alastairpat

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by alastairpat 15y ago
I just ran this (using the PHP CLI) on my Lion MacBook Air and it took far, far longer than 30 seconds - 172, to be exact. Not being at all familiar with the underlying mechanisms, does anybody understand why it would take so much longer on
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by alastairpat 15y ago
I swear, whenever I start to implement something for my Parse-based app, Parse just goes and adds it to their framework. Stop making my life so easy!
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by alastairpat 15y ago
The Readme.md seems to imply that the Campfire configuration variables are non-optional, so it would seem not. Sounds like a fork waiting to happen, though.
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GitHub releases their CI server, Janky(github.com)
135 points by alastairpat 15y ago|21 comments
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by alastairpat 15y ago
It's tragic what is being lost in this race to the bottom for increased pageviews/audience share. I really want to believe that people like Gruber (who I, at least used to, have a great deal of respect for) are above it, but watching things
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by alastairpat 15y ago
The update will still be delivered via Windows Update, it just won't prompt you like it previously did.
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by alastairpat 15y ago
The title is a little sensationalist, isn't it? I mean, this would be annoying to encounter and should be fixed, but I don't imagine it'll cause the end of the world, as the title might suggest.
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by alastairpat 15y ago
It works best with GitHub repositories, but you can use it for basic git commands with any git repository. I'm not sure that it supports pushing to/pulling from anything except GitHub, so you might still need GitX/Terminal.app for that. I c
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by alastairpat 15y ago
He didn't lose his job in the end: http://www.smh.com.au/business/dave-the-banker-keeps-his-job...
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by alastairpat 15y ago
Apple has to comply with its contract just as the developers do. I did just check the agreement and either party can terminate with 30 days' notice for any or no reason, so they could theoretically terminate. Given this is completely out of
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by alastairpat 15y ago
I would doubt it - there's nothing illegal about reverse-engineering a protocol.
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by alastairpat 15y ago
I was appalled when he claimed to have pitched 'OneBox' without having a clue about what it was. This description sort of reminded me of the way Sean Parker was portrayed in 'The Social Network'. Arrogant, irritating and fairly useless.
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by alastairpat 15y ago
As I said below (above? Depends on how it renders), it's a valid argument. I guess the only real counterargument is that employers (by default) have a lot of power over their employees. If an employer decides to fire somebody, it'll make ve
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by alastairpat 15y ago
It's a compelling argument, but if there wasn't "at-will" firing, this sort of underhanded "give us our shares back or we'll fire you" stuff that Zynga is purportedly doing couldn't happen without nasty court cases.
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by alastairpat 15y ago
Yeah, of course. You might be required to give 2 weeks' notice or something and if you're contracted you might be liable for breach of contract but nobody's going to force you to work.
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by alastairpat 15y ago
I may be wrong, but I think that was wound back as part of WorkChoices being repealed.
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by alastairpat 15y ago
(I loved the example, by the way) How is that sequence so significantly different from (in iOS 5) double pressing the home button from the lock screen, touching 'Camera' then taking a photo? I'm not suggesting that camera phones are as good
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by alastairpat 15y ago
"At-will"?! I had no idea that in California you could just terminate employment for no reason. Coming from Australia where you can't fire anybody without good reason (even demoting people can be considered unfair dismissal) this just sound
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by alastairpat 15y ago
Compact cameras are still terrible in that regard; you can only get that 'off to photo taken in 0.3 seconds' with SLRs today. It's thus not really a valid argument for compact digital cameras still having relevance.
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by alastairpat 15y ago
Chrome beta does prefetch URLs: download the latest version, go to a Wikipedia page, wait a few seconds then click the first link – it should appear (almost) instantly. I don't know if it prefetches links in webmail, however, and that would
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by alastairpat 15y ago
It kind of reminds me of ASP.NET C# MVC, just glancing at the example page: http://au.php.net/manual/en/yaf.examples.php Not being particularly proficient in PHP, is the 'Class myClass extends baseClass' syntax normal? I've never seen it
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by alastairpat 15y ago
Those are both really interesting, thanks. I'm really embarrassed to admit I have very little understanding of what happens below Objective-C. Looks like it's time for me to start reading…
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by alastairpat 15y ago
The Age is definitely a broadsheet in terms of print size.
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by alastairpat 15y ago
Perhaps more interesting than WebGL is actually him documenting the process that he took in figuring out how it worked. I really wish I had a better understanding of disassembly.
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by alastairpat 15y ago
That's not strictly fair. The Age online is absolute crap, but The Age in print is marginally better. I do, however, think that the media in general in Australia is abhorrent when compared with other countries, though.
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by alastairpat 15y ago
http://developer.apple.com/library/mac/#documentation/Genera... provides pretty much everything on sandboxing from a non-architectural, developer point of view.
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by alastairpat 15y ago
My lecturer would explode if he saw this.
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by alastairpat 15y ago
You're exactly right - by killing productivity and massively increasing employment without reason, you're going to have massive increases in exogenous consumption. Fantastic, except where are all of these consumed goods going to come from?
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by alastairpat 15y ago
I'm very glad to see this as a Melburnian. With so much emphasis on San Francisco as the startup-mecca, one almost feels disadvantaged living elsewhere in America, let alone in a country like Australia. Perhaps with things like the new IBM
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by alastairpat 15y ago
I disagree - I speak British English and have never seen Store as a plural possessive before. I think it's just a mistake.

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