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by jherdman 17y ago
I've been working with a company for the past while now that deals with sports data. Perhaps you can verify this for me, but I've noticed a pattern: if a sport is American, and in a college, the stats and math behind it are disproportionate
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Interestingly, the catholic church had HUGE problems with the orthodox church during its inception for just that. If you get the chance, you should give "Byzantium: The Surprising Life of a Medieval Empire" ( http://www.amazon.ca/Byzantium-
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by jherdman 17y ago
CSS Edit gives me instant feedback on my changes. It's not always easy to know how changes to your CSS will display. You have to think about all the rules that are in play, as well as the defaults of a given browser. HTML is much easier. Yo
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by jherdman 17y ago
My biggest qualm with Sass is that it introduces a speed bump in my workflow compared to using plain CSS. This is due to the fact that I can use tools like CSS Edit to create, edit, and verify my CSS all at the same time. If these tools als
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Piturna: a CommonJS/JSGI-Compliant Web Framework(sitepen.com)
5 points by jherdman 17y ago|1 comments
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by jherdman 17y ago
It does look nice, but that's a lot of very widely used code that's being deprecated. That's why it's being only deprecated though. Deprecation is a signal to the developer that things are changing. It's the step before terminating
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by jherdman 17y ago
I came here to say exactly this. I enjoy Dawkins, but he might as well have been talking to a brick wall.
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by jherdman 17y ago
You're right in noting that Rubinstein did not say that no one at Palm has ever used an iPhone before. I can virtually guarantee you that any of the CEOs you mentioned that are worth their weight in salt has at least tried the products yo
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VOIP margines must be high enough that urging such a move is even more profitable. It's likely, as mentioned in the article, the AT&T will push for legislative changes to improve their market position and control.
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It's definitely something I'm going to be looking at in the very near future. The pain we're experiencing is definitely worsened by the fact that it's largely undocumented internally as well. Have you had experience with either technology,
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by jherdman 17y ago
I couldn't agree more, and will tell you that we're already there. I'm working on a project right now with an exceedingly complex JSON API. There isn't a day that goes by that I wish I could have gone back in time and had the team use XML i
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by jherdman 17y ago
I think these terms have pretty much been embraced by the people they are most often applied to. I, personally, refer to the room myself and my colleagues work in as "The Nerd Cave". I frequently refer to myself as a geek in social settings
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I'm excited by the ideas and approach of Palm, but their phone bores me. When I hold it I don't feel like I'm holding something substantial -- a sensation the iPhone does give me.
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by jherdman 17y ago
Now THAT'S really exciting. I began doing mobile dev recently and I definitely feel the kilobyte pinch. Projects like XUI definitely help, but it'd be nice to use all the cool things that I'm used to from jQuery.
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by jherdman 17y ago
True as that may be, I've worked on far too many projects now that are burdened by this attitude. No tests, sloppy and unreadable code. My attitude is simple: code like the person who will be working on the app next is standing behind you w
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by jherdman 17y ago
If you're capturing something you don't want, you can always prefix your match with '?:' to have a non-capturing group. FWIW, I personally prefer the #match method. Some of the examples in this article just make me want to hurt people. Espe
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by jherdman 17y ago
Although Bolognese said there is no guarantee that Microsoft ultimately will pursue any of these directions in product form, "The first thing or area we are exploring is the opening up of the compiler," he said. "Right now the C# and Visua
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by jherdman 17y ago
It seems to me that the goal of the App Store is to not only provide a convenient location for consumers to purchase apps (and therefore to act as a source of revenue for both Apple and their clients), but to also help ensure a quality expe
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by jherdman 17y ago
Indeed, and that's how Business Insider is currently handling search. I'm not sure if this is necessarily a "good" solution though. Thoughts?
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It is.
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I totally agree. I think the big missing piece of the puzzle, though, is full-text searching. I attended a webinar on MongoDB the other day hosted by Dwight Merriman (10gen) and Ian White (Business Insider). Ian mentioned this as a sore spo
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by jherdman 17y ago
Prolog is a pretty neat language. It feels really strange at first, but as you grow used to its weirdness, it becomes much more enjoyable. I learned Prolog in university using the book "Prolog Programming in Depth", by Michael A. Covingto
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by jherdman 17y ago
Point taken. In the general case, though, (i.e. we're talking about more than Rack awesomeness) I think it's important that people keep this in the back of their minds. I was burned on this recently with the use of the Daemon Kit gem in a p
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by jherdman 17y ago
That's fine and dandy, but when I want to use your libraries with JRuby or MacRuby, I'm SOL. I kind of like the portability of avoiding fork() and exec() for those reasons.
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by jherdman 17y ago
You would be correct. I've been using Git longer than Mercurial, but I feel that I have a better grasp of how to use Mercurial. That said, Git is exponentially more powerful in my experience. I'm rather enjoying getting to know it.
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by jherdman 17y ago
1.87 is a transitional release designed to ease some of the pain of moving to 1.9. Some gems and libraries, also, aren't fully 1.9 compatible. I think more so than even these is that getting people to change can be fairly difficult.
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Ruby Enterprise Edition Version 1.8.7-20090928 Released(blog.phusion.nl)
35 points by jherdman 17y ago|26 comments
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I'm using C-z, but it's sort of an awkward key to use.
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by jherdman 17y ago
> 2) MySQL is used and proven to scale on very large installments (Yahoo, Facebook, Google - just to name a few). Postgre's usage is much lower (Skype and Reddit from those I know of) You might be interested to learn that Yahoo runs a m
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by jherdman 17y ago
Hm... I wonder when REE 1.87 will be made publicly available? My team is looking to move to 1.87, and I'd rather like to hold off for REE 1.87 if possible.

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