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by duckpunch 16y ago
The mobile nature of the app necessitates it. I imagine this will be optional once they release native apps.
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by duckpunch 16y ago
The service is more general than that. From the pitch above you'll note that it intends to allow people to ask specific questions about a location, not just to signal where you might like to go to spend a night. In this case, the more peopl
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by duckpunch 16y ago
"Closures in particular are a very powerful tool in async/multi-threaded environments, but in the stateless/sync environment of a web application environment, they collapse down to syntactical sugar, and solve nothing that cannot be solved
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by duckpunch 16y ago
On second look I have to concede that I could be under-rating their authority. To be fair major investors will often sit on boards, but there's no need for me to make further conjecture. A fellow who comments here http://avramc.posterous.c
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by duckpunch 16y ago
You should be careful in thinking that you have to choose. In fact, regardless of what you do with .NET, I think it's a good idea to learn about the *nix environment and some languages that you're not yet comfortable developing in. In my pr
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by duckpunch 16y ago
Do you know if they lab test pre-release? With the amount of traffic their apps receive it would be quick and easy to achieve statistically meaningful data with a simple A/B test on a release. I personally hate any animation in a UI unless
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by duckpunch 16y ago
> After undergrad I thought I could take on the world … Only now can I safely say that I can do the job that is required. Given that history, would it not be wise to complete a PhD to make sure you're not having the same mistaken though
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by duckpunch 16y ago
Thanks for the heads up. That is quite convenient, unfortunately I'm now using vimium. I'm reminded that in my vimperator days gmail wasn't a problem because the vi key bindings just worked everywhere. All this is moot considering I can jus
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by duckpunch 16y ago
This is actually a huge pain for me. I should have mentioned that another thing that can get you more intimate with vim keyboard shortcuts is trying out one of the vim browser plugins. I use vimium on chrome and vimperator on FF. These give
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by duckpunch 16y ago
I'm curious, do you keep this around to this day? I never thought to do this when I started, but it might have been a good idea. In similar vein I would say: If your fingers aren't constantly resting on home row, there's a problem. Another
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by duckpunch 16y ago
Two very general suggestions, pretty obvious, but hopefully of some help. 1. The really obvious: You find yourself wanting to do something that is taking too many keystrokes. Think about what you're doing and how it could be improved. It mi
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by duckpunch 16y ago
I think most Rails developers would agree with you there, which is why we're still seeing interesting gems that make our work easier coming out every day. There is a real commitment in the Rails community to make web development more produc
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by duckpunch 16y ago
You're confusing Hashrocket, the web development company, with United Directories, the company being charged. The people being charged are essentially initial investors. Pointing a finger at Hashrocket in this scenario is not unlike blaming