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by bphogan 15y ago
All the examples, github repos, books, and tutorials I'm seeing with my dive into node say exactly the opposite - the code becomes a mess of callbacks. It looks like enormous work goes into avoiding callbacks, similar to the amount of work
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by bphogan 15y ago
Just FYI, I found this: https://github.com/lorantkurthy/connectbot It's a fork of connectbot that works with the transformer keyboard - you can make Search send the exc key if you change the option in preferences.
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by bphogan 15y ago
Because command-tab takes away your focus. There are other things in that menu as well that you might switch to. With tmux, I can split my windows into regions and turn the terminal into an IDE. And then I can detach from it and leave it ru
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by bphogan 15y ago
This is easy actually. Most states have "at will" employment. And even though you have "protected classes" of people , if you keep the issues strictly about job performance and keep written documentation, it's pretty easy and pain-free to l
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My (non programmer) wife found this hysterical. It reinforced her belief that programming is stupid. :)
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This is pretty cool. Simple idea, simple interface. There seems to be an issue on my machine though, where the color picker for function colors seems to change the background color instead. But it's still really nice.
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by bphogan 15y ago
According to http://developer.apple.com/library/IOs/#documentation/AppleA... you can do this for iOS. To add a splash screen during loading, create a 320x460 .png file, and then link to it in the header: <link rel="apple-to
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by bphogan 15y ago
I would argue the prior art for that is the iPod Touch which was out a year earlier, and probably conceived earlier than that. When I heard "iPad" rumors in 2009 the first thing I thought was "a big ipod touch." So what's to say these guys
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by bphogan 15y ago
I teach Rails a lot . I've ranted and raved for the last year how Rails 3 is much harder for a beginner to grasp than previous versions, but the things that make it difficult for the beginners are not specifically Rails itself. Usually the
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by bphogan 15y ago
I can't. I replied elsewhere in these comments that it happened to a client of mine. I made a lot of money in one weekend doing emergency "I told you so" payment gateway switching for him so he could take reservations. But it's my recollec
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by bphogan 15y ago
I've used Authorize.net + a merchant account at a real bank a few times. It works, every time. BrainTree is awesome too. If you're doing subscriptions, http://spreedly.com/ is good. And Stripe looks cool but I've never used it. ( https://
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by bphogan 15y ago
Because buyers keep demanding sellers use it. If you're a buyer, it's about the most painless thing out there. I got forced into it by a client once for that very reason. Unfortunately PyPal froze his account with about $20k in it. We switc
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Rails 3.2 will have automatic EXPLAIN plan logging for slow queries(github.com)
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Sorry, what I meant about serving HTML from the server was the construction of HTML documents using server-side code. There will always be static pages served with apache or whatnot :)
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That's not far off. I've made good money fixing Rails apps that have no tests :)
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by bphogan 15y ago
Yeah. That's kinda what this guy was saying in his artle that we're commenting on. He wasn't really "moving on from Rails"... he was leaving the view layer behind. And then evaluating what else he really doens't need. There's a strong movem
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by bphogan 15y ago
Just curious, but did you use a JS templating language? Cos we've been sending json back and pushing it to mustache templates which seem to render pretty quick.
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I think you misunderstand. Or perhaps my comment wasn't well stated... Serving staic pages is the solved problem. So is CRUD-based Rails apps. We know how to do that. In that sense, it's solved. We can use Wordpress with Rails, or Radiant,
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by bphogan 15y ago
It is my feeling that you're trying to justify the usage of Node.js I said nothing about Node.js. I said I want a framework on the client-side for the same reasons I want one on the server-side. A framework. Like Rails. For t
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by bphogan 15y ago
There's so much here I don't even know where to start. At least for native graphical interfaces, you have IDEs to help you out with bindings and all that crap. Yes, and we had slice and dice dreamweaver. But tons of Rails
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But that stuff doesn't need Rails. At all. I'm talking about applications where people do something. The CMS problem is largely solved. Generate static pages from database content. Combine that with bandwidth caps and you start looking at c
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by bphogan 15y ago
This is less about moving on from Rails and more about moving on from building static pages from a database. Lots of web folks have been predicting this. I've been saying for about two years now that the days of serving entire HTML pages fr
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I do too. But I have to restore from my backups. I don't get to grab it from the store again. And bugs won't get fixed, OS incompatibilities (read: iOS 5 fixes) won't get in there either. If only there were a way around the Apple store....
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I thought "pulled" meant it was pulled out of the store. Not rejected.
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I think my biggest problem with this is that these sorts of things should be rejected before they get on the store, before people pay money for things. I don't like the precedent that's set by "oops we decided we don't like your thing so it
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by bphogan 15y ago
Are you confusing honest with humble? I had an intern who had a little trouble finding a gig after he graduated college because he kept downplaying his experience. Once he put his cards on the table, he got picked up quickly. And I wouldn't
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by bphogan 15y ago
Oh I'd say make the range start at a couple thousand more than you really want, and make the top more than that. If you give a number first they're going to try to go down from there so you want to start higher. To get what you think is fai
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I wasn't using quotes for quoting. What I read for the statement was "we're offering the job, we decide the terms." And that's totally valid. But it's not mutually beneficial and I don't think it's a good way to hire people.
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It sounds like your company misses one of the most important things about hiring - that both parties are supposed to benefit from the arrangement. You don't get "the upper hand" just because you have the job offer. If you lowball someone,
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by bphogan 15y ago
Never ever ever lie on a resume or during the interview. Really, don't do it at all if you want to be credible, but especially not during the hiring process. You're going to get caught out for it eventually. Maybe a coworker hears you talki

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