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by n8agrin 17y ago
The one thing I'm surprised about is the external SSD for the 27" iMac. I can't see how it would be faster running the whole system through the Firewire bus. Here are some throughput benchmarks of SSD drives I found from OWC (a well known
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by n8agrin 17y ago
It's funny he notices the shit. I always notice all the Rosemary bushes in SF. Not implying anything just pointing out what I see.
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Unvarnished: A Clean, Well-Lighted Place For Defamation(techcrunch.com)
17 points by n8agrin 17y ago|25 comments
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by n8agrin 17y ago
Perhaps try to contribute your work to improve their project? Too bad it doesn't look like they're sharing their source control.
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by n8agrin 17y ago
I wish I could just skip through the slides and look at the code samples. The talk is completely video based.
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by n8agrin 17y ago
Awesome and thank you for the relevant links!
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by n8agrin 17y ago
A few people have already commented that Sinatra is great for quick small projects. One person has mentioned that they prefer it for larger projects. My knee-jerk reaction to Sinatra for the last year has been that it would be fun for bui
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by n8agrin 17y ago
I don't understand why you interpret my statements as absolutes. For example I said: "In other words, his business is literally priceless in his mind because it gives his life meaning..." I did not say "...it is the only thing in DHH's lif
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by n8agrin 17y ago
I actually think it was a fair point and an interesting one worth pressing on. It's an compelling question to me because it asks what it means to maximize profit, which is typically given as the foundation of business (I believe DHH actuall
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by n8agrin 17y ago
I make no effort to argue that there is a dichotomy of either "continuous rewarding work" or "big pile of cash". I don't even imply that. In fact I think it would be hard to argue that DHH doesn't have a big pile of cash, at least when pu
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by n8agrin 17y ago
I think both of them are making decent points. I don't understand the community's desire to have one of them win or "rip apart" the other. Seems just like a well balanced debate to me. Calacanis seems focused on DHH's interest in having com
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by n8agrin 17y ago
Browser competition is a good thing. If Microsoft released the fastest standards compliant browser and became the industry leader (from a standars perspective) tomorrow I would be happy. I don't care what OS you run on your computer or wh
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by n8agrin 17y ago
But it should support SVG. I'm not convinced canvas is the greatest in-browser rendering option for many of the things web devs want to do anyhow like click handlers and simple animations. There is a reason why many browser-based vis libr
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by n8agrin 17y ago
I could not agree more. I work daily with xml encoded apis and it's never a simple task to parse and normalize data. JSON on the other hand gives you normalized types out of the box. Very handy.
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Youtube's new UI design (link is to the Tron trailer)(youtube.com)
1 points by n8agrin 17y ago|0 comments
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by n8agrin 17y ago
The cup is either half empty or half full. You can look at this list as a list of oversaturated markets or as a list of markets that have produced some great innovation and probably will continue to do so in the future. Hell, take Mint for
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by n8agrin 17y ago
Does the nature know about and use quantum effects more than we do? [sic] Yes. Also the last paragraph is interesting. From another scientist: "Based on past experience, I predict this work will be misrepresented by those who desperately
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by n8agrin 17y ago
The growing body of Javascript code also means Javascript needs more than just those 16 objects. I don't know, I don't disagree with the sentiment that the standard lib is pretty bare, but I also think that's the beauty of JS. Also, ther
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by n8agrin 17y ago
1) The author is criticizing an unreleased product. 2) The author points out that some current "interactive components" available in a mouse-dominated world won't work in a touch based paradigm and labels these UI paradoxes. These include
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by n8agrin 17y ago
It doesn't scroll, you're not doing it wrong. It's kind of an interesting design idea, but my first instinct is that it's frustrating more than useful. Let me at least scroll using my mouse or my keys in a way similar with other web sites
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by n8agrin 17y ago
Now that is cool and a valid opinion on the "good parts" of Java. FWIW, I know at least one ActionScript coder who has a hard time going back to coding in Javascript because of its lack of a type system (even though they are both very loos
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by n8agrin 17y ago
Here's my problem with Java. No one ever talks about the language, and what makes the language so great. No one ever writes articles stating something like "Look this is why loops are so _cool_ in Java." Everyone in the Java world seems
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by n8agrin 17y ago
I believe it was in "Outliers" Malcolm Gladwell claimed that airplane accidents are often the cause of several critical failures, not just one. It would be interesting to find out if that theory holds true in this case, as you seem to be hy
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by n8agrin 17y ago
I'm going to admit I only skimmed the article; you have to be a fairly prominent author for me to take you seriously and actualy read your whole post when writing a blog post titled "Screw Google." But that said this person has their cause
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by n8agrin 17y ago
I'm not claiming you're making this up, and I did say I'm not a lawyer and the asker should check their own state laws, but since you object, I'd appreciate for everyone's sake if you provided some proof of precedence backing up your claim.
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by n8agrin 17y ago
Again agree. I'll just add (again my opinion only) that I'm on the fence about the whole app store thing. I think if Apple had, at release, provided a comprehensive Javascript API that really allowed for very low level functionality on th
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by n8agrin 17y ago
+1. And likely if you live in another state this would not be upheld, especially if you were building something wholly unrelated to your employer's product / service. I'm no lawyer though, so do some research regarding your state's labor la
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by n8agrin 17y ago
I agree with your premise. One thing I would add though, at least in my opinion, is that the iPad will likely be word of mouth experience. What I mean is that one of your friends will get an iPad, you'll use it and eventually you might see
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by n8agrin 17y ago
A minor observation, but I appreciate how they show the user highlighting text in one of their search results for truffles. Having done some usability work and watched users work on their computers, highlighting what is being read is such a
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by n8agrin 17y ago
Thank you, you are the only poster yet that seems to get it. I agree, the point of git is that you already have your entire repo. Who cares if your remote host is down? Deploy using your branch and when github (or whatever) comes back up yo

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