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by generalk 15y ago
Maybe the writer is American, maybe he isn't, but it sounded to me as if he was specifically calling out Americans. Maybe I'm wrong. > Well, the amount of traffic accidents is evidence enough, > isn't it? What amount? Evid
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by generalk 15y ago
> Second, I think most American drivers are reckless. > I have a solution, but most Americans don't like it. I'm fairly certain that poor driving isn't limited to Americans. Why call out them, specifically? > An
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by generalk 15y ago
I'm in the same boat; different circumstances but I've only got one functioning eye and the other one isn't fantastic. (-14 contact lens.) I often wonder if there isn't more I could be doing -- hanging out near research hospitals that have
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by generalk 15y ago
I have one of the pilot Chromebooks they were sending out for free a year or so ago. It's not just Google+, it's nearly any of the cool things you'd want to do online. Watching any kind of video is unbearably laggy. Heavy sites like (new) T
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by generalk 15y ago
> This release doesn't change Google's strategy nor the > fact that they will continue to release Android's source > code in the future with a significant delay compared to > early-access partners. As of tod
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by generalk 15y ago
> Since when is being a crafts-person and being proud of > your work and what you do bad? Nobody said it was. Not the original article, not me, not anyone. > I'm in the business of producing good software. I do
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by generalk 15y ago
The point of Patrick's essay isn't "Programming is lame" or "you shouldn't be proud of your programming accomplishments." How did anyone take that away? > It isn't an easy profession and involves far more than typing in a bunch of t
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by generalk 15y ago
No, there is not, but there doesn't need to be. There's no default oven or toaster or blender either. Because you buy the product to perform a function. If you buy a TV, you want to receive TV signals, or play content on a device that plugs
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by generalk 15y ago
> The web has no default client. Every computer comes with a browser. Back in the dark days, ISPs geared towards new users were full-on content providers ala AOL. > Email has no default client. Again, either your ISP
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by generalk 15y ago
> these aren't startups, they're small businesses trying to > dine out on the glory of the name "startup" without takin > the risk The only difference between a "lifestyle" business and a "high growth crazy startup
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by generalk 15y ago
* Danger Hiptop, though that's been mentioned in other places. * My Verizon featurephone had a "Verizon Wireless Store" where you could purchase little apps and games. * Linux package managers have been doing this for literally years, just
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by generalk 15y ago
That's fine, let's not get pedantic here. If you want to put your non-database-backed stuff lib/ and the ActiveRecord bits in app/models, fine. If you want to shove them all in app/models, that's good too. There's really no argument for or
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by generalk 15y ago
> Working against Rails, or any framework, is definitely > going to cause pain. There is a huge difference between working "against" a framework and working outside, or better yet alongside of it. You want a Service lay
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by generalk 15y ago
You do understand that when the author says "your app" what is meant is "the domain or business logic that drives decisions." Seriously, what's with the attitude? There's more than one way to architect software and Rails doesn't cover every
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by generalk 15y ago
> Sounds like you shouldn't be using Rails if this is your philosophy. > You'd be better off just using Sinatra and including > ActiveRecord, and whatever other Rails libraries you want > to use. What serious
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by generalk 15y ago
This, a thousand times this. I think it's a shock to nobody that Apple has made damn sure that their UI is lag-free and smooth while Android hasn't. It seems like they've put a lot of work into ICS on this front, but still. But I've always
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by generalk 15y ago
What? You get the effect you want already, there's been a number of "official Google phones": the G1, the Nexus One, the Nexus S, and soon the Galaxy Nexus. These are Google-only, no-crapware phones, designed to showcase the newest Android
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by generalk 15y ago
Would it have been less boring if Gibson waxed for pages about weighing the new Lenovo laptops vs. the MacBook, or the merits of one word processor over another? I think it's fairly fascinating to discover that the author of one of the most
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by generalk 15y ago
Everyone seems to be posting long, drawn-out responses to everything you said, but I just want to touch on one point. You're twenty years old. Maybe quitting your job was a bad move, maybe it was a good move that you just can't see the br
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by generalk 15y ago
Several ways to achieve "up a folder" effect, if you're curious: 1. Right click on the folder (so-called "proxy") icon in the titlebar, which will give you links to all the folders up to the root 2. Assuming you drilled-down into this folde
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by generalk 15y ago
One of the interesting things about doing Passenger deployments for Rails is that it's very similar to doing PHP deploys, with the added benefit of the server not reloading any application code until you tell it to. For example: you can upd
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by generalk 15y ago
> decent attempt at fixing fullscreen and virtual desktops in Lion this year. I'm confused, because I found both of these things to be horrendous. Not trying to flame or troll or anything, just curious. I liked the Spaces impl
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by generalk 15y ago
> That this tribal behavior occurs among software engineering > is a rather disappointing fact. It occurs amongst software engineering humans . All humans get this to some degree, it's basic ingroup/outgroup psychology.
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by generalk 15y ago
I never said that iOS apps not on the app store were "illegal hacker shit." Not my words. That said, yes there are alternative app stores available for iOS devices but I would hardly call them "legitimate" since Apple defines that term wi
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by generalk 15y ago
I liken it more to a smartphone: before I had high-quality internet access in my pocket, I didn't care about it. It wasn't a problem I was looking to solve or a want I had. Now that I can search Wikipedia or Google at a moment's whim, I fin
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by generalk 15y ago
For Mac OS X apps: over the intertubes, of course. In fact, there's lots of awesome things (Sparkle auto-updater framework) that make this easy. For iOS apps: Most of the time you don't. You could write your app as a mobile web app, but tha
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by generalk 15y ago
What's wrong with that tweet? It fits the definition of open source that your parent post described. I think a lot of people's problem comes from Google having not yet released the Honeycomb source code. It's one thing to say you're open so
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by generalk 15y ago
It's like you've never actually experienced the autoupdater and are only responding to a rough description of the process. It's a HUGE win. > What if it sucks down bandwidth when I'm on 3G? That might happen. What if it does?
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by generalk 15y ago
Spot on. ORMs can generate some crazy-bad SQL if you're not careful with them. A good ORM will generate great SQL in the common case and allow the developer to execute custom SQL without fuss when necessary. If your ORM makes it a pain to p
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by generalk 15y ago
> In other words, the reason people don't like it is the > same reason most every person has resisted improvements > in interfaces for the past forever. Potentially correct in some cases, however your assertion ass

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