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by andymoe 15y ago
I was actually poking fun at the fact that at this very moment I am working in a language that is only two years old. My technical reasoning behind this is that Go is "fast as balls." I feel a blog post coming on...
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by andymoe 15y ago
Totally agree. This is tools for the sake of tools and it's detrimental to shipping actual products. Excuse me while I tab back to Emacs and continue editing this Go code...
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Stack Exchange Podcast #27 – Dave Winer(blog.stackoverflow.com)
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by andymoe 15y ago
You never owned your iTunes music purchases - you are licensing them. Take a gander at the EULA you clicked through without looking at.
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by andymoe 15y ago
Take the money. You are unlikely to get another 18-20k raise without changing jobs. You are not on a coast? Plan on moving west or east? It's expensive out here... Take the money and try and save half your income if you can - it will put yo
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by andymoe 15y ago
Hiring experienced generalists with some web development background is a better approach. I would argue strong Javascript skills are more important than ever having used RoRs even if RoRs is the primary stack you use. RoRs is just not that
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by andymoe 15y ago
I see you studied computer science at least a little. I would start with a few of the programming guides on developer.apple.com and check out the sample code from apple [1] and pick up a copy of "Programming in Objective-C 3rd edition" [2]
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by andymoe 15y ago
I'm having flashbacks to early 2000's and writing repots for a portfolio management system called Advent Axys. This thing they call replang has a RPN syntax and it can make any hardened perl programmer cry. The scary thing is Advent is stil
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by andymoe 15y ago
Unless you have a trademark on the name you will not get any help from Apple and even then it is going to be an up hill battle so I would concentrate on making your own app as good as it can be.
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by andymoe 15y ago
Flagged. Also, whoever the other guy is looks like the ass in this exchange.
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by andymoe 15y ago
I put that in there because I write Objective-C all day and worked at Apple for a year and, so yeah, I'm a fan of the comedy option. That reminds me I need to check out gnustep.
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by andymoe 15y ago
Ruby: +1 for Gem system and config management w/ bundler. +1 for DataMapper ORM and Active Record sucking less these days. -1 for everyone one thinking Ruby == Rails when it could be so much more. -1 for Ruby being less performant if you ar
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by andymoe 15y ago
I'm pretty sure there was a link to it from Dennis ritchies' home page: http://www.cs.bell-labs.com/who/dmr The site is down now though. Some forums say it's temporary but I don't know for sure.
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by andymoe 15y ago
Joel likes the sink or swim approach apparently. The first book, Code - Charles Petzold, is only ten bucks on the Kindle right now (SOLD) and I own the other two. I remember SICP being like 90 bucks for my hardcover copy and I'm pretty sure
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by andymoe 15y ago
Apple ships OSX on a pretty consistent schedule every 18 months to two years and I think they had their hands full with all the existing stuff slated for Lion and had also only recently acquired Siri. Engineering teams remain small and focu
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by andymoe 15y ago
I'll give you the jab at IE6 but I take strong exception to your Active Directory comment. It is one of the cooler pieces of tech out of redmond and far and away better than the vanilla LDAP servers from Novel or just about anything else in
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by andymoe 15y ago
Do. Next is to come up with a web app and build it! Come up with a "simple" idea. Write out a spec or outline. Pick some small WSGI based tools like Flask or web.py or something else that strikes your fancy (Not anything monolithic and huge
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by andymoe 15y ago
I understand that people are worried that Apple will abuse their power and be unreasonable about granting exceptions but honestly after building many apps on the outside and seeing how things work from the inside for a year (during Lion dev
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by andymoe 15y ago
I did not want to bring them into the mix and it was the nicest thing I could think to say about them. Bitbucket and SourceTree (acquired) are quite usuable however I find JIRA and Confluence to be really kludgy ugly products but the same c
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by andymoe 15y ago
I agree that competition is healthy and what I'm saying is I'd like to see a volley back from Fog Creek into the lower end of the market that Github seems to control.
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by andymoe 15y ago
I like Github and use it every day but as a longtime advocate of Fog Creek's software I'm a little sad to see Github continuing to move in on Fogbugz/Kiln territory (not to mention competition from the Australians) with not much response fr
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by andymoe 15y ago
Apologies to Aaron for the incorrect attribution. I can no longer edit the post.
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by andymoe 15y ago
Dave is someone who has strong opinions and has been involved in things like RSS and web logging for many many years. He is often early to the party or the driving force behind a lot of things we take for granted today. RSS, podcasting, blo
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by andymoe 15y ago
From .h file. "Don't use this for anything ever"
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by andymoe 15y ago
First thing is double check you did not screw up the release. Like setting your deployment targeting to a lower SDK than your code supports normaly. It could be as simple as changing a drop down in Xcode. Next check you did not start using
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by andymoe 15y ago
This is not good. How am I supposed to tell the fluffy bits from the classes and id's that are supposed to be filled in with data. It's too much mental overhead to distinguish the two quickly.
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by andymoe 15y ago
It's an interesting take by someone who has been involved since the early days of personal computing. I have not read the Jobs book yet but I have been reading Dave's stuff since sometime in '98 (His writing used to be the second result whe
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by andymoe 15y ago
Every day I get a simple email from Amazon about local deals - decent restaurants down the block, a coffee shop I like etc. Google is moving in also but I think Amazon is the real threat. They know a lot about me - I have been a customer fo
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by andymoe 15y ago
Do you want to work somewhere where stickers are frowned upon? I don't. That said, I prefer a clean laptop myself. (except for the scratches it's earned)
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by andymoe 15y ago
It's a good first go but gameplay could be better. It's hard to make five card hands and a bit slow moving. Maybe any hand over two cards should disapear. Also dragging cards down from the top I often hit the pulldown screen in iOS5. The im

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