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by mcav 14y ago
Christ, commenters, lighten up. Not every emotional blog post is a heartless grab for attention. If you don't like it, just ignore it and go do something else. Don't punch the guy just for the hell of it.
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by mcav 14y ago
And yet, here we are, with OAuth still a complex behemoth and everyone doing login with Facebook, Twitter, or a poorly-implemented homegrown login system.
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by mcav 14y ago
I think it's inevitable that twitter will one say shut off all third-party access. I work on a service now that uses twitter, and I fully expect it to be removed soon.
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by mcav 14y ago
Apple stopped the Kindle app from linking to the amazon bookstore. That's as close to war as you can get.
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by mcav 14y ago
Above JSON: Sets, keywords, integer type, hashmaps in which the key doesn't have to be a string, extensible data types (most of which jacobolus points out as well)
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by mcav 14y ago
Back when I used textmate a year or two ago, it would crash and hang frequently, especially when dealing with large files or folders.
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by mcav 14y ago
If this were a Kickstarter, I'd buy the top package. This is something I've wanted for a long while. Good luck!
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by mcav 14y ago
* trying to use M-q (fill-paragraph) and killing the app.
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The future for digital storage is constant migration(metafilter.com)
1 points by mcav 14y ago|0 comments
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by mcav 14y ago
It'd be great if the editors wouldn't feel the need to change the title to every submission here.
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by mcav 14y ago
This has already happened. Someone should start something new, ideally a smaller, more focused crowd.
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by mcav 14y ago
As an app developer myself, I never said that it was good review :-)
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by mcav 14y ago
Yes, they have human reviewers launch the app and tap around a bit, in addition to automated code analysis.
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by mcav 14y ago
In fairness, a more accurate analogy would be a poor football player criticizing better ones.
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by mcav 14y ago
Even as a functional programmer, I'd be OK with separating out comment functionality into a separate file, class or not. This code seems fine to me.
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by mcav 14y ago
I've hijacked a couple of components at Game Closure in Clojure, much to the chagrin of our CTO. (Just kidding, kinda.) For the places we've used it, Clojure has worked wonderfully. The only disadvantage is that few engineers know it, and f
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by mcav 14y ago
It's been like this for a long time. It's by far the least transparent moderation in a community I've ever seen. For a long time I thought of HN as a generally smart, reasonable community (less so these days with the masses here) but the co
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by mcav 14y ago
It's more about shipping good things than just shipping. Honing your craft helps you better distinguish good from bad.
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by mcav 14y ago
What does PageRank have to do with HN articles? Also, people write whatever the hell they want on their own site. That's the point. They can't stop people from submitting links here, wanted or not. In theory, if enough people don't like it,
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by mcav 14y ago
for those wondering, Gall's Law is: > "A complex system that works is invariably found to have evolved from a simple system that worked. The inverse proposition also appears to be true: A complex system designed from scratch never works
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by mcav 14y ago
As someone who worked in the building at a startup a few months ago, the answer is no: most are gone by 5pm, all by 8pm.
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by mcav 14y ago
(which any competent parser would handle just fine.)
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by mcav 14y ago
If you don't parse the metadata, it doesn't matter whether it's in JSON or in a comment. You lose the intended meaning either way.
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by mcav 14y ago
And so instead, people embed parsing directives in the JSON itself.
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Demons(mcav.com)
1 points by mcav 14y ago|0 comments
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by mcav 15y ago
Red herring. Node can increase productivity as well. It's all about your requirements and workflow.
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by mcav 15y ago
Look for "nailgun", which prewarms the jvm. Also, in the interim, clojurescript->nodejs looks promising.
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by mcav 15y ago
Yes. Or require someone to verify a github account with original work or something.
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by mcav 15y ago
In a small community where people collectively want to foster good discussion, comments can succeed for a while. I think it's impossible to sustain that if the community grows or if they lose their focus. No community I've ever seen, apart
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by mcav 15y ago
I recently found a jailbreak-only dvorak keyboard addon which worked pretty well.

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