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by ollysb 12y ago
Insync[1] does a good job of solving this, the google docs files are the microsoft equivalent, e.g. spreadsheets sync as excel files (note I'm not affiliated in any way). [1] https://www.insynchq.com/
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by ollysb 12y ago
Wow, they've been building up to this one for I think years. Very happy to see it. Having a real-time* filesystem available is going to great for not only the big projects like web hosting but I can imagine a ton of little in house too
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by ollysb 12y ago
This is one of the most abhorrent ideas I've read about in quite a while. To call an addict's decision to do this "voluntary" is disingenuous to say the least.
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by ollysb 12y ago
I can understand limiting access, but it seems a bit dumb to only show demos to registered users.
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by ollysb 12y ago
How do you access the demos on https://famo.us ? I've signed up for an account but still can't get access.
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by ollysb 12y ago
There's some great little improvements in there, to_h, required keywords and being able to decorate methods are all things that I regularly want. They're really making good on their philosophy of optimising for developer happiness
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by ollysb 12y ago
A mistep with urls is that they're encoded when shown in the address bar. If spaces etc were just shown as is they'd instantly become more readable. Given that possibility you might find that developers drop a lot of the noise lik
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by ollysb 12y ago
Maybe the store will drive to you ;)
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by ollysb 12y ago
The rental market in London is pretty ferocious. I don't think comments could work because you'd always run the risk that somebody has decided they like a place and want out off other people from looking. In the end you'd sti
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by ollysb 13y ago
The whole idea of closing questions seems rather odd, if a question isn't useful then no-one is going to look at that page, no problem. I think the majority of people end up on stackoverflow pages from google anyway and google is more
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by ollysb 13y ago
In how many countries is the latest series of Game of Thrones available for purchase? In how many countries are people watching the latest Game of Throne series? There's a huge gap. Content providers matching their sales model to viewi
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by ollysb 13y ago
I think that would be the majority actually, the list may be a lot longer but the only ones I've been able to confirm are USA, UK, and Canada (perhaps someone could fill me in).
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by ollysb 13y ago
Just in case you haven't seen it, http://bohemiancoding.com/sketch/whats-new/
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by ollysb 13y ago
I had a play with express/node a whole back but found it quite low level (useful in some cases). Is there anything closer to rails in node or is there a preference for piecing everything together with libraries?
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by ollysb 13y ago
"Large portion of the planet"... you've got North America, South America(some exceptions), Europe, a good chunk of Asia and Australasia. That's a pretty reasonable selection of places to live isn't it?
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by ollysb 13y ago
As a developer you can live anywhere that has a decent internet connection. That's a pretty large portion of the planet these days...
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by ollysb 13y ago
I've got a low traffic project I'm working on at the moment that uses pouchdb as an offline data store for a tablet app. I'm currently playing with implementing the couchdb protocol in rails. It seemed like a crazy idea to st
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by ollysb 13y ago
Couchdb lets you listen to changes[1], if you want to do anything in addition to the basic CRUD you can do it there. This does limit you to performing asynchronous operations but most of the time that's good enough. You do still end up
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by ollysb 13y ago
Given that a large part of most degrees is pretty irrelevant to the student's future career 3 years seems plenty. If you're going to be an academic you can just do a masters or get on with your PHD.
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by ollysb 13y ago
C# is basically Microsoft's version of java. As you already know that java isn't going to be very interesting.
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by ollysb 13y ago
That map does seem pretty useful, it's certainly easier to figure out if it's quicker to walk somewhere(sometimes what looks like a long route on the tube can actually be a 10/15 min walk). Bear in mind that there's far
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by ollysb 13y ago
Why not just add a new class which is instantiated and called inside the perform method? There are valid reasons for not choosing class methods but claiming it limits the way in which you implement a method is just nonsense.
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by ollysb 13y ago
I think it's safe to say they're pretty useful for artists and photographers to show collections of their work.
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by ollysb 13y ago
>> are prone to violent overreaction. That's not true of every country though, it's certainly not the case in the UK. Here the police do act as your friends, they make a lot of effort to talk to the general public, both on t
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by ollysb 13y ago
The HN lens has certainly been showing the US police force in a bad light over the last year or so. What are the origins of this strange behaviour? Why is force regularly used against people that verbally query the police? Even the army is
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by ollysb 13y ago
Is bail consistently repaid after the trial?
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by ollysb 13y ago
Isn't this how smalltalk worked?
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by ollysb 13y ago
No one in government is going to stop printing documents any time soon. Abandoning printing might be the most efficient solution but it's also the most disruptive solution. His solution is elegant in that it would receive little in the
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by ollysb 13y ago
The theme I'm seeing in this series is a desire to add a layer between controllers and the domain. This new layer seems closer to the controller than the domain (it always acts upon the domain) so are you not simpler making the control
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by ollysb 13y ago
I used to work on a CMS in the telecoms sector. We found the authors absolutely hated using online editors and much prefered word. We decided to use WebDAV to let them directly edit articles in word. They were able to hit save in word, refr

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