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931.
by catch23 18y ago
Or additionally, he could just shutdown the site on xmas day and post a disclaimer for the other 364 days that the site has a 99.997% success rate. (or a 0.003% failure rate)
932.
by catch23 18y ago
Well that's because you visited Beijing. Try visiting a city near Beijing, but not in Beijing. I think if you visit any major city anywhere in the world, you'll find a huge diverse range of food you'll never have trouble with.
933.
by catch23 18y ago
In general, if you weren't brought up with food diversity, you'll probably cling to what you like and makes you feel comfortable. Same goes for Americans who visit China, give them a week and they'll be dying for some McDonalds. A friend
934.
by catch23 18y ago
On another note, one time we brought our coworkers to a "real chinese restaurant". They didn't order anything on the menu and asked the cook to make a special beef-fried-rice for them. While the rest of us were enjoying our bitter melon &
935.
by catch23 18y ago
Why not just do a static version of the site for 364 days of the year and just git push on the hour of xmas? It'd be good enough, infinitely more scalable, and offers the benefit of looking into past revisions to find previous dates xmas o
936.
by catch23 18y ago
Well I like to use certain command line tools for finding stuff or moving files around, which tend to happen more often as a developer. I've gotten pretty good at scripting with the new powershell in windows, but still somewhat annoying co
937.
by catch23 18y ago
probably all those people running coworking facilities. There are people who pay, and there are those who just show up and mooch. But somehow they're able to stay alive. In SF, there's the Hat factory & Citizen Space. I've only been
938.
by catch23 18y ago
Microsoft is friendlier to developers, but the development environment in windows is not so friendly. The one major reason that I own a MacBook is due to the BSD development environment, I'd have to run vmware or colinux on a windows machi
939.
by catch23 18y ago
Well my dad bought a color Macintosh II for $9,000 so I'd say the prices were moderately comparable. It's crazy to think how expensive computers were back in the day. And $9,000 in 1980's currency is probably like buying a $18,000 compute
940.
by catch23 18y ago
advertising seems more stable than subscription based. At least according to the Economist, advertising spend changes little during recessionary periods.
941.
by catch23 18y ago
http://github.com/choonkeat/hquery/tree/master Hquery: Uses pure HTML as "template" for rendering views a Hpricot sequence (in the .hquery counter-part file) is executed to modify the pure HTML and the resulting HTML is output to the brow
942.
by catch23 18y ago
then sell celtics their name for $10 million. Sounds like a good plan to me! Or maybe twitter is the one selling the celtics their brand name for $10 million...
943.
by catch23 18y ago
Also, maybe you shouldn't use MSRP for pricing, it can skew the data since some of the older netbooks are actually significantly cheaper than recent models and it's really hard to gauge what is better for the price. Why not scrape data fro
944.
by catch23 18y ago
I don't understand the compare button. Can't comparison be a little easier for the end user? The fact that nothing happens on this first click is already considered a UI flaw. Why not make it easier to add products to compare when you're
945.
by catch23 18y ago
You're also wrong, how do you know what deals are coming out of big name mobile chip manufacturers like Motorola? Motorola is betting big on Android and they're releasing 20-30 devices based on Android, and most of them are not cell phones
946.
by catch23 18y ago
As a level 73 priest, I agree. Nothing wrong with taking the game leisurely. There were some weeks when guildies thought I quit WoW simply because I wasn't around for such a long time, but sometimes work needs the focus. I think you're l
947.
by catch23 18y ago
yeah, it's possible in pure ruby. You can do stuff to prevent monkey patching, as well as do stuff to make it easier for future monkey patchers. I prefer libraries to not do either, to make code easier to use.
948.
by catch23 18y ago
JRuby is great, the only issue with existing projects is trying to convert all the gem dependencies that use native code over to java. Popular ones like Hpricot have jruby equivalents, but unpopular ones like ruby-gsl or image_science have
949.
by catch23 18y ago
The C extension issue in Ruby is the same as Python afaik. There probably aren't as many windows developers using Ruby though.
950.
by catch23 18y ago
we wrote something exactly like yours for corporate customers and although I love jQuery, we decided it was best to write it with just straight-up javascript. It was less code than I thought it would be considering how quick & dirty jQ
951.
by catch23 18y ago
emacs isn't too bad, but I gave up on the multi-major-mode stuff a few years back, it just doesn't compare to TextMate. TextMate still seems to do very well if the one file contains several languages (like an html template), but emacs unde
952.
by catch23 18y ago
Although lots of comments are about the Ruby language, I think this post can be applied to just about any open source project out there. It's always easier to complain to the maintainer than to try to fix the problem yourself and distribut
953.
by catch23 18y ago
I don't think so... I found one on craigslist just a few minutes ago, $1450 for 900 sqft 2 bedroom in Mountain View. Unless you require your apartment complex to have a pool with workout rooms and all kinds of amenities, you can find dece
954.
by catch23 18y ago
Um no. Mountain View is not the same price as SF. SF is far more expensive than Mountain View. My current apartment in Mountain View is on the order of 3x cheaper per square foot compared to when I lived in SF. When I was in SF, I was l
955.
by catch23 18y ago
I've lived in SV for a year without a car. As long as you're moderately close to each bay area hub (like castro in mountain view, or university in palo alto), you'd have access to Caltrain and can go just about anywhere. SV is a very bicy
956.
by catch23 18y ago
Meaning... you'll need 15 trees in your backyard to power a small flashlight? So if you owned a forest with a few thousand trees, you might have enough voltage to power 4 lights in your home at the SAME TIME? AMAZING!
957.
by catch23 18y ago
well if you already know one, you might as well spend the time to learn something else that would give your brain a level up.
958.
by catch23 18y ago
I know for a fact that google uses this internally for a bunch of their products.... so i'm fairly certain it's decently secure.
959.
by catch23 18y ago
For a small team user of pivotal tracker, I can say with confidence that pivotal tracker will be much much better than google docs. I've used pivotal tracker on various projects ranging from 2-3 people total. Pivotal tracker is almost lik
960.
by catch23 18y ago
As someone who once lived in Atlanta, I can say the startup scene is not as thriving as you might think. Startup weekend travels around the country doing an event at each major city so it's nothing too special that one was held in Atlanta.

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