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Memory: A Joybox Tutorial(blog.kyleshipley.com)
4 points by jballanc 13y ago|0 comments
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by jballanc 13y ago
I can't find the relevant research articles at the moment, but there is evidence that success on the marshmallow test can be improved with training (also referenced at the end of this article: http://www.wired.com/wired
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by jballanc 13y ago
Two things have been universally true the more we learn about the human genome: 1.) It's startling just how much is determined by genetics 2.) It's startling just how little is determined by genetics How is it that both are tr
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by jballanc 13y ago
Giving stuff away without a license can be hazardous to your livelihood. This is due to the concept of "Implied Warranty" ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Implied_warranty ), which says that anything you sell mus
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by jballanc 13y ago
I'm not familiar with the site you're thinking of, but the Open Source Initiative has one of the largest treasure troves of license information I know of: http://opensource.org/licenses
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by jballanc 13y ago
Thankyouthankyouthankyou! This has been one of my longest outstanding gripes with GitHub. By not including any mention of licensing when creating a new public repo, I feel that GitHub was tacitly encouraging the "licenses are for lawye
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What’s a (Good) REST API?(blogs.burnsidedigital.com)
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by jballanc 13y ago
Actually, the Lua Missions are excellent! I highly recommend taking the time to work through them. More than just a series of exercises (like most of the foo-koans), there's actually a narrative and a larger lesson you can learn if you
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by jballanc 13y ago
Forget, for a moment, what this does for Snowden's credibility. If this is true, this is a huge blow to the NSA! In college I had a friend who wanted to intern with the NSA. He was extremely smart, knew his way around a computer and
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by jballanc 13y ago
To me, this speaks of the difference between artists and craftsmen. Artists attempt to create the ideal, something that is perfect and that people can stare at for hours just appreciating every nuance. Craftsmen create things to be used, an
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How Turkish Protesters Deal with Teargas(youtube.com)
1 points by jballanc 13y ago|0 comments
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by jballanc 13y ago
Before the introduction of the Mac, peak Apple would've been in 1977 with the launch of the Apple II. Before the introduction of the iPod, peak Apple would've been in 1984 with the launch of the Macintosh. Before the iPhone, peak
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MotionPhrase: Next Level Localization for RubyMotion Applications(blog.rubymotion.com)
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Ask PG: Can we limit the number of replies to a comment?
4 points by jballanc 13y ago|3 comments
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by jballanc 13y ago
Pictures are certainly worth a certain number of words, but sometimes all you really need is the hook of an idea to really grasp a much larger concept. In this case, I've always been caught by something Jared Diamond wrote in "Germs, Guns,
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by jballanc 13y ago
So very true! In fact, having worked at an Apple store, and later on the products sold at the Apple store, I'd venture to say that Pixar's process is probably precisely like the process behind something you would see at an Apple store!
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by jballanc 13y ago
Visuals and animations are infinitely easier to get "looking right" when you can modify parameters directly in a running app via REPL. That's possible with RubyMotion. In particular, check out https://github.com/rubymotion/sugarcube#repl-v
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by jballanc 13y ago
In the large majority of cases, compiled RubyMotion is indistinguishable from Obj-C, both in terms of speed and size.
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by jballanc 13y ago
Have you considered Papers? http://papersapp.com/
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by jballanc 13y ago
RubyMotion is not a wrapper. It is an implementation of Ruby on the Obj-C runtime. This means that a RubyMotion object is an Obj-C object (for comparison, a Ruby object in MRI is just a C struct). So why would you want to use RubyMotion?
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by jballanc 13y ago
I've seen this happen as well, but I think the problem is more with the "make up a story" part and less with the "run to publish" part. I've seen really really interesting results that defy explanation get passed over for publication in fav
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RubyMotion Goes 2.0 And Gets OSX Support, Templates and Plugins(blog.rubymotion.com)
185 points by jballanc 13y ago|74 comments
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by jballanc 13y ago
I came to the biological sciences trained as a chemist. As I began working on my Ph.D. and variously encountered papers on cell signaling research (the field that much "cancer research" would fall into) it was blindingly apparent to me, per
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by jballanc 13y ago
From the Xamarin site: > Can I continue to use Xamarin when my subscription expires? > Yes you can. Your Xamarin license is perpetual. If you choose not to renew your subscription, you will no longer have access to new releases and
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by jballanc 13y ago
RubyMotion is compilable as well, and auto-completion only helps when you're writing code, not when you're going back and re-reading it. Also, it was announced at the end of the RubyMotion conference that additional platforms are on the roa
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by jballanc 13y ago
Or, in this case, the very real possibility that support staff and development effort would be consumed by the demands of free trial users to the detriment of paying customers...
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by jballanc 14y ago
It was not my goal to compare apricots to steak, but rather the price of apricots here to the price in the US contrasted with the price of meat here to the price in the US. The US has optimized the production of meat such that the price is
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by jballanc 14y ago
This has been my experience... > Your market value is higher elsewhere While true, it's also slightly simplistic. It's more than just market value. There's an American mindset that has its plusses and minuses (like any mindset), but the
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by jballanc 14y ago
Depends. In many cases of antibiotic resistance, the actual "resistance" is a matter of degrees. For example, Penicillin interrupts the cell walls of bacteria, so in Gram negative bacteria it is only active in the periplasm. Some forms of P
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by jballanc 14y ago
Where I live, fruits and vegetables are ridiculously cheap, and meat is rather expensive. For example, apricots (which are just now in season) are $2.50 per pound. When the height of apricot season kicks in, the price will come down to arou

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