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by bstar77 14y ago
I dealt with a situation at a college internship. The company was designing a marketing campaign for Nokia, but we were having major problems with the firewall software, which made for a very flaky Internet connection. Long story short, my
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by bstar77 14y ago
I do as we'll. After working in node for a bit I have come to appreciate how nice the call backs work, but I hate the fact I have to use them every where. Plus ruby has a few ways to implement callbacks which can be confusing.
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by bstar77 14y ago
This is js, just extended with some extra functionality. No different than jquery, underscore, etc. I don't see any reason for the harsh criticism, remember js is a very dynamic language that's in constant flux... We're not coding in C here
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by bstar77 14y ago
I noticed this weekend that some of my Steam games are now supported on Linux (Crusader Kings 2 from Paradox to be specific). Despite being out of the Ubuntu desktop scene for a while, I can't begin to say how much joy this brings me. I'd
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by bstar77 14y ago
Wow, the comments were incredibly useful as well.
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by bstar77 14y ago
I thought the best part of his "The next Microsoft" was choice of font for the logo- it has a softness that fits the name perfectly but stands out boldly. I always felt MS' sharp, italicized font was inappropriate. Besides, any move away
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by bstar77 14y ago
Nice debugging, not a fan of making blanket assumptions when something isn't working as expected.
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by bstar77 14y ago
Nice, but this constantly crashes Safari when the content goes below the fold. The whole page goes white and then the browser dies.
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by bstar77 14y ago
Why not just browse in incognito/private mode?
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by bstar77 14y ago
Disabling javascript completely eliminates the ability to use the web effectively, unless you're Richard Stallman. 10 years ago we could justify disabling javascript, not today.
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by bstar77 14y ago
Curious what your 'freemium' strategy is for this app. Crafting a strong freemium strategy seems to be a very difficult task which is probably why many companies struggle to find that perfect balance. Rocketcat games had a huge problem sell
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by bstar77 14y ago
Seems like this could had been done much more discretely, makes me think Aaron may have wanted to get caught. Why not just buy a cheap 1u server and add it to the rack, I bet that goes unnoticed much longer.
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by bstar77 14y ago
The vast majority of rails positions out there seem to prefer the Prime stack. If I'm looking to make a career out of working in rails, then that's what I'm going to start with.
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by bstar77 14y ago
I lived this situation when I was around 14. My father was an executive in a firm that was being investigated for fraud. Most of my father's peers (using the term lightly) went to jail (and rightfully so), but the prosecution could never
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by bstar77 14y ago
I can't get to the article at the moment, but I'd love to know why they failed to update their app especially since it handles financial transactions. I had several apps to update and the process took very little time and effort.
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by bstar77 14y ago
I think the main obstacle is that most companies are uber focused on mobile, and adding high resolution assets is going against that initiative. I don't know of any companies that have a Retina initiative. I understand that there's ways to
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by bstar77 14y ago
Android does use the linux kernel and does have some of the GNU stack, but it's not directly comparable to Ubuntu. I believe that we are going to be using our phones as our desktop computers in the not-too-distant future, and what Ubuntu is
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by bstar77 14y ago
I understand that, I'm just pointing out that its not obvious.
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by bstar77 14y ago
For me to see the graphs I had to click links to reveal them. Usually presentation slides do not have interactive elements.
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by bstar77 14y ago
It's unfortunate that the benchmarks are hidden behind links. I'm not sure most people checking this presentation out will notice that.
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by bstar77 14y ago
For podcasts, I use Instacast and that definitely downloads in the background, but I believe the app just can't be in suspend state. As long as a bunch of apps have not been opened after instacast, it should download everything fone. The t
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by bstar77 14y ago
It's minor because it's (apparently) already been patched and because the fix takes all of about 30 seconds to fix per instance of these types of functions. SQL injection and mass assignment issues are far more serious threats than somethin
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by bstar77 14y ago
How on earth is the article smug? The author responded to the controversy with clear and concise examples demonstrating that the issue is relatively minor and very easy to address if you think you are susceptible. Additionally, most people
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by bstar77 14y ago
very nice, then it's definitely possible to just have this gem use a links dump to display the comment content. I think links by itself is a bit clumsy for everyday use.
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by bstar77 14y ago
This would be infinitely more useful if there was a view that scraped the comments for each article or (even better) scraped the article itself (instapaper style). I would love to peruse hacker news this way in-between working as I hate g
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by bstar77 14y ago
I pre-ordered this book when it was first announced. At the time I was a JS novice and now I'm quite accomplished. Hoping there's still something useful to get out of it.
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by bstar77 14y ago
Then what is it for exactly? Vim has a bad enough reputation as being obtuse and antique. Sites like this just reinforce that perception.
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by bstar77 14y ago
Use this to learn vim: http://learnvimscriptthehardway.stevelosh.com The parent's site offers nothing productive, in fact I think it causes more confusion with it's terrible UI, terrible content and erratic layout. I feel bad for being s
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by bstar77 14y ago
My problem with fat models is exactly what the author describes, data really needs to be separated from the logic. Since all of my current projects are service oriented, I generally abstract into gems, albeit with some minor overhead. That
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by bstar77 14y ago
Great project, and I would encourage to keep working on it, discouraging you is not my intention.

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