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by bluefish 18y ago
Having a background daemon running to automatically update software without informing the user is a poor solution, but trying to solve the problem introduced by checking for updates on startup and thus interrupting the workflow of the user
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by bluefish 18y ago
I didn't apply, but I'd love to hear about the ideas behind your projects that got rejected.
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by bluefish 18y ago
The key dispute here is not about having a forum for individuals to provide support for each other and discuss issues with the company regardless of the company's involvement. I don't think that 37signals would argue over a resource like t
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by bluefish 18y ago
These slides are hilarious. Definitely good to see a group of developers that don't take themselves too seriously and don't inject a macho attitude into their work. Refreshing for sure.
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by bluefish 18y ago
The same "exploding offers" are prevalent in the job-seeking world as well. I fell victim to one accidentally: I was trying to happily accept a job but the acceptance deadline detailed on my offer actually expired the day after I received i
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by bluefish 18y ago
I've had a very similar experience, but I have been wanting to see how the more current versions hold up.
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by bluefish 18y ago
I spent two years working a job that got me so depressed by the end I couldn't even get out of bed to go to work. I mean clinically depressed, not just metaphorically. So as someone who has been there; quit. You may have to buy a lower grad
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by bluefish 18y ago
I didn't find Zed's review much of a review at all. He doesn't go into a lot of what's going on under the hood which would really take more than one battery but is typically more Zed's style. What Zed does talk about are the conceptual thin
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by bluefish 18y ago
[tangent] Walt Whitman once wrote: "Do I contradict myself? Very well, then I contradict myself, I am large, I contain multitudes." Always loved that quote. Maybe it applies here in a way.
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by bluefish 18y ago
Synopsis: he redacts the sentiment of his earlier rant but says nothing about whether or not his opinion of the ruby/rails community has changed or why.
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by bluefish 18y ago
I really don't buy the author's argument for more features. 1) He claims that there are all these features they could have just dropped in. But none of the features the author describes seem like hit-me-over-the-head obvious features. I can
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by bluefish 18y ago
I'd be interested to find out how other languages fair in similar metrics, both in terms of their code base and in terms of how their communities handled these vulnerabilities. Do Python, Perl, Lua, etc suffer similar shortcomings?
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by bluefish 18y ago
Thanks for the tip (no sarcasm intended). That's how I've been flagging the two or three comments I've found inappropriate but it wasn't clear to me at first. On the other hand I can see how keeping the flag link off the main comments pag
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by bluefish 18y ago
I wouldn't call not caring callous, but certainly expecting the rest of the community that does care to not use a very public forum as a resource to ask for help could be considered callous.
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Libxml-ruby reaches 1.0(cfis.savagexi.com)
2 points by bluefish 18y ago|0 comments
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by bluefish 18y ago
How are you handling the images of the products? Just curious because I find some of the pages (especially the single product pages) really eye catching but some of the product listing pages like this one: http://foodoro.com/search?filters
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by bluefish 18y ago
Straw man arguments are as detrimental to the community as proposing users shouldn't discuss what's happening in their community openly. Don't tell me my point is invalid by suggesting I spend my time doing something unrelated to writing co
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by bluefish 18y ago
Totally agree that not every link is for everyone, but I disagree about less introspection, whether or not the includes discussion about an inevitable decline. The community must discuss itself to be healthy.
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by bluefish 18y ago
I'm prepared to lose some karma points by saying this, but I really hope articles like this are not what Hacker News is going to turn into down the road. Sure, the experiment is humorous if not interesting and perhaps could even be thought
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by bluefish 18y ago
You have to give DHH, Jason and others at 37signals credit for not just having decent business ideas and executing on them but also developing a brand and image. It doesn't hurt that DHH is stylish and can deliver humorous, slightly self d
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by bluefish 18y ago
Couldn't agree more. If I was hiring I'd be less interested in the # of patches you've submitted to Rails and more interested in examples of how you've solved problems, in code (irrespective of the language) and in other parts of your life
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by bluefish 18y ago
Are you assuming their intention is to keep the sixtyone.com music community closed to major pop artists? Would that be such a bad thing? How would they then handle an indie act that becomes bigger down the road? Who or how would they me
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by bluefish 18y ago
The thing that's interesting to me is both Blogger and Twitter focus on simple, straight-forward human to human communication. Neither are complex or try to solve abstract, confusing problems. By the measure of Blogger and Twitter's popular
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by bluefish 18y ago
It seems like any second order discussion of behavior on Hacker News that takes place in the comments is now getting down modded. I'm a bit worried about the trend towards groupthink this encourages. Perhaps the user did not read the artic
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by bluefish 18y ago
I'd be surprised if the Craigslist team doesn't "..give a shit about their own site". On the contrary, I'm quite sure they care about it very much. Perhaps they're not interested in doing more via features and would rather spend their time
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by bluefish 18y ago
The problem with managing your email from other clients, at least to me, is that other email clients have workflows that don't work with my expectations. I'm so used to using the Gmail key bindings that I find working in Apple Mail or Thun
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by bluefish 18y ago
This article sounds more fanboyish than an Apple rumor. (FWIW - I love macs).
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by bluefish 18y ago
Not goal related directly; I've found this lecture by the late professor Randy Pausch regarding time management to be very interesting. I'm not sure I agree with his hands-free phone + bike use tip, but I think his talk has a lot of good p
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by bluefish 18y ago
You've already done the hardest part. Even if it doesn't work out, you've stepped up for what you believe in. Lots of people reading this wish they had the courage to do what you're doing. Best of a luck, a stranger