nuclearsandwich

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by nuclearsandwich 15y ago
Check out Noisebridge, a primarily hardware oriented hackerspace. The general fantasticness of whoever is there when you show up will blow your mind.
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by nuclearsandwich 15y ago
TryRuby.org and Why's Poignant Guide to Ruby are good foundations for Ruby. Then RailsForZombies.com is a completely browser based interactive tutorial for Ruby on Rails, from there I too would recommend the Rails Tutorial which just got a
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The Caustic Contractor and the Skittish Startup(opensesamelabs.posterous.com)
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by nuclearsandwich 15y ago
self reply. Did HN ever parse markdown or am I delusional?
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by nuclearsandwich 15y ago
Reason #1 to root and jailbreak anything: If you can't open it then you don't really own it. You have to make things yours or companies will continue to lease you their products for outrageous sums of money. So do it for justice. Plus all t
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by nuclearsandwich 15y ago
I use [Archlinux][Arch] everywhere on production servers at work and at home. [Arch]: http://archlinux.org At work we use Arch for the following reasons * It's simple. Using Arch is dead easy compared to Debian, Ubuntu, and Slackware (my o
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by nuclearsandwich 15y ago
To each's own. But you will pry my ThinkPad running Archlinux from my cold dead hands and the first eight of you to try will be bludgeoned to death with it. The ninth will have a perfectly functional, if cracked, laptop.
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by nuclearsandwich 15y ago
tl;dr: Don't take security advice from organizations whose job is spying on you. I don't know about anyone else. But the NSA is one of the last organizations I'd let give me security advice. I wouldn't put it past them to purposefully omit
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Using sets to solve difficult decision problems(mysqlperformanceblog.com)
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by nuclearsandwich 15y ago
* As much of an asshole as Orson Scott Card turned out to be, both Ender's Game and Ender's Shadow are great works of fiction which have the added bonus of showing you what creative thinking is like and why children are so good at it. * Any
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by nuclearsandwich 15y ago
The first step is to identify a problem. Find some pain point in your life and try to address it using Ruby. Some of these may crash and burn but you'll learn a lot from each one.
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RVM for Pythonistas, virtualenv for Rubyists(gillesfabio.com)
9 points by nuclearsandwich 15y ago|1 comments
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by nuclearsandwich 15y ago
I ordered one! For a robot that can run around and talk $100 isn't bad at all. Only thing that weirds me out is the constant tethered power source. But I'm sure that can be hacked around if it hasn't been already.
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by nuclearsandwich 16y ago
In which language should I build my webapp? Feel free to mod me down, but lately ending sentences with prepositions has become nails on a chalkboard in my mind. Yes, I know that avoiding this makes everyone sound like Victorian gentlemen, I
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by nuclearsandwich 16y ago
I find the beta group to be really good for WakeMate. There is always the risk of new bugs as well as new features. If you're super super fussed about your data, I'd say stay away but it's rare to see a regression. Big issue for me was it w
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by nuclearsandwich 16y ago
In earlier days, it was really easy to kill the Wakemate app by opening a bunch of other apps and then Android would kindly unload it from memory. The dev (There's only one between Android and BlackBerry) has fixed this in recent betas and,
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by nuclearsandwich 16y ago
I experienced all those same issues. I don't really care about my sleep score as I'm just in it to abuse my body into giving me more coding hours. Autosuggesting tags is but a feature request and some developer attention away. As far as ta
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by nuclearsandwich 16y ago
It seems really difficult to offer a compelling software engineering program. Computer Science has a lot of history and theory that is well suited to classrooms and professors. A software engineering program would have to be constantly (at
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by nuclearsandwich 16y ago
Check out status.net and the most popular instance of it: identi.ca, the web ui isn't pretty but a refresh is coming with the 1.0 release and I use a CLI client to connect to it anyway. the worst thing about it is that it maintains API comp
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by nuclearsandwich 16y ago
I voted lighthouse because that's what we use at Nowmov but for personal projects I use [Bugs Everywhere]( http://bugseverywhere.org ) It's a simple command line tool that syncs to a file in your software's repo. Simple + Portable = LOVE.
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by nuclearsandwich 16y ago
w3schools is not affiliated with the w3c and often has subtly incorrect information [See here]( http://w3fools.com ). My preferred resource on the subject is the [Mozilla Developer Network]( https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs )
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by nuclearsandwich 16y ago
I love to do the dishes. Does this make me a natural born leader? In seriousness though I feel like the best way to manage in situations of ambiguously shared responsibility is not to be afraid of getting stuck with it because the slackers