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by davesims 15y ago
Where's the subtle flaw in this suggestion?
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by davesims 15y ago
Cool. Not sure if you're still watching this thread, but I'm thinking of putting together some kind of tech group for Denton, maybe through meetup. Ping me at davsims at gmail if you want. Do you work out of Denton? I set up @ Jupiter House
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by davesims 15y ago
The 'one incident' was the AWS outage that brought much, much more than Heroku down, and their post-mortem was fairly impressive, as far as that sort of thing goes. I'm not saying you don't have a point, but imo your comparison of Heroku's
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by davesims 15y ago
I went to UNT as well (not for music) and I'm still in Denton and work remote from here, not because it's a great tech hub but because of the music scene and culture I want to raise my kids in. A good number of the best coders I work with r
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by davesims 15y ago
A big ditto from me at 42 (programmer/musician)
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by davesims 15y ago
Apparently it was an idea they had for a charity that never went anywhere: "David (Kotkin) said it was a LLC for a charity that was never actually created," he said. "He bought the name thinking Paul would be involved, but nothing came of i
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What Facebook and Google are hiding from the world(youtube.com)
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by davesims 15y ago
If they were at all interested in ramping up to Rails or node or <cool-hip-etc/> then you'd have some room to discuss the benefits of one over the other. But they're not, and it looks like you don't. It takes a lot of work to move f
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by davesims 15y ago
Yeah, absolutely. It's been a matter of looking for new opportunities to do something out of my comfort zone. If you've been doing Rails for a year and an opportunity comes up to do some mobile stuff, take it. If you've been doing css/html
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by davesims 15y ago
I do all of those, and I am definitely not a genius. Nor all that rare. Most of the projects I've worked on in the last 5 years have had several devs who could go end-to-end, and the ones that weren't were working towards that goal. It's
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by davesims 15y ago
"There ought to be one obviously best way to do each thing, for the sake of maintenance and readability." In what way does a constriction of convention relate to readability or maintainability? The languages I'm most productive in have many
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Best Rendition of "Anarchy in the UK" Ever (skip to 16:40 on the video)(vice.com)
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Lone juror unconvinced Microsoft harmed Novell(arstechnica.com)
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by davesims 15y ago
Thanks AJ, I appreciate it.
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by davesims 15y ago
As a person of long-held religious conviction I am deeply saddened to see this worthy adversary go. He had an uncanny ability to go straight for your mostly deeply held beliefs with the most trenchant rhetoric and yet somehow made you like
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by davesims 15y ago
90% of my use cases when I launch an external Activity (email, maps, sharing, etc.) I don't get data back, so I guess from my POV anchors are good analogies. And how is Ajax not precisely an example of a website passing data back? It's all
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by davesims 15y ago
"I wouldn't call COM/OLE "perfect integration between apps" at all." Oh come on, it was so simple! All you had to do was set up a ProgID and/or a GUID in the registry (no! not HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE, silly!, HKEY_USER! Oh wait, you're right, it
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by davesims 15y ago
Not sure I follow -- I was isolating the case of simply launching an external Activity, analogous to clicking a hyperlink to a separate webpage. Just adding data to an Intent (similar to the way you'd add arguments on URL params) can requir
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by davesims 15y ago
Agreed with most of your points except "mostly painless." Consider that an anchor tag is both presentation and event handler -- basically all necessary application logic -- in one line, and intuitively understood in its integration with URL
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by davesims 15y ago
Sure, you can open other apps and target applications with different link types, but you can't interleave functionality with nearly as much ease as in Android. Any time you click a web link from an email, or a YouTube link from Safari you s
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by davesims 15y ago
Linking is one of the things that I think Android got right over iOS. Google -- web company that they are -- smartly realized that their mobile OS platform needed to borrow metaphors from the web and attempted to do this with their Intent/A
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by davesims 15y ago
I dunno, it sticks pretty close to the style and tone of Maron's own stand-up, which like Louis's is deeply personal and raw and itself challenges what constitutes 'comedy' to some degree. I'd say it's funny in the same way Maron himself is
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by davesims 15y ago
WTF is the best comedy podcast out there, hands-down. The 2-part with Louis is worth the price of admission alone, but there's many more that are as well. If you like comedy at all and a contrarian, alternative point of view, I can't recomm
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by davesims 15y ago
The Marc Maron 2-part interview with Louis is one of the best podcasts ever made. Louis goes into his production process, how he creates 2 hours of new material every year, and why he brought in Jean Luc Godard's DP to film Pootie Tang. Wil
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by davesims 15y ago
Sounds a bit like the guy who had some really good advice to give, but didn't take into account the politics and context of the forum he was posting to, tagged it with a douchey comment at the end, and got downvoted and ignored.
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by davesims 15y ago
Unless you haven't. Hands-on is very important, especially early on when learning something new. But after the early stages, hands-on only takes you so far. You need to hit the books again. You'll learn more starting out in Rails, for insta
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by davesims 15y ago
I guess I don't see how that's any different than performing any other blocking operation off the main/UI thread, either on a hand-rolled secondary thread or using a util class like AsyncTask which handles that for you. It seems to me race
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by davesims 15y ago
“...a lot of the work we have to do today is because of certain choices made years ago... ...having the UI thread handle animations is the biggest problem...An easy solution would of course to create a new UI toolkit but there are many down
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Rackspace's plan to beat Amazon: "Fanatical support"(tech.fortune.cnn.com)
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by davesims 15y ago
You're right, sorry. It's in the "Martin Fowler" Addison Wesley series of books, it's not written by Fowler. I've had the book on my shelf and read a good bit of it, and should have caught that! "Martin Fowler" is on the cover in two differ

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