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by arnvald 11y ago
I agree with the browser tab, this is annoying. I've tried alternatives for Mac: Current and Goofy (basically wrappers around the conversation page), but they're both quite unstable. So far the best option was to keep another tab
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by arnvald 11y ago
Wasn't Google chat replaced by Hangouts, which does not support XMPP?
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by arnvald 11y ago
Heroku's hosted on Amazon servers, so you still can have your app and db in the same data center
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by arnvald 11y ago
I actually use Spotify to discover new music. I take some artist I know, and then I go to some related one, and then to artist related to that one, etc. Spotify actually made discovering music way easier to me. BTW there was one website tha
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by arnvald 11y ago
Is it? Maybe in shopping malls and bars, then I agree. I live in Singapore and a lot of Singaporeans who I meet listen mostly to either Chinese or Indian music. It might be different though in Thailand or Malaysia. Remember though, that SEA
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by arnvald 11y ago
Very short reviews of the places on the list that I've already seen: * Brno, Czech Republic - I stayed there just a few days, but even though pretty, the city wasn't very exciting. It's quite cheap and less touristic than Pra
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by arnvald 11y ago
> Many other languages have efficient native code compilers, too. I don't know why people assume this is only a C thing. I think it's just become very common to show C as the reference to show how fast are other programming lan
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by arnvald 11y ago
It's the same with other languages as well: Go, Julia, Ruby (when I searched for some "Ruby Bangkok" meetups, I found thousands of offers to buy real rubies in Thailand. Same with frameworks: Phoenix, Sinatra, Iron, Gin. Afte
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by arnvald 11y ago
I'd say the opposite - to me IM market seems pretty dynamic, and it's not dominated by one player. I myself use a few different apps: iMessages, Facebook Messenger, Whatsapp, Skype, Google Hangouts. Then there's WeChat (huge
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by arnvald 11y ago
Oh, I'd forget. Actually in my country the term "developer" is mostly reserved for real estate developers so: "Don't call yourself developer if you've never built and sold a house".
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by arnvald 11y ago
"Don't call yourself developer if you don't know C" "Don't call yourself developer if you know only one programming language" "Don't call yourself developer if you don't know (put any algori
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by arnvald 12y ago
Since Ruby 2.1 (IIRC), method definition returns symbol, therefore it's possible to something like typesig def meth(arg) arg end, [Numeric] => Numeric Although it's still end of the method, it already suggests that signature
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by arnvald 12y ago
Apart from Koichi, there's one more person - Nobu - who is working on CRuby full-time. Nobu's the guy with most commits to CRuby. Matz now does not work on CRuby, only on MRuby and the language specification. It's also worth
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by arnvald 12y ago
Although different in nature (less interactive, more articles), HackDesign course is worth mentioning. I learned a lot there: https://hackdesign.org/lessons
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by arnvald 12y ago
I'm both freelancer and I had a chance to interview a few candidates found on oDesk. Here are my thoughts: 1. Reviews by clients are not worth much. I've had a situation where my client asked me to fix the project after previous d
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by arnvald 13y ago
That makes sense, since database.yml is not going to contain any sensitive data anymore (passwords and usernames will be stored in secrets.yml), this file can be safely stored in repository.
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by arnvald 13y ago
Even though I agree that pair programming is not necessary (I think it's useful, I sometimes do it and enjoy it, and sometimes I really need to work alone), I do not like how this post sounds. It does not sound like "pair programm
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by arnvald 13y ago
Congratulations to Brian, Dirkjan and all the other people involved in Rubinius. This is great news, I'm looking forward to test my apps on Rubinius 2.0!
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by arnvald 14y ago
I don't get it, really, I don't get it. Is it combination of GeekList, Stack Overflow and LinkedIn? Not a single word of explanation anywhere on the site.