jrnewton

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by jrnewton 18y ago
Why must all web apps have kewl spelling nowadays? How long before it's fashionable to put back the "E"?
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by jrnewton 18y ago
markov?
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by jrnewton 18y ago
Honest to god hockey stick growth Can someone explain this?
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by jrnewton 18y ago
Great definition of enterprise software: With "enterprise" software, you can often get away with a clunky program, because the people who are using it have all been trained on what to do. If doing X makes the application crash, that's okay
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by jrnewton 18y ago
At first glance i thought this was about VIM magic... http://www.vim.org/htmldoc/pattern.html#/magic
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by jrnewton 18y ago
I would rather be outside, away from my computer, participating in the community that's around me. nothing beats human contact.
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by jrnewton 18y ago
yup, big changes: create a company blog, mimic your competitors.
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by jrnewton 18y ago
can someone explain this one to me... i just don't get it. "A true intellectual is a man who, after reading a book and being convinced by its arguments, will shoot someone or, more likely, order someone shot"
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by jrnewton 18y ago
A related issue to syntax is consistent naming, especially in the core API of a language. Java for example has _relatively_ consistent naming for methods, whereas i find the core Ruby methods to be all over the place...
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by jrnewton 18y ago
exercise is a great source of energy and i've found it also decreases appetite. I didn't feel the benefits until after a few weeks of a regular exercise schedule; during the initial ramp up the changes in energy and appetite were inverted.
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by jrnewton 18y ago
he _nails_ javascript (referred to as ES in quote): Can we please finally just accept that ES is much more than just a browser extensibility tool? For most developers, this is their first exposure to a classless prototype-based object-or
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by jrnewton 18y ago
no, i don't _really_ know the platform or langauge (unix/c)..
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by jrnewton 18y ago
I'm 1/4th of the way through this article and confused already... Steve writes: I never managed to use XEmacs for very long, because it crashed a lot but then XEmacs doesn't crash any more often than Firefox and XEmacs may crash even l
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by jrnewton 18y ago
> so only download it if you need it > This dataset may be removed in the next week or so the latter cancels the former.
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by jrnewton 18y ago
> All this ridiculous programmer-celebrity blogging echo-chamber bullshit results in very little software being built or how about, "blogging results in very little software being built".. i never understand how anyone has time to actua
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by jrnewton 19y ago
unless you just want to _quickly_ package some files, use tar, skip the compression.
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by jrnewton 19y ago
no because i don't know how to pronounce 'xobni'
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by jrnewton 19y ago
yawn
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by jrnewton 19y ago
I'm in the same boat, right now working towards calculus, running through an algebra review. The big problem I have with some of the "classic" texts (and wikipedia/mathworld) is that they go way over my head very quickly, usually due to my