nickbarnwell

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by nickbarnwell 16y ago
I can definitely see this being more convenient, and the way you've implemented it is certainly slick. I'd be more interested if it was offered as a service for image hosting/uploading that other sites could use rather than forcing everyone
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imgur is pretty close, and has a huge community (reddit) behind it.
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Disables all of the radios in the phone, and thus stops incoming messages
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>From what I understand they're not targeting die hard email users, they are targeting a much younger demographic, probably ideally around age 17 and heading off to University. This is correct. I am the only person I can think of in my
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Thus why most students aren't eating dinner at a half-decent restaurant. Certainly $29 a year is affordable, but that's also nearly two months of a 20GB Heroku DB addon or a month and a half of an MediaTemple GridServe instance. At the mome
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Facebook doesn't have to pay anyone for that to work. Same model as Foursquare, with a userbase orders of magnitude larger
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>Is Facebook any different? Network effect, and not much else. They have the userbase to persuade businesses to give better deals than 4sq or Gowalla, and that will in turn entice users to use it.
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and I started with Java at 11. What you learn on is irrelevant as long as the basic concepts are taught well. Neither Python nor Ruby are ideal for teaching pointers, but for explaining assignment, boolean logic, basic control flow, etc the
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by nickbarnwell 16y ago
Ruby's syntax is also far more opaque at first glance than Python's is. Ruby in my experience isn't any more concise than Python, and often falls into the same trap as Perl of having "more than one way to do it"
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by nickbarnwell 16y ago
This is one of the things that Play does well; setters and getters are generated for you at runtime so you only have to write it as: public Date submittedAt; and set/get it as you would any other variable. Easily one of my favorite things a
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Just found a reason to upgrade to 2.7...
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I just finished building an internal web application for my school entirely in Java. From start to finish it took about eight hours, roughly the same amount of time it would've taken in Python/Django or RoR, thanks to the Play Framework. Ja
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by nickbarnwell 16y ago
Au contraire, the back button behaves exactly as it should. It's not how users would expect it to function, but it does obey the stack.
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Neither is a particularly good idea. People find the current tools perfectly adequate, and as 3/4 of them tell me "I use the big E" or "the red fox" when asking what browser they're using, I doubt this is going to gain much traction.
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This is different than Flock (which was a failure) how?
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Exactly what these two said. I was reading through the copy and kept getting distracted by the slides scrolling down rather than up
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Check out if there's a Hackspace or something nearby (c.f: Copenhagen's is Labitat, which has weekly hackathons and that sort of thing)
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As someone who was in this exact situation themselves, having started a tiny IT firm at thirteen, the answers are: >Is it legal (at least in the US) to hire kids that young? No, it's not, at least from from the perspective of m
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by nickbarnwell 16y ago
Twilio is targeted towards developers, while this appears to be something I could point a less technical client to and say "Go to town!". As developers we often fail to take into account how much usability can effect product uptake, and the