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by burke 15y ago
> Pardon my coarseness, but so many kids who start out their college career are little shits who think they know everything about programming and that taking an introductory class is beneath them. Unfortunately enough, most intro classe
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by burke 15y ago
Exactly. If I take a photo with my lens cap on, that photo is not worth $2000, or whatever the price of my camera + computer works out to. It'll be damn near completely black. Conversely, if a famous photographer took a beautiful photo with
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by burke 15y ago
I'd argue that if the definitions don't overlap, you're not interpreting the word "viable" correctly. EDIT: That came off snarkier than I meant it. What I'm getting at is that if you think you have a Minimum Viable Product, but your potenti
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by burke 15y ago
I don't understand the logic here. It's okay to kill animals as long as they've spent their entire lives in human-inflicted suffering? For the record, I eat meat, and I have few qualms about eating caged animals, but arguing it as more hu
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by burke 15y ago
I haven't read sant0sk1's post -- it's probably the same idea -- but I gave an ultra-high-level overview in another comment: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3374294 EDIT: This is my migration hack: https://gist.github.com/1f5e67b018d
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by burke 15y ago
Sure. Basically, I have a schema called template_tenant, and a table public.tenants (ie. in the public schema). For each record with id n in the public.tenants table, I have another schema tenant_n cloned from and kept in sync with the temp
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by burke 15y ago
I didn't understand the love for solarized until I got a decent quality monitor. Now I use it for MacVim, iTerm2, and Adium (I just tweaked the colours in minimal_mod, and can share if anyone cares). It's perfect.
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by burke 15y ago
Not mentioned anywhere is that the PostgreSQL adapter now supports using the Schema Search Path without fistfuls of bugs and oversights. I'm using schema separation for a multitenant application, and it looks like I'll be able to remove at
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by burke 15y ago
In my project, "rake environment" took 11.5 seconds on rails 3.1.x, and 8.7 seconds on rails 3.2. (1.9.3.p0 for both). I'm quite happy about this, as the initial development boot time is what's been bothering me most lately.
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by burke 15y ago
I know it's just a coincidence that they chose the darkest day of the year for this, but I still find it a little poignant.
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by burke 15y ago
Yeah, I didn't mean to imply it's Rails only, just that this is the one killer feature that Rails developers tend to be swayed by.
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by burke 15y ago
This is my favourite selling point for Ruby on Rails developers. Rails tends to shield you from the database quite a lot, but most everyone's been burned at some point by a database migration that failed halfway through.
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by burke 15y ago
No responses yet, but the same question is on Quora: http://www.quora.com/What-are-the-key-differences-between-em...
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by burke 15y ago
There are 453 mentions of "fork" in the patch, so I'm imagining it does.
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by burke 15y ago
Exciting! It really does make sense to rebrand SproutCore 2.0. As a (light) user of both 1.x and 2.0, I completely understand the change. So much has been simplified -- the barrier to entry has dropped considerably, and the boilerplate fact
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by burke 15y ago
Amazon hasn't changed much.
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by burke 15y ago
It's unfortunately not the organizations' fault. In general, they'd be thrilled to take anyone's blood after they screen it. The rule is specifically legislated.
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by burke 15y ago
I'm a CS graduate, and I read the Friedl book on regular expressions in high school. I don't seem to remember learning anything about automata from it, and I know for certain that my automata course in university didn't make me any more com
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by burke 15y ago
Strictly speaking, you're not actually enumerating for a lot of the potential use-cases of enumerable methods. For example, say #reject were implemented: User.where(admin: true).reject(office: current_user.office) There are two way
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by burke 15y ago
And apparently my password is "Too long".
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by burke 15y ago
This is very similar to Richard Feynmann's thought process. "Richard Feynman was fond of giving the following advice on how to be a genius. You have to keep a dozen of your favorite problems constantly present in your mind, although by and
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by burke 15y ago
It's not about the content; it's just about the level of empathy implied. This correction had some, and he went to greater length to explain that he had nothing against Steve personally.
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by burke 15y ago
I went into that video thinking "Big deal; it's a helicopter inside a ball", but the way it moved in the air was actually very impressive -- especially the way it responded to being pushed by the demonstrator about a minute in.
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by burke 15y ago
Not to be "that guy", but does she have any connection to him? Why should I believe she isn't just some random that made that up?
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by burke 15y ago
It was almost surely edited from "he", which would have been obvious by context.
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by burke 15y ago
"Everyone that doesn't agree with my sense of humour is handicapped!"
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by burke 15y ago
So crippling utility in favour of civility is a fair trade? Like others, I found it very helpful to be able to gauge the general consensus on a topic by the number of points each comment had. If the price for that is having to skip over a f
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by burke 15y ago
I've heard of a lot of people switching from emacs to vim these past couple years, and very little the other way around. I made the switch last month, and I'm pretty happy with it.
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by burke 15y ago
I just spent 10 minutes googling for it and came up empty-handed. Odd that it's so hard to find.
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by burke 15y ago
That was actually surprisingly tactful for RMS. It barely came across as offensive.

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