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by cwp 14y ago
True, Ruby doesn't usually get used for GUIs. But take a look at the Javascript and browser testing tools that are available. Is there anything like Sauce Labs for iOS?
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by cwp 14y ago
You forgot DTrace!
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by cwp 14y ago
Here's one example. It's an oak tree, right at the top of an apartment building. http://www.venturevancouver.com/blog/tree-on-top-of-building... http://www.treecaretips.org/Pruning/TCI0308_p50.htm
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by cwp 14y ago
The corollary of the spaghetti strategy is that if something doesn't stick, you kill it. Taking Jobs' advice is really just setting a higher bar for sticking.
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by cwp 14y ago
Bravo. This is one of a very, very few enlightening comments in this whole mess.
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De-Extinction FAQ(phenomena.nationalgeographic.com)
1 points by cwp 14y ago|0 comments
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by cwp 14y ago
Ok, my comment didn't contribute much. I'll try again. I do know who JLG is, and that's exactly why I pay attention to what he says. There are few people with his experience that can actually talk about this stuff openly. So it's not funny,
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A Stealthy De-Extinction Startup(technologyreview.com)
2 points by cwp 14y ago|0 comments
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by cwp 14y ago
I do? Why?
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by cwp 14y ago
Well, I'd start with "don't do side projects." Remember, these are full-time students. They've put aside all other pursuits to dedicate themselves to learning to play the violin. They work hard at practicing violin and relax when they're n
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by cwp 14y ago
Could you clarify the question? Are you asking "What does deliberate practice look like for coders?" or "What would improvement look like for a coder?" or "How could practice lead to improvement?" or something else?
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by cwp 14y ago
Huh? Musical ability is about as intangible as it gets. And programming, once you get past the noob stage of mastering syntax, doesn't depreciate either.
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by cwp 14y ago
Yes, they're absolutely right. Not having bacn in my INBOX is wonderful. But I have that already, using Gmail filters. Glider could automate it for me, which would be valuable. I don't think I'd value it at $9/month, though. Maybe I'm not i
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by cwp 14y ago
This is great! There is one thing missing though. I tried to subscribe to the site in Reader and it couldn't find a feed. Could you?
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by cwp 14y ago
No, "limit" is the correct interpretation. For a convertible debt investment, it's the maximum valuation by which the debt can be converted to equity. (And therefor a minimum percentage of the company that the investor will receive.)
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by cwp 14y ago
Right, technically English doesn't let you drop pronouns. On the other hand there is a pretty long tradition of dropping first person pronouns in writing. You see it in informal correspondence and journals from before electronic media were
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by cwp 14y ago
Because of the 1JS principle, ES6 will be a strict superset of ES5. CoffeeScript can maintain its existing semantics, produce the same JS output that it does now, and nothing will break. But then it's not really targeting ES6, is it? It's t
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by cwp 14y ago
So, basically, CoffeeScript can't target ES6 while maintaining backwards compatibility, but it doesn't matter, because they have time to manage the transition. Ok, that may well be. Personally, I agree that ES6 isn't that big an issue, bu
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by cwp 14y ago
What makes you think CoffeeScript can target ES6 while maintaining backwards compatibility? Did you read the discussion? Wycats makes a very good argument for the opposite position.
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by cwp 14y ago
I think it's a little more specific than "people don't perform well under stress." A software development job may well entail stressful situations—for example, "The founder got interviewed on Oprah and the servers are melting!" But that ki
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by cwp 14y ago
Yeah, it looks to me like, after the Top Gear thing, they ascribed to malice what could be explained by stupidity. But, they made a bunch of noise, got some more headlines, cast doubt on the negative review, and gave their fans a good stor
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by cwp 14y ago
So we should continue with the patent system because, without it, inventor's feelings might get hurt?
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by cwp 14y ago
Is there anything to this debate that doesn't boil down to style? Python has a pretty decent object system. It also has first-class, nested functions with closures. You could write good OO code or good functional code according to your tast
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Geekwire doesn't get it(geekwire.com)
1 points by cwp 14y ago|0 comments
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by cwp 14y ago
Gimme a break. The assumptions are correct, for now. If they become incorrect, Stripe will update the software accordingly. This is exactly how good software is written and managed. Patrick has nothing to be embarrassed about.
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by cwp 14y ago
Sure. If you want to be a politician in the West, you can't really avoid participating in a Christian community of one kind or another. But people who are interested in stoicism probably have other goals.
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by cwp 14y ago
It's not about the label "inbox zero". In fact, I rarely have an empty inbox. Usually there's a handful of unread messages and maybe a couple that are read, but I haven't decided whether they need action. What is important is limiting the d
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by cwp 14y ago
The problem with using your inbox as a todo list is that anybody in the world can write to it. (citation needed.) The point of putting todo messages in a separate place is to separate the activities of doing stuff (ie, the items on your lis
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by cwp 14y ago
What, you have someone else in mind? Or maybe she's just an innocent victim here, a well-meaning prosecutor working for justice, who just had the bad luck to lay charges against a popular but suicidal trouble maker and is now being scapegoa
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by cwp 14y ago
So? The German system as it existed 30 years ago is still interesting.

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