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by chao- 11y ago
If there's one place you could do it in Houston right now, it'd be the Heights. The city can be affordable as hell, but there is a lot of urban infill starting (rather than building more surburbs). So the walkable/bikeable pa
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by chao- 11y ago
If you have experience in another language, and once you've gotten the Ruby syntax loaded into your brain (e.g. procs, lambdas, if/unless as a modifier, case statements, define a class, how optional parens work) I can recommend tw
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by chao- 12y ago
Razer now produces their own switches. Admittedly they are incredibly Cherry-like, so that doesn't address your point about "innovation", which I assume here to mean "variation" or simply product diversity? For that
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by chao- 12y ago
>you would see it evolve over time, trying to get rid of unwanted properties (reduce weight, dimensions, loudness) That has happened, though, for those who want it. Emphasis on "has happened" in the past tense. I have used a
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by chao- 12y ago
Agreed on multiple points, but especially the muscle memory. Years ago I had a board with Cherry MX Reds, acquired in Japan when they were still almost unknown on any consumer models. Felt like a huge accomplishment in a keyboard geek pissi
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by chao- 12y ago
To hear Brendan Eich tell it, Microsoft's mindset went beyond simply "We have a monopoly so we can do whatever we want." It was a conscious "The web isn't the future" attitude. From the JavaScript Jabber podcas
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by chao- 12y ago
Coincidentally I was just looking back into the state of city simulation games the other day. On my list of "Games I have played beyond any reasonable number of hours" is Sim City 4 with the various mods available. I was, like mos
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by chao- 12y ago
But the original doesn't have a dark background, so it still doesn't explain how people see it, in that picture's context, as white and gold.
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by chao- 12y ago
I'm the same as your update. I tend to enjoy these sorts of illusions and normally can see them "both ways" for some specific illusion. Not so on this one. The rest of the image (i.e. beyond the dress) leads me to also percei
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by chao- 12y ago
Visual help for anyone who is really wondering about Houston's size: http://imgur.com/a/qjNLm Honestly I'm slowly becoming one of those "Inside the Loop" people who treats anything outside of it as
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by chao- 12y ago
I'll mirror what you and _delirium have said, but also note that simple economics certainly play a role as well, ala the article. Yes, someone theoretically could buy up the lot across the street from my house, tear down the two hous
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by chao- 12y ago
Having lived in Dallas and Houston both, and recently, I don't feel either are more or less walkable than the other. Each is majority non-walkable. Each has 2 or 3 neighborhoods that you could call walkable. Locals from each can cherry
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by chao- 12y ago
I was waiting all of 2013 for that X1 refresh, and spent a whole day swearing at random inanimate objects after seeing what they actually built. Bought an ASUS Zenbook instead. I would LOVE to have somehow lasted this year without a new lap
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by chao- 12y ago
Same here w.r.t. destressing. And when I need to cook but am not particularly in need of the mental break, I'll load up Ruby Rogues or another dev podcast and get some learning or inspiration added to the mix.
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by chao- 12y ago
I was in the exact same situation at the exact same time. Glad to hear I wasn't the only one who was a little confused at the under-functionality (possibly just outdated?) of the current Elixir syntax package.
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by chao- 12y ago
Agreed. I began to abandoned TV news entirely back in 2006, driven in part because of the (apparently universal) habit of leading and/or closing every story with a pun, idiom or catchphrase. At least when my eyes start to detect it in
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by chao- 12y ago
I smirked, but then stopped. What took my smile away was the thought that enough people are going to see this and not take it as tongue-in-cheek, but as further evidence of a liberal bias among Silicon Valley companies, so on and so forth.
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by chao- 12y ago
As someone who has been teetering on both the Ruby/Elixir fence and the Ruby/Clojure fence, I have to admit to not looking close enough at Goroutines. A glances left me feeling like they were an abstraction at the wrong level, at
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by chao- 12y ago
Absolutely. For historical reasons (not worth rambling about), a lot of Houston's early startup "scene" was organized via Facebook group, and somewhat remains so to this day. Single biggest resource is the Startup Houston blo
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by chao- 12y ago
Couldn't decide whether to respond to you or to bglazer above, but I particularly agree with the "any major city" / "large Southern cities" part in both of your posts. If this were 2009, I wouldn't have
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by chao- 12y ago
Thanks for the clarification and glad to see RO was a gateway into software for so many people :) I even remember YARE, if only vaguely. A friend of mine who had a stint in a game studio is convinced he should never have to (re)write a UI i
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by chao- 12y ago
Oh yeah, while I haven't read the source directly in years, it is much changed. I was referencing 2004, only six months or so after iRO officially came out of beta. To say it improved since then is an understatement. Based on what I la
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by chao- 12y ago
Some of my earliest lessons in "how not to write software" came from listening to the ranting of a friend who worked on the original eAthena implementation (i.e. back when it forked from the Japanese Athena project and gained the
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by chao- 12y ago
What determines whether a car is hard to rig up or not?
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by chao- 12y ago
Thanks for the correction. That's even better as we're set to break 200K this year :)
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by chao- 12y ago
Quite the opposite. In Texas, until a certain point in revenue, they really don't want to waste any time and resources on you. They ask "Did you make at least $1,000,000 last year? No? Well, please move along peasant, we have rea
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by chao- 12y ago
"What would happen if the player app you are using to play your offline library breaks and you have no data?" A traditional media player breaking almost never touches its "offline library". WMP, Clementine, Foobar2000,
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by chao- 12y ago
Having watched the talk now, I see what he's getting at. I have maintained, at most, a small-approaching-medium-sized single-page app, and it was an internal tool. Clearly I have not felt any of the same pain that inspired React. But w
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by chao- 12y ago
I have not. I will watch it soon and see if it changes my opinion. And I recognize it is just that: an opinion. A habit developed over time. But as a result, after all these years, I am also familiar with its advantages. The idea of "D

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