PhilChristensen

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by PhilChristensen 17y ago
Maybe it's because Joe Hewitt 'quit' developing for iPhone because he was pissed at Apple. http://techcrunch.com/2009/11/11/joe-hewitt-developer-of-fac... They released 3.1 almost immediately after that, but there hasn't been any signific
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by PhilChristensen 17y ago
Get a ticket how ? Because you let your dog crap openly on the street while a cop was watching? What kind of disincentive is that? I live in the police state of New York City, and yet on my block alone I regularly have to dodge between 4-5
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by PhilChristensen 17y ago
I had a hard time understanding this article, but it was really due to translation issues, and my own lack of understanding about grammar. I had to read up on the English concept of active- versus passive-voice. For example: The cat ate
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by PhilChristensen 17y ago
I'm particularly irritated with the distasteful attitude the author took when he was mad a couple of hacker news readers didn't think it was fair to charge $0.99 for this.
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by PhilChristensen 17y ago
"If there weren't real fundamental problems with the security, stability and performance of Flash I don't think we'd be having this conversation at all." But that always seems to be the way one technology gives way to another, because it im
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by PhilChristensen 17y ago
Could you (or anyone else) elaborate on the issues with super() as described in this article? I'm having a hard time understanding what's going on between the complex details of the problem and the author's cumbersome syntactic choices.
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by PhilChristensen 17y ago
Great, another glorified RSS reader for $2
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by PhilChristensen 17y ago
I'll admit that I didn't read this article particularly thoroughly, but how did he get through an entire overview of 'Table Oriented Programming' without mentioning Lua?
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by PhilChristensen 17y ago
I think you should reconsider those statements. Just because you wrote it doesn't mean it's doing what you think it is. And users really can not be counted on to report errors. Even if they do, the average bug report reads something like "S
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by PhilChristensen 17y ago
This is interesting, I had an idea to do the same thing years ago. I ended up just taking a few of the really nice things from Drupal, and making a new framework around those. I loved Drupal when I was limited to building sites in PHP. It w
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by PhilChristensen 17y ago
If there is honestly nothing that does what you need, fine. I'm just saying the NIH-syndrome is a big problem for the FOSS community, and leads to the fracturing of attention. Far too many talk a big talk about how collaboration is the key
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by PhilChristensen 17y ago
NO! Don't write your own!! That's what got us into this mess in the first place! Find one you like, and do what you can to support it in some way.
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by PhilChristensen 17y ago
Writing unit tests should be your highest priority. I am far from a TDD advocate, and compared to many I am terrible at maintaining my own tests, but I could never justify using an IO package that contains zero tests. IO errors are some o
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by PhilChristensen 17y ago
I'm sorry, but this post is just packed full of FUD. I hear this all the time, "argh, Deferreds are so hard to understand," as if there's some kind of magic going on in a Deferred. Deferreds are just a way to encapsulate two callbacks, one
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by PhilChristensen 17y ago
I go back and forth between writing electronic music and performing intensely improvisational rock music. I've got a lot of my personal music on my main site at http://www.philchristensenmusic.com -- for this kind of stuff, I use ProTools
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by PhilChristensen 17y ago
I question the relevance of these tests. With all the attention being given to performance, everyone seems to be overlooking the fact that Tornado provides zero support for truly asynchronous web applications written for it. If you have
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by PhilChristensen 17y ago
okay, i give up. explain to me how it's possible to run any significant WSGI app inside this container. wouldn't any long-running request monopolize the whole server? i don't have a lot of exposure to other WSGI apps besides my own, but I a
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by PhilChristensen 17y ago
that's just not true. i use web1 extensively, and it works very well, and although it's performance is not as good as apache or lighttpd when serving raw files, it's more than adequate for most web application development. web2 was never a
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by PhilChristensen 17y ago
what 'web mess in twisted' are you referring to?
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by PhilChristensen 17y ago
Unless of course, you had said LSD on some kind of substrate, such as blotter paper, or god help you, a sugar cube. Then the 'fair government' would weigh the entire product, and charge you for posessing that much LSD, which would weigh e
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by PhilChristensen 17y ago
Sweet merciful lord. Is this guy channelling Zed Shaw or what? Apart from all the hand-waving and generalizations, this guy doesn't sound like he's ever really a webapp under serious load. I'm not a Ruby guy, so I don't know how things fly
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by PhilChristensen 17y ago
He's right about there being two kinds of programmers, and we might as well use 'engineer' vs. 'artist' even though it's not entirely accurate. However, all programmers need to be professionals, at least if they have any intention of inte