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by larrywright 18y ago
That's nice, but I don't think it makes up for how they attacked it. PJ Hyett (of GitHub fame) even commented on it at the time: http://www.pjhyett.com/posts/224-how-not-to-open-source
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by larrywright 18y ago
I would have had a lot more respect for Vlad if the developers hadn't acted like complete jerks about it: http://rubyhitsquad.com/Ruby_Hit_Squad.html Building a competing tool because you think you can do it better is fine. Building a com
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by larrywright 18y ago
Sure it is. Jamis did this work for free, he doesn't owe you or anyone else any of his time to continue to maintain an application that he has burned out on. Open source software gets abandoned all the time . This is only being discussed h
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by larrywright 18y ago
I think it's hard to argue that this is off topic if it was voted to the front page. I like HN because of the wide variety of interesting things here. Yes, most of that is tech/entrepreneurship related, but things like this are interesting
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by larrywright 18y ago
The problem is that you don't know what you don't know. I see a lot of libraries, articles, technologies, etc that I wouldn't otherwise see, and wouldn't know to Google. Not sure I explained that well, but I think you can get my meaning. Tw
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by larrywright 18y ago
I had the same feeling, initially. Here's what I've found though: there are really two kinds of relationships on Twitter. Allow me to elaborate. On one end of the spectrum, I follow people who have similar interests as me (Ruby, Rails, Cloj
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The Programmable Government(larrywright.me)
8 points by larrywright 18y ago|3 comments
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by larrywright 18y ago
People claiming that technology X will kill technology Y should most certainly make an attempt at understanding what technology Y is first. This person clearly does not.
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by larrywright 18y ago
I just realized I only partially answered the question. I use the standard emacs keybindings, rather than the more os-specific ones, since that way it's the same regardless of which platform I use. I use Linux, Windows, and OS X on a regula
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by larrywright 18y ago
Here's mine: http://github.com/larrywright/emacs/ It's mostly stuff borrowed from other people, but it gives you a good starting point with Ruby/Rails support, Twitter integration, snippets, etc. I use it at home and work (Mac and Windows
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by larrywright 18y ago
That was very helpful - thanks!
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by larrywright 18y ago
I don't think so. There is one with Bluetooth however.
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by larrywright 18y ago
That's a pretty fair description of what I do for a living.
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by larrywright 18y ago
That's a great idea, and sure t amuse my kids as well. Thanks
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by larrywright 18y ago
That is in fact my first project, I'm looking for things beyond that.
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by larrywright 18y ago
I've seen that before, but I'd forgotten about it. Thanks
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by larrywright 18y ago
My soldering skills are a bit rusty, but I know my way around electronics.
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Ask HN: What are the best Arduino starter projects?
35 points by larrywright 18y ago|24 comments
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by larrywright 18y ago
+1 for cheating, and for BluePrint - it makes CSS bearable for those of us who aren't pros. 960gs ( http://960.gs ) is also a very nice framework. One correction though, Blueprint isn't from Blue Flavor, though they did do an article on it.
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by larrywright 18y ago
I'd like to be able to filter submissions, in particular to be able to block specific sites. As in, no TechCrunch links (hypothetically speaking ;)).
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by larrywright 18y ago
The plane comes in from the left about 2:00. What's really impressive is how quick they have people out of that plane.
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by larrywright 18y ago
I'm sad to see them go. Locally my only real choices for electronics are Best Buy and Circuit City. I loathe going to Best Buy - the service is crap, the stores are cluttered, and in general it's just a miserable shopping experience. And do
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Circuit City to liquidate all US stores(google.com)
21 points by larrywright 18y ago|19 comments
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Steve Jobs steps down until June for health reasons(alleyinsider.com)
21 points by larrywright 18y ago|8 comments
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by larrywright 18y ago
My point wasn't that Obama can do no right, just that even though I don't agree with him on most issues, I thought that this was a good choice.
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by larrywright 18y ago
While I didn't vote for Obama, this seems like a good pick.
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by larrywright 18y ago
I don't have a huge amount of experience with either framework, but I've used them both. One thing that stands out about jQuery is that it's unobtrusive - Prototype is not (at least not without some help from something like Lowpro).
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The Coming Decline of RSS and Atom(larrywright.me)
2 points by larrywright 18y ago|0 comments
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by larrywright 18y ago
I left Joyent several years ago for much the same reason. Their shared hosting was unusable for Rails. Joyent's Accelerators look like a nice solution, but they are significantly more than a VPS. I've been with VPSLink for several years and