jonny_noog

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by jonny_noog 17y ago
Thanks I will. That one's been on my list for a while actually. I had not realised that it actually walks you through the internals though. Maybe this will be the impetus I need to finally get around to snaffling it.
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by jonny_noog 17y ago
This sounds just great. I have used Rails for some time now but have always been reluctant to really get in there and take a look around because by the time I got to it, Rails was already a seemingly huge behemoth of a code base and I didn'
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by jonny_noog 17y ago
Sure does. See the use of mercenaries in Iraq and other places.
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by jonny_noog 17y ago
Thanks, I'll check it out.
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by jonny_noog 17y ago
Don't forget the implied Dances With Wolves style, "some humans see the error of their ways and go native." :P But you're right, it doesn't need to be overly complex or totally original to be good. There's always room for a well told stor
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by jonny_noog 17y ago
Great to read such an in depth analysis. I had read about Cameron's integration of CGI with live action at production time, but had not found anything that explains this different kind of 3D as well as you just did. I've had this hunch for
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by jonny_noog 17y ago
I'd like to read about the sources for your views of these two terms. I have never been able to find a clear definition of the difference. Wikipedia for example, redirects from Sociopathy to Psychopathy. So there at least, the terms seem in
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by jonny_noog 17y ago
This is actually one of my (few) pet peeves with the 37Signals crowd. I remember reading somewhere (possibly in their Getting Real book) the reasoning behind such design decisions as not including the year on the dates displayed in their
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by jonny_noog 17y ago
I guess it would be AJWS then. They're going to have to come up with a better acronym than "Adj-wuss" before this thing takes off.
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by jonny_noog 17y ago
Im not sure I agree to be honest; indeed it looks like salvaging the situation rather than diplomacy. I would tend to agree, but I guess my definition of diplomacy includes salvaging situations. My kind of diplomacy isn't all roses and pu
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by jonny_noog 17y ago
I can't say I would have done any differently than he did, putting myself in his situation, regardless of the interpreter's advice. Handle the situation with as much diplomacy as possible once the issue has been brought up, sure. But I'll b
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by jonny_noog 17y ago
I've often wondered why http://news.ycombinator.com/classic is not on that lists page... Are there any others missing that people know of?
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by jonny_noog 17y ago
Another problem in my mind is that we have a dependency created between me being able to access a particular email account and me being able to access the website I want to get into. That is, what if I originally signed up with my not@any.c
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by jonny_noog 17y ago
I can empathise with you though, as I started programming later than it seems most in this line of work do. I too sometimes think, "damn I would be much further along now if I had gotten into this stuff earlier." But then I guess I wouldn't
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by jonny_noog 17y ago
Newer technology isn't always better. This is a great point that one would think obvious enough, except that there's usually some pretty powerful vested interests that I suspect like to try hard to obscure it in order to keep users and de
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by jonny_noog 17y ago
I think it would just end up with trolls pasting in Lorem Ipsum or something after their trollish comment. Having trash text in low quality comments might make them easier to identify as low quality and the need to post comments of a minimu
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by jonny_noog 17y ago
Judging by the number of blogs and people on Twitter, your mom is probably no longer the typical internet user. For those of us who travel in tech savvy circles, I think it's all too easy to forget that his mom absolutely is the typical I
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by jonny_noog 17y ago
It seems to me that the emphasis from Fake Steve is really more like NYT < bloggers in general, because the newspapers have lost their balls. They've gotten into bed with the politicians and corporations they report on (in some cases th
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by jonny_noog 17y ago
I've also used Shaun Inman's Mint (though an older version, not the current, I'm sure the UI is even better now) and have only ever had good things to say about it. Definitely worth the very reasonable cost.
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by jonny_noog 17y ago
Lately I've been liking Analogue Bubblebath and Selected Ambient Works Volume II by Richard D. James, AKA Aphex Twin. I play the tracks softly when coding and I feel it assists my concentration.
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by jonny_noog 17y ago
I have the same issue with light text on dark background pages, I generally dislike them. It actually affects my vision for a few seconds after I look away from the page, before my eyes adjust again. That page could certainly do with a litt
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by jonny_noog 17y ago
I don't think they're being cry babies at all. They're just picking up a fumbled ball and running with it. Good luck to them I say.
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by jonny_noog 17y ago
... It will be some police/military with guns vs citizens/police/military with guns I agree that it won't get to that. but if it did, barring massive police/military mutiny, who do you think is going to win that one? If both sides have gu
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by jonny_noog 17y ago
This is probably going to give away what I spent a large portion of my youth doing, but that is the most compelling application I have so far seen for the multi-touch table.
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by jonny_noog 17y ago
It sounds like you did the best you could after being hit with a pretty big curve ball. Had this happened to me, I think I would have approached it by saying something to the effect of "Look buddy, we're a small outfit, we couldn't really d
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by jonny_noog 17y ago
... it is very much that old age isn't an excuse to not be curious and to not /keep learning/. My thoughts exactly. I've worked with older people who lost the curiosity to keep learning about new developments in their field many years ago
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by jonny_noog 17y ago
In my experience, this is incredibly relevant in government, which depending on how you cut it is an organisation or group of organisations all of sufficient size.
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by jonny_noog 17y ago
Film noir under construction: http://www.textfiles.com/underconstruction/CaCapeCanaveralOr... Classy.
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by jonny_noog 17y ago
Just to give a counter point, I read about people having problems with the Leopard => Snow Leopard upgrade so I was very cautious when it came time for me to upgrade. I upgraded from Leopard to Snow Leopard on my early 2009 Mac Pro and
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by jonny_noog 17y ago
I don't get why, but it seems that few people here are interested in any of the same things I am. ... People just tend to talk about sports and dating and parties and clubs and stuff. It's not just you who has this problem. The experience

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