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by futuremint 16y ago
It was easy to grab an ePub reader from the Android app market to read this on my phone. I still need to plug my iPad into my computer to "sync" the file to the iPad to read it in iBooks. This is lame IMHO. Back on topic, this is a great b
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by futuremint 16y ago
Flagging this as this article is wasting a lot of words to just say, "Apple keeps everything secret. Maybe they always had them in cases to keep them secret." Sorry... but lame. The Andantech review is more like what I like to read.
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by futuremint 16y ago
Yeah, I thought that line was odd. I'm under the impression that people who put linux on netbooks just blow out windows and install Linux over it? Thats what I do anyway. My first thought was the same as yours, "Well uptake wouldn't be sl
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by futuremint 16y ago
I had the same thought. I think its because he wants to get "Sent from my iPad" on the internet on as many web pages and into as many minds as possible. Its a marketing ploy.
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by futuremint 16y ago
Upgrading my eeePC 1001P right now. Hopefully my funky wireless card will continue to work fine with the nidswrapper. Something I appreciate is that I don't have to go to a "store" somewhere and get a "disk" to install and do an "upgrade".
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by futuremint 16y ago
My wife has an iPad. Its completely awesome for our toddler to play games on, and for the wife to check her e-mail, surf the web a little, and see her calendar. Adding events to the calendar on the iPad is annoying, best to do it in iCal
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by futuremint 16y ago
If Google bought them, would they force ITA to rewrite their C++ / Lisp engine in Java?
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by futuremint 16y ago
You can actually build fat-client apps with just Pharo too. The only downside is it doesn't support OS native widgets or windows (its all inside one window).
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by futuremint 16y ago
I would like to, unfortunately it isn't a public application, and also contains medical information. Maybe one day I'll setup a demo account on a stand-alone server with fake data... but that is a really low priority (in fact, I just now c
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by futuremint 16y ago
Its called Magma. Its implemented in Squeak Smalltalk and runs fine on Pharo and is open source. So far I've enjoyed using it, but I haven't had to scale it yet. It does support replication with automatic fail-over though. Edit: Some bas
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by futuremint 16y ago
I built a seaside app on Squeak last year and ported it to Pharo in October. So far I've liked Seaside a lot better than Rails, and Pharo a lot better than Squeak. Pharo is a nice, clean smalltalk with a professional UI useful for the dev
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by futuremint 17y ago
Uh oh... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snow_Crash
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by futuremint 17y ago
This is similar to the "browse implementor" or "find senders" in smalltalk, or "Find Usages" and "Browse Implementation" in IntelliJ (I use RubyMine). You navigate the code , not the files. I've found I can concentrate on the design of t
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by futuremint 17y ago
Did anyone ever think that maybe the problem is the FILES? Let me ask that one more time. Would people be ranting like this if there were NO FILES? I still believe the "future of programming" is where your code objects are not arbitrarily
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by futuremint 17y ago
I don't know what OPA is, but I think that building an application on top of Gemstone/S and Seaside (GLASS), or their upcoming Maglev product and Rails would be a "one pot application". I've been a Rails developer for years, and just recent
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by futuremint 17y ago
I'm probably not thinking this through all the way, but wouldn't a memory profiler be more straight-forward, and less dangerous in Smalltalk? I haven't built one myself, but I know that the Seaside framework comes with a built-in memory pro
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by futuremint 17y ago
Yep, contracting for a company that has been using HTTP-Bind in Ejabberd for almost 2 years now. The previous version of the product used JSJaC, which was garbage (I can go into details if you want, but its involved). The product currently
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by futuremint 17y ago
My favorite example is this: Lets say you want to learn about a new Javascript library. 1. Spend a little bit of time reading about it, so you know about 20% of what you need to know, then convince a group to let you give a talk about usi
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by futuremint 17y ago
The error messages could use some love, but the article is crap. He didn't break Rails in any predictable ways. Who breaks stuff accidentally by misspelling things? Spellcheck can be turned on just about everywhere in any modern IDE or E
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by futuremint 17y ago
I've found RubyMine to do a pretty good job with "red squiggly things". Its an IDE (yes, like Java) but for Ruby. A dynamic language. Static typing isn't a necessity for a good IDE, just look at Smalltalk.
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by futuremint 17y ago
I've just started doing a few small campaigns for my company, and just using the keyword tool to look at search traffic and average CPC for keywords can give you a little insight on how you can market your product/services (though I also re
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by futuremint 17y ago
And I like how extrapolates that trend in the story to a point where most of them don't know much about... well... thinking? Seems like relegating all decision making to the computers would lead to atrophy of the rational side of our brain
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by futuremint 17y ago
When I read 'OO-style' sadly I immediately thought of sugar to create private variables/methods and some lame class-based inheritance (which I strongly advocate is nigh useless in JS). Now I understand you mean 'OO-style' in the message pas
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by futuremint 17y ago
I used to run a meetup group, and on their site they allow users to RSVP "Yes, No, or Maybe." Along your same lines, I found Maybe to be utterly useless. It was really just a "No" for people who don't like saying no, so I disabled it (tha
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by futuremint 17y ago
Note that those stats are for display ads, not for search ads. Display ads would be the crap you see flashing in your face when you go to a site just to read something. Search ads are a different animal as they're better targeted.
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by futuremint 17y ago
Awesome. I like seeing news about the private air industry here. I normally wouldn't think this is hacker related, but knowing a few private pilots they're definitely of the hacker mentality. And seeing this article here just feels right
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by futuremint 17y ago
A content-less post.
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by futuremint 17y ago
The article is all gushy and starry eyed about the "printed circuits" and how durable they might be. The metal ink used to print them melts at 140˚F. Your car in the summer can reach 200˚F. So they're all great and durable until you leave
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by futuremint 17y ago
Too bad all of the "studies" they discussed were clouded by suggestive comments made to the participants for "ethical reasons." Those darned ethics always get in the way of science and business (well, only sometimes with business).
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by futuremint 17y ago
Its fun to watch a bunch of programmers struggle with design. They're learning/blogging about pretty obvious problems that most designers don't even remember solving and usually fix subconsciously. I personally find these blog posts a litt

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