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by mark_story 15y ago
If you've ever seen Rush live, Neil Peart actually plays every piece of kit he has. Its all basically necessary based on the music rush plays.
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by mark_story 15y ago
This is a similar drawback I see to microframeworks. You end up having to either roll the bits you didn't get from the framework or build a more complete framework out of other components. This can create dependency hell if you're not car
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by mark_story 15y ago
Mobile pricing in Canada is entirely mental. The charges carriers charge here is crazy compared to europe or asia. I had hoped that when we went from 3 to 6+ carriers things would improve, but they haven't. :(
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by mark_story 15y ago
Ben and Jesse are great guys. I'm surprised more startup companies don't reach out to their potential customers like this. This exchange proves how valuable that contact & communication can be.
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by mark_story 15y ago
I pretty happy to have learned about <C-^> and `. I always learn something from these 'how I learned vim' articles.
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by mark_story 15y ago
Can't a developer dream? :p
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by mark_story 15y ago
One problem with the approach you've pointed out is very very specific selectors. This really couples the structure of your HTML to how it displays. This works well for a while, but on bigger projects it has fallen down for me every time.
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by mark_story 15y ago
Toronto, On. Canada. Full time. Freshbooks is hiring a Build Engineer, developers, and QA Analysts. http://www.freshbooks.com/careers/
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by mark_story 15y ago
System packages are going to miss some package that exists in pypi. Using pip is also good if your company maintains their own internal toolsets, and want to be able to easily reuse those across multiple applications.
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by mark_story 15y ago
If you don't want to use a mouse, why not just stick with cli? It doesn't require a mouse and can do everything any gui can do and more.
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by mark_story 15y ago
I find _this and that are the most common ways of referring to the enclosed this. I would avoid using self like the plague because of window.self though.
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by mark_story 15y ago
Minor troll point, you should probably include Function.prototype.call as well. :)
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by mark_story 15y ago
I come from a similar situation. I graduated with a degree in commercial art and illustration. After slinging coffee for a year, and trying to get freelance work started unsuccessfully, I threw in the towel. I went into programming, as it
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by mark_story 15y ago
No, because this is still valid inside the anonymous function. It can't tell which this you intended to get. It would be able to find out if you used an uninitialized me, _this, that though and complain. Using self as the this alias is re
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by mark_story 15y ago
I found that Ack.vim wasn't as essential as AckMate was. I changed my grepprg and grepformat and was able to get ack working with vim when I called :grep
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by mark_story 15y ago
Great explanations.
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by mark_story 15y ago
Comparing rails and nodejs isn't really a fair fight. Rails has a ton of shiny bits that bare node simply doesn't. Comparing the two on speed alone isn't going to be overly productive.
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by mark_story 15y ago
I've used twig quite a bit. Its leagues better than Smarty in every way. I heartily recommend you give it a spin. Having autoescaping built-in is a powerful and fantastic feature.
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by mark_story 15y ago
I've not used a 30", but I've use 27" plenty. I just spread applications around the screen. Having an editor and terminal/browser side by side is quite handy.
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by mark_story 15y ago
Doesn't Bad Request usually mean malformed HTTP request data? I find myself using Forbidden when users send me bogus/invalid data, as its a more generic 'No', and a body with more information never hurts.
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by mark_story 15y ago
Why roll your own everytime? Doing the same thing over and over, seems like a problem these type of frameworks solve.
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by mark_story 15y ago
For the extra lazy, you can use git aliases to make `git amend` or `git ca`.
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by mark_story 15y ago
I would create feature branches for anything bigger than a few commits. Once the branch is done, you can merge it into dev, then merge that same branch into stage/master if you want. Typically I would try to merge feature->dev->sta
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by mark_story 15y ago
I found the thing that tipped the scales for people who were set in their ways was walking them through a merge and showing that tree conflicts don't exist. And that merging doesn't need to take more than 5 minutes. I work on a codebase th
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by mark_story 15y ago
I found the animated stripes to impede the readability of the text. I agree the various notifications would be hard to separate for colour blind people. One could add some icons to indicate the type of message though.
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by mark_story 15y ago
python and PHP also support # for making comments. It could be argued that python has just as much if not more mindshare than ruby. :)
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by mark_story 15y ago
The same thing happened with Digg, it used to be tech based. Then it got popular, then they screwed it up, and now no one uses it. I think hacker news can avoid this by keeping their minimal UI and not adding shiny bits.
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by mark_story 15y ago
One place I found that capacitive buttons have worked well is on the newer xbox models. The power and tray eject buttons are capacitive and it works well there.
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by mark_story 15y ago
I bought an iPod classic for this very reason. I don't want to have to take off my gloves in the winter to operate a simple machine. Real buttons have the benefit of being usable while the device is in your pocket which is nice as well.
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by mark_story 15y ago
12 is the current release, and 13 should be ready soon. One thing chrome has done really well is smooth and seamless upgrades, this helps them move things forward and people don't notice the version numbers crawl up.

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