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by angelbob 17y ago
It's disturbing that Blizzard will hand over a thick folder of personal information like candy on Halloween, even to (out of jurisdiction) law officers. But there's nothing very Azeroth-specific going on there -- your cellular provider cou
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by angelbob 17y ago
Done :-)
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by angelbob 17y ago
Seems like a bad idea to encourage such things.
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by angelbob 17y ago
Neat tips. I especially like the idea of joining Turk-worker communities and asking what they prefer. Good customer service to your employees, too ;-) Solid numbers for times and prices are also welcome. And "ask open-ended questions" sou
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by angelbob 17y ago
What Jeff Vogel says (in the comments, I think) to this point is that there are harder difficulty levels if you want to do this. His games do tend to have them. Another commenter replies that the difficulty levels should probably be better
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by angelbob 17y ago
It's not Rails-specific that you need to protect your models with reasonable security logic. This particular flavor of "oops, not protected by default" is Rails-specific. And Rails is highlighting the fact that "allowed by default" is conv
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Make Your Game Easy, Then Make It Easier(jeff-vogel.blogspot.com)
68 points by angelbob 17y ago|41 comments
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by angelbob 17y ago
I haven't used it, but a quick Google search turns up this plugin, to require whitelisting mass-assignable attributes: http://github.com/ryanb/trusted-params That should fix this problem for apps that use the plugin.
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by angelbob 17y ago
This is an excellent summary on this topic. It's also big and imposing :-) Probably the best thing I got from it was the summary of how different sites (Posterous, Tumblr, et al) keep a "conversation" going about how far you are through th
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by angelbob 17y ago
I don't know whether this is what Apple's doing. But I recommend people keep thinking this way -- if it's not what Apple's doing, then you should go do it ;-)
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by angelbob 17y ago
Any form of sleep/anaesthesia has a nonzero chance of killing somebody. I don't even want to think what the insurance and liability issues would look like for this. You can say, "well, only if there's a hijacking" and I'll say, "but how
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by angelbob 17y ago
This does a fine job of address Jeff Atwood's criticisms of Markdown. Yay for GitHub stepping up where Markdown's author isn't. This also vindicates the "OSS authors don't owe nobody nothing!" crowd, as GitHub steps up and fixes the proble
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by angelbob 17y ago
Something that often helps me: split into smaller tasks, but also prioritize. What is the most important thing I could do to get my work a step forward? And by "forward" I mean "more usable" or "more releasable" rather than "cooler". T
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by angelbob 17y ago
This isn't the first article to suggest that engineers and scientists have some specific, roughly opposite traits -- scientists are exploring, querying, doing research, and engineers (note that they mostly mention mechanical engineers here,
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by angelbob 17y ago
I upvoted and don't know the guy, mainly because I realized I had a site I should post to LinkedIn questions for the same reason.
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by angelbob 17y ago
An old trick from shareware folks: pick features they won't want to use immediately, like going beyond a certain size/number of projects. That way you're only targeting people who already know your service is valuable to them (or isn't).
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by angelbob 17y ago
"Not trusting Google" seems to be a theme on the internet lately. Presumably Google, being no fools, will pick up on that and understand that it's a problem, both for advertisers and developers. It's just a question of how long it takes the
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by angelbob 17y ago
"Hey, we need someone to develop an infrastructure for scheduling and running thousands of jobs on hunreds of different boxes and to keep the status of said jobs, etc." But that kind of makes me an architecture astronaut which, supposedly,
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by angelbob 17y ago
It's harder for your debug environment to take apart and show the details of every object down to the OS/hardware level if you've got security to prevent it, and harder yet if it doesn't have a very good idea of the specifics of the binar
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by angelbob 17y ago
Hm. I'm dubious about "testing will find all the problems" as a solution here. Isn't that a little like saying "you need to check JavaScript in all browsers anyway, so why use a compatibility library?"
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by angelbob 17y ago
This makes me think that the advice about 50/50 cofounders -- that you want somebody who complements you, not somebody like you -- is especially good. If you're the tech guy and the other guy is the business guy, you have a conflict-resol
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by angelbob 17y ago
Whoah. CSS Reset Styles make perfect sense, and I can totally see why people use them... And yet, I'd never thought of that, and certainly never seen the nice comprehensive one he posted (no, not the one-liner :-) Apparently I need to sta
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by angelbob 17y ago
No, there's no legal right to anonymity for these things. But he just said "bad thing to start, bad thing to encourage." Here, let's try a thought exercise. "I got hit on by this guy at a bar the other night. Let's make it public that he
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by angelbob 17y ago
Primarily, make sure you're on LinkedIn and one or more specialized job-hunting networks like WorkingWithRails. Put up some code samples on SourceForge or GitHub or RubyForge or similar, and link them from your various social sites. Put up
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by angelbob 17y ago
Depends on a lot of things: where he is geographically sounds pretty good, but he also doesn't have a lot of team experience, and many (most?) places seem to discount most solo hobbyist experience, for a variety of good and bad reasons. It
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by angelbob 17y ago
The conclusions are supported toward the end: that 86% of employees love or like their job, and that they have serious problems with management: Only 38% of employees believe that “senior management [is] sincerely interested in employ
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by angelbob 17y ago
Paul Graham wrote about how the internet revolution may be relatively localized -- Silicon Valley doesn't need many competitors. He has a point, but this provides an interesting blueprint for an alternate vision. Specifically, when they ta
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by angelbob 17y ago
That's a remarkably simple, upfront and honest apology. I'm not normally a big Microsoft fan, but it sounds like they're handling this one well. Go them!
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Ruby Block Styling (Homoiconic/Reg Braithewaite)(github.com)
13 points by angelbob 17y ago|2 comments
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by angelbob 17y ago
The post reads a bit like an abuse victim. "Well, I mean, sure, they've done some bad and difficult things, but sometimes they're really nice!", combined with making excuses.

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