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by adrianoconnor 13y ago
I think it ranks highly for the same reason that MSN.com used to rank highly (I think MSN was even the number 1 site for a time); I.E., It has nothing to do with actual hard-earned popularity, and everything to do with default settings in I
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by adrianoconnor 13y ago
I'm not OP, but I think it has got to be the white MacBook with the Intel X3100 graphics. Out of interest, I bought my wife the first aluminium MacBook that would have been released on the same day as his laptop, and that does support
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by adrianoconnor 13y ago
Actually, his worldview closely matches the world out there, and yours doesn't, so technically his worldview is right.
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by adrianoconnor 13y ago
RUMORED MacPro Build To Order pricing revealed. The clue is in the name of the website that you linked, and the article couldn't make it any clearer that these are guesses.
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by adrianoconnor 13y ago
Another silly HN headline. The actual quote from the article that was cherry-picked and butchered this time round was: "The latest studies on vitamins have some medical experts saying 'case closed'" These HN headlines re
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by adrianoconnor 13y ago
The title of the post is "On Distributing Command Line Applications: Why I Switched From Ruby to Go", which changes the sentiment somewhat. The guy who wrote the post is clearly happy to choose the right tool for the job. The sens
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by adrianoconnor 13y ago
CORRUPTION kind of explained a lot :) Hey, you're going the JRuby route? Are you using Swing and what-not to get rid of the platform specific code? How's it working out? I'll grab the source and see if there's anything I can help with. I do
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by adrianoconnor 13y ago
<quote>The community seemed to be headed by elitist wizards, which were inventing their own culture, their own "secret language" and initiation rites. Almost a cult.</quote> I think you read way too much in to it :( I mean,
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by adrianoconnor 13y ago
Hat tip for use of the words 'Jimmies' and 'Rustled' And boy, you sure did rustle them :-)
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by adrianoconnor 14y ago
Do you have a robots.txt? That's the standard way.
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by adrianoconnor 14y ago
I think I generally agree with this (though I do it myself more than I'd like). I think the sentiment of just declaring something (or, more often, someone) 'sucks' is a bit immature, and it's almost always unconstructive. I was listening to
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by adrianoconnor 14y ago
As a programmer that has occasionally worked in teams that delivered great software in 1/3rd the time that sensible people thought possible, that advert really appeals to me -- to me it sounds like someone who really wants to get stuff done
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by adrianoconnor 14y ago
Me too. I desperately wanted to turn that feature off but never managed to find a way. I can't tell you how many times I was just jiggling a window around (usually the browser, while I thought something through or tried to work out what I w
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by adrianoconnor 14y ago
I think at this point you choose either OAuth 1.0a or to roll your own. If it's not in your future to be a public API, I'd go with rolling your own if you are comfortable writing that kind of code.
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by adrianoconnor 14y ago
My favorite business book of all time (well, joint favorite, alongside the 7 habits) is The E-Myth Revisited. It uses a fictional story to weave together the lessons that the author is trying to teach. The narrative is based around a lady w
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by adrianoconnor 14y ago
Hmmm. I read that book a few years ago, and the only thing that sticks in my mind is the bizarre use of mock-biblical language.
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by adrianoconnor 15y ago
The answer is pretty simple: whatever 'fix' you come up with will only last until somebody tries doing yet something else that you hadn't anticipated. At that point, you'll be back to square one. This is the magic of human ingenuity. It has
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by adrianoconnor 16y ago
I use http://www.codespaces.com , but I'm biased because I know the guy that founded and still runs it. It was the first app I saw that was fully written in Ext-js (this was pre 1.0) and back in 2007 or whenever it was that he wrote it it
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by adrianoconnor 16y ago
Re-reading my reply and the original post, it's clear that everyone is different and what works for me probably won't work for you. Just don't give in - try different approaches, find what works best for you and stick at it.
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by adrianoconnor 16y ago
Learn Python The Hard Way is not the best book to start programming with; it's better suited to people who already know how to code and want to learn Python. Python For Non-Programmers is my recommendation: it has stood the test of time pre
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by adrianoconnor 16y ago
I'm not sure why this is being judged bad advice, because this is certainly the path to the least painful solution. If lawyers get involved you're going to burn through any profit you might have had and for what -- to win a moral victory? Y
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by adrianoconnor 16y ago
Me too. I blogged about it the other day, in a fashion: http://www.adrianoconnor.net/2010/10/the-bad-news-about-your... I believe there are two highly valuable skills you need to run a successful business: 1. The ability to create amazin
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by adrianoconnor 16y ago
What about the little 'favourite star'? Surely that achieves the exact same thing ultimately?. I think, but I can't remember for sure, that the number of times a tweet has been favourited is returned by the api, so clients could show it if