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by pswenson 13y ago
you don't sync them by hand. ever heard of ruby gems, maven, gradle, npm? these assets are all versioned and available via http. these assets can be referenced by many other systems, not just your source repo.
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by pswenson 13y ago
>the sanity of access control? only at a directory level, git has it at a repo level. >Great, so now the code and the assets going with the code, both being used to build the product, are completely out of sync and essentially unsynca
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by pswenson 13y ago
also, you can sync to a subdirectory in SVN - not git. 1) yeah, although I question the sanity of doing this. 2) is this related to #3? 3) yes, but IMO VCS should be used for source files (mostly). large assets should go in an artifact repo
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by pswenson 13y ago
threads don't have to be more difficult. check out actors. Meteor seems to think threads are the way to go (Fibers)
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by pswenson 13y ago
don't forget poverty in the 1920s is way different than poverty in 2014. getting the basic needs like shelter, food, water, heat are a lot easier to come by these days (many government services). And many of the poor have TVs (cable e
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by pswenson 13y ago
sprawl doesn't scale and isn't healthy. it's bad for everyone: takes the wealth out of the cities - which means bad schools in the cities. it leads to segregation. It wastes massive amounts of time/energy commuting. It m
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by pswenson 13y ago
I've noticed every country I visit thinks walking down the street in the US is a dangerous activity, getting assaulted is routine, murders are common, etc. fact is, violent crime is way down since the 1990s. Not saying current levels
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by pswenson 13y ago
the answer to applet security problems is HTML5
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by pswenson 13y ago
I agree with you. yeah, there are some new APIs in nio Files that you weren't aware of. But now you have to know go to Files for the "Good API" instead of the old "File" API. Bow to the Gods of backwards compatibi
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by pswenson 13y ago
IMO jira is quite clunky actually. It's interesting to contrast Atlassian's new product (Stash) with its excellent UI to the older products (confluence/jira) which feel slow, awkward, and clunky in comparison. Youtrack destro
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by pswenson 13y ago
appl had ~$160B in cash as of their earning report last week: http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2014-01-28/apple-s-160-billion...
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by pswenson 13y ago
I think there is some truth to the article, but not that much. Yeah, 5" devices are a nice size and make people somewhat less likely to reach for their tablet when reading. But is a 5" screen going to replace a textbook? or a ma
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by pswenson 13y ago
Not sure I follow this comment. But anything non-trivial needs some sort of scripting. Take ant for example, it started out as a pure declarative build system that worked ok for simple things. Then complexity reared its ugly head - neede
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by pswenson 13y ago
Awfully late to displace iOS/Android
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by pswenson 13y ago
which ideas are dumb and why? btw being a jerk doesn't help your case. lesson in civil discourse by example: "I don't think that a ||= operator is a good idea because XXX"
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by pswenson 13y ago
look at Rust btw. Statically typed, but heavily influenced by the scripting languages. You should set them straight!
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by pswenson 13y ago
This attitude is why java is stuck in the stone ages. Any ideas coming from the dynamically typed world are "dumb".
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by pswenson 13y ago
kotlin looks cool. But it's missing some minor things that would make it much more friendly: * no regex literals * a little verbose(instead of [] for arrays, it's "Arrays") * hashes IMO should be JSON * why doesn't
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by pswenson 13y ago
Mirah has almost zero usage, and it seems very little development is going on there. I'm on the Mirah google group and there have been 5 posts since October. I love the idea, but it seems few are interested....
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by pswenson 13y ago
"C# - C# is replacing Java as the OO language of choice for big enterprise systems." C# is held back by windows. I know there is mono, but enterprises aren't going to bet on mono. So I have to disagree with that.
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by pswenson 13y ago
I think pairing is useful some of the time (esp for debugging, code reviews) in a world trending more and more to flexible hours and remote work, I don't see any way doing it all the time will work.
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by pswenson 13y ago
Yep, this is true. But the trend is in the right direction. Judging by the media though, you'd think you'd be at significant danger of getting shot every time you leave the house.
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by pswenson 13y ago
just a few facts: Canada has more public debt than the US by percentage of GDP: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_public_deb... And Canada has a lower GDP growth rate. Unemployment rate is about the s
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by pswenson 13y ago
you are defending this insanity? did you read the link?
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by pswenson 13y ago
insanity. I don't understand how many of these cases aren't cruel and unusual punishment
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by pswenson 13y ago
what is the data format FB stores? (xml/json/?)
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by pswenson 13y ago
ever try windows with hi-dpi? I did about a year ago, surprisingly flakey. has the situation improved?
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by pswenson 13y ago
I love it when people throw in "clearly" to their claim. Despite your claim - it isn't "clearly irrelevant". if their market share is so tiny, why is anyone reading this story on HN? in the US, iOS isn't irrel
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by pswenson 13y ago
read again, it wasn't Jobs' birthday party. "One of the people who was building Microsoft's tablet was friendly with Jobs' wife, Laurene Powell. He asked Jobs and Powell to come to his fiftieth birthday party."
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by pswenson 13y ago
IJ's mac settings are absurd. But you can change the settings to whatever you like. I've synched up my keystrokes from IntelliJ/RubyMine/AppCode and Sublime Text 2.

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