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by iamgilesbowkett 15y ago
But for guys like me who never use mass assignment, our applications are not vulnerable by default, correct? And likewise, for people who RTFM before using mass assignment, their applications are not vulnerable, correct? If I understand th
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by iamgilesbowkett 15y ago
OK I haven't been able to find that $4K/year thing. It may have come from here: http://www.edmunds.com/mercedes-benz/m-class/1999/consumer-r... where the guy talks about spending $5K in one particular year, which appears to be the first y
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by iamgilesbowkett 15y ago
Maybe this is just a power-user thing, though? I don't even think it's a power user thing. I think it's just a you thing. I'm a power user and although I did slow down using my iPad when I got my 11" Air, I didn't stop at all. It's still
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by iamgilesbowkett 15y ago
I completely agree. It's pretty obviously counterpoint to the usual image of the programmer as nerd. I could see taking it seriously if the OP had said "I met some of these guys and they're as douchey as the article makes them seem" but thi
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by iamgilesbowkett 15y ago
a job ad that implies that nerdy programmers may not be welcome really restricts the size of the candidate pool. that's what I find funny about the whole thing. "we're hiring programmers! no nerds." that's an unlikely strategy for success
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by iamgilesbowkett 15y ago
I've been thinking about this quite a bit recently because I'm about to buy a car. Mini Coopers are another make with a ton of built-in computers. However, every time I do a search on reliability I find people talking casually about giganti
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by iamgilesbowkett 15y ago
here's the all-on-one-page printer version, aka the readable version: http://www.businessweek.com/printer/magazine/scott-forstall-...
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by iamgilesbowkett 15y ago
what are you working on? I'm not looking for work, just have a fascination with the space. are you guys stealth mode?
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by iamgilesbowkett 15y ago
Really, the issue is that the news feed is broken. Absolutely. I coded up a replacement using the GitHub API: http://gilesbowkett.blogspot.com/2010/10/node-miniapp-minima... It broke when they changed the API, but by then I had found h
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by iamgilesbowkett 15y ago
Fun facts! I first read Plato before I was 16, and first read Plato in the original Greek before I was 20. Those are the monkey see, monkey do years. However, although I think Raganwald is basically onto something, it's not entirely deliber
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by iamgilesbowkett 15y ago
Upvoted! But here's the thing. How many technology choices does fashion dictate? I've seen fashion determine huge amounts of technology choices, and wheels get reinvented constantly in this industry as a result. In 2006ish I did a talk abou
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by iamgilesbowkett 15y ago
Yeah, but you have to give the guy credit, his was the only comment that made me laugh. And it's basically true. Not in the sense that this is new to me, I did a bunch with node and jasmine-node (etc.) in 2010, maybe earlier, but I went to
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by iamgilesbowkett 15y ago
I know and respect Reg. I've emailed and tweeted quite a lot with him over the years, long been a fan of his writing, and hung out in person in Toronto a few times. He's a great guy. But this rambling theory of his highlights a problem I've
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by iamgilesbowkett 15y ago
Chill man. You have no information on the topic of whether or not I have "rational" reasons for making my judgement call; all you can say with certainty is that I haven't explained any to you. Give me a freaking break, dude. I posted like t
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by iamgilesbowkett 15y ago
Because it's more fun.
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by iamgilesbowkett 15y ago
Upvoted for the 'Virtual Light' reference. Like basically everything else online, William Gibson described this years ago.
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by iamgilesbowkett 15y ago
heh, thnx. my comment-reading experience is also boosted with some http://defunkt.io/dotjs hacks, btw: https://github.com/gilesbowkett/dotjsfiles/blob/master/news....
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by iamgilesbowkett 15y ago
yeah, I agree. actually I don't know if I'd agree on the "vast majority" part, but the question of "is client-side MVC The Future?" can get kind of silly and messianic, while the question of "is client-side MVC A Future?" is undoubtedly yes
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by iamgilesbowkett 15y ago
We also had a swanky in-house client-side MVC framework cooking with Cinco. We used it once for Basecamp Mobile and while it was a good experience and the end result was great, it did little to sway my thinking on client-side MVC being a s
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by iamgilesbowkett 15y ago
In terms of client-side MVC vs server-side renderings, the ratio is more like 90/10 or 95/5. DHH, I think you misunderstood here; I believe Jeremy's referring to the blog post where you said Basecamp Next had almost as many lines of Coffe
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by iamgilesbowkett 15y ago
This is a very rewarding thing to do. I recommend it to everyone. You don't necessarily even need to use AI. I filter HN with http://hacker-newspaper.gilesb.com/ , which pulls RSS, filters it, and reformats it on an hourly cron job. I main
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by iamgilesbowkett 15y ago
step zero is not quitting your job. step zero might be making money, it might be creating an MVP, it might even just be opening a dedicated savings account or doing a bunch of research, but it definitely is not quitting your job. apologies
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by iamgilesbowkett 15y ago
The spy 'experience' described is just a theme park ride or haunted house with different set dressing. This is why the answer to the OP's question is "never." "Experiences" were very popular before movie theaters even existed. I think the
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by iamgilesbowkett 15y ago
apologies, and I'm proving your point, but there's no such word as pedanticism. the word you were looking for is pedantry.
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by iamgilesbowkett 15y ago
Just keep this in mind the next time you see some article about how it's impossible to make money making apps. What this post is asking developers to do for their apps is the utter minimum of basic marketing. It's not even Marketing 101; it
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by iamgilesbowkett 15y ago
I think you raise a very good point with "how much value does open source provide", but this question: "Why is money the sole metric of wealth." is a) ungrammatical and b) basically a tautology. money is the sole metric of wealth because we
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by iamgilesbowkett 15y ago
I'm sorry but I think this is a failure of strategy. Musicians use social networks to reach existing fans and acquire new ones. Speaking as a musician, ten years ago we were all about Myspace. These days we're on SoundCloud, Facebook, YouTu
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by iamgilesbowkett 15y ago
As for when, it wasn't the land of the free when they wrote the Constitution, but it was when Jefferson made them add the first ten Amendments. It wasn't if you were a black person who couldn't vote and it was in the period directly followi
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by iamgilesbowkett 15y ago
the TechCrunch link posted today shows very strong evidence of collusion and criminal conspiracy, but I'd agree that this Harpers thing builds up a whole tower of empty, meaningless nada on top of that very solid foundation.

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