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by frankus 18y ago
At the risk of running afoul of Muphry's Law, your example needs double-quoted strings and curly braces (or your identifiers need to be moved outside the quotes and concatenated in). At any rate, a downside to this approach is that you can'
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by frankus 18y ago
To be clear, I'm not convinced this is actually true. It sure sounds like someone is pushing an anti-standardized-test agenda (not that I disagree with that). But if it is true, note that they're testing highly-gifted kids, who might very w
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by frankus 18y ago
I just realized that I was stuck in that traffic jam in picture 5 of the photo gallery.
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by frankus 18y ago
I'm really awful about letting metaphorical dishes soak (actual dishes, not so much). I can put off tedious tasks, cringe-worthy phone calls, and physical labor forever, using various combinations of the "too little time," "too little energ
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by frankus 18y ago
This is maybe a pretty half-baked idea, but could a language that supports partial evaluation replace a pretty significant chunk of most web app caching systems? I guess the tricky part is that side effects (e.g. another process modifying t
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by frankus 18y ago
Almost as bad as the i.Beat Blaxx MP3 player ( http://www.engadget.com/2007/08/24/trekstor-showcases-i-beat... )
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by frankus 18y ago
Is this why my microwave needs to know the month, day and year before it will warm up a pizza pocket? (I am not making this up).
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by frankus 18y ago
Justin's a really cool guy. He runs the http://ebikes.ca/ site and has built a bunch of other cool vehicles, like a segway-style self-balancing skateboard (the "e-manual") and self-balancing unicycle. I worked on a weight-controlled elect
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by frankus 18y ago
A lot of countries use related curves of constant width for their coins. It makes it easy to tell, say, a Loonie from a Toonie by feel, yet they can still be automatically sorted by sliding them through a slot without them needing to be ori
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by frankus 18y ago
Because Mazda enthusiasts (aka rotorheads) love them, and they are actually really good sports car powerplants. But as other people have mentioned, they have some downsides, pretty much all due to their hard-to-seal and oddly-shaped "combus
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by frankus 18y ago
It seems like most of what you'd do with this would be easier to do in Interface Builder. It even has nice little guides to snap things to where the HIG says they should go.
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Improved Title Case in JavaScript(individed.com)
1 points by frankus 18y ago|0 comments
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by frankus 18y ago
His books are well worth a read ("What Should I do with my Life?" and "Why do I Love These People?"), and they're nice commuting/bedtime reading because they're a bunch of short vignettes that follow a general theme. And as far as I could g
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by frankus 18y ago
The vertical alignment between the labels and fields is off (at least in Safari 3 and Firefox 2). I haven't found a workable alternative to using tables for this.
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Ask YC: Opinions on PowerDNS or other DB-backed DNS servers?
2 points by frankus 18y ago|1 comments
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by frankus 18y ago
Unless you're stuck with an early termination fee to switch to AT&T, I'd say at $199 you can't go wrong with an iPhone. Even if you're not developing software for it, it's a damned good phone (easily the best I've ever used in terms of
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by frankus 18y ago
True, but this wasn't really the case before mod_rails (Passenger) made it relatively painless to host rails apps on a shared server. I deployed a smallish rails app on Dreamhost in about 5 minutes last night. My previous attempt to deploy
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by frankus 18y ago
FWIW I haven't seen any problems with their WAPID system lately.
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by frankus 18y ago
Having dealt with a lot of really awful PHP in my programming career (including some of my earlier stuff), it tends to unfairly taint my view of the language. It's not terrible, but I've found that the clunky syntax for slightly more advanc
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by frankus 19y ago
Twitter always struck me as a little lower on the complexity scale and a little higher on the throughput scale than where RoR's sweet spot lies. Since their requirements seem like they're pretty static now, I would think writing a backend i
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by frankus 19y ago
The short answer is XCode, which comes on the OS install disk as an optional install (called something like "Developer Tools"). The long answer is that unless you're porting an existing C++ app, you'll want to learn Cocoa if you want to wri
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by frankus 19y ago
One of the commenters points this out, but bringing the under-the-mouse application into focus isn't strictly speaking a problem, assuming it doesn't fuck up the window stacking (although it might be a little slow). An approach that might
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by frankus 19y ago
Are there any web frameworks out there with really solid access controls baked in? As an unprivileged user on a UNIX box, if I maliciously or inadvertently screw something up, about the worst thing I can do is blow away my home directory or
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by frankus 19y ago
Reminds me of that scene from Fight Club where he's in the condo with the little IKEA names and prices floating next to the furniture and accessories in the room.
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by frankus 19y ago
I commented thusly on the site as well, but it bears repeating: A friend of mine used to joke about rewriting the rules of discourse during Q&As so that instead of this: (P = presenter, T = troll) P: “Any questions? … Yes?” T: “
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by frankus 19y ago
Is a few pixels of margin on the body too much too ask?
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by frankus 19y ago
De-cheezify my weight-sensing electric skateboard: http://3wdm.blogspot.com/2006/01/faq.html Actually I need to re-build it because some crackhead stole the first one on the way back from the Maker Faire last year.
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by frankus 19y ago
What "special sauce" does Facebook have that couldn't be implemented as a self-installed "plugin" on a personal web site? - It'd be nice to be able to plug my favorite artist/author/etc. So I'd vote for whatever ads the profile owner wants
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by frankus 19y ago
One of my many "I'll never have time for that" interests is experimenting with OS-wide transparent persistence.
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by frankus 19y ago
Sounds like something closer to a social graph plugin for people that already have a personal web site. You might be able to make money at this by offering a no-hassle hosted version for the lazy, and give away the API and GPLed reference i

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