alexyoung

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by alexyoung 16y ago
Wow, being a janitor sure has high education requirements in the US!
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Non-technical friends were impressed by my Kindle but it was hard to explain not being able to lend books. However, the restrictions sound like they're designed to make the recipient end up buying the book, rather than really facilitate th
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by alexyoung 16y ago
"Perl still has its uses. For tiny projects (100 lines or fewer) that involve a lot of text pattern matching, I am still more likely to tinker up a Perl-regexp-based solution than to reach for Python." I liked this comment because it sounds
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by alexyoung 16y ago
On the same topic, I really enjoyed this podcast that included Dan Bricklin: http://thisdeveloperslife.com/post/1270441885/1-0-5-homerun Some great stories by developers who hit a "home run"
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by alexyoung 16y ago
I don't understand the "PHP is fast" comments. Whenever I've had major scaling problems with PHP or anything else it's been due to IO rather than a fundamental issue with whatever language I was using. The things I did to fix the performan
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by alexyoung 16y ago
"Given all of this, I think that if you want to develop OS X apps without moving away from Ruby..." I've written a lot of both Ruby and Objective-C/Cocoa over the last few years, and as much as I enjoy working with Objective-C Ruby really w
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by alexyoung 16y ago
Maybe you could make the keyboard shortcut handling stop detecting presses when meta-keys are held down? For example, if I type cmd-w (on a Mac) it types 'w' instead of closing the tab as I would expect. I've written a lot of keyboard short
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by alexyoung 16y ago
Maybe the fact WebObjects was removed from Snow Leopard Server means they don't depend on it internally as much? It seems like they've been cooling off on Java development and support over the last few years.
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I'm self-employed too, I didn't get much encouragement from people until I landed a corporate client.
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I saw a Tweet on this very topic recently: http://twitter.com/amyhoy/status/26565875780 I thought she had a good point.
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by alexyoung 16y ago
"Support paid apps by means of an authorization model that uses existing identity systems like OpenID." I like the idea of this. I wish it was easier to sell the web apps I build, in a way that's as easy as plugging in OpenID. I've looked
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by alexyoung 16y ago
Maybe another reason is too many British people think in terms of the government solving the problem, or starting projects funded by quangos: "what we need is a startup scene, therefore we need government funding!" Getting startups in touch
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I liked this troll of my troll
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There's a lot of JavaScript games out there. The fact this is a game - written in JavaScript - is no-longer newsworthy.