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by div 14y ago
Spot on. In the article, one of the doctors mentions that the process of growing meat in a lab needs to be more efficient than in a cow or pig. I'd say the process needs to be AS efficient, and could even be slightly less efficient to be ec
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by div 14y ago
If I'd want to hear what people are wanting, I would much rather listen to people instead of the "fop-cum-restauranteur". It's simple really, if you're not cooking, cleaning, waiting, providing the building, providing money, marketing or an
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by div 14y ago
s/ruby//
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The orange juice test(contrast.ie)
3 points by div 15y ago|0 comments
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by div 15y ago
Ad-blindness is another factor. At first glance, his simple ad looks like part of the content, the fancy ad just looks like an ad and is filtered out subconsciously. Definitely a factor to take into account when you're targeting gamers I'd
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by div 15y ago
This is exactly the type of thing the Firefox team needs to do. Measuring memory usage causes engineers to focus on it. Making the data available piques the curiosity of geeks who historically drive change (in a "you should use this browser
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by div 15y ago
That, or a nice way of using different mimetypes to indicate which representation you want. Also, http status codes perfectly solve the problem of needing to know wether an object was sent to the server successfully. No need to reinvent the
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by div 15y ago
I don't think things should be painted as black or white as being either right or wrong. A rewrite can be the best thing to happen to a code base, but it is not a panacea for all code quality problems. Sometimes a refactoring is simply a be
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by div 15y ago
I could not agree more. One should always have a "fools rush in" attitude when contemplating rewriting a piece of code he did not write himself. Always.
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by div 15y ago
I am very interested in how this will all play out. Personally, I think the auction house real money economy is going to be huge. If the trading that went on in Diablo 2 is any indicator: - people in low wage countries will easily be able t
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by div 15y ago
I have the same question. I don't see buying Twitter as being very useful to Apple. Just because Apple, Google and Facebook are 3 of the largest tech giants at the moment doesn't mean they directly compete. What's more, if the assumption is
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by div 15y ago
Regardless of what price you end up deciding on, please provide people with a way of leaving their email address with you. I am interested in your video series and may buy them, but right now: - I have no way of finding out when you're done
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by div 15y ago
That's so obviously correct that I'm going to stop making HN comments so early in the morning and see if that stops me from saying stupid shit.
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by div 15y ago
I am now on my third project using coffeescript together with BackboneJS. On the second and third project, I am also teaching coffeescript to 3 people who had never written any coffeescript OR BackboneJS before. Granted, there is a fair amo
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by div 15y ago
He most likely used HPHP as an example because the message he was replying to also mentioned HPHP. At least that's how I interpreted it.
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by div 15y ago
I can't imagine doing any useful work in the scenario being described. If I'm being strung along like that, knowing that my attention could be required at any minute, it is extremely hard to load a chunk of code in my head because any spare
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by div 15y ago
Try cutting out some of the stuff people tend to find boring. Or change the way it's presented. Maybe your audience doesn't understand what you're trying to tell, maybe they already know. Try to adapt on the fly.
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by div 15y ago
I really tend to like early returns and use them often. I usually try to make them use the form: return x if y To me, this makes it easier to follow a particular flow when reading code. As soon as I encounter a return that matches it's cond
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by div 15y ago
This sounds like great advice, and your post would make for a good blog entry.
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by div 15y ago
Identifying gaps in your knowledge is half the battle. Learning and getting better isn't limited to eliminating known unknowns, it includes becoming aware of unknown unknowns. Once you can google a problem, there is a very high chance you'l
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by div 15y ago
> "Why don’t you sell your house/company/whatever if you believe that much in your product?" How is believing in your product an excuse for not trying to minimise risk. Especially if you know that most startups fail, there's no good rea
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by div 15y ago
This mentality switch is a long overdue change in my life. I'm currently using a Nexus One, and while I like it just fine, my next phone is going to be an iPhone. At least Apple seems to be beholden to making sure their customers stay happy
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by div 15y ago
I completely disagree with your last statement, and believe that that kind of thinking is bad. It allows assholes to continue to pose as 'smart people' because they simply bully their peers, and their superiors will assume they must be smar
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by div 15y ago
Very little to none. Software patent laws are largely written by people paid by companies who: a) have a lot of patents b) invested billions buying up patents c) would very much like to see those patents as an asset which makes them money d
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by div 15y ago
The problem is not having 2 or more app stores, the problem is having 2 or more app stores that are mutually exclusive.
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by div 15y ago
This is very much how my brain works too, and I wonder if it's prevalent at all. I'll know something is possible, and vaguely know what the technique is called, and I will be able to incorporate that knowledge into my thinking. Then wheneve
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Anonymous to use stolen credit cards of the rich to donate to the poor(informationweek.com)
2 points by div 15y ago|1 comments
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by div 15y ago
It seems like the title is a bit poorly chosen. The author talks about the importance of having a platform to cater to the multitude of devices and other apps out there, and that this means rails isn't the center of the universe anymore. To
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by div 15y ago
Well, there's a ton of technologies you could play around with, from lisp to haskell, ruby to python to any jvm language. If you go with Java or Scala, Eclipse, IntelliJ or NetBeans are good choices. Personally I prefer IntelliJ where you c
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by div 15y ago
Install ubuntu or mint. Once you have that set up, it really is just a question of what stack you want to work with. If you don't want to start using vim or emacs right away, which is understandable, there are a lot of text editors out ther

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