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Vim: Custom Motions(usevim.com)
2 points by alexyoung 14y ago|0 comments
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Hacking Audio with Node.js(dailyjs.com)
2 points by alexyoung 14y ago|0 comments
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by alexyoung 14y ago
I miss those days.
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by alexyoung 14y ago
This reads a lot like blog posts from back when Rails was catching on (~2005). I thought we'd moved on since then: I genuinely wanted to read an intelligent critique on the Ruby language.
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by alexyoung 14y ago
I have no empirical evidence that Apple's turnaround was based on developer advocacy, but my friends and family that can afford Macs use Macs due to my recommendations in the mid 2000s. One thing I've noticed about fellow British developers
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Four O'Four Uses This(404.usesthis.com)
1 points by alexyoung 14y ago|0 comments
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by alexyoung 14y ago
And thus began the era of spam bots written with jsdom/PhantomJS.
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Dyson Sphere Hunt Using Kepler Data(centauri-dreams.org)
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by alexyoung 14y ago
When handling options, I quite like this pattern: var settings = $.extend({ dragable: true, clickable: true, ontext: 'ON', offtext: 'OFF', on: true, animtime: 300 }, opts); The $.extend metho
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by alexyoung 14y ago
It would be nice if you could add some tests to the project. QUnit would suffice.
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by alexyoung 14y ago
I meant it as a joke, while also recognising that it would be ideal for being turned into a cluster. It's made me nostalgic about the days when I built Beowulfs at university!
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by alexyoung 14y ago
Imagine a Beowulf of those!
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by alexyoung 14y ago
I think most of us use idiom in programming to mean 'a form of expression natural to a language, person, or group of people: he had a feeling for phrase and idiom.' The key is 'natural to a language'. Some writers assume they're helping te
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by alexyoung 14y ago
In my experience most implementations either have a way of binding the context per method (JavaScript), or use a loose convention of passing the sender as the first argument (Objective-C). It seems like the Ruby libraries cited are the real
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by alexyoung 14y ago
That could be a real scenario. "I'll just Dropmark this file stored on Dropbox, and also Dropsend it to my colleagues, then I'll Droplet the client for payment."
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by alexyoung 14y ago
"Can Rails compete with Node.js?" For the perplexed: Node isn't a web framework.
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Obama source code logo(logodesignlove.com)
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DefCon 20 Badges, the Big Reveal(wired.com)
2 points by alexyoung 14y ago|0 comments
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by alexyoung 14y ago
I've migrated a few large apps to 1.9/3.x, and it's the least fun I've ever had as a developer. The API changes in Rails and the burden they place on developers makes me think twice before using Rails for new projects. After a while I ende
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by alexyoung 14y ago
I've always liked this: http://sylpheed.sraoss.jp/en/
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by alexyoung 14y ago
I wrote an IRC bot with them when I was 18, and I'm not particularly smart. Also, the bot wasn't particularly smart.
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Wouldn't it be easier if we all just standardised on one power supply?(douglasadams.com)
2 points by alexyoung 14y ago|0 comments
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ES6 Modules: A Simpler Proposal(blog.izs.me)
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by alexyoung 14y ago
This is well documented in Apple's developer documentation and can be overridden with a custom loading image: > When the system launches an app, it temporarily displays a static launch image on the screen. Your app provides this image,
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by alexyoung 14y ago
That's genius.
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GTA in WebGL(experiments.hertzen.com)
6 points by alexyoung 14y ago|0 comments
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Why Star Trek’s Vision of the Future is Out of Date(io9.com)
2 points by alexyoung 14y ago|0 comments
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by alexyoung 15y ago
"Experiment Gmail™ without ads" Experience?
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by alexyoung 15y ago
I've been thinking about this for a while, because I write about several open source projects a week and like to mention the license in my articles. It's often hard to find the license: it might be in the readme, a license file, or in a bo
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by alexyoung 15y ago
I remember reading more detail on the snipers here: Zap your brain into the zone: Fast track to pure focus http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg21328501.600-zap-your-... Which references Experimental Brain Research, vol 213, p 9: http:/

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