first thing I do is write documentation of the API, and then I write APIs to fit that documentation (iterating both in parallel once I start writing
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by PLejeck 13y ago
I've always been curious how people do integration tests on things with multiple servers (like SOA stuff), it seems like it'd be dreadful, unless you use Vagrant to (quite slowly) spawn a new VM every time you want to test. Anyone
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by PLejeck 13y ago
The article makes the implication that MVC is inherently slow. It's not, in fact it can be quite fast if you use the right framework. I'm assuming they only know that Rails is slow (which it can be, especially for a case where ca
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by PLejeck 13y ago
Okay yeah it was rather bullshit to say that, but part of me just wanted to fulfill Godwin's Law nice and early and get that out of the way. Anyways, it's hard to argue that genetics control anything in humans very heavily: eviden
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by PLejeck 13y ago
I wouldn't say it has no effect, it's just so minor that it would be silly to base our educational plans on it.
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by PLejeck 13y ago
To imply that strengths are determined by genetics is to ignore the fact that genetics are naught but a starting point. Humans are just complex chemical reactions. Yes, genetics determine the beginning state, but the experiences determine
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by PLejeck 13y ago
Arguing that student genetics have any substantial influence on student success is a load of bullshit. It's the same argument that has been used in favor of organized eugenics, and, just to fulfill Godwin's Law, also used in favo
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by PLejeck 13y ago
I think there were some people trying to apply machine learning and genetic algorithms to it.
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by PLejeck 13y ago
I love the idea of alternative keyboards, and I spent a few months trying to learn Dvorak, but no matter what I stop because it screws all my keyboard shortcuts. OSX's "Cmd Qwerty" feature was nice, but didn't help in In

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