mbrubeck

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2611.
by mbrubeck 17y ago
> This is why most languages after C++ have avoided operator overloading. Except for C#, PHP, Python, Ruby, Perl, Haskell, Io, Lua, Scala, Groovy, D, F#, and even Visual Basic. Really the only major post-C++ languages to avoid operator
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by mbrubeck 17y ago
Yes, definitely. No software is going to make it easy to rip out any of five or six branches late in development. With five branches, this means that you might ship any of 2^5 == 32 different products, and you don't know which until right
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by mbrubeck 17y ago
Quick add-on comment: "git rebase" is a nice way for an individual developer to avoid spurious merges or clean up their history before pushing it to a shared repository. But (as Linus and others have said) it should never be used on com
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by mbrubeck 17y ago
In a nutshell, merge more and rebase less. If you can avoid it, don't maintain long-lived actively-developed branches - especially several at once. You are certain to produce conflicts this way, and they will require some amount of manual
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by mbrubeck 17y ago
Since you know Ruby, you might consider writing examples in Sinatra. Compared to e.g. Rails or Merb, it's less of a framework and more of a simple DSL for building web sites/services. It really gets out of the way and keeps the focus on t
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by mbrubeck 17y ago
Java may have a great development platform, but it's not a great end-user platform. As a user, I'm never going to go to the Java App Store to shop for software.
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by mbrubeck 17y ago
As far as I can tell from the PhoneGap source code, it just embeds a UIWebView and hooks into its standard APIs and events. I didn't spot any unpublished APIs in use. Can you give an example of what you mean by "hijacking"? If I built a n
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by mbrubeck 17y ago
Here's the actual text from the iPhone SDK Agreement: "No interpreted code may be downloaded and used in an Application except for code that is interpreted and run by Apple’s Published APIs and built-in interpreter(s)." It only forbids appl
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Answers to questions from Twitter on teen practices(zephoria.org)
1 points by mbrubeck 17y ago|0 comments
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by mbrubeck 17y ago
Venture capital. I know it's not as hip as ramen but it sure pays the bills.
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by mbrubeck 18y ago
Netscape wasn't just some "shrink-wrap software vendor." They were " the internet company" of their day. They didn't just make a browser; they made a lot of their money on the server side. Obviously Google does have the benefit of a deca
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by mbrubeck 18y ago
Some hosted services prevent users from embedding scripts in their content, for security reasons. At blist we decided to use JS, iframes, and Flash in our widgets anyways [1], but it means they won't work in certain contexts. 1. http://ww
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by mbrubeck 18y ago
The automatic [scribd] links have been around for a while - I'm pretty sure I've seen them for the past few weeks at least, maybe much longer. Scribd is a Y Combinator company.
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by mbrubeck 18y ago
Good idea. Updated the link title.
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Alan Kay: The Power Of The Context [pdf](vpri.org)
24 points by mbrubeck 18y ago|16 comments
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Google and JanRain Release Support for the OpenID User Interface Extension(openid.net)
16 points by mbrubeck 18y ago|1 comments
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by mbrubeck 18y ago
Kerlikowske presided over some real, substantial reforms in his previous job as Seattle Police Chief. It's not certain that he'll be able to do the same as part of the Obama administration, but at least his past record is good. Our local
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by mbrubeck 18y ago
To the extent that karma is an incentive at all, I'd rather have it encourage more high-quality submissions than more high-quality comments. (I'm reasonably happy with the level of discussion in the comments, but there aren't as many inter
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by mbrubeck 18y ago
I hope this is as good as it sounds. I built a simple "lifestream" for myself using the Planet Venus aggregator[1], and I've been thinking for a while about building something more complete. It looks like Sweetcron might have all the feat
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by mbrubeck 18y ago
Pinax seems to have everything you need. It's a set of components for Django (Python): http://pinaxproject.com/ Django already handles user registration; Pinax adds OpenID, email confirmation, and password management. It also does photo
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by mbrubeck 18y ago
I think the idea is that (given the ability to generate SHA-1 collisions) the same technique used to generate MD5 collisions in Postscript files could also be used to generate SHA-1 collisions in firmware files: http://www.educatedguesswor
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How Git could be attacked if SHA-1 gets broken(kitenet.net)
19 points by mbrubeck 18y ago|6 comments
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by mbrubeck 18y ago
Check out http://code.google.com/p/pubsubhubbub/ (by Brad Fitzpatrick and another Google engineer).
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Simple Nanojit Example - Mozilla's x86/ARM JIT(bluishcoder.co.nz)
4 points by mbrubeck 18y ago|1 comments
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by mbrubeck 18y ago
Also posted here: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=592043
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Getting insight into one’s own email(ascher.ca)
1 points by mbrubeck 18y ago|0 comments
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by mbrubeck 18y ago
An online retailer I worked for usually aimed for 66% peak utilization, so any one of three datacenters could fail without affecting availability.
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by mbrubeck 18y ago
It's in Python rather than Ruby, but Infogami's ThingDB and its successor Infobase are distributed key-value stores built on top of PostgreSQL: http://pharos.infogami.com/tdb http://openlibrary.org/about/tech http://infogami.org/src/
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by mbrubeck 18y ago
I know you're right but I wish you weren't. Personally I'd much rather typed my credit card number into an https://amazon.com page than some random site I don't trust. But I'm sure that's not the way most people think about online payme
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by mbrubeck 18y ago
duplicate: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=592043

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