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by kaiuhl 14y ago
Just because you have the institutional memory of Flickr during its fall from grace doesn't mean the rest of the internet, particularly the younger generation, does. Instagram has proven that social networking around "artistic" photos has a
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by kaiuhl 14y ago
May I suggest a bookmarklet I created called PARTYMODE? http://wenthiking.com/partymode
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by kaiuhl 14y ago
I've been writing Ruby professionally for six years and this has never been an issue for me or folks I work with. Can you give a single example where you found a conflict in libraries that broke your application?
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by kaiuhl 14y ago
The most convincing argument as to why not to include refinements in the Ruby spec comes from alternative implementations like JRuby and Rubinius. Method dispatch will need to be vastly more complex (and have scope-limited caching) to suppo
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by kaiuhl 14y ago
While new developers are coming up learning Ruby as their first language and in the context of Rails, keep in mind that Rails introduces you to much of the core Ruby language, idioms and at least a few design patterns and useful abstraction
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by kaiuhl 14y ago
You are misinformed. Assisted GPS is simply a feature that reduces the time-to-first-fix of GPS. Triangulation from cell towers exists, but nobody calls it A-GPS. I've used the iPhone 3G, 3GS, 4, and 4S extensively in the wilderness. Every
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by kaiuhl 14y ago
The hopefully obvious answer to your question is to not generate markup in PHP (or any server-side language). These are the kinds of questions that Backbone, Spine, Ember, etc attempts to solve. You should look toward separating view concer
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by kaiuhl 14y ago
Apple charges 54% more for replacing a 90% larger battery than the Macbook Air. More news at it comes.
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by kaiuhl 14y ago
There's no place in the UI yet—send me an email at kyle@wenthiking.com and I'd be happy to remove you!
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by kaiuhl 14y ago
Adding a level of credibility to a Meetup-esque trip planning site is brilliant! Look for this soon :)
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by kaiuhl 14y ago
Your password is not stored in clear text. It's salted and SHA-256 hashed. Your password email was generated during the initial save to the database. It was not logged and is now gone from the server. Besides, this is hardly national securi
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by kaiuhl 14y ago
Hi friends, This is a project I've been working on in my free time for the last year. The idea stemmed from the huge amount of outdoors-related blogs that are out there, and my frustration with the fact that all of the data is unstructured
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by kaiuhl 14y ago
There's a little arrow on the left to expand the map, but it should definitely happen automatically. Thanks!
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by kaiuhl 14y ago
Thanks for the feedback! The map has zero instructions which I agree is totally opaque. The idea is for the map to be used to plan trips with others; someone can zoom in or search for the area they want to take a trip in, trace a route over
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Show HN: I'm building a social network around hiking and backpacking(wenthiking.com)
73 points by kaiuhl 14y ago|20 comments
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by kaiuhl 14y ago
This is a silly comment. Apple's laptops are widely regarded as the best in the industry and have been for quite a few years. The cinema displays are not just displays either—they also include 2.1 speakers, a webcam, and an ambient light se
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by kaiuhl 14y ago
For not being a lawyer, this is an awesome reply.
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by kaiuhl 15y ago
I totally agree. What doesn't get mentioned in the OP is just how incorrect the presentation was. If I was a ruby newbie, I'd want someone to stand up and say why the presentation, which was surely being presented as truth, was actually i
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by kaiuhl 15y ago
Learning to program is all about learning mental abstractions. A beginner will have no conceptualization of what a web application can or should do. Where an experienced web programmer from any language will hear requirements and immediate
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by kaiuhl 15y ago
The hallmark of Wordpress is ease of use. That's why you can spin up a blog right on their site, and they have a backend designed by Happy Cog. Wordpress is blog software for the technically illiterate. And then I take a look at this blog p
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by kaiuhl 15y ago
"Big News:" is in the title of the linked article.
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by kaiuhl 15y ago
That's pretty hypercritical. Personally, I'd like HN to have more reasonable typography like a fixed width column for comments—somewhere in between Inbound and HN as it exists currently. It's also not functionally awful. My wife, an interio
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by kaiuhl 15y ago
The salient point is that Native Client is open source and the standard can be adopted by Firefox, Opera, and Safari if developers find that it meets their needs. Native Client is built on OpenGL (cross platform compatible) where ActiveX wa
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by kaiuhl 15y ago
You miss the fact that Gecko and Webkit are open source projects. There will never be the case where something like ActiveX can exist with these projects.
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by kaiuhl 15y ago
I disagree about the proper vetting of features being a necessity. As long as open-source rendering engines like Webkit or Gecko are pushing forward and providing ideas and implementations of those ideas, we can let web developers vote wi
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by kaiuhl 15y ago
Yes, they're called Rails Engines: http://edgeapi.rubyonrails.org/classes/Rails/Engine.html
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by kaiuhl 15y ago
This is incredible. I created an account for myself and my non-technical office mate and created a page hosted internally we've bookmarked. Now if someone walks in to chat about something trivial and one of us wants to keep working, we have
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by kaiuhl 15y ago
Hold an iPhone in your right hand with your fingers wrapped securely around the device. Now type Q with your thumb. It's perfectly comfortable for me. But if I try to reach literally any further , I can start feeling a tightness in the ten
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by kaiuhl 15y ago
Is it obvious? Do the majority of the public understand the value of a well planned community or have the option to participate in one? Being walking distance to a grocery store is not the same thing as living in a transit-oriented region
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by kaiuhl 15y ago
I'm pretty sure this was a joke harkening back to the days of _why, when Ruby actually was fairly slow compared to other interpreted languages of the day.

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