joelmichael

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by joelmichael 15y ago
In Rails, the application belongs in app/, not lib/ or a gem. If this does not meet your admittedly obsessive design concerns then I suggest not using Rails.
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by joelmichael 15y ago
The other kind of federal debt is intragovernmental debt; that is, debt which the federal government owes to itself. This category includes the Social Security Trust Fund.
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by joelmichael 15y ago
Thanks, crazy person.
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by joelmichael 15y ago
Why is it surprising that the government would be involved in enforcing its own law?
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by joelmichael 15y ago
SSDs really are going to change the game. As a Ruby developer, I'm hoping to see a new language created that is inspired by Ruby but is optimized for speed. Java will remain insufficiently aesthetic, but a new language could be both fast an
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by joelmichael 15y ago
I dunno. Unlike the Qwikster split, the iPad is pretty popular with customers.
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by joelmichael 15y ago
I grew up on a cul-de-sac. I knew all of my neighbors and it was a great environment for a kid to grow up in. We had a nearby woods, too. We often walked and rode bikes.
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by joelmichael 15y ago
It couldn't have taken you years. Firefox 4 was only released in March of this year. Firefox 5 came three months later in June. Firefox 6 was two months later in August, and Firefox 7 now comes a little over a month afterwards.
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by joelmichael 15y ago
I used to have that problem until I excluded log files, images, and other extraneous files from my project. Find in project now works relatively quickly. I don't consider my app "really small", or the prior two I worked on using TextMate.
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by joelmichael 15y ago
TextMate still has the best find-in-project functionality. Sublime Text 2 doesn't compare if you want to rename something throughout the app. As for vim, it's nice when you're in a console, but I don't think it's as pleasant to use. The del
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by joelmichael 15y ago
In a sense, depositing money in a bank is a sort of loan to the bank. They then loan your money out to others, and give you a cut of the interest. It isn't really "held in an account," rather there is a register which says how much money yo
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by joelmichael 15y ago
They are not presently in the public domain, therefore it is not seizing from the public domain. Rather, it is preventing from entering the public domain. There is a difference. If you would like to claim they are "effectively" the same t
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by joelmichael 15y ago
This conflict of interest is precisely why he resigned. I'm not convinced a personal stake necessarily makes for uninteresting writing, though.
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by joelmichael 15y ago
Headphones are an integral part of the open office layout, especially for developers. I recommend decent-quality sound-isolating earbuds which can give you a personal audio environment at any time without irritating your coworkers. Using he
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by joelmichael 15y ago
Currently, our recommendation engine is the only publicly available product. We're building a platform similar to what Leaky portrays, but it's still in development. Displaying truly accurate and actionable rates is not a simple task.
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by joelmichael 15y ago
There is actually another company that has this concept: CoverHound. I'm one of the co-founders. We started a few months before Leaky. We went through the AngelPad incubator during the Winter 2011 class. TechCrunch covered us in a little bl
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by joelmichael 15y ago
A trite leftist screed ripped straight from the Bush years.
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by joelmichael 15y ago
It is actually spelled Buffett.
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by joelmichael 15y ago
What questions would you have asked?
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by joelmichael 15y ago
I can't stand this. Asterisks in the geek world denote actions, not bold. Underlines are frequently used for computing purposes. How is Markdown in any way friendly to geeks?
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by joelmichael 15y ago
Sorry, humor is against the rules.
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by joelmichael 15y ago
I've been coding in Rails since pre-1.0, and while some decisions have annoyed me, I am ultimately happy with the direction Rails has gone. It keeps Rails at the forefront of web technology.
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by joelmichael 15y ago
"Everything should be made as simple as possible, but no simpler." - Albert Einstein
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by joelmichael 15y ago
The lost coins went from $900 to $81,000 in value. So yes, it is just as bad, and makes your comment about simply "waiting" look a bit silly.
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by joelmichael 15y ago
I think this article was hilarious in how it demonstrated the problems with the em dash. Honestly, I couldn't even finish it because the style was so frustrating... But I still like it, and I know the author does too. The em dash is an arti
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by joelmichael 15y ago
The scale is logarithmic, so the plateau is a bit misleading.
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by joelmichael 15y ago
Goldman evidently thought it was overvalued, too. They sold all of their stock at the IPO price. So if their goal was to "scam" LinkedIn, they didn't do a very good job of it. http://finance.fortune.cnn.com/2011/05/19/goldman-leaves-lin...
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by joelmichael 15y ago
Prior to the IPO, everyone was saying $45 was absurdly high. Now it's absurdly low.
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by joelmichael 15y ago
I agree. archiveteam.org have stated they will ignore robots.txt. This makes me disrespect their organization. Well, that and their ridiculous website.
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by joelmichael 15y ago
Is this ironic? The article is about not calling people idiots and treating them with respect. Is what you said respectful of people who need to be "spoon-fed" these ideas?

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