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by bphogan 16y ago
But it is. Anyone can participate. It's a choice, just like the choice to sign the employment contract.
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by bphogan 16y ago
I have a palm pilot that used an SD slot and I thought they handled that very well. When you installed an app it installed to main memory. You could move it to the SD if you wanted to. And when you ejected the sd, the icons for the apps tha
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by bphogan 16y ago
Don't feel out of date. I've had the same macbook pro I bought 4 years ago. It's gone on trips with me, it's been knocked off the couch by my kid, and it runs my unit tests just as fast as my friend's newer model. I paid $1900 for my core2
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by bphogan 16y ago
Yes, and I take that to mean anything that's non-trivial or experimental. I've heard him speak on the idea of experimentation before, and that's what led me to the methodology I use today.
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by bphogan 16y ago
I think even the true TDD "purists" would say you're doing it exactly right... Robert Martin usually says "You are not allowed to write any production code unless it is to make a failing unit test pass." When I'm writing code to solve a pro
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by bphogan 16y ago
You don't really know the back story. Neither do I, but I've been here before, as I'm sure you must have. What about the 3-5 comps the graphic artist did that were rejected by committee? Let's say there's 5 hours there. Then a meeting wher
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by bphogan 16y ago
Really, how often do you see these things on mainstream sites? Most developers who care about those things are fighting other developers or founders who continue to use the "We need to make money, not be standards compliant" argument. When
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by bphogan 16y ago
I prefer to see apple.com as the source of any posts titled "Apple Responds". Otherwise it's just accusations, hyperbole, and speculation combined with bad "journalism", with a heavy emphasis on the quotes around journalism.
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by bphogan 16y ago
RubyMine is something you may want to look into then. While it's commercial, you can often get a free license if you work on an open-source project. (I won a free license as a prize at a conference a few years back and it's really quite nic
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by bphogan 16y ago
These are great suggestions. I've read the first title you suggested, but the second intrigues me. In this situation we're just a little beyond both of these. I'm just interested in the advice of the community and how others handle these si
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by bphogan 16y ago
There's a lot of truth to what you're saying and I appreciate the feedback. I do, however, believe in providing discounts to non-profits, educational institutions, and charities, and while that may mean that I'm a bit of a sucker, I can liv
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Ask HN: How do you politely decline a project?
17 points by bphogan 16y ago|15 comments
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by bphogan 16y ago
I was under the impression that, at least in the US, it was now legal to jailbreak your hardware. http://news.yahoo.com/s/ytech_wguy/ytech_wguy_tc3236 Did something change?
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by bphogan 16y ago
Microsoft doesn't charge you to develop for their PCs and neither does Apple. However, if you'd like to develop for the XBox or the Windows 7 phone, you are under almost the same terms as Apple. This is something Apple pioneered, and you ca
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by bphogan 16y ago
I hope so too... I know that when I'm busy working on client projects, my homegrown stuff doesn't get the attention it needs. I know that for me, a revenue stream would ensure that one public-facing free project I run would get a lot more l
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by bphogan 16y ago
Over the last year I've done a few workshops for folks on Windows and I can tell you that you are spot on with your dicision to use 1.8.7 for now. It's so much more stable on Windows. The target audience for this package doesn't understand
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Rails Installer - Get up and running on Windows(railsinstaller.org)
100 points by bphogan 16y ago|35 comments
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by bphogan 16y ago
But again, H264 is not HTML5 video... H264 is a video codec that just happens to be used with the video tag on Mobile Safari and IE9. It's also how a majority of YouTube's videos are encoded currently, as well as many many other video uplod
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by bphogan 16y ago
H264 is an established standard. H264 is not the <video> tag.
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by bphogan 16y ago
Apple's stance on Flash does hurt users. But its stance on vodeo? Hardly. They chose an established, proven format that has hardware decoding capabilities. That means they could include it cheaply, and in a way that doesn't drain battery li
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by bphogan 16y ago
I'm just having a hard time understanding why they're ok with bundling the Flash player with Chrome, but not carrying an h264 decoder.
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by bphogan 16y ago
The choice has been made by many places to simply use h264 video via the HTML5 tag to hit the iPhone/iPad and then fallback to a Flash video player which can easily play the h264 source video. Content producers would rather encode videos on
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by bphogan 16y ago
Exactly, and I think that was kind of the gist of his message; companies can find good developers and spend the time teaching them how to do it. Besides, a good Ruby developer for one company might still not be using whatever cool tools the
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by bphogan 16y ago
But who would do that? The risk is too high. People with the right approach lack the money and lawyers to weather the storm. For example, I really doubt that you and I, working together, could get investors to back a project to rival BB bec
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by bphogan 16y ago
I am in education during the day and we write software for our campus using cutting edge tools and technology, but only for "non administrative" things. It was decided well above my pay grade that grade checking, admissions, financial aid,
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by bphogan 16y ago
I can't believe that 16 years after forms first appeard on the web we're still having this discussion. Using "submit" as your label? So are thousands of other sites. Your users won't be confused. Using something more descriptive? That's fin
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by bphogan 16y ago
Well, I did say "and twitter account if any". Looking at someone's twitter stream who's poking at some new library or talking about some code they wrote tells me a lot more than "1 year of php development" on a resume. It may be arbitrary,
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by bphogan 16y ago
Are you referring to http://www.dol.gov/whd/regs/compliance/whdfs71.htm by any chance? Because that applies to unpaid internships. "Interns in the “for-profit” private sector who qualify as employees rather than trainees typically must be
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by bphogan 16y ago
Their benefit. I work at a public university and the interns are ineligible after their separation from the university. I'm not sure why any of this matters anyway, because they are getting paid to work for me and are gaining valuable exper
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by bphogan 16y ago
I believe I already addressed that in my post - you could be an awesome programmer. But would we be able to get along with eachother? Would you be able to get along with the rest of the people who do use Twitter and who do blog about what t

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