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by bkurtz13 12y ago
There is a particularly human egotism with respect to "saving" things that have outlived their usefulness and purpose, or preserving things that should be changing. If language can be viewed through its evolutionary purpose, these
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by bkurtz13 12y ago
With React Native you write your apps in JavaScript, in a React.js style. My understanding is that ComponentsKit has you write your iOS apps with ObjC/Swift or whatever, but it gives you a way of structuring your apps that is similar t
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by bkurtz13 12y ago
I really want to believe this could become reality. But the past surrounding this issue, as well as seemingly widespread apathy about our loss of civil liberties, leaves me cynical. Nearly every time I fly, I hear someone in the security li
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by bkurtz13 12y ago
This has been posted about a hundred times already. Perhaps check the history before posting something old?
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by bkurtz13 12y ago
In Brazil, voting is mandatory. Yet, somehow, massively corrupt individuals get elected time and time again. Take a look at the massive scandal the current president is involved in (who has been cleared of any wrongdoing, go figure). The pr
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by bkurtz13 12y ago
He uses voting as an example. Which begs the question: why vote? If you're living within a corrupt, self-serving political system (we are), then naturally the only people who run for office will be products of that system. If a candida
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by bkurtz13 12y ago
Take a look at Prismatic's om-tools(1). It adds a defcomponent macro that removes a lot of boilerplate. 1) https://github.com/Prismatic/om-tools
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by bkurtz13 12y ago
So we should never create anything new, then?
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by bkurtz13 12y ago
I'm pretty sure that's exactly what he is alluding to, judging by the link.
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by bkurtz13 12y ago
Actually, just as Warcraft allowed for modding which led to Dota, Starcraft 2 supports modding. So that spirit is still alive in some form at Blizzard.
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by bkurtz13 12y ago
How do you know how much it's going to cost? I don't see that information anywhere.
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by bkurtz13 12y ago
"... a win-win-win situation..." I don't think the thieves would see it that way.
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by bkurtz13 12y ago
This article could be a lot better if it were more general and less focused on "startups"...
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by bkurtz13 12y ago
Why would you minify your code during development? Isn't minified code for production?
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by bkurtz13 12y ago
"There are 2 types of programming languages, those everyone complains about and those nobody uses..."
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by bkurtz13 12y ago
That's assuming that "the soul" actually exists. I think it will be more interesting to see what happens once humanity comes to grips with the truth that free will is an illusion.
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by bkurtz13 12y ago
Can you really make that strong of an argument that YouTube's player is "overengineered"? I'm not always a fan of how they handle things but you have to at least consider the massive scale they are working at.
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by bkurtz13 12y ago
Have you looked at Dropwizard? It uses Jersey under the hood I believe but it streamlines using all of its libraries together.
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by bkurtz13 12y ago
Shouldn't be asking people to upvote in the README.
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by bkurtz13 12y ago
No project like this ever amounted to anything in the history of The Valley!
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by bkurtz13 12y ago
Try Clojure
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by bkurtz13 12y ago
Americans.
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by bkurtz13 12y ago
In that same vein, the dotted pattern in background makes it subtly harder to read the text
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by bkurtz13 12y ago
I'm getting an internal server error when I try to buy it... :/
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by bkurtz13 12y ago
I was able to get some people who were apprehensive about git on board after finding SourceTree.
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by bkurtz13 12y ago
I'm almost tempted to get a pair just to see how it would feel to be 6'7. MUAHAHAHA!
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by bkurtz13 12y ago
Am I the only one here who didn't really find this amusing or charming, but tedious and pointless? I guess that's art for you...
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by bkurtz13 12y ago
This reminded me of a discussion of the "Red Queen Hypothesis"[0] in the book Daemon by Daniel Suarez[1]. It's alternately interesting and disturbing... the implication that much of our social behavior is to further the aims
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by bkurtz13 12y ago
This needs to have the year after it, as it's continuously been reposted. That being said it's still good advice and a good read.
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by bkurtz13 12y ago
Bears, beats... Battlestar Galactica?

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