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by dreyfiz 15y ago
It sounds like a study of nothing. It sounds like a question nobody cares about, but that could easily be misused in the service of racism. I take very strong exception to the idea that there’s nothing wrong with this kind of passive-aggres
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by dreyfiz 15y ago
That’s not a variant of Ahmad the name , it’s an eccentric variant transliteration of it. Transliterating that particular Arabic sound to "ch" evokes a "k" sound, and that’s how ignoramuses pronounce it, "Akmed". There is no such Arabic
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by dreyfiz 15y ago
The most depressing kind of response is "if you change the names, the point still stands". I already got the point being made, and I was worried about it when I first heard about the Iranian hackers in late March. The point isn’t what’s
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by dreyfiz 15y ago
Thanks for your sisyphean efforts in explaining to this unsympathetic audience why sexing up your bug report with racist caricatures is simply not cool, jessedhillon.
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by dreyfiz 15y ago
"Lighten up, will ya? Why can’t we all enjoy a little racist caricature?" Everyone deserves a presumption of respect and dignity. I don’t make bigoted caricatures at the expense of others just to make some point about trust and certificates
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by dreyfiz 15y ago
From an Arab-American: I found it racist and offensive. Anyone who says "Achmed" is probably saying something racist, because "Achmed" isn’t even an Arabic name. "Ahmad" is.
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by dreyfiz 15y ago
Maybe someone will see this late comment: Do The Work, by Steven Pressfield, is free on Amazon for Kindle (you could read it on your computer or smartphone, too) for now, so grab it! His War of Art changed my life. Understanding the nature
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by dreyfiz 16y ago
I’ve heard a little about it, but is there any documentation anywhere about this new asset pipelining system in 3.1? You seem well-informed about it.
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by dreyfiz 16y ago
His "War Of Art" changed my life.
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Free Kindle edition of "Do the Work", an upcoming Steven Pressfield book(amazon.com)
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by dreyfiz 16y ago
No. http://www.google.com/patents?q=Twitter&btnG=Search+Pate... Although they did make Loren Brichter patent "pull to refresh": http://www.google.com/patents?q=Loren+Brichter&btnG=Sear... Also, please don’t be "I could clone tha
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by dreyfiz 16y ago
Price of everything, value of nothing.
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by dreyfiz 16y ago
Please make a recording available more widely afterwards, for those of us who can't attend. I'd pay the same amount you're suggesting as an in-person donation for this, if it comes to that.
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by dreyfiz 16y ago
What percentage of your earnings would you not consider theft?
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by dreyfiz 16y ago
The fact that cheapskates will complain is no reason not to do it.
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by dreyfiz 16y ago
Hmm, it looks like you're right—it's just a legend. Thanks, I stand corrected.
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by dreyfiz 16y ago
No "thievery" was involved, he licensed it in exchange for access to pre-IPO Apple stock.
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by dreyfiz 16y ago
You want Backbone as part of your Rails app to clean up your Javascript and make it easier to do hard things…it’s meant for apps that let the user do significant client-side state manipulation. The alternative to “5 components instead of 3”
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by dreyfiz 16y ago
Part of what makes Backbone hard to learn from a lot of the tutorials that have been posted is that the authors aren’t experienced at it enough to be opinionated, which makes me feel lost. jamesjyu’s tutorial is opinionated about some matte
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by dreyfiz 16y ago
This is the best walkthrough for learning Backbone.js that’s been posted to Hacker News yet. (In that I actually feel empowered to go use Backbone to create something, now that I’ve read it). Thanks for posting!
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by dreyfiz 16y ago
Good to see Talking Points Memo join the ranks of journalistic outlets that are open-sourcing their useful in-house stuff.
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by dreyfiz 16y ago
Simplicity is a feature. "Can do more" sometimes means "can't do anything because it's too complicated".
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by dreyfiz 16y ago
I don't doubt that she said this, but I can't find the quote by Googling, and I would love to see it for myself, in context. Can you provide a link? Thanks!
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by dreyfiz 16y ago
It's okay to make things that aren't intended to become popular or to take over their niche commercially. Haiku's makers loved BeOS and are just remaking it. It's very charming and human.
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by dreyfiz 16y ago
Thank you for CoffeeScript (changed my life!), and a very Merry Christmas to you!
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by dreyfiz 16y ago
Whoah-when did this "Collections" feature sneak into iBooks? Very nice. I made a "Cocoa" collection and stuck them all in it.
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by dreyfiz 16y ago
The concept of "node.js cloud hosting platform" is already conveyed by the company name, domain name, and logo, so the tagline should say something else—that's why I compared it to Heroku. Heroku's name and domain don't tell you what you'r
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by dreyfiz 16y ago
Your writing takes all the sex out of it-that doesn't give me a lot of confidence in your product. Heroku's copy is balls to the wall, yours is putting me to sleep. I'll give you a critique based on my own prejudices, for whatever it's wort
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by dreyfiz 16y ago
Tch. Sorry you feel that way. I like his stuff.
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by dreyfiz 16y ago
This is a great tool! Measuring your Tweet load in Scoble units is brilliant. I'm unfollowing my top 4. I can't bear to unfollow #5, @gapingvoid at 150 tweets/week. After that, the next 4 are going, and #10 @mike_ftw gets to stay with his 8

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