mcmire

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by mcmire 14y ago
This doesn't bother me at all. Mostly because this feature comes from Ruby and so I'm already used to it, but also because it takes away the nasty surprise that JavaScript gives you if you leave 'var' out. I find this invaluable. As for kno
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by mcmire 14y ago
Well, I guess this makes the Oracle of Bacon obsolete. Wonder how those guys feel about this.
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by mcmire 14y ago
Read the blog post that this post links to first, as it goes into more depth. I like the idea of the "slow web". That author, Jack Cheng, is exactly right about how we consume services. In this day and age of real-time updates and so forth,
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by mcmire 14y ago
The article was a bit misguided to me. It's not about making the status bar black and rounding the corners. That isn't going to magically solve the problem the author tries to explain but doesn't really come through -- which is that if you
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by mcmire 14y ago
I kind of had the same thought too, as I walked through the Apple Store today and took a gander at some of the Retina MBP's. I thought: in as soon as 5 years, people are going to look at the pre-Retina MBP's and wonder, how did we ever live
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by mcmire 14y ago
The point of starring is to do what you probably wanted to do when you watched a project, which is bookmark it without it cluttering up your watch list. Personally I think the star feature is great -- now I don't have to use Codeshelver, wh
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by mcmire 14y ago
Well, Woz has a very interesting sense of "humor", that's for sure.
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by mcmire 14y ago
I think many programmers don't put an emphasis on design because they think it doesn't matter. They would rather get something done rather than make it look good. There is nothing wrong with this approach, but I would say the first step is
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by mcmire 14y ago
Oh, this is super cool, nice find. Yay for the internet!
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by mcmire 14y ago
I really really hope that Jolla takes off. It sounds like for a far too brief while, Maemo was the hacker's dream OS, which is pretty dang cool. It also sounds like the Nokia N9 was the first phone in which the beauty and usability of the d
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by mcmire 14y ago
Well, at least they've made some modifications to it so that it looks good.
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by mcmire 14y ago
For some reason I thought this blog was one of those futuristic fictional news sites, but I just realized it's more like future news today, and this is real. Yikes. That's pretty depressing that the company (or whoever actually made this) d
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by mcmire 14y ago
Wow, that's very neat, thanks.
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by mcmire 14y ago
Nice! I haven't read a whole lot of it yet, just the why and FAQ sections, but already it feels unlike your everyday programming book, which I think is refreshing. Also I like the stats next to each of the chapters in the TOC... you seem to
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by mcmire 14y ago
No. What the U.S. needs is NO coins. (Seriously, does ANYONE use coins anymore? It's either bills or a credit card for me.)
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by mcmire 14y ago
Sure, but does your consciousness comprise of both you's or just one?
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by mcmire 14y ago
I like that a lot. One thing I would say -- on a browser, it's not immediately clear that you can click on an article to expand it. I don't have an iPad, I've never used Flipboard, so I didn't know what to expect. I figured it out pretty fa
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by mcmire 14y ago
This is great, I admit the design is pleasing, but I gotta ask the obvious question here which is... what is wrong with Campfire or HipChat or the multitude other group chat apps that have sprung up in recent years? (not counting that Kanda
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by mcmire 14y ago
Sexy. I like.
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by mcmire 14y ago
I noticed that too. Sounds kinda weird and also kind of risky to me, but hey, whatever.
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by mcmire 14y ago
So right, I haven't tried writing anything serious in Vimscript, but the few times I tried it I was confused. At this point, it looks like someone took Lua, added a dash of Python, and then added "fixes" here and there because why the hell
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by mcmire 14y ago
> Written in pure Vimscript I'm so sorry :P In all seriousness, this looks like a good contender to Command-T judging by a cursory glance through the README. I'll have to give it a shot.
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by mcmire 14y ago
This is okay, but you talk about "cloning" objects by giving them a different variable name, then you talk about constructors, and then you VERY briefly mention the "prototype" property -- which is actually the secret behind it all. I feel
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by mcmire 14y ago
If you look at his archive, his other posts (at least the few ones that have words) are that way too. I guess it's a standard thing with him.
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by mcmire 14y ago
Woah, now that is minimal, I kinda like that.
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by mcmire 14y ago
I'm fine with more realistic graphics as long as that's not the whole point of the game (I'm looking at you, Skyrim). What I really have yet to see is AAA games put effort into making human behavior realistic (in real time, I mean, not in a
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by mcmire 15y ago
Nice site. I really appreciate that people are promoting better JavaScript practices these days. There can't be enough articles about that in my opinion -- there's still plenty of terrible JavaScript code out there. Keep up the good work.
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by mcmire 15y ago
A straightforward, understandable presentation to solve a really interesting problem. I like it.
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by mcmire 15y ago
I'll have to think of a use for this, but this definitely seems really interesting. I think working to make building web apps easier and faster is an awesome mission, so mad props to you guys, looking forward to see where this project goes.
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by mcmire 15y ago
Yeah well, some of us are horrendous at directions and sadly rely on GPS for everything, even to places we've been 30 times :P

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