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by generalk 16y ago
I think it's a fantastic idea. I've oftentimes looked at the last commit date on a project and thought "Okay, is this abandoned, or has the owner just not pushed in a while?" Github might also offer the ability to indicate the new canonical
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by generalk 16y ago
Having done both PHP Zend Framework deployments, which require mod_rewrite rules in each vhost, and Passenger deployments, which only require touching a text file to do restarts, I much prefer Passenger deploys.
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by generalk 16y ago
Traceback (most recent call last): File "/tmp/resume.py", line 2, in <module> from companies import YourCompany ImportError: No module named companies Am I missing something?
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by generalk 16y ago
I used to shy away from haml due to the significant whitespace. This apprehension went away after I forced myself to use it on a few projects, and now I hate working without it, for all the reasons jgc mentions in his article. It's not quit
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by generalk 16y ago
Is there a possibility things would be better if PHP was abandoned? Nope. Beginning coders write vulnerabilities until they're otherwise educated. In PHP these are SQL injection and XSS holes. In C they're buffer overflows. Of course thi
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by generalk 16y ago
Tim and Eric did do some commercials for Old Spice, but none of these. All of the ones with Isaiah Mustafa are from Wieden+Kennedy. Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wieden%2BKennedy
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by generalk 16y ago
Because marco specifically stated in his article that Apple products are great from day one.
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by generalk 16y ago
The answer to that type of question is always zero (or unanswerable with the given information). It's cute, but ineffective.
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by generalk 16y ago
Exactly that. Anyone can keep cool and be the fun boss when everything's aces, but the real test of a leader is how adversity is handled.
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by generalk 16y ago
So I've got that you don't mind where or what your devs are doing so long as the tasks get completed, which is awesome, and that you can't do long vacations with no warning, which is reasonable. What's your stance on long vacations with w
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by generalk 16y ago
I looked around, but couldn't find an answer to this question: what sets Purify apart from other issue trackers? * If I know how to use Trac/Redmine, why use Purify? * Why choose it over other hosted trackers, specifically Lighthouse? * If
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by generalk 16y ago
I'm curious, does this ever snowball into a bunch of people emailing in with hardship stories asking for free licenses? It seems like it would, and that's the standard counter-argument: "If we give it to you, we have to give it to anyone, a
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by generalk 16y ago
Can't answer for Quora, but I know why I'm not: activation energy. My team and I know MySQL pretty well, and we can stand by our decision to use it. PostgreSQL we can't. It's not the most sound technical reasoning.
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by generalk 16y ago
I'm doing the same thing right now, and I'm approaching it the same way I learned to code in the first place: look at something someone else has done and try to duplicate it. This is a good starting point but a horrible end point.
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by generalk 16y ago
It doesn't make me feel bad for him, but it doesn't make him sound like an objective source of information. Which is 100% okay . Writers don't have to be objective, so long as they point out their biases clearly. Gruber does. More and more
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by generalk 16y ago
For me, the Magic Mouse gets one thing horribly wrong: ergonomics. I use a computer at least eight hours of the working day, and potentially much more than that. If I can't be comfortable using a device, it doesn't matter how awesome it is,
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by generalk 16y ago
But you'd trust important information with companies like AT&T? I mean, I don't know, maybe you don't. It just seems to me that a smaller company can instantly lose if a security breach is exploited, but larger companies with gigantic m
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by generalk 16y ago
Twitter I might pay for, but it would have to be either much more reliable, or distributed. Maybe not even then. Publishing status updates that anyone can subscribe to, and having awesome lines of communication with folks I'd otherwise neve
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by generalk 16y ago
No offense meant, but next time try the "reply" link under the comment. Threaded discussion boards obviate the need for @username-style responses.
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by generalk 16y ago
Let's try an experiment: --- Hi, I'm new to this board. I have a question about motivation. I'm running a mobile start-up and we just moved into our new offices. We started working on our spare time putting in time whenever it was available
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by generalk 16y ago
And starting at 7am. That's nine hours out of the day. Even if you're not 100% busy during that stretch, you're still not free to let your mind wander and do the things that matter to you. You're mentally occupied.
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by generalk 16y ago
Yeah, you do. I want to enable secure outgoing email. Which is better: "Click the Accounts menu, then Mailboxes, click the mail account you want, click the Outgoing tab, scroll to SMTP Advanced Settings, and Enable TLS/SSL" or "Click the i
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by generalk 16y ago
People like Linus, Carmack, and DHH aren't famous because of their code - they're famous because of their products. I think Zed could've ended this sentence at aren't famous . If you ask anyone who doesn't closely follow tech who these
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by generalk 16y ago
Everyone always says this, but I don't see it. I've seen non-technical users balk at long, confusing URLs, but I've never seen one of them praise or even remember a short, semantic URL. From the few non-technical people (mostly family) wh
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by generalk 16y ago
I never understood the purposes of the "perfectly valid by the RFC" email regex. You may be able to with 100% accuracy say that something should be an email address, but you'll never be able to tell if it's a valid account on the server,
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by generalk 16y ago
The only way I'd put Flash Player on my Nexus One is if it had some kind of ClickToFlash-like functionality. One of the best parts of mobile browsing is missing out on horrible Flash banner ads and annoying middle-of-the-screen popups. Yes,
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by generalk 16y ago
While I certainly agree with you, I would also point out that OSX is also a very mature platform whereas iPhone OS is in its infancy. That sounds like the mentality that had people stuck with Windows XP and IE 6 for years on end with no i
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by generalk 16y ago
Interesting concept! I'd remove the negativity from the start. Putting "This is a test, you have failed it" right in front of folks is an instant turn-off, and might lead people away from your page instead of to the helpful content below.
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by generalk 17y ago
Why the false dichotomy? A black and white editor can be just as usable as a colorful, syntax-highlighted one. Furthermore, it's an extremely subjective judgement.
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by generalk 17y ago
and of course the higher end i7s have 4 cores (and no on-chip graphics) Of course! The name makes that obvious. Thanks, Intel!

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