msluyter

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   by msluyter 15y ago

   Addictive for about 40 seconds. I was like "GO GREEN! GREEN! GREEN! GREEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEN!!!!" and then realized it was futile. Neat though!
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   by msluyter 15y ago

   I went to the ember.js home page, which looks a lot nicer than parent article. Looks pretty cool. Anyone have any input how this compares to backbone or knockout?
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   by msluyter 15y ago

   You can’t script imagining, so it forces them away from the script and toward considering the question from scratch. You can't script imaginging , but you can script your answer to this question... I think it's a reasonable question. I m
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   by msluyter 15y ago

   So, as someone who works at a giant drone-filled corporation, my guess is that the answer to your question is no. My experience, based on the state of our own codebase, is that mediocre programmers tend to write code that's brittle, unmaint
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   by msluyter 15y ago

   For a quick overview of the pedagogical significance of tau, compare figures 6, 7, and 8. I learned figure 6 in high school trig, but by "learn" I mean I basically memorized it without a deep understanding of what was going on. Figures 7 &#
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   by msluyter 15y ago

   Toastmasters is quite helpful for this. I did it for a while and highly recommend it. It's also a great way to practice social skills, generally.
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   by msluyter 15y ago

   I think this tutorial is a treasure. It's a great introduction to the entire rails ecosystem, including TDD, git, heroku, and the like. I went through the 3.0 version a while ago, but so slowly (as in, a chapter every couple of weeks) that
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   by msluyter 15y ago

   I'm also pretty old, relatively speaking, but I think of myself as young programmer because I started somewhat later in life. Early in my career I made the mistake (for me) of going into software testing and I found myself pretty bored and
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   by msluyter 15y ago

   My girlfriend (a lawyer) tells me that if I ever need a lawyer I should get the most expensive one I can afford, because price does roughly reflect quality. And, I'd note that we have little else to go on. After all, we can't discern the qu
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    by msluyter 15y ago

    Related question: I've been wanting to find a small (ruby/rails) project to get involved in. Github gives you a nice view of large/active projects, but it's sort of hard to find something that is smaller and (in theory) easier to get up to
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    by msluyter 15y ago

    Or, as my German teacher used to say, "if the i does the walking, the e does the talking (and vice versa.)"
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    by msluyter 15y ago

    I worked with expect (tcl based automation tool) for a while back in the 90's and while I really liked expect for what it could accomplish, tcl itself annoyed me. I can't really articulate why (perhaps just the overwhelming prevalence of {}
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    by msluyter 15y ago

    Michael Scott: I want you, to meet my family. Come on. Oscar Martinez, accountant extraordinare, this is Justin. This is Darryl Philbin. Isn't he big? And you already met her, Pam Beesly, office hottie. Being reminded of an episode from T
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    by msluyter 15y ago

    This resembles a fee based Anki with prebuilt decks. For those of you who are unfamiliar with Anki, I highly recommend it as a free -- for web & desktop clients, though the iOS app is pricey -- alternative to the above. It also uses a s
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    by msluyter 15y ago

    I suspect you're getting downvoted because your suggestion suffers from the free-rider problem: everyone who chooses to continue shopping at Carrefour free rides off those who don't, yet they still obtain any supposed social benefits.
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    by msluyter 15y ago

    I like this analogy, and it applies to a number of projects I've been involved with. On the other hand, at work I also encounter change requests that are basically repeats of existing projects with slight modifications, and/or changes to we
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    Matt Glassman on the anti-SOPA outages(mattglassman.com)

    2 points by msluyter 15y ago|0 comments
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    by msluyter 15y ago

    Another example of the remarkable prescience of Neal Stephenson's Snow Crash .
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    by msluyter 15y ago

    I've ended up a generalist (mostly by accident) and recently noticed a fairly serious downside: because I tend to move from project to project, technology to technology, I often forget what I've learned, due to lack of re-enforcement. Furth
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    by msluyter 15y ago

    I tried getting rails working under cygwin a while ago, and never had much luck. If you're using a windows system, my suggestions would be either to use Rails Installer: http://railsinstaller.org/ (haven't actually tried this myself, but
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    by msluyter 15y ago

    I'm curious; if Verizon was just a bit more patient, they might have tried, say, a .25$ fee first, and then just gradually increased it over time. I suspect nobody would have noticed in that case. Insert boiling frog analogy.
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    by msluyter 15y ago

    I think Alamo Drafthouse in Austin is doing it right: 1. Food & beer/wine served with movie -- convenient and much preferable to overpriced popcorn. 2. Cellphones must be turned off. 3. They take talking seriously, and preface each film
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    by msluyter 15y ago

    Nice, but isn't Steve Jobs something of a statistical outlier due to his recent death? Also, I'd be curious to see the results after common words like "my, I, do, etc.." were removed.
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    by msluyter 15y ago

    Does anybody actually use Foursquare? My prediction, probably for some time after 2012 but sooner than we might expect, is that in reaction to the prevalence of social networking and sharing apps, the hot trend will be privacy apps that hi
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    by msluyter 15y ago

    I created an account in order to sign this, but when I try to sign in I get a 404 -- using Chrome. Anyone else get that?
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    by msluyter 15y ago

    Nice post from Felix Salmon on the topic: http://blogs.reuters.com/felix-salmon/2011/12/15/do-any-real... He makes the point that virtually no average citizens support this (either they're against it or they don't know anything about it.)
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    by msluyter 15y ago

    I just downloaded WindowsPad and it seems pretty useful, esp if you have several monitors.
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    by msluyter 15y ago

    When you think about it, for any any Scrabble-like game to be played competitively, it'll ultimately have to have a codified word list. (Every word needs to be judged as legal or illegal.) Make that list too small and confined to "normal" v
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    by msluyter 15y ago

    Note: apparently he's using the SOWPODS (combined british & north american) 2 letter words. The tournament word list used in north america only contains 101 2 letter words: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Official_Tournament_and_Club_Wo..
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    by msluyter 15y ago

    I love the fact that the software engineers basically deliver UML diagrams to the coders. I'd shoot myself if that were all there was to my job.