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by hboon 13y ago
Kent Beck’s Smalltalk Best Practice Patterns is a great book. In Smalltalk, but it works rather well for good OO languages, in general. Very easy to read. http://amzn.com/B00BBDLIME?tag=hboon-20
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by hboon 13y ago
Not many perhaps. But Twitter did too.
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by hboon 13y ago
Buying your own products to ultimately boost sales is pretty common in the media industry that has best-selling lists. New York Times Best Sellers, music charts, and more recently app stores. Not that I disagree with your comment, just addi
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by hboon 13y ago
Bottle ( http://bottlepy.org ) isn't part of Python stdlib.
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Difference between iOS and Android developers, why it's not just a numbers game(imore.com)
3 points by hboon 13y ago|0 comments
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by hboon 13y ago
Let's just flag those posts that we think don't belong here.
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by hboon 13y ago
Also add a special case "SmallTalk" for instant dismissal. It's Smalltalk.
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Anything You Want [2011] (book)(sivers.org)
1 points by hboon 13y ago|0 comments
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by hboon 13y ago
It was an engineering feat. VAJ was a Smalltalk engine that ran both Smalltalk and Java.
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by hboon 13y ago
Only the UP. I swim regularly. Note that you can't wear it while swimming, and while you can log exercise manually, it's less than perfect. I'd recommend getting the UP. It's great. I wrote a bit about it at http:/
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by hboon 13y ago
Some of these devices are wore (almost) all the time. The Jawbone UP is water-resistant for example. I wear it while showering.
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by hboon 13y ago
In your experience, are there still major ISPs that don't respect DNS TTL?
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by hboon 13y ago
Not answering your question, but developers can also use http://parse.com or similar.
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by hboon 13y ago
See https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5950675
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by hboon 13y ago
I just want to add that RubyMotion is also not correctly capturing the "value" of the variable in a block. i.e. even if you manually retain a local variable's object and don't release it, it wouldn't work correctly
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by hboon 13y ago
Has it ever led to a pseudo-ransom situation if only a single client is affected by a showstopper bug? If not, how is this mitigated?
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Tactics: Better startup marketing, together(tacticshq.com)
1 points by hboon 13y ago|0 comments
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by hboon 13y ago
Look for NTUC Unity. There are many branches around the island.
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by hboon 13y ago
Why are you disappointed with links to medium.com?
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by hboon 13y ago
I have wifi problems with my MacBook Pro retina since I bought it. It's probably a recurring software issue.
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Run iOS Apps in the Browser - App.io(app.io)
4 points by hboon 13y ago|0 comments
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by hboon 13y ago
Little nugget: the FAST Search guys sold alltheweb.com to yahoo.com and focused on enterprise search (i.e. they sell/license their software to companies) with customers such as newspaper companies, yellow pages companies and government
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by hboon 13y ago
I'd like to take up that offer if it's still valid. Sent you an email a couple of days ago. Haven't heard back yet.
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Ping me when it's broken(sethgodin.typepad.com)
5 points by hboon 13y ago|0 comments
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by hboon 13y ago
There are already many buildings that segregate elevator systems into multiple stacked towers such as the Petronas Towers in Malaysia [1]. But in Petronas' case, it can become too complex that even the staff don't always get it ri
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by hboon 13y ago
I'm not a fan of most of their products, but I've heard good things about Azure, even for Linux hosting. Disclosure: I was at Microsoft for a couple of months due to an acquisition.
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by hboon 13y ago
When I explored using SL a year ago, you could already use their API to provision cloud servers. It took quite a bit more time than EC2 (10 minutes?) to have the server provisioned and running (back then) though.
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Social Is Not A Destination(forbes.com)
5 points by hboon 13y ago|0 comments
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by hboon 13y ago
We can just grab a drink for a start?
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by hboon 13y ago
YouTube. Possibly Reddit? Personally I find that in the end, the question should be: can Yahoo! make better use of the $1B elsewhere? If not, the purchase is worth taking the chance.

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