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by jtms 13y ago
My e-reader copy of Cryptonomicon has a copy of this article at the end of the book... LOVE both of these pieces of writing!
512.
by jtms 13y ago
uggghhh i am so sad right now... facebook is absolutely the wrong place for this to have gone!!!!
513.
by jtms 13y ago
Ordered! Being as this is a developer kit and I am a developer I guess I better develop something for it :-) Just super happy to be getting my hands on one... I think this thing is going to change the world.
514.
by jtms 13y ago
plot twist: quahaug is an uploaded consciousness
515.
by jtms 13y ago
I think it was an attempt at humor, but just completely missed the mark.
516.
by jtms 13y ago
Agreed... I thought someone had actually released a new version of VIM with some cool new features or something. Not funny at all and wasted my time.
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by jtms 13y ago
This was my favorite of the "famous ship cats" section. Anyone who has ever owned both a cat and a laser pointer will immediately recognize this as highly probable.
518.
by jtms 13y ago
i LOVE my Kinesis. Such a fantastic keyboard... anytime I have to use a normal keyboard it makes me a bit sad.
519.
by jtms 13y ago
and now up to 0.3+
520.
by jtms 13y ago
same... not seeing the GPU ones
521.
by jtms 13y ago
I am curious why is this engine noteworthy... three.js seems far more mature and advanced than this.
522.
by jtms 13y ago
I read it as both "NSA" instead of "NASA" AND "crayon" instead of "canyon".
523.
by jtms 13y ago
ah so it is... was below the fold and I didn't see it :-/
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by jtms 13y ago
- Not sure why they chose to disallow them here, but realistically #while loops are not commonly used in Ruby. Iterators such as #each or #map are far more idiomatic for Ruby. I still agree this is strange that they are not included here. T
525.
by jtms 13y ago
I am really disappointed that Ryan Bates is not being STRONGLY credited anywhere on this page... this is just a graphical wrapper on his original creation. https://github.com/ryanb/ruby-warrior
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by jtms 13y ago
just play the original: you can use a the text editor of your choice, run in terminal, run with or without animation (nearly instant), and you have full debugging capabilities via puts. Also you get the rogue-like ascii graphics which is t
527.
by jtms 13y ago
in this context a "tool" is a synonym for "dick"... basically stating that Microsoft are a bunch of dicks.
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by jtms 13y ago
I wont be calling it at all
529.
by jtms 13y ago
strikes me as odd it doesn't offer ruby as a choice when Github started life and became popular catering to Ruby/Rails devs
530.
by jtms 13y ago
oh how the black hats would love this!
531.
by jtms 14y ago
I do BJJ as well and at my school we do tons of strength training as part of regular classes. Instead of squats with a barbell we use another person!
532.
by jtms 14y ago
Nailed it.
533.
by jtms 14y ago
And this wouldn't matter that much because it's not truly a multiplayer game. You would be cheating at your single player , non-competitive game... big deal.
534.
by jtms 14y ago
I also REALLY don't see a problem with this... I would have given him a raise and more work to outsource rather than giving the boot.
535.
by jtms 14y ago
why not use an observer to send the emails?
536.
by jtms 14y ago
so use presenters... easy.
537.
by jtms 14y ago
No, really, just use modules - they are testable and reusable and any truly professional Rails dev is going to have zero problems understanding and working with them. This smells of someone very new to Ruby/Rails.
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by jtms 14y ago
I have heard a very similar tale used to describe the inefficiencies of a centrally planned economy vs free market.
539.
by jtms 14y ago
you just HAD to go and get the lawyers involved didn't ya?
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by jtms 14y ago
I believe you are reading too much into the parable :-)

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