ben

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by ben 17y ago
Hey. I work on trendly/Dabble DB, and I used to work with PCF on opencongress.org. Good to see you using trendly. I hope you like it.
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by ben 17y ago
The first thing I wanted to see as a Smalltalker was how much they've baked Blocks into the libraries. I know Cocoa has always had very long method names, but some of these names are wild: - #enumerateObjectsUsingBlock: is #do: - #objectsP
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Avi Bryant on Trendly, Ruby, Smalltalk and Javascript(infoq.com)
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by ben 17y ago
The interesting thing from my point of view is that the Delicious Library iPhone app doesn't make Amazon API calls for ISBNs. It synchronized with the desktop version of Delicious Library, which gets its information from the Amazon API. S
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by ben 17y ago
I refreshed the deactivate page, and it doesn't seem to be completely random, but it also isn't 100% the same every time. It seems to pick between the same 20 or so friends for me. Another thing that's interesting is that the deactivate op
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by ben 17y ago
They really seem to have gone beyond the terms of their funding and tried to extract the code into useful standalone pieces. Thanks for that, guys.
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by ben 17y ago
Pandora hasn't worked in Canada for at least a couple of years, so I wonder if this is even a new development.
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by ben 17y ago
This project has nontrivial pieces written in Squeak, Java, Ruby, and Javascript. The site has a dash of PHP.
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by ben 17y ago
The about page might be useful for you: http://trendly.com/about/
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by ben 17y ago
I don't understand why you need obfuscation for this. With customers of this size, you can have them sign a contract that protects your IP. Price in what you think is the risk, and insist on a contract.
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by ben 17y ago
This is something to be proud of, and github is great work. It's not really accurate, though because this lists every user's fork of a gem as a distinct gem. Here's a script I put together to get a different count, which I believe is more
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by ben 17y ago
What we do is run the RFBServer in squeak so we can connect directly to the running images on GUIless servers. This works pretty well.
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by ben 17y ago
I'd like to read about these, particularly about how they could be Constitutional, but I can't seem to find the correct words for a Google search. Would you post a link, or possibly a set of words to search for?
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by ben 18y ago
Silly man.