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by briantakita 13y ago
"That's because it's a ridiculous statement" Only if you consider the truth ridiculous. It's simple biological physics. There are inefficiencies in energy transfer. Btw, 60% of the Amazon deforestation is caused by
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by briantakita 13y ago
Animal protein-rich diets are also bad for land, water, and energy conservation.
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by briantakita 13y ago
I'm an ex-Bay Area guy living in LA. In LA, it's a slightly different game. It's sortof like high school. Popular people treat the unpopular badly. Type A's are revered, have lots of friends, and get lots of sex. Nerds a
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by briantakita 13y ago
Don't hate the player. Hate the game.
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by briantakita 13y ago
Adopt continous improvement for everything you do. This makes a game where you can improve your thinking, skills, and processes. It won't be boring because you can always do it better.
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by briantakita 13y ago
Agreed. Use that money for a good diet and exercise. Take an extended vacay if you have to. It could be life changing. It's worth missing work to get that part of life on track. I don't mean to push a diet on you, but I've ha
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by briantakita 13y ago
"Wage theft" goes beyond the large tech companies. It it institutionalized by the investors as well. Investors won't invest if employees are paid market value. That's a reason why it's better to be a consultant than
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by briantakita 13y ago
Yeah, let's nitpick everything this guy has written. Way to ad hominem him!
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by briantakita 13y ago
History has a habit of repeating itself.
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I've created a similar project that uses jasmine and formats the test cases into general purpose flows. The motivation is to economically (both in test suite run time and development time) test the system's many edge cases, includ
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by briantakita 13y ago
Or it's the risk of failing to account for human behavior... It's not exactly a moral imperative to obsess over your HN comments, IMO. Most likely, it's a simple bug, that seems to be fixed now :-) No ethics involved. Nothing
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by briantakita 13y ago
No can do. It got downvoted and HN does not allow me to edit negative karma posts. So please upvote my previous post so I can fix the layout of these comments :-) I'm assuming the negative votes are due to the formatting and not the me
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by briantakita 13y ago
It is when your development process involves rapidly iterating the code by running the process many times (i.e. TDD). Anecdotally, when the feedback loop is tighter, I'm much happier. Developing (especially refactoring) in Rails feels
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by briantakita 13y ago
The web development world has been trending toward a Thick Client. This article is a call back to the Thin Client and centralizing all logic in the app server. Most devs are still used to the Thin Client approach, so there is a productivity
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by briantakita 13y ago
I seem to remember the view time including ActiveRecord method calls, assuming that you use ActiveRecord objects in your views.
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by briantakita 13y ago
It's nice to see the "is cancer" meme provide some variety to the all too common "considered harmful". It's more biological. http://www.theregister.co.uk/2001/06/02/ballmer_linux_
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by briantakita 13y ago
Then you can use local storage
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Plus it's evented so it's not really I/O bound, which makes it great as a service glue. Also, node.js with browserify & grunt makes for a great front end packaging & dependency tool.
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by briantakita 13y ago
I've found that, if done correctly, Javascript, especially with a module system like common.js, scales with complexity extremely well. It requires a different approach than OOP that most people are used to but results in very loosely c
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by briantakita 13y ago
Re: Tests for Design Feedback. I used to follow that approach, but I found that it locks you into the implementation and adds unnecessary drag when refactoring. Now I like to think of tests as black box and white box. I prefer black box tes
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by briantakita 13y ago
It's a pretty widespread practice. I think it's the Rails default.
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by briantakita 13y ago
Why not build your own framework ( http://microjs.com/ )? http://minifiedjs.com/ is also great
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The corollary is Fruit fly populations mutate at a fast rate.
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