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by heimidal 15y ago
I really don't like this at all. Nesting many levels deep is often a code smell, so seeing an end chain like that is a quick way to find candidates for refactoring.
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by heimidal 15y ago
I have quite a few friends doing .NET for a living, and I can safely say that I make more than them using Ruby at work (at an ad agency, no less). They would definitely not call their jobs a "gravy train."
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by heimidal 15y ago
Size does not matter when defining a monopoly. Monopolies restrict trade. There are many services that are actually equal in price or less than iTunes with similar catalogs. Definitely not a monopoly.
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by heimidal 15y ago
For real? If so, how do you access it?
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by heimidal 15y ago
I should have been clearer. Every American has the right to question whether or not a law is constitutional. However, without expertise in constitutional law and elections, it is speculative to make claims that senators were ousted because
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by heimidal 15y ago
That's rather speculative. The Democrats in question lost their seats because of voter grief after an enormous marketing effort against them. It had nothing to do with the Constitutionality of Obamacare, and unless you're a Constitutional e
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by heimidal 16y ago
Totally agreed. This service looks awesome, but the plugin really needs to be ported. Rails 3 was released more than six months ago and we've already ported our apps.
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by heimidal 16y ago
At RubyConf last week, Matz (the creator of Ruby) introduced some of the ideas that are being tossed around for Ruby 2.0. One of these is called "refinements", and looks similar to what's being discussed in this article when it comes to met
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by heimidal 16y ago
I would upvote this 1000 times if I could.
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by heimidal 16y ago
In many states, including New York, California, Colorado, and a few others, it is actually a crime for them to add a surcharge to a credit card transaction. For example, in New York, levying a surcharge is a misdemeanor punishable by a fine
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by heimidal 16y ago
I'm 25 and didn't go to school, but I spend most of my time around those who did. I have many, many friends who are unemployed artists or are business types working less than full-time who would kill for a decent full-time position. That sa
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by heimidal 16y ago
There is no evidence to support this assertion. The new auto-upgrade model Mozilla has adopted for FF 4.0 (and that Chrome has had for ages) makes upgrade cycles, for all practical purposes, negligible. Chrome 6.0 was released on September
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by heimidal 16y ago
I don't think you can expect these services to lower pricing any time soon. Why? It's clear now that Chargify and Recurly, who have both tried a very friendly freemium model, vastly underestimated the costs and problems associated with the
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by heimidal 16y ago
It seems most of the commenters here are overestimating the average consumer. Excluding the friends I have in the tech industry, not a single one of my friends or family would be able to tell you the different between the CPU and software o
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by heimidal 16y ago
PayPal is absolutely horrible. Here's why: Two years ago, a friend owed me about $200. To pay me back, he sold a camera he owned on eBay and then promptly sent me the $200. Another friend was in some trouble trying to pay for textbooks, so
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by heimidal 16y ago
It isn't in any stable build of any popular browser yet, and you expect it to be in MobileSafari's stable build that is released as GM today? That's unrealistic.
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by heimidal 16y ago
Honestly, my one wish is for split views. With that, I would be perfectly content to use TM1.5 for the foreseeable future with absolutely no complaints.
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by heimidal 16y ago
When it comes to battery life, you must consider the affect on the total user experience. If the iPhone can play video for 10 hours, that means a 2 hour movie brings my battery life to 80%. If the iPhone could play Flash video for 5 hours a
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by heimidal 17y ago
If the new rules affect the number of quality apps, consumers will vote with their wallets. I have no problem with developers leaving a platform based on the new language, but Apple (and the developers) work for the consumer and should be d
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Test-driven development makes sense to the computer illiterate(brosebeforehoes.com)
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by heimidal 17y ago
According to the article, they launched this audit and have already pressed the issue to the point that the three factories in question are no longer employing 15 year-olds. Apple enjoys high margins because of a very effective marketing st
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by heimidal 17y ago
Quick note: The "publish" method on slide 29 won't work as expected. You need to pass in the current_user object.