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by aschobel 17y ago
of course http://mailhide.recaptcha.net/d?k=01J1hxEbMLvXRdFv0HJBn4nw==...
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Google Cracks Down on Android Developer, Offers Olive Branch(wired.com)
34 points by aschobel 17y ago|8 comments
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Duct tape and the brittleness of Agility(beust.com)
6 points by aschobel 17y ago|2 comments
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JavaScript: jQuery Event Handling in FriendFeed(jjinux.blogspot.com)
3 points by aschobel 17y ago|1 comments
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by aschobel 17y ago
3banana is hiring -- we have an iPhone, Android, and web app. We speak scala, Obj-C, Java, python. Problem we are solving: I have all these bits of information that I want to find again, emailing them to myself is just a mess. What was the
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Cedric Buest responds to Next-gen Java Programming Style(beust.com)
18 points by aschobel 17y ago|7 comments
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by aschobel 17y ago
Mixing Java and Scala is almost seamless. We use WebWork/Struts2 (Java), and all our new Actions are written in Scala. We use Guice(Java) to inject objects into Scala. Thrift also plays nicely with Scala. Two things that are a bit weird is
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by aschobel 17y ago
I can't comment on lift since we use scala with WebWork/struts2. Testing with specs and mockit has been much easier for us than in the bad ole Java days. val m = mock[java.util.List[String]] // a concrete class would be mocked with: moc
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by aschobel 17y ago
How do Actors not solve real day to day concurrency problems that we face all the time? And the 'technical excellent' stuff like internal DSL are there if you want them, but you can safely ignore them. Maybe only library designers will use
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by aschobel 17y ago
FTA: "Signs that you shouldn't be a programmer 1. Inability to determine the order of program execution Symptoms a = 5 b = 10 a = b print a You look at the code above and aren't sure what number gets printed out at the end" The answer is no
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by aschobel 17y ago
@ev denied that they gave TC the "green light" '@TechCrunch @arrington "we have been given the green light by Twitter to post this information" What?! By whom? That's not our understanding' http://twitter.com/ev/status/2676203744
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by aschobel 17y ago
We tell them we are sorry to see them leave, and delete their accounts. We ask them if they have any last minute feedback, you'd be surprised how many people respond to this and are thankful that you asked. Exit survey seems a bit over the
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by aschobel 17y ago
There are already solutions to this. The blogger uses Disqus for comment, which allows you to Sign in via Twitter and OpenID. If you use OpenID w/ AX or SREG you can get the users email address, which is even nicer. Done and done.
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by aschobel 17y ago
You're right, I misspoke when I said "NASDAQ runs on Windows". The information dissemination system runs on Windows, the trading system run on Tandem. http://tech.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=1290967&cid=285...
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by aschobel 17y ago
LSE's trading platform, TradeElect, was written by Microsoft and Accenture. http://www.onwindows.com/Articles/LSE-TradElect-system-goes-... Microsoft used TradeElect as a centerpiece in their "Get the Facts" Linux bashing campaign. http:
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by aschobel 17y ago
11"x14" artist sketchbook and a pencil to play with the idea long walks / showers to help focus dead simple
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by aschobel 17y ago
Hard work, email bloggers & reports, but sometimes you get lucky. A CNet reporter quoted me for a front page Google Wave story and linked our site. Instant traffic spike.
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by aschobel 17y ago
TI99/4A , probably one of the only ones on Cayman Islands in those days.
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by aschobel 18y ago
They have monitoring locations around the world, but I've been getting unusually high pings from their Berkeley location.
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by aschobel 18y ago
What do you do when Twitter is down? Why not use pingdom for monitoring like Twitter does. http://www.pingdom.com/reports/wx4vra365911/check_overview/?... We use pingdom at 3b and love it.
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by aschobel 18y ago
My wishlist ... * Allow 3rd party have the same privileges as first party app * Provide source code so you aren't working against a black box * Intent based system for Activities^D^D^DApps * Add Providers * Allow you to self sign apps for b
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by aschobel 18y ago
Screen shot of the first page on Android: http://static.3banana.com/pics/lookerupper_news_android-1.0_... Screen shot of the second page on Android, it seems to be a bit too wide. http://static.3banana.com/pics/lookerupper_comments_andro
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by aschobel 18y ago
Struts2. Very lightweight and its gets out of your way. Since it is Java we get to leverage some of the incredible Java libraries out there like Guice. We've tried a few other frameworks. We build our prototype in web.py. Very simple, but I
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by aschobel 18y ago
We have had decent luck with <a href=" http://aws.amazon.com/cloudfront/">Amazon's CDN CloudFront</a>. If you already use S3 it is pretty easy to configure CloudFront and make sure your users have a speedy experience.
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by aschobel 18y ago
It also looks at if you use a CDN, which may help him.
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Interview with Pandora About Developing for Palm WebOS(palminfocenter.com)
10 points by aschobel 18y ago|3 comments
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by aschobel 18y ago
Excellent, and the file is already live on Google's CDN: http://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1.3.0/jquery.min...
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by aschobel 18y ago
Ditto. Bike rides, washing dishes, fixing stuff around the apartment are all nice escapes from the cerebral world.
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by aschobel 18y ago
Mahout looks like a really interesting project which has a bunch of Java machine learning algorithm implementations build on top of Hadoop. http://lucene.apache.org/mahout/ You can glean some good idea from there. Hadoop has a bunch of py
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by aschobel 18y ago
*Don't shell out for the $100 version that lets you push apps to your iPhone until you have AT LEAST the rough draft of your app completed and running on the simulator. There's nothing worse then spending $100 on something and then never us

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