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by djacobs 15y ago
As I say, taking steps that make life harder for engineers & techies will eventually drive us away. I'm pretty sure that Apple has been successful because it's fostered a developer community, and if it stops fostering that, it's success
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by djacobs 15y ago
An alternative is to use the SetFile command, which can alter all kinds of file attributes on HFS+ and non-HFS+ volumes. I have the following in my bash profile: alias see='SetFile -a v' alias hide='SetFile -a V'
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by djacobs 15y ago
I would agree, except when such ease of use comes at the expense of your standard (or more experienced than standard) techie. It's my opinion that the Mac platform has been able to succeed because of its developers, and its developers flock
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by djacobs 15y ago
Whenever someone refers to this conversation, I think to myself: "I should listen to that again, for the sake of entertainment." I sit down with a cup of coffee, ready for a good laugh. Within 5 minutes, I remember: There is (almost) nothin
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by djacobs 15y ago
Looking back, I think working at Mass General Hospital put me in that mindset. Being in the MGH environment will convince you that you can only really be an effective doctor if you go to a top-tier school. That idea is obviously not valid,
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by djacobs 15y ago
Of course it doesn't. It makes you a middle-class respectable person; being "good" is entirely up to you. In some ways, my mentioning that stereotype is almost a strawman. But I included that line of thought because plenty of people belie
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by djacobs 15y ago
MS don’t deserve .NET developers who want to get better, because MS aims at developers who don’t want to get better. just developers who want to stay where they are and have a job until they die. Coming from the Ruby community, this is a
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My personal pivot from medicine into technology(wit.io)
7 points by djacobs 15y ago|5 comments
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by djacobs 15y ago
I'd be interested to hear stories from anyone going the other way, too.
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Pivot: My journey from medicine into technology(wit.io)
1 points by djacobs 15y ago|1 comments
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by djacobs 15y ago
I'm not a 'hater' (per below), but I would suggest to you that 'probably' is most definitely the wrong modifier here.
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by djacobs 15y ago
I knew moving to Boston that I could expect lots of snow, but the way it can affect your lifestyle for four months (especially if you walk everywhere) was something I didn't think too much about. The harshness of this winter is not an insig
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by djacobs 15y ago
It's a shame that anthrax gets so much press, simply because of the (small) potential for weaponization. In spite of the fact that it doesn't easily spread between people. I've heard it's almost impossible to get approved to work with it, a
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by djacobs 15y ago
I'd say the possibility of recreating smallpox from custom oligos hinges on this: Is RNA polymerase one of the proteins that smallpox requires from its own genes, or would someone be able to use stock bacterial polymerases to recreate its f
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by djacobs 15y ago
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/05/11/business/economy/11leonhar... has some data on the price-to-rent ratio in various markets. From a grammar perspective, I think this sentence is interesting. It is literally the first time I've ever seen
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by djacobs 15y ago
It baffles me how underdeveloped the git-submodule command is. I've never enjoyed that aspect of Vim bundle management, and this looks like a refreshing alternative. Is submodule-based package management gone for good? I'm going to wait and
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by djacobs 15y ago
He probably should've wrapped this bit in code tags. Edit: By 'code tags' i mean literal <code> tags.
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by djacobs 15y ago
I'd tend to say yes, the post is a little hypocritical. Especially since the content of the post is almost entirely guessable from the title.
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by djacobs 15y ago
I used the Quick Python Book (Manning), which was perfect coming from Ruby. If you're coming from anoth dynamic scripting language, I highly recommend it.
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by djacobs 15y ago
I've read many Ruby books over 6 years. The best, in my opinion, is David Black's "The Well-Grounded Rubyist". I read it just last year as an experienced Rubyist. I thought it had a fantastic, no-magic take on the language that offered a be
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by djacobs 15y ago
I like this idea. With Ruby 1.9, you have a range of ways to paint over the syntax, like you allude to: Stylish.generate do rule "div.section" do p line_height: 1.5 a text_transform: 'uppercase' end end Interest
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by djacobs 15y ago
Don't get me wrong, I'm a huge fan of SASS and Compass and think variables have been implemented well. But retroactively adding functions feels ad-hoc, even if great care was taken when adding the feature. I feel that designers might be m
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by djacobs 15y ago
I'm very happy that SASS and HAML are finally separated, and I don't think I'm alone in that. But I'm not a fan of this mini-language that's gradually creeping into SASS. I do understand the need for SASS not simply to be a declarative lang
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SASS gets functions(nex-3.com)
26 points by djacobs 15y ago|15 comments
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by djacobs 15y ago
Douglas Crockford does a good job of explaining this in JavaScript: The Good Parts . That book comes highly recommended.
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by djacobs 15y ago
I wonder how many Linux users permanently spoof their UA to get around pointless browser sniffing? (Then again, I guess a lot of Linux users don't frequent sites with such bad coding practices.)
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by djacobs 15y ago
While the client side has some login-related logic, it looks like authentication happens server-side. From the source: goosh.module.login = function () { this.name = "login"; this.aliases = new Array("login"); this.help = "l
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by djacobs 15y ago
Very cool. `man login` says that you only see the username we type in. How are you authenticating?
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by djacobs 15y ago
I think there's a startup opportunity here. I'm not intimately familiar with the laws involved, but it seems like a fairly trivial problem to build a business around Whois masking (done right). Provide the same service as WhoisGuard, but ex
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by djacobs 16y ago
I don't know if I would call this a "pronunciation guide", in the sense that it doesn't tell you how to actually stress the syllables or say any particular letters. Instead, it's more of a "naming guide" or "verbalization guide" for glyphs

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