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by bstar77 13y ago
I love the efforts to build these types of resources, I just hope this isn't redundant with Michael Hartl's tutorial. Also, I'm not a believer in TDD, especially with beginners. I find it tedious especially when prototyping
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by bstar77 13y ago
I disagree, microsoft tried to destroy linux by coercing companies to pay a bogus linux tax. Microsoft also footed the bill for SCO's case against Linux. MS' record is atrocious here. Motorola Mobility sued apple in 2010. Just
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by bstar77 13y ago
This comment is ridiculous. The big players have been playing a patent chess game since 2007. Don't forget Google bid for these patents as well and it's completely ignorant to think they would have not exercised their billion $+
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by bstar77 13y ago
It will work since it falls back on flash, but that's obviously not ideal.
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by bstar77 13y ago
I'm thoroughly confused by this press release. I have an app that needs cross browser video support and I was required to use either flash/webm/vorbis to get my videos working in FF. As of a few weeks ago, h264 videos start
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by bstar77 13y ago
Dropbox is definitely a case where a single person's vision was required to create a revolutionary product. Judging by the comments, leaving it to HNers as a group would have just resulted in a faster usb drive.
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by bstar77 13y ago
Better watch out, if your post makes too much sense it will make it to the top and no longer make sense.
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by bstar77 13y ago
It's definitely something only targeted to Ruby devs. If you use ruby, you know what RVM is. To answer your question, RVM is a version manager for Ruby. http://rvm.io/
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by bstar77 13y ago
An official Flux build exists for iOS, but you need to jailbreak. I used it before I upgraded to iOS 7 and it has been massively useful for me. It's the one thing I miss most from my jailbreak.
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by bstar77 13y ago
You can take advantage of google's first click free to read the article in its entirety. Just search for the headline in google and voila, the tree will smack you in the face.
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by bstar77 13y ago
I get quite a bit of phpMyAdmin nostalgia when I'm going through my server logs.
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by bstar77 13y ago
I'm not sure what mobile first has to do with javascript dependencies. The reality is that all modern browsers (and web sites in general) expect a working, modern javascript engine. With that said, if you disable JS on the author&#x27
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by bstar77 13y ago
This reminds me of a conversation I had with my Dad as a kid... Why would someone, who is already quite wealthy, risk everything and partake in something illegal to get even richer? I'm wondering the same thing now... why would Samsung
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by bstar77 13y ago
I like the idea of having interface "skins", but I honestly could not tell this one apart from Bootstrap. I would love to see more varying interface styles, not another bootstrap clone.
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by bstar77 13y ago
Extend and extinguish is not a business model I appreciate.
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by bstar77 13y ago
This may be cheaper up-front, but scales terribly which will increase costs exponentially whenever there is a need for growth. Additionally, like others have mentioned, a simple memory leak from one app will affect every other app on this b
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by bstar77 13y ago
I'm not sure why anyone, with the technology options available today, would choose a single monolithic server approach and scale that vertically. I think this is just poor design and probably not an MS stack issue. But could this be a
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by bstar77 13y ago
I built a restful comment json service in rails as well as some light javascript in Jekyll that handles the display and jsonp requests. Whole thing took me a day and is far better than being dependent on disqus. I didn't add any authentica
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by bstar77 14y ago
I would guess that the main problem is distribution of said food. Since most food spoils quickly, that presents a huge problem. If Soylent powder preserves well, then distribution should be substantially easier.
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by bstar77 14y ago
I agree 100%. For me it was Egghead Software in the late 80's early 90's. I also had fun working in Babbages in the early-mid 90's while I was in high school. Unfortunately, those years were mostly dominated by Myst and Mortal Kombat sal
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by bstar77 14y ago
My Ultima experience started with VI, but I remember distinctively walking into Electronics Boutique and seeing Ultima VII on the shelf for the first time. I could not believe the screenshots were real, it looked like everything a RPG shoul
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by bstar77 14y ago
You are correct, and I appreciate you bringing that up. I should have mentioned that I'm averaging around 45mpg and peaking at 50mpg. I don't expect everyone to drive this efficiently, I just happen to enjoy it. But even if I'm a bit mor
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by bstar77 14y ago
Back when I owned one of the original Honda Insights, it became very obvious that I would need to adjust my driving habits to fully take advantage of the car's enormous driving range. If I drove like a typical New Jersey-ian then my range w
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by bstar77 14y ago
It definitely has tremendous broad appeal, but I think the characteristics I mentioned above is what puts it into this category of it's own. Notch has done an amazing design job of baking in advanced gameplay without affecting any of the a
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by bstar77 14y ago
For the people who criticize Minecraft as an underwhelming gaming experience, you need to look at the game from a different perspective... For a young child, this game has a tremendous lure... it's very simple to visually take in. All of t
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by bstar77 14y ago
Usually companies want to restructure their corporate initiatives away from a dying brand. This makes it all the more obvious that all of their eggs are in one basket.
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by bstar77 14y ago
I've been following 2 of the 3 guys in that twitter conversation for several years. The first thing I can say is that they both are big parts of the ruby community and generally represent it well. With that said, this exchange really upset
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by bstar77 14y ago
I don't think Photoshop would be too laggy with modern hardware. I have some lag issues playing modern 3d games, but they seem to be related to game events that access the hard drive. I'm guessing this is because accessing compressed drive
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by bstar77 14y ago
Now thats some seriously good tv. I figured cake boss would be the one you'd hope we'd gloss over.
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by bstar77 14y ago
Not judging here, but that's an awful lot of porn to be in frequent use.

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