lectrick

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931.
by lectrick 14y ago
I'm actually going to include this as an example of non-innovation in my pitch to take us to postgres.
932.
by lectrick 14y ago
I agree 200%. It also has a number of other nice side effects such as teaching teamwork/collaboration, etc.
933.
by lectrick 14y ago
My real name is INSANELY googleable (as in, from what I can tell, a google of my first and last name acts like a "primary key" to my entire internet presence)... so I fucking hate these efforts. I hated it when Blizzard pushed it, I'll tole
934.
by lectrick 14y ago
It looks like they have modeled the subprocesses of the cell and run a simulation of an assembly of those, instead of actually running (for example) a physics simulation of the entire organism at the atomic level. FYI
935.
by lectrick 14y ago
I've lived on the east coast, the west coast and inside the US. I have ALWAYS been near a bar-trivia night, somewhere. Look around dude
936.
by lectrick 14y ago
I challenge anyone here to take their futuristic ideas and try to execute on them given whatever financial resources are available.
937.
by lectrick 14y ago
> but the problem with MVC as given is that you end up stuffing too much code into your controllers, because you don't know where else to put it. What the hell is he talking about? Has he never worked with Fat Model™ design?
938.
by lectrick 14y ago
I did this for a bit although I got 3% of the company. The resume bullets and name recognition since I left have more than made up for the low salary, at later jobs.
939.
by lectrick 14y ago
I would love this but 90% of the people I meet and know are not actually interested in actual discussion of the ideas they believe in and consume.
940.
by lectrick 14y ago
“You lie awake at night worrying about what is that which will disrupt your business model,” he said. “Apple iMessage is a classic example. If you’re using iMessage, you’re not using one of our messaging services, right? That’s disruptive t
941.
by lectrick 14y ago
Maybe that's because Macs don't generally deal with pieces of garbage. Whether that's tools, or users.
942.
by lectrick 14y ago
Since I have gone to Ruby and adopted the Religion of Testing First (ok, sometimes Testing In The Middle), I have never missed any sort of type checking whatsoever. I'm afraid this might come down to a philosophical difference for you.
943.
by lectrick 14y ago
1) Extremely good developer community/support (gems, the #ruby channel on irc.freenode.net, blogs, books, etc.) Just a shit-ton of smart people. 2) Pure command-line interface that works with text files, that makes it work easily with any t
944.
by lectrick 14y ago
> To mingle with programmers who call themselves “rockstars”: Ruby. Oh fuck off. I'm really getting tired of the Ruby backlash. It is a FINE language, better than most.
945.
by lectrick 15y ago
This article is wildly speculative. :/
946.
by lectrick 15y ago
Filed under "Flori-duh" God I hate that state. The most idiots per capita I've ever encountered.
947.
by lectrick 15y ago
Coding in Ruby all day using Sublime Text 2 has been totally awesome for a little while now. Debugging is not as slick as in Visual Studio-land but... that's what test coverage is for! (and it's super easy to do...) Here, I wrote a class to
948.
by lectrick 15y ago
There's a tremendous amount of pressure to becoming well-known. Musicians self destruct under it. Movie stars' private lives blow up. I can totally understand how a super talented but sensitive dude might want to maintain a pseudonym to def
949.
by lectrick 15y ago
I have never missed foreign keys on the projects I've worked on that don't use them. This is because those projects typically sit on databases that are only expected to be accessed via web API and not directly from some other source. Which
950.
by lectrick 15y ago
I assume this uses some sort of trained Bayesian thing
951.
by lectrick 15y ago
"Where's the beef?" said there's no joke here :/
952.
by lectrick 15y ago
How do you know if it was in fact the guy who used the account to violate the TOS? While I don't intend on doing this myself, I'm HORRIFIED at the idea that Google would suddenly cut me off from all my data without reason.
953.
by lectrick 16y ago
I am happy to not see Ruby represented here.