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by ludicast 16y ago
Great article, and nobody hates Disney like I do (and I'm going there in a few months...). They really do excel at that sort of stuff, and the "it's not my fault, but it's my problem" line is really motivating.
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by ludicast 16y ago
No advice but my sympathies. That really sucks. What I would do in your shoes - obfuscate the code if possible, iterate rapidly (nobody can execute like you), and move a lot of logic to the backend where nobody can steal your code.
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by ludicast 16y ago
Andromeda could have been the best SciFi show of all time and the ruined it. The Magog, the Nietzscheans, the hot chicks. That show could have had it all.
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by ludicast 16y ago
This is the NYC Contest for writing apps that use the open data that NYC provides. Some cool entries in there, many (including mine) dealing with the health inspection reports for restaurants.
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NYC Big Apps Submissions(nycbigapps.com)
2 points by ludicast 16y ago|1 comments
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by ludicast 16y ago
I hate Java, but am using it for Android to take full advantage of the platform. However, as an Actionscript guy I am curious about using AIR to write Android apps. Specifically, if I did this, would I be able to offer upgrades to native a
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by ludicast 16y ago
I believe the Ruby community is very pro-Perl. I enjoyed Perl myself and Ruby seems to have a lot of the same soul to it. I usually say Ruby is everything I loved about Perl with none of what I disliked/hated.
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by ludicast 16y ago
Great movie. I am looking to get into Arduino development myself. In a way it reminds me of Rails, in that it inspires a world of DIYers to build whatever they are dreaming about.
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Ask HN: Hosted Documentation Websites
3 points by ludicast 16y ago|0 comments
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by ludicast 16y ago
Marriage is always a mistake, but it is important that you make it with the right person :-). I've been married for 3.5 years to the best girl in the world. Best mistake I ever made. As far as advice goes, make her feel included in your ad
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by ludicast 16y ago
yeah his "get a real job" comment seemed way rude
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by ludicast 16y ago
The whole Froyo on the Galaxy S debacle has been nuts. It was promised in September. Since then it has been plagued with deployment problems and is still in purgatory for the US users. That said, I have become a big fan of Samsung's hardw
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by ludicast 16y ago
Great article about a lot of the one-up-manship in the software world.
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Pettiness in software development(as3dp.com)
1 points by ludicast 16y ago|1 comments
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by ludicast 16y ago
I hate pair programming. I find a lot of the times my partners are distracting me with a forgotten semicolon while I have already added that to my queue while my fingers are racing along. On the other hand having to justify an idea to some
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Rails 3 Cheat Sheets from Envy Labs(blog.envylabs.com)
145 points by ludicast 16y ago|9 comments
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by ludicast 16y ago
This is a great tool. I love playing with Ruby on my Android. I actually believe in using straight-up Java for the Android device (and I hate Java), but this is great for getting quick and dirty. It's actually the only app which makes me
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by ludicast 16y ago
I don't think it matters too much that java has non-objects in the language. That might be a symptom of a non-oo nature, but only the most anal would say that's proof it's not an oo language. However I still don't think java is an oo lang
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by ludicast 16y ago
I know there are services like tweetlater.com, but am not sure about foursquare. I thought of making an app to do this, but obviously the second it did well foursquare would add a 'publish at' field to checkins. Might still do it as an int
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by ludicast 16y ago
One other thing that Shopify did well was extract a lot of code into open source projects. Liquid, DelayedJob and ActiveMerchant are all thanks to their hard work. So rather than just make money for themseves (which they did do), they "mov
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by ludicast 16y ago
Absolutely. He's at the top of the "hundreds others" :). I just mentioned those three because I use their non-rails code too all the time. Also of note are the great screencasters/podcasters like Gregg Pollock, Ryan Bates, Jason Seifer, D
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by ludicast 16y ago
Ruby really has had a great year. All us fanboys can now say "I told you so". Ruby 1.9.2 and Rails 3.0 were great milestones. Also the community has flourished. We lost _why ( sniff ) and Zed (don't let the door hit you...) but some great
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by ludicast 16y ago
That's a reasonable argument but doesn't bother me because 1) I don't like the given/when/then syntax anymore (a personal thing, but I do see the advantages (Uncle Bob has a great article about it)) 2) I don't mind the nesting as long as ea
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by ludicast 16y ago
I'd also like to plug my own rspec extensions, Saki: https://github.com/ludicast/saki It lets you write your specs with "smart contexts" so you can do stuff like: with_existing :user do that_has_an :article do that_has_a :co
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by ludicast 16y ago
Me too. I can't understand having a startup but not being a developer. Being dependent on others for your core functionality must suck.
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by ludicast 16y ago
Doesn't answer the question, but I wanted to mention that Chris Okasaki was (by a HUGE margin) the best professor I ever had in my life. I took his Programming Languages and Translators class at Columbia where he basically taught how to rip
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by ludicast 16y ago
Believe it or not, the FDNY is putting this information out for a political reason. They are trying to get away with closing 20 fire companies for 15 hour shifts (at night). This is a cost-saving measure at a time when a lawsuit which prev
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by ludicast 16y ago
Haven't checked out CoffeeScript before, but it's very terse. Me like.
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by ludicast 16y ago
Title is a little flamebaity, considering it seems like he is adding python, rather than "moving to". I like both, but Ruby does it for me bigtime. I actually wish it also had Python's whitespace rules, but since I use Haml a lot I still
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by ludicast 16y ago
He could be describing O'Reilly books here :).

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