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by davesims 13y ago
Excellent! Agreed completely. Steve mentioned state machines off-hand on the list a while back, and that stayed with me, as someone with a disposition towards Husserl and Bergson and Whitehead and a general Process approach -- that state ma
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by davesims 13y ago
But the computer and its physical state has no meaning unless the output is perceived (paging Berkeley). That meaning to the user or coder is more than a function of the position of electrons in silicon, but also, and I would argue prim
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by davesims 13y ago
I've been thinking about this quite a bit myself lately (mostly due to the excellent ongoing discussion Steve Klabnik started here https://groups.google.com/forum/?fromgroups#!forum/philosoph... ). It seems to me a philosophy of code that
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by davesims 13y ago
If Mosaic had a current version with a rendering engine and enclosing feature set as competitive as the current Opera is vs. Chrome and FF, yeah I might. But, as I said, I don't even use Opera right now, only because FireFox's add-on ecosys
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by davesims 13y ago
Everything I like about FireFox (gestures, tabbed browsing, a reasonable bookmark manager), Opera did first. I used Opera for years back when it flat killed Netscape and IE for features and standards compliance. I only left once FireFox imp
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by davesims 13y ago
For me this was the 'tl;dr' quote: "It would be absurd to think that governments never have to worry about their level of indebtedness. The aim of our paper was much more narrowly focused. We show that, contrary to R&R, there is no de
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by davesims 14y ago
Your attempt to drive developers to Ruby and Rails by playing the role of a typical ignorant anti-rails fundamentalist crusader will fail.
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by davesims 14y ago
I agree that I probably wouldn't go with Fender low-end (they are crap), but there's plenty of good bargains in the 300-400 range that won't frustrate a beginner. There's probably 4 or 5 Epiphone, Seagull, Alvarez or Ibanez low/mid-range gu
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by davesims 14y ago
I'm just burnt out on that sound. To my ears they lack personality and expressiveness. They have a full sound, they're radio-friendly and they "play like an electric!" so I get why they're so popular and why so many new guitarists walk out
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by davesims 14y ago
'you make a big investment (upwards of $2000) and it motivates you not to give up' I've been playing semi-pro for quite a while, and In My Opinion, this is just as likely to fail as help. Also, I've never owned a guitar that cost more than
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by davesims 14y ago
With the ability to add static methods and default implementations to an interface, what is now the practical difference between that and an abstract class?
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by davesims 14y ago
I take it back - I had issues with escaping on irb but not in the app itself. Something new to learn...
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by davesims 14y ago
No problem, in ruby style is always pretty subjective since there's a thousand ways to do just about everything. And, just FYI you do need to escape the backrefs or use single quotes, like: "\\1<span class=\"nurble\">nurble&#6
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by davesims 14y ago
The inevitable ruby style niggling, feel free to ignore: personally I like something a little more concise and inlined, some parts seem to have used more verbose idioms, (like Regexp.new instead of a literal), and also I think you need to e
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by davesims 14y ago
Ah, got it. Humor achievement unlocked.
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by davesims 14y ago
> I work for Microsoft because I really like their web products. Cool! Good to have gigs we like. > "step 1. buy a mac". Is that really more enabling to the 2nd and 3rd world developers Jeff mentions? Eh. Linux is just fine for Rail
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by davesims 14y ago
Are you trying to say that both node and C# are better open source options than Ruby? Or rather that node is better and C# is not as bad as Jeff says? Either way -- to say that C# would be a better platform for developing an open source
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by davesims 14y ago
I've been meaning to learn vim for years now. I started a month ago knowing basically how to fudge my way around with arrow keys and save with :w, and that's it. A couple of peepcode screencasts, a bit of daily 5 minute practice on shortcut
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by davesims 14y ago
If you're coding mindlessly doesn't that by definition mean you've bypassed your brain?
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by davesims 14y ago
The top story on HN as of this comment is a Slate article debunking the bacteria claim, validating not only the newsworthiness of the original story, but also highlighting the full-arc drama HNers got to follow by seeing both stories featur
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by davesims 14y ago
This is certainly the dominant perception coming out of SV these days. But since the vast majority of startups fail and have no more time (or rather, will) to collect development metrics than they do to implement TDD, I doubt we'll ever hav
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by davesims 14y ago
Funny, I had a comment ready before Matt's that started "I can only speak from my experience..." So, yeah... in my experience this has played out exactly so: in practice, coders who ignore TDD are probably also ignoring a lot of other good
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by davesims 14y ago
You've said in a much more concise way what I took far longer with upstream. I can only beg off that I think my coding practices are better in this regard. :)
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by davesims 14y ago
A few years ago this comment would have made me facepalm, bang my head on the corner of my bulky CRT monitor and look for the nearest ice pick to stab through my eardrums. Kind of like I did when I read the transcript of Joel and Jeff's rea
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by davesims 14y ago
I got addicted to left-pane treeview bookmarks waaay back in my Opera days, imported into FF, still waiting on Chrome (sheesh). But at this point I doubt it would make a difference since the performance advantage has been pretty much erased
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by davesims 14y ago
"Say, you want to design a protocol with reliable delivery and/or loss detection. You will then have ACKs, send window and retransmissions." Maybe I'm missing something (likely) but it seems to me any potential replacement for UDP specifica
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by davesims 14y ago
One way to lose the late-nineties/early-oughts associations with Yahoo: kill the toolbar once and for all. Who uses those things? Is that really a revenue-generator for them? And if so, at what cost to their image as a holdover from a bygon
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by davesims 14y ago
That's fantastic. I use IntelliJ for Android stuff, installing now. They should add a 'Duck' mode that just brings up a big picture of the rubber duck.
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by davesims 14y ago
A few times a month, I'll look up at one of my colleagues and say, "hey, got a sec? I need to talk to the duck," and they know this means I'm going to talk to their head but they can basically keep doing what they're doing and nod occasiona
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by davesims 14y ago
Heh -- stick around, kid. :) Those shiny new greenfield codebases, so full of promise, perfect architectures and unfettered extensibility, can turn into slow-moving, spaghetti-code Leviathans in a matter of weeks. It's not just the decades-

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