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   How is your refactoring done?

   5 points by makecheck 19y ago|8 comments
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   by makecheck 19y ago

   Thanks for all of your responses so far. I guess my case is typical, which is what I was afraid of. :) For those on visas, note that the limit on H1s goes away as long as you apply for a green card before your last visa expires. You are s
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   How long did your U.S. green card take?

   17 points by makecheck 19y ago|26 comments
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   by makecheck 19y ago

   I don't really condone Apple's sneakiness. However...I've had a real problem with Microsoft's ability to rake in market share for IE, for years, for no good reason: IE benefits from the tech-unsavviness of most people who can't replace it,
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   by makecheck 19y ago

   I would split into two comments, because I always assume there will be value in dedicated discussion threads. I also do this with E-mail. For example, someone sends a message to a group asking multiple unrelated questions, I reply to each
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   by makecheck 19y ago

   xargs; say, a fast replacement for a find-exec: % find <whatever> -print0 | xargs -0 <command>
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   by makecheck 19y ago

   OmniWeb (Mac only). :) It uses the WebKit (Safari) engine, so it is great at rendering. Its preferences are very smart...one of my favorites is "block images matching known ad sizes". Preferences can be saved per-site, nice for cookie mana
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   by makecheck 19y ago

   There's a ton of Mac terminals. I use MacTelnet as an OS X terminal, even though it isn't finished.
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   by makecheck 19y ago

   I've used SCPlugin for Subversion access on the Mac desktop, it has a similar feel to TortoiseSVN on Windows. I would also tinker with Apple's Automator (a built-in application) and look at the Finder's Folder Actions (which Automator suppo
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    by makecheck 19y ago

    It is certainly possible the APIs are hidden for competitive advantage. However... There are costs when making an API truly public! Extra work to document it completely. Extra testing, to cover more than just the cases you know you're de
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    by makecheck 19y ago

    I don't think strategies are news. I'd rather a company tell me what it has done , what products exist . A strategy is just "hey, everyone else is doing something cool, let's tell the world that we are too so we can reserve our piece of
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    by makecheck 19y ago

    In files that ignore unknown or unused definitions (like CSS and HTML), my preference is just to misspell keywords and identifiers by adding an "x" prefix. For example, if you have a block: .mystyle { font-size: smaller;
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    by makecheck 19y ago

    This article mentions very little of what could actually be wrong with a Ruby implementation (I recall one point about how Ruby on Rails tends to guide developers toward particular solutions). It describes mostly problems that are complete
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    by makecheck 19y ago

    When I followed the article to its YouTube video, it said the video was no longer available. Here appears to be a summary of it here: http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=6084221876531914922&... And Harvard has it all in a number of se
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    by makecheck 19y ago

    The article treats unit tests and code as one task, a reasonable idea to make sure programmers actually are testing before "done" means "done". But the article also seems to conclude that unit testing and a few "high level tests" are all i
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    Mac vs Windows Wiki: surprisingly detailed, allows outside contributors (formerly XvsXP.com)(macvswindows.com)

    1 points by makecheck 19y ago|0 comments
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    by makecheck 19y ago

    You've actually summed up pretty well my own reasons for coming here. :) I think frustration with other once-great sites is common. But I have also started to appreciate what is unique about yC, both in site design (e.g. you can't mod thin
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    by makecheck 19y ago

    The Wikibooks article has quite a few useful sections, including at least one link to a page of free Python books. http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Programming:Python
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    Succinct, sensible coding style: WebKit (Safari)(webkit.org)

    3 points by makecheck 19y ago|0 comments
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    by makecheck 19y ago

    http://www.ask.com/ is very fast. Text auto-completing option saves time. Rolling over the binoculars in each result shows a miniature preview of the web page! Image results have zooming roll-overs. Video playback uses JavaScript mini