andymoe

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by andymoe 15y ago
There is absolutely no substance to that article except the usual undertones of "the US should not be in total control of things." Giving any control over to the UN, however, has historically been a pretty poor idea.
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by andymoe 15y ago
My browsers Homepage: http://www.rgrjr.com/emacs/emacs_cheat.html
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by andymoe 15y ago
It was a pretty clever idea (2005) and it certainly paid for the kids tuition... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Million_Dollar_Homepage
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by andymoe 15y ago
Just got the updated version. It's a great game. You can bet I'm going to be borrowing your "Tweet your score to gloat" feature for some of our apps in the future. linkage: http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/dropzap-2/id378977964?mt=8
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by andymoe 15y ago
Good stuff Carl, it's been years (no decades) since I have seen a BASIC program.
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by andymoe 15y ago
Friend from our weekly iOS meetup in SF did this tribute in BASIC for an apple II emulator... thought it was kind of cool. http://tributetosteve.net Emulator is run in a java applet.
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by andymoe 15y ago
I buy paper books because I actually want to own them and keep them. The electronic stuff are tech books and pulp I would eventually trash when they are out of date or have been read. Also, for the love of god capitalize your sentences!
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by andymoe 15y ago
All I'm saying is with Heroku you have to clobber these features together and the real cost of that is higher than people may be admitting in these comparisons. I've worked with both platforms and I'm not saying heroku is horrible. In fact
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by andymoe 15y ago
I agree that picking the right tool for the job is important but I just wanted to list the reasons I prefer GAE. There is quite a lot of outrage (raising prices does that) without really considering what the real costs of the alternative pl
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by andymoe 15y ago
Yes, there is.
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by andymoe 15y ago
An alternate perspective: Google App Engine is still a fine platform even with the new price increases. (Which they told us were coming by the way) And by the time the pricing takes effect the updated python runtime should bring costs down
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by andymoe 15y ago
On the other hand to make a huge stink about a 400 line script that is poorly designed and takes advantage of none of the APIs provided by app engine to make things preferment like back end instances or task queues is a little disingenuous.
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by andymoe 15y ago
15" Laptop (MBP) + 21" LDC @ 1600x1200dpi. I like the 15 inch for the laptop and 19-23 for the external monitor though I don't mind a smaller monitor as long as it can run at 1600x1200 or above.
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by andymoe 15y ago
Why do I need to sign up? What service are you providing? You don't give me any hints and these types of tell me nothing sign up pages are getting old. Give me something! That's my gut reaction. I reached for the back button. Sorry if th
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by andymoe 15y ago
Start with the standard stuff: Objective-C and UIKit. You don't need any frameworks beyond this unless you are building a game and there will be plenty of time to fight with other poeples code when you are adding ad networks, analytics, in
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by andymoe 15y ago
No, you can get by. It's just annoying at times and you have to make sure you live 1 bus away from where you work or you will be hating life. You can also do the bike thing if you are careful. (Dear SF bikers, red lights mean stop for you t
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by andymoe 15y ago
Sure. I've programmed in both quite a bit and it would be interesting to read another take on things. I'm also confident we will get mac ruby fully baked into OS X at some point in the next year or two as well and I strongly believe there w
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by andymoe 15y ago
If you are considering writing any kind of fault tolerant distributed systems or frankly any client server system (In any language) I highly recommend reading the book "Erlang and OTP in Action." [1] It's a reasonably short read and will ma
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by andymoe 15y ago
To build. Period. It's the act of creating that's important to me. The end result is a happy side effect. It's the only kind of art I know how to make.
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by andymoe 15y ago
I think amazon can fix this problem simply by raising us-east prices to be on par with us-west. At least then there would not be quite the incentive to make the foolish choice of running all your instaces out of one region. (I suppose they
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by andymoe 15y ago
One of these guys (Zac) came to our sf iPhone meetup. Very cool stuff and they know their shit.
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by andymoe 15y ago
Awesome. Thanks so much for the recommendations everyone.
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by andymoe 15y ago
I'd love to hear a good java book recomendation. Is there a K&R kind of book for java? I also have to say that maybe iOS is bit easier to get started with but have the author come talk to me after doing ten or twenty apps wrangling core
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by andymoe 15y ago
I would buy yourself a copy of quickbooks. (I hate it too..) I recommend this for two reasons. 1) Most banks worth their salt allow you to download your transactions in a format quickbooks can understands. 2) It's the format that accountant
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by andymoe 15y ago
You have something to learn from your smoking co-workers. Taking breaks often will make you a happier person and give you time to think on the problems you are trying to solve and is time well spent. I suggest a brisk walk around the block
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by andymoe 15y ago
Sweet! Thanks for the great list.
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by andymoe 15y ago
It sounds like you had some bad times with Lenovo - that's too bad. In the past the x series have been really really solid and a lot of linux distros run well on them without much trouble. 2-3 years ago a consulting company I was working fo
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by andymoe 15y ago
Cool. What about java related IRC channels?
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by andymoe 15y ago
Great - thanks so much!
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Ask HN: I'm gonna have to go ahead and ask you to learn Java.
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