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More To Instagram Than Meets The Eye(factore.ca)
1 points by adriand 15y ago|0 comments
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by adriand 15y ago
Learning Ruby on Rails will give you a great understanding of how to build web applications, it will give you lots of tools that let you do so quickly, and it will introduce you to an elegant, powerful language that is a joy to use. But th
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by adriand 15y ago
If you want to learn how to develop iOS apps, then you should learn Objective C. I'm a Ruby developer and as much as I love the language, when I decided I also wanted to write iOS apps I bit the bullet and started learning Objective C. In
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by adriand 15y ago
Thanks, I really appreciate the personal insight. I may take a wait-and-see approach with this one now.
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by adriand 15y ago
Some big swings in the opinions on CloudFlare in this thread so far. I've used CloudFlare on a site with low traffic and I liked the results and so I just recommended that a publisher client who gets around 20,000 daily uniques should use
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by adriand 15y ago
My four-year-old says "I amn't". I correct him with "I'm not" but I've long felt his usage made logical sense. But I never realized it was at some place and time an accepted usage! Amazing how the brain acquires language and independently
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by adriand 15y ago
Interesting point about gravity I came across in a book recently ( The Beginning of Infinity by David Deutsch): > most non-physicists consider it self-evident that when you hold your arm out horizontally you can feel the force of gravi
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by adriand 15y ago
> what I said is I'm not going to give Yehuda any money because I criticized his PROJECT and he responded with 'fuck you giles.' so he made it personal, and you're making it personal too. Well, that's reasonable enough. I'll be honest,
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by adriand 15y ago
Giles, you're acting like a prima donna over what is really a minor quibble with the way Bundler works. How many people do you honestly think get hung up on a warning from Bundler that gives you clear instructions on what to do next? An
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by adriand 15y ago
I've been a Rails dev since about 2007 as well and I've had some serious, serious problems dealing with Rails, gem dependencies, the version of RubyGems itself, and so on. rvm has helped a lot with that, but my last computer got so messed
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by adriand 15y ago
I didn't see anyone saying this yet, so I'll say it: this is an excellent idea. My wife literally (and I do mean literally) has a closet full (in fact, stuffed ) with clothes and she constantly complains that she can't wear any of it, tha
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by adriand 15y ago
> what's the monetization policy that would work for you? Just make a paid app - it's that simple. I won't hesitate to put down 99 cents, or $1.99, or $2.99, for an app that my child will get enjoyment out of, especially if it has some
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by adriand 15y ago
I actually had to get a refund from Apple for an in-app purchase my son made while using Talking Tom Cat (I since deleted that app and turned off in-app purchases). I've got two kids and what I would add to the observations listed in this a
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by adriand 15y ago
Prediction: at some point, there will be an accident involving an autonomous car. The event data recorder (aka the "black box") will indicate that the human operator took control of the vehicle before the accident occurred. The driver/pas
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by adriand 15y ago
> I would sign up for this tomorrow if someone on here goes and builds it. :) But would you pay for it? If so, there is a way to generate almost infinite revenue with this service, which is to charge a small fee for each receipt stored
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by adriand 15y ago
You seem to be pretty enthusiastic about rather worrying and even disturbing developments. This is not a science fiction novel, this is real life. One day it is Israeli hackers destroying Iranian centrifuges, perhaps the next day it will
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by adriand 15y ago
Exactly, it's a very pragmatic move. After all, who has more lawyers? I think that people need to ask the question, "What do I hope to get out of this particular thing I'm about to do or say?" more often, as opposed to, "What am I justifi
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by adriand 15y ago
He mentions OS X Chrome specifically. I would quote him, but I can't cut & paste because my cursor is so messed up. ;) If you leave the window and come back in, it works better (temporarily).
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by adriand 15y ago
From what I can tell, this would be better called "Zencoder for photos", not "Twilio for photos".
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by adriand 15y ago
Actually, that's true. I stand corrected. I think I was distracted by the rather obvious issue in the example code that the OP posted, which did not include this basic protection.
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by adriand 15y ago
Yes, if there is anything else in the public key table that you don't want to be updated via form fields, then you should be protecting yourself against it. However, every developer - or at minimum, every experienced developer - should kno
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by adriand 15y ago
I agree that the default for Rails should be more secure, but this was a really basic mistake by the GitHub team. Yes, mistakes do happen, but there's a very simple way to avoid the exploit that is postulated in this article. The 'schemati
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by adriand 15y ago
While reading a bit about these cables I found this unusual fact on Wikipedia: > Because the [TAT-8] cable was the first fiber optic cable and not coaxial cable, the electrical interference shielding for the high voltage supply lines wa
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by adriand 15y ago
I think that there's definitely room for an app that helps you remember people, but this is not it. First of all, photographing people to save them in your phone is just plain weird. At least in my circles, it is not socially acceptable t
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by adriand 15y ago
This is a good, solid assessment of what Rails 3.2 is like to work with. Like you, I don't totally understand where the animosity towards Rails is coming from. If you want to make a drum machine that runs in your browser, like Giles Bowket
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Glaring Problem With Messages Exposes RIM's Broken Software Development Culture(factore.ca)
2 points by adriand 15y ago|1 comments
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by adriand 15y ago
It also works if you just google "web history" and click on the search result link, for whatever reason.
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by adriand 15y ago
This is a common reaction to stories about resurrecting ancient species, but I wonder if it really just means that disaster movies are silly, rather than that these activities are risky. After all, when we consider ancient, extinct species,
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by adriand 15y ago
I'm interested in trying out this technique for a site we built but your comments about Googlebot and the associated downside with long-tail pages gives me pause. Do you have any suggestions on how to evaluate whether or not a technique li
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by adriand 15y ago
I think part of the problem for beginners is that both the breadth and depth of the skills required for web development have increased so much. This post focuses on the depth required to learn Rails properly: you must understand Ruby (whic

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