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by bstar77 15y ago
Not sure why the author of the slides presents rails as a confusing mess. If you don't like the asset pipeline then don't use it. If you don't like the scaffolds then don't generate it. If you don't like active record, then don't use it.
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by bstar77 15y ago
Not sure why this was posted to HN, but I think is is a good opportunity for people to see how much transpires in the Ruby community on a regular basis. Peter Cooper deserves a ton of praise for aggregating all of the weekly news, he rarely
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by bstar77 15y ago
I think what the people in that (painful to read) thread failed to realize is how the QA process works. I'm guessing that there would need to be significant regression testing for some of those optimizations. When you are killing yourselv
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by bstar77 15y ago
The Links golf game rendered the same way: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aSBojv19gU8 Difference is that Link386 rendering was not exactly in real time. You'd have to way for the scene to render before you made your shot. Painful back i
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by bstar77 15y ago
Problem with vico is that it's based on textmate plugins. If it natively supported vi (and mvim) plugins, then I would have already purchased it. I never understood the decision to go that direction. Vico is gorgeous, though.
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by bstar77 15y ago
I moved to vim more out of boredom more than anything. Using vim turned into a game for me... always trying a more efficient way of doing something. Problem now is that all of the vim keybindings are etched into my head, and it goes way be
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by bstar77 15y ago
I've coded twice while buzzed and had great results. I think it may have done something to curb my ADD, which led to some serious focus and feeling of motivation- I was able to focus on problems without other distractions floating in my mi
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by bstar77 15y ago
I don't understand why so many people are defending Google here. The reality is that the vast majority of these so called "public" access points are going to be unassuming users that have unwittingly been added to Google's public wifi grid
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by bstar77 15y ago
Despite having to build -part of a- personalization infrustructure for a major news organization, I always thought it was a terrible idea. Humans are creatures of habit, so when you disrupt that by giving them too many choices, the overall
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by bstar77 15y ago
I know this is off topic, but it really burns me up to see the once mighty Origin Systems relegated to this. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Origin_Systems
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by bstar77 15y ago
I think the reality is, they don't know what the hell to do with webos. In owning a touchpad myself, I see a bit of the reality distortion effect that affects all of us webos users. Webos succeeds in the emotional attachment, but fails in
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by bstar77 15y ago
Reminds me of Klick & Play back in the early 90's: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Klik This app looks like the perfect thing for prospective obj-c devs to get that "I gotta make something cool now" monkey off my back.
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by bstar77 15y ago
The one thing that's not possible to test is when a download is uninstalled, which affects this metric significantly. I find that I install a lot of android apps, but uninstall the vast majority of them. My iOS device, on the other hand, g
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by bstar77 15y ago
As far as I'm concerned, anything with the "Made in China" label has to be equally scrutinized. We in the US are complacent in buying these products, but this also applies to toasters, refrigerator magnets and just about everything sold in
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by bstar77 15y ago
This is extremely frustrating, has the login been removed from ai-class.com? I can't get the videos to work (except the intro) and I can't find anywhere to login. I've tried Chrome and FF. Update: Now the videos are saying I need Flash 9 (
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by bstar77 15y ago
There have been two recent developments that lead me to believe RIM definitely needs to get out of this market. The (obvious) first is the Kindle Fire... This device will succeed and will cannibalize sales from tablets not called iPad (and
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by bstar77 15y ago
I think that I have a similar problem to many other users... It's not that Bing is a bad product, it may be the best thing out there. The problem is that I've lost confidence in Microsoft as a company to objectively serve me information. I
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by bstar77 15y ago
I really hope Notch comes up with something more interesting than capes for the Minecraft market. I could see something like a robust world generator being extremely interesting, but premium hats and capes has to be one of the stupidest co
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by bstar77 15y ago
I'm actually not caring much about an Android port at this point as WebOS is surprisingly good. As long as I keep my app cards sane it performs pretty well (I did run the performance tweaks to turn off debugging). I'll inject about $20 int
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by bstar77 15y ago
I have a feeling the word "dev" is being used loosely here.
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by bstar77 15y ago
I think I use Zite more than any other app on my iPad. I just removed Pulse after realizing Zite suited me much better. Not crazy having CNN owning the app, I'll have to see if the sources and quality changes. If I see one CNN article lo
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by bstar77 15y ago
I approach this the same way I approach Ruby... I only use parenthesis when they improve readability of a confusing statement or are required (function call with another function call-with params-as a param). As you can see, this statement
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by bstar77 15y ago
Aaron, we're privileged to have you as a maintainer. Keep up the great work.
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by bstar77 15y ago
I personally have not had a need to use XMLHttpRequest in my 5 years of js development, so I find it very strange that it accounts for 8% of hangs in IE. Is there some design pattern MS devs use in javascript causing this problem? Pretty m
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by bstar77 16y ago
Zed, you really should jslint your javascript code. Not trying to be overly critical, but it's really a mess- not even sure where to begin- well, I would start by not defining everything in the global namespace. Take a look at "Javascript,