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by cscotta 17y ago
While the article's content uses the phrase, nothing suggests that this distribution, which appears to be a very loosely-rebranded stock Linux, is any sort of "cyber-weapon" in terms of digital warfare.
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by cscotta 17y ago
Thanks for taking the time to write. It might be helpful to post a few links or examples to your previous work and help us understand why they didn't succeed as you'd hoped. Building a successful company is hard work (spoken as someone wor
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by cscotta 17y ago
This article is a good description of circular references and memory leaks in JS, a pattern which is especially common in IE6 and one which my coworkers have spent a surprising amount of time combatting. Memory leaks border on a special ki
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by cscotta 17y ago
Second. I'm currently developing an app on Heroku and have found the infrastructure, hosting, and deployment workflow to be fantastic. Give it a try!
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by cscotta 17y ago
I just read the article and loved it. I'm a developer - I've been working on a startup for two years now and have some momentum. But it's hard work and great things don't happen overnight. "Overnight success ... takes years" is a great rem
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by cscotta 17y ago
This is pretty hilarious, but before we start making jokes about how Rails is powered by LOLcats, keep in mind that all but one file touched by this commit is a test or test-related code.
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by cscotta 17y ago
No outrage here - and honestly, no overhauling necessary for most of my work. Touch-enabled devices have been with us for years, so most companies writing software, sites, and web apps to be used with them have long since adapted. Over-re
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by cscotta 17y ago
It strikes me as a bit disingenuous to criticize the performance of a browser while openly admitting that you haven't tried it. I've been an avid Safari user for years, but switched back to Firefox at 3.6b5. The performance improvements th
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by cscotta 17y ago
This title is significantly overstated. See here: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/12/29/technology/29hack.html "The encryption key itself does not enable surveillance of mobile calls, which must still be overheard and identified from the digi
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by cscotta 17y ago
Completely with you there. Safari was my primary browser (and has been for about a year) until a friend mentioned that Firefox 3.6b5 had some major retooling with respect to perceived performance (esp. in the address bar and page compositi
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by cscotta 17y ago
Wow, this is a really nice little language. The howto refreshing to read. While I love JS as a language, even written longhand, it feels like you've brought an uncommon elegance to it. The syntax is much simpler and maps more cleanly to ho
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by cscotta 17y ago
Thanks for posting the detailed write-up, but I don't believe that the facts warrant this conclusion. The fact remains that PastryKit is open source, but close-licensed - by which I mean the frontend source code is transmitted when you acce
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by cscotta 17y ago
Hey Phreanix, Do you have Javascript disabled, by chance? JS and Flash are required to display the product configurator. I did some looking around, and I can't find another way that you might have arrived at this link (unless perhaps the J
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by cscotta 17y ago
If you place an order today, it'll be printed and shipped today. Ground shipping should be okay depending on your location (they will be shipped from Louisville, KY), but 3-Day might not be a bad idea. Feel free to drop me an e-mail if you
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by cscotta 17y ago
Of course! Sorry for all the renders; they look nice, but it's good to see the real thing. Here are some of the cases coming off the line now: http://u.phoreo.com/pa.JPG And here is a hand shot (the original art was a bit messy; the pri
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by cscotta 17y ago
Matt King (op), myself, and the rest of our team at Instrument have been building out the site and backend infrastructure for this manufacturing process for the past five months. It's been one heck of a ride...we're web guys and don't exact
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by cscotta 17y ago
Wycats is a great guy and contributes a ton to the Ruby community, but I have to say...there's really not much here that's new or insightful. Set your headers, gzip content, and split assets across domains, yes, but - "Your pages will load
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by cscotta 17y ago
It's important to note that String#Fixnum (the target anchor in the article) does return the character at that index in the current version of Ruby. The behavior was changed at the start of the 1.9.x series.
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by cscotta 17y ago
Really? My download completed in about 20 seconds. T1 lines are highly reliable, provide guaranteed bandwidth, and low-latency, but are also very slow at only 1.544mbps (on par with low-end DSL).
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by cscotta 17y ago
It's an interesting idea, but based on some early tests it looks like a losing bet to me. My ping from a dedicated 15mb Qwest circuit to 8.8.8.8 and 8.8.4.4 is between 57ms and 75ms. However, cached DNS resolutions run at around 12ms from
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by cscotta 17y ago
Update - here's a much better article than the one linked, written by DCI's creator (who also helped popularize MVC): http://www.artima.com/articles/dci_vision.html
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by cscotta 17y ago
There's no need to sensationalize this. It's not the end of MVC and I'm not sure what's "banished" here. This sort of headline is a depressing trend. But it is an interesting pattern for software architecture/engineering, and I'm glad to
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by cscotta 17y ago
That's pretty cool man, congratulations. Learning the basics of programming is no easy task, so it's great to see that you're diving into it, giving it a try, and putting something out there. That takes a ton of work, but also guts. Way t
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by cscotta 17y ago
Sorry, but you absolutely need to change this. It's overt copyright infringement. You've provided zero attribution to the content creator, and don't own the rights to the work in the first place. Ripping off someone's work - whether they'
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by cscotta 17y ago
I believe the roadblock here is the lack of support for automatic garbage collection for applications developed using the iPhone SDK in the mobile OS. I'm a Ruby developer, not iPhone/Cocoa so this could be way off base, but I believe this
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by cscotta 17y ago
This is great to see. MacRuby is accomplishing important work very quickly. Here are the highlights from the latest Status Report from 0.5, posted by Laurent on Monday at http://lists.macosforge.org/pipermail/macruby-devel/2009-Nov... --
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by cscotta 17y ago
I've found Chrome for Mac pretty stable so far, too - but this is my showstopper. Any time Calibri is requested in text, it displays like this: http://u.phoreo.com/jy.png The font works fine everywhere else, so I'm not sure what's up. D
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by cscotta 17y ago
Ask and ye shall receive - Here's AdBlock (Adsweep): http://adsweep.org/ Here's Greasemonkey (Greasemetal): http://www.mychromeaddons.com/chrome-addon-greasemetal-greas...
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by cscotta 17y ago
The wording of this question (as summarized in the headline) suggests professional negligence on my part for not having spent a year, five, or ten learning Java. I'd like to respectfully disagree. Ruby is my primary programming language, b
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by cscotta 17y ago
Thanks, jashkenas - this is fantastic. I spend most of my day as a Ruby developer, but when I'm doing frontend work, the thing I miss most in Javascript is Ruby's incredibly simple, powerful list operations. While most of these have existe

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