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by nwjsmith 14y ago
I didn't make it, be sure to give props to https://github.com/kien !
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Ctrl-P for Vim: Pure Vimscript Command-T(github.com)
196 points by nwjsmith 14y ago|95 comments
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by nwjsmith 15y ago
It's not just that the labour is cheap. The manufacturing in China is far more integrated and nimble than it is in America. China is winning on more than just price. See this article: http://www.nytimes.com/2012/01/22/business/apple-americ
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by nwjsmith 15y ago
> That's blatantly false. Every smartphone I owned going back to 2003 resembled the iPhone. Which phones?
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by nwjsmith 15y ago
Interesting that the offline assembler is written in Ruby. Does anyone know of any other Webkit work being done in the language?
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JRuby at Square - Presentation from Xavier Shay (YouTube)(youtube.com)
1 points by nwjsmith 15y ago|0 comments
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by nwjsmith 15y ago
Declaring node a 'giant' step backwards is a stretch. Callback spaghetti isn't the problem it set out to solve. It is meant to provide easy(-er?) concurrency. If you measure it against its goals, I think it's pretty good.
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by nwjsmith 15y ago
It's totally, completely and utterly relevant as a measure of Apple's prowess in _retail_.
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by nwjsmith 15y ago
I'm not that familiar with Scala, but the examples aren't very convincing. Why must `printf` be defined as a macro? Why not a plain old function? What are the benefits to the second example? The other thing that bothers me is the empty 'Use
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by nwjsmith 15y ago
Please don't use IDE for automated testing. As it says on the Selenium homepage ( http://seleniumhq.org ), use Webdriver for testing, and IDE for bug reproduction or exploratory testing.
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by nwjsmith 15y ago
Ask and you shall receive: http://codahale.com/how-to-safely-store-a-password/ (also explains _why_)
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For your iOS Beta Testers - What's my UDID?(whatsmyudid.com)
1 points by nwjsmith 15y ago|0 comments
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Building Polyglot (Scala/Erlang) Systems With Scalang(blog.boundary.com)
36 points by nwjsmith 15y ago|4 comments
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by nwjsmith 15y ago
"about every 20-30 minutes take a posture break and move for a couple of minutes" Sounds like an unintentional endorsement for the Pomodoro technique. Just get up on your break.
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How Clojure Solves the Expression Problem(ibm.com)
4 points by nwjsmith 15y ago|0 comments
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by nwjsmith 15y ago
The same argument for Google not funding FF could be made for Microsoft. Firefox has demolished Internet Explorer's market share over the years, and it's always been an important product for MS. Arguably more important than Bing (which cont
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by nwjsmith 15y ago
The project is only 10 days old (so, no). It looks promising though, especially as an alternative to RVM in development. I'm keen on installing something that doesn't take over my shell. I'm not going to lose sight of how awesome RVM is tho
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by nwjsmith 15y ago
I love the idea of the book being on Github (pull requests seem particularly suited). Are you going to have easily-downloadable drafts of the book though? or will I have to compile it?
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Backbone.js on Rails (a book by Thoughbot)(workshops.thoughtbot.com)
50 points by nwjsmith 15y ago|23 comments
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by nwjsmith 15y ago
A _why tweet? http://favstar.fm/users/_why/status/1640180235
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by nwjsmith 15y ago
A link to the slides: http://www.slideshare.net/KentBeck/software-g-forces
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Kent Beck talks about accelerating software delivery (video)(youtube.com)
8 points by nwjsmith 15y ago|1 comments
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Steve Job's keynote from WWDC '97(youtube.com)
1 points by nwjsmith 15y ago|0 comments
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by nwjsmith 15y ago
I'd be interested in hearing Jason Fried's take on this. Isn't he an advisor for Groupon?
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by nwjsmith 15y ago
I've been using `:Rinvert` in rails.vim to accomplish the same thing for the last couple of months. Extremely useful.
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by nwjsmith 15y ago
I think there might be a few service-people who would be disgusted at the use of the word 'war' for the App Store or AWS going down.
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Linking JSON representations in REST APIs(subbu.org)
1 points by nwjsmith 15y ago|0 comments
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My PUT Requests Bug Me(techno-weenie.net)
5 points by nwjsmith 15y ago|0 comments
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by nwjsmith 16y ago
I love the ring of "An exquisite..."
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by nwjsmith 16y ago
Does anyone know what mechanism Sony's app uses for book purchases? Is it all in-app? That seems a clear violation of the rules. The Kindle app doesn't work this way, all purchases are done through the browser. Until this is clarified (by S

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