YellowRex

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by YellowRex 13y ago
A top-spec Mac Mini is pretty beastly at $1500. I have no doubt it would chew up and spit out the vast majority of workstation use cases. 2.6 GHz Quad-core i7, 16 GB RAM, SSD. The only thing I can possibly imagine would be some seriously
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by YellowRex 13y ago
These best part of the post is Tim Bray's response, where he says he would keep PUT and DELETE because they're idempotent, but declined to defend the rest.
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by YellowRex 13y ago
I write tons of Java in my day job, and at this point it only hurts when I laugh.
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by YellowRex 13y ago
I just wrote a REST API for my company and used PUT and DELETE (Tomcat doesn't support PATCH yet). Plenty of DELETE in Stripe's API: https://stripe.com/docs/api#delete_recipient Github uses HEAD, PATCH, PUT,
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by YellowRex 13y ago
90% of it is print statement -> function. I got pretty tired of scrolling past all that to try and find the interesting bits.
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by YellowRex 13y ago
From the announcement blog post: -Cool looking dark theme, because that’s trendy these days
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by YellowRex 13y ago
Grrr, the Boing Boing article just links to Forbes.
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by YellowRex 13y ago
I hate Forbes - interstitial ads and persistent headers are super annoying. Can we stop posting Forbes links? Boing Boing has the same coverage with a much more reader-friendly site design: http://boingboing.net/2013/0
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by YellowRex 13y ago
HeroLight is hard to read on that background and looks rough around the edges on a non-retina screen.
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by YellowRex 13y ago
Click through to the "Quip Business" page - they use a Thinkpad instead. Subtle bit of "take us seriously" marketing to business types.
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by YellowRex 13y ago
So who is writing an app to trigger streaming from a local network file share?
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by YellowRex 13y ago
Other side of an airtight hatchway? For this to be at all relevant, you're already got me running your binary with my user's permissions.
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by YellowRex 13y ago
It's trendy and easier to do an okay job with than the kind of baroque skeuomorphism prevalent in iOS. See https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5698352
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by YellowRex 13y ago
One of the courses I took as an elective in my first semester in a Master's in CS program was a course in Human-Computer Interaction, which included user testing off-campus. It was the second-most useful course I took, after a great "studio
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by YellowRex 13y ago
A train company did this in North Carolina instead of raising the height of their trestle: http://11foot8.com/