brainlock

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by brainlock 12y ago
Thanks for spelling that out, I see that it can be a useful exploration tool. For me though, the act of thinking about a problem in terms of data and relationships helps a lot in exploring and understanding what I'm dealing with. Eve
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by brainlock 12y ago
> Relational databases are great, but they're almost an optimization -- they're way more useful after the problem set has been well defined and you have a much better sense of data access patterns and how you should lay out you
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by brainlock 14y ago
If you absolutely need to debug something on the device in iOS 5, I wrote this a few weeks ago: https://github.com/brainlock/ios-remote-inspector I had a rendering bug that only happened on the device, not in the simulator. This opens t
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by brainlock 15y ago
And again, all of this is US only. I don't understand this, they are able to ship a standard Kindle to Europe, why not a Kindle Touch?
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by brainlock 15y ago
I just finished the Commonwealth Saga + The Void Trilogy by Peter F. Hamilton, loved it. Both set in the same universe, the first two in the relatively near future (about 300 years from now), the trilogy in the far future (about 1500 years
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by brainlock 15y ago
The pollution comes IMHO not only from having the timestamps in the commit (and to fix that the idea of using git-notes that came up in a sibling comment seems to be a perfect fit), but more from trying to put too much in a single commit. T
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by brainlock 16y ago
I wholeheartedly agree and share the frustration. This only detracts from web apps in favor of native apps. At this point a solution (or a way to mitigate the problem) would be something like phonegap. You still have to endure the pain of d
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by brainlock 16y ago
Why do you find it depressing? I'm not saying that there aren't better programming languages than Javascript. I'm just saying that there is a subset of Javascript which is really expressive and elegant.
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by brainlock 16y ago
I'd add that it has functions as first-class citizens and closures. Javascript has for sure some crappy parts, but there is also a lot of good in it.
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by brainlock 16y ago
If you use git submodules, what you do is exactly like tagging. An example from a project I'm working on: at some point I want to add a submodule for a dependency I need $ git submodule add http://github.com/fictorial/redis-node-client.
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by brainlock 16y ago
GLaD to see they're still alive ;-)
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by brainlock 16y ago
Does anybody know about a release date?
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by brainlock 16y ago
You can download a Chrome extension/theme to match the Ubuntu one (it's called Ambiance if I recall) and have Chrome use the system window decoration (right click on a free spot in the tabs area). This way Chrome integrates perfectly.
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by brainlock 17y ago
Maybe a bit late, but here is my experience. At the end of the job search I had to choose among two companies. One was developing in python, the other in php. At first I felt inclined towards the python-based one, mainly because of my taste