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by betageek 15y ago
tl/dr Rails is not the new hotness anymore, the Rails 3 rewrite was a waste of time and it's strayed far from its initial ease of use. Node & Coffeescript, the new hotness, are awesome, here's my new video series, the first one's free.
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by betageek 15y ago
"And even as the opportunity to create an app and make money has exploded, the time and budget needed to code that software has fallen closer and closer to zero. Programmers can add core features to apps simply by cutting and pasting a few
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by betageek 15y ago
Another approach to vector art in iOS using PDF files http://mattgemmell.com/2012/02/10/using-pdf-images-in-ios-ap...
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by betageek 15y ago
I get where he's coming from but for most of these situation it's the complexity that's the root cause and that's where you end up on your 5th why.
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by betageek 15y ago
Coffeescript
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by betageek 15y ago
Agreed, it also seems a massive over reaction to what is, after all, a very small startup committing a victimless crime. Naming and shaming should be enough without dragging them through the streets of the web for a public stoning.
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by betageek 15y ago
Couldn't agree more with this comment - even better the genii behind The Thick If It have a new HBO series which I imagine will have an interesting take on US politics: Veep http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Veep_(TV_series)
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by betageek 15y ago
Gruber comparing himself to Foster-Wallace made me throw up in my mouth a little bit....
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by betageek 15y ago
Lego's patent on the basic block design has run out so it's actually a pretty smart strategy of Lego to move to licensed properties over the last decade - what else could they do? I've already seen some Hello Kitty "minifigs" with Lego comp
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by betageek 15y ago
Maybe it's not a 'real new show' but it is designed to influence public thought so there are some ethics involved, see my satire remark above.
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by betageek 15y ago
People keep using the "it's a fake news show" as a defense but I don't buy into that. I've always thought of the Daily Show as satire, holding up real news stories to ridicule has a long and glowing history of influencing the public - once
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by betageek 15y ago
I love the Daily Show but this made me think twice about it's content. There's some extreme trolling going on here that will make me look at their skewering of the right in a different way - which is probably a good thing. With all the real
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by betageek 15y ago
This is a general point for all 3rd party code and has been on my mind for a while. What I'd really like are developer plugins that are documented not just functionally but architecturally. Ideally they would be something you could pull off
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by betageek 15y ago
I don't think static site generators are suitable for most WordPress uses - the key feature is to allow non-technical users to easily add content and publish immediately which WP does very well. Teaching them Markdown (or similar) and some
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by betageek 15y ago
"Even more unfortunately, I didn’t back up the database before I began this process." That's the takeaway here, no matter how much of a hassle it is backup the DB before you practice delete-fu - no matter how ninja you are you will make a m
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Tell HN: BBC Newsnight reports Higgs Boson sighting will be revealed next week
6 points by betageek 15y ago|2 comments
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by betageek 15y ago
In the latest build of Chrome, this is very nice, a step above the current crop of web-based code editors. Love the Bundle support - Textmate for the web!. Is the source available?
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by betageek 15y ago
Came across Ghostery professionally earlier this month, seems to be quite primitive in it's detection which surprised me. A site I knew to have tracking on didn't get picked up due, as far as I could see, a change in the filename of the tra
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by betageek 15y ago
what a hipster - "Yeah, he's ok but I prefer his early stuff" Reamde seems like a trip back to the style of the Stephen Bury books he wrote with his uncle, The Cobweb & Interface, both enjoyable reads.
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by betageek 15y ago
Nearly freaked out when I saw this as it's very similar to something I'm working on but, on closer inspection it's just a surface design similarity. Glad to see positive reaction anyway, sometimes seeing a product that's like to the one you
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by betageek 15y ago
Someone who never appears on these list but is one of the rising stars in Scif-Fi isis Ted Chiang. He's not written a full length novel yet but his short stories and novellas are mind blowing, best stuff I're read since early Egan. Check ou
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by betageek 15y ago
Love those, probably the only books I've read that deserved the "techno-thriller" label that publishers love. Best extrapolation of the networked society yet.
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by betageek 15y ago
"Cyberpunk is largely an expression of fears about an Asian (Japanese more often than not) "takeover" of Western society. It's actually very xenophobic" This is a very weird statement to make, the architects of Cyberpunk (Gibson, Sterling e
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by betageek 15y ago
I'd re-read it, Greg Egan is perhaps the hardest Sci-Fi writer out there, everything is rigorously thought out. He used to be a software engineer and hacks on some of his more interesting flights of fancy - check out his website http://gre
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by betageek 15y ago
Disapora is a semi-sequel to Permutation City, both are written by Egan
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by betageek 15y ago
I've enjoyed every Stephenson book apart from Anathem - obviously a lot of people love it but I couldn't see it all, a smattering of maths & philosophy mixed into an overlong and pretty boring 'students journey' plot. Why do people like
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by betageek 15y ago
I think _why left because he didn't want to do it anymore, it's that simple. Being _why must have taken up a load of time and one day he just wanted to spend it some other way - I'd suggest that it shows he was far more balanced than the av
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by betageek 15y ago
that's a keeper ;)
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Ask HN: The most useful equations/instructions in the event of an Apocalypse
4 points by betageek 15y ago|4 comments
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by betageek 15y ago
I agree with a lot of what the article says but I do think the newbie coming to rails at the moment has to do a hell of a lot more to start swimming compared to the "good old days" of Rails 2. Ruby 1.8 or 1.9? Use RVM? How does this Bundler

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