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by bryanwoods 3y ago
Geoff Rickly, who some might know as the singer of Thursday, recently published a fantastic novel called "Soneone Who Isn't Me," which is a lightly fictionalized account of his experience using Ibogaine to kick a heroin habit
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by bryanwoods 17y ago
Thanks for mentioning this. I've actually been working through that book over the past few days and think that anecdote really got under my skin. For some reason it didn't dawn on me when writing the article. I'll make note of it.
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Poor, Poor Child. You have no idea.(writing.bryanwoods4e.com)
82 points by bryanwoods 17y ago|72 comments
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by bryanwoods 17y ago
I'm surprised to hear so much negativity about Amtrak. I live in NYC and head upstate (to Rochester) for business regularly and Amtrak is by far my favorite way to make the trip. A bus might make more sense on a shorter trip (like the afore
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by bryanwoods 17y ago
This is great! I work at a startup building apps ( http://zerography.com is currently live; hopefully more soon) to get custom printed stuff into people's hands for free, and think it's really great to see Google getting involved. There's
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by bryanwoods 17y ago
These are all pretty good examples. That being said, I recently spent some time reading through the source of both Gemcutter.org and RailsDevelopment.com and found both to be very educational to me personally: http://github.com/engineyard/
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by bryanwoods 17y ago
Still reeling from the weekend; my first Rumble. We also got an app built and deployed, a simple little game: http://marryboffkill.com The whole time I expected that it would be the smoothing-over of rough edges, double-checking, and doin
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by bryanwoods 17y ago
I'm suddenly reminded of the Eggers novel "You Shall Know Our Velocity!" wherein the characters go on a week-long international journey trying to give away an inherited sum of money. Sounds like a great experiment. I'm especially interested
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by bryanwoods 17y ago
While I agree mostly with your view, I just spent quite a bit of time looking over the local sex offender lists of several cities I've lived in, and I can say for sure that at least in these random samples, the outliers you mention (public
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by bryanwoods 17y ago
I was hoping I was about to read a comparison similar to http://whygitisbetterthanx.com/ (which is concise and intelligent, even with its inherent bias).
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by bryanwoods 17y ago
This title might have struck me as even more surprising had it read "Apple Sold Half As Many Macs As iPhones Last Quarter."
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by bryanwoods 17y ago
This is fantastic! I sent this to some other friends here in NYC who have all had the same response: "I always thought that would make a great app." It hits the iPhone sweet spot of being a perfect blend of mostly fun and somewhat useful.
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by bryanwoods 17y ago
I'm so tired of reading about web servers/services going down.
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by bryanwoods 17y ago
Great story. I found myself doing just about the same thing (eerily similar settings in my neighborhood in Brooklyn) when my girlfriend's iPhone was stolen just a few days before WWDC and the Find My iPhone announcement. At the time I wishe
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Sandi Metz: SOLID Object-Oriented Design (Video)(goruco2009.confreaks.com)
1 points by bryanwoods 17y ago|0 comments
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by bryanwoods 17y ago
Interesting, I'm not getting this flaw at all. Which version of 2.3 is this addressing? Rails 2.3.1 only? I just tried this on a 2.3.2 app and got HTTP Basic: Access denied.
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Rubular: a Ruby regular expression editor and tester(rubular.com)
2 points by bryanwoods 18y ago|0 comments
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by bryanwoods 18y ago
You can do it easily in Rails without a redirect too, and without regex as used in Django. In routes.rb for example: map.login '/login.php', :controller => 'sessions', :action => 'new' But I suppose that wouldn't make for a very fun
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by bryanwoods 18y ago
It's worth taking a look at the results of the David Foster Wallace Parody Competitions: http://www.thehowlingfantods.com/parody.htm Making lighthearted jokes about Wallace's syntax and verbosity are the common first steps I've watched pe
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by bryanwoods 18y ago
Nested Model Forms are a timely addition. When I was learning Rails, I always kind of assumed forms could work more like this. More information: http://weblog.rubyonrails.org/2009/1/26/nested-model-forms The 2.3 release seems to go a long
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by bryanwoods 18y ago
I went to two meetings here in NYC. Met some great people and had a great time seeing what other hackers were up to. I keep assuming all the layoffs combined with the onset of winter were to blame for things kind of petering out. It was a
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by bryanwoods 18y ago
It always puts me a bit off when I see people trying to apply science to an aesthetic issue like this one (this article is way less guilty than many others on the subject). There is no doubt that engineers are mastering pop music "louder" n
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Urban Camouflage (Photos)(urbancamouflage.de)
5 points by bryanwoods 18y ago|2 comments
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by bryanwoods 18y ago
I've been really excited for this for about a year now, and have been having a great time playing with the pure Git workflow. If you look at this problem in one direction (only does Ruby, won't kill the AppEngine), you're probably missing t
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by bryanwoods 18y ago
This is a really great idea. I'm excited to try it out. Congratulations!
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by bryanwoods 18y ago
It's interesting, actually. The idea is that you should be able to set the price of your music, but there's quite a bit of weirdness and technical issues. For example, I'm selling an album I recorded on Amazon. It's a full-length, so you'd
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Of Musicians And Programmers(wilsoncolab.com)
3 points by bryanwoods 18y ago|0 comments
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Facebook Now Available Offline - Might take some getting used to(techfaux.com)
1 points by bryanwoods 18y ago|0 comments
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New Desktop Application Brings the Desktop to the Desktop(techfaux.com)
1 points by bryanwoods 18y ago|0 comments
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PETA Targets Computer Programmers With String of Bizarre Protests(techfaux.com)
3 points by bryanwoods 18y ago|3 comments

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