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by div 15y ago
Paranoid is overloaded here to apply to both sourcecode and dealing with people. When slinging code, by all means assert instead of assuming. When dealing with customers / bosses as in the example provided, try to agree to build the simples
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by div 15y ago
I haven't used RailsAdmin yet, but from your analysis, I would feel hesitant to suggest people start of with it. I found working with ActiveAdmin to be very straightforward, and it sounds like getting the equivalent of RailsAdmin up and run
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by div 15y ago
An inflection point is the point where a function changes sign. This can be both a positive or a negative indication. This article carries a positive tone, so what they probably mean is that ICS to Android is the point where people start sa
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by div 15y ago
No penalty implies a moral / ethical stance that is different from even a $1 penalty. The underlying argument being that the majority of the population finds the current laws to be unjust not in measure, but on principle.
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by div 15y ago
Deliciously ironic given the title of the article though.
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by div 15y ago
The deal was x amount of shares for the risk of working for a startup. Renegging that to x/2 amount of shares in hindsight is evil. It's a construct in which an early employee can only lose, if the startup fizzles, he gets nothing, if the s
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by div 15y ago
One of those emotions projects on the guy, the other projects on the reasons why people buy his stuff. I suppose the easy way to buy from him and not feel like an asshole is to appreciate the passion and love that goes into the work he does
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by div 15y ago
Custom skins layered on top of vanilla Android are such an antipattern it hurts. It sucks for device manufacturers because it is costly to build. It sucks for consumers because the manufacturers have an incentive to drop support for any dev
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by div 15y ago
I would suggest just getting emacs 24. If you are on OSX you can build the emacs head using homebrew. There's some cool stuff in 24 like the emacs package manager (package.el) etc. Once you have emacs 24 ready to go, it's a good idea to tak
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by div 15y ago
I'm from Belgium, and I've never heard people talk about their salary after tax. edit: to answer your question, the 250k is before tax.
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by div 15y ago
There are 2 things being discussed here: 1) people being confused by the back button because they don't realize it will always pop the current view of the navigationstack, which is systemwide. 2) the fact that the back, menu, search and hom
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by div 15y ago
Same here, Vista / Chrome as well.
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by div 15y ago
It is very hard to imagine John Gruber being taken somewhere unexpected by using the back button on an Android device. This is like saying you were taken somewhere unexpected by using the back button in your browser. Sure, it may not work c
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by div 15y ago
Steve Pavlina has blogged extensively about polyphasic sleep: http://www.stevepavlina.com/blog/2005/10/polyphasic-sleep/
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by div 15y ago
You are unlikely to get comments from people who have actually built large scale web applications with all three of those frameworks, so you'll get a lot of opinion and little fact. As a second point, all three of those frameworks are solid
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by div 15y ago
I don't really understand what the author is trying to say. Granted, it's been a while since I used Ubuntu, but as a developer I mainly live in my editor and terminal. Anything I ever wanted is just an apt-get away and is mostly installed i
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by div 15y ago
I'm sure they did, but being connected to the grid is probably necessary for generating the 500KW.
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by div 15y ago
I'm positive about Tesla's future. They had to do a big investment in technology that now seems to be paying of in 2 ways: - building a sedan that has mass market potential - selling tech to established car manufacturers: http://venturebea
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by div 15y ago
We use svn at work too, but pretty much all developers have switched to git-svn. People used to working with tortoise or versions for mac still use vanilla svn, which is a big reason of why it's kept around.
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by div 15y ago
You may disagree with those views, but if they are predominant among the people who have final say in hiring you, and at what salary, then the advice is good. The whole point of the article is to force a typical engineer to look at how most
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by div 15y ago
The programming language or stack does not matter to whoever is hiring you. The fact that you knew IRIX was a good indicator that you'd be able to pick up Linux. It's also today a good indicator that you'd be able to pick up Windows if you
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by div 15y ago
Dropbox is in the business of enabling stuff, not disabling malicious behaviour (or making it more difficult or whatever). Specifically, if someone has malicious intent, software is not likely to stop them. You can't solve people problems w
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by div 15y ago
It's so easy these days to be a raging sexist and play the 'troll' card.
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by div 15y ago
Not everyone wants to go through this kind of battle against an anonymous adversary. I think she has the right not to have her decision to quit questioned. Just because she was the one being harassed does not mean she is suddenly responsibl
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by div 15y ago
Just build something. If python is your thing, find a tutorial to build a todo list app or a calculator or whatever. Once you finish that, either build the same thing in a different language / framework if you're not happy with your current
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by div 15y ago
They can, and it's basically what LLVM does when you turn on ARC for your Objective-C program. http://stackoverflow.com/questions/6385212/how-does-the-new-...
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by div 15y ago
Curious about how many other cool projects / companies can come out of that line of thought: "Here's a plain everyday thing that everyone wants to ignore, let's make it a cherished item"
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by div 15y ago
This page should give you the gist: http://www.nest.com/living-with-nest/ just scroll down.
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by div 15y ago
DELETE is idempotent as well. GET and HEAD are not really "potent" as they don't cause state to change on the server (or at least shouldn't). So I usually prefer saying GET and HEAD are "safe". The difference between safe and idempotent is:
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by div 15y ago
I find rails in particular to be very easy to just "api all the things" right off the bat. Add in some nice authentication / authorization with something like devise and CanCan and you will be saved from the headache of bolting an api onto

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