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by itafroma 14y ago
AppGratis's response[1] to this new development (and the repeated allegations of gaming the App Store) is weird and full of double-speak. > Allow me to jump right into this by saying that yes, we have created a business while solving a
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Hey Reddit, Enough Boston Bombing Vigilantism(theatlantic.com)
4 points by itafroma 14y ago|0 comments
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by itafroma 14y ago
Looks like an issue and pull request were filed for that: https://github.com/idiot/Spiffing/issues/1 https://github.com/idiot/Spiffing/pull/7
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by itafroma 14y ago
Not very many substitutions performed[1]: 'colour' => 'color', 'grey' => 'gray', '!please' => '!important', 'transparency' => 'opacity', 'centre' => 'center', 'plump'
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by itafroma 14y ago
Other people have been uploaded it, but for the sake of completeness (edit window on parent expired): http://www.scribd.com/doc/135665528/Homework
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by itafroma 14y ago
PCL is a well-known format and _why (or whoever is controlling the domain) did this a few months ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5015087
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by itafroma 14y ago
Confirmed. Uploaded the PDFs I got to Scribd: http://www.scribd.com/doc/135635291/Solicit http://www.scribd.com/doc/135635255/DESOLEE http://www.scribd.com/doc/135635189/Trumpets http://www.scribd.com/doc/135650965/Caprice
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by itafroma 14y ago
On OS X (Mountain Lion), I used PCL to PDF[1] and got the same output that gabrielgironda got[2]. [1]: http://www.columbia.edu/~em36/pcltopdf.html [2]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5540904
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Developers Should Play by the Platform Rules, or Expect a Smackdown(allthingsd.com)
2 points by itafroma 14y ago|1 comments
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by itafroma 14y ago
It's a rant about how nobody does anything important anymore and an entire generation has been wasted over a post about a new iOS app made by three people. It's a total non-sequitur: the only thing to argue against is how over the top and o
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by itafroma 14y ago
Entire generation? It's three people[1]. It seems you personally don't find value in this app, and that's okay, but it's a bit hyperbolic to write off an entire generation over it. There are most assuredly people who are doing more than g
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by itafroma 14y ago
That's for variable names, not run-of-the-mill text. Variable names (and, in certain situations, dictionary keys) generally can't have spaces, so if you're generating code off of the data set, having to generate variable names (or dictionar
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by itafroma 14y ago
Where did you read that you shouldn't use quotes to encapsulate text? RFC 4180 ( http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc4180 ) says you may. Many CSV generators and CSV parsers don't conform to RFC 4180, however, but if you're planning on transmitti
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by itafroma 14y ago
Indeed. An easy tell for English that isn't written by a native is a space before the closing punctuation (e.g., "Collect Your Prize Now !") and that's present on a few of the entries.
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by itafroma 14y ago
> Those standards are are a very accurate representation of the way the best, most popular open source PHP code is being written. PHP-FIG members have repeatedly cautioned[1][2][3][4] that the PSRs (notably PSR-2) are not a set of best
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by itafroma 14y ago
Good advice, with a couple of caveats about PSRs: - They're not all about coding standards: only two of them are. PSR-0 is a class autoloading standard and PSR-3 is a common interface for loggers. The next PSR is likely going to be a common
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by itafroma 14y ago
It's to facilitate a type of keyboard technique that would otherwise accidentally press the Windows key. There may be others, but the one keyboard layout/system I know of that uses it is TheCore: http://www.teamliquid.net/forum/viewmessage
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by itafroma 14y ago
I think you've clarified it better, thanks for that. But take the MBA: the narrative typically goes something like, "I want power/money, being a corporate executive is one of the best means of achieving that, getting an MBA at Harvard makes
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by itafroma 14y ago
The question I have is "Win what ?" There's no doubt getting into YC is a feather in one's cap. But for what purpose? What's the plan here? That's what struck me as surprising in this story. "I want to be a YC startup to say I was a YC st
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by itafroma 14y ago
Ah, thanks for clarifying: I read the last sentence in paragraph 3 as you had brought her on to improve your YC application.
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by itafroma 14y ago
The first five paragraphs—particularly the multiple pivots, bringing on a woman co-founder in hopes that it might look good, and spending an inordinate amount of time researching everything about getting into YC—really surprised me. I would
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by itafroma 14y ago
There's very little reason for .io to be used as designated: .io is the TLD for the British Indian Ocean Territory which has been depopulated since the 60s and 70s. It now consists of a nature preserve and a joint British-American naval bas
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by itafroma 14y ago
Also Jedi Knight: Jedi Academy . Code for Jedi Outcast: http://sourceforge.net/projects/jedioutcast/ Jedi Academy: http://sourceforge.net/projects/jediacademy/
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by itafroma 14y ago
A hostile fork is one done unilaterally, generally without consultation or the blessing of the main project. It generally causes acrimony and community fragmentation, and usually no code changes are shared between the forks after the split.
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by itafroma 14y ago
That section states that you will make exceptions against compatibility with competing implementations under the following conditions: 1. That you propose a draft specification 2. That you're willing to discuss it with other implementors 3.
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by itafroma 14y ago
I tweeted the error to the creator (David Paliwoda) and it's now been corrected.
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by itafroma 14y ago
Just to note: it did say there was no sound in Safari, but it was silently edited after the comment edit/delete window on parent ended. Odd you can't even delete comments that no longer apply after the edit window.
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by itafroma 14y ago
It says no sound in Safari, but the sound works just fine in Safari 6.0.3. No sound in Mobile Safari on iOS 6.1.3, however.
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by itafroma 14y ago
I once wrote an email to Jobs at 8am on a lark and got a reply within 30 minutes. It seemed like if he was using his iPad and wanted to respond, he did so immediately.
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by itafroma 14y ago
Odd that there's no mention of Tumblr's "Ask Me" (or Facebook's attempt, for that matter). Formspring was getting some traction on Tumblogs, got a nice write-up on TechCrunch[1] et al, then Tumblr released their own version[2] two days late

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