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by qaexl 15y ago
I think you're underestimating the effects of Murphy's Law. Ah well, necessity is the mother of invention.
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by qaexl 15y ago
I have both Slicehost and Rackspace Cloud servers. I'm hoping they bring in more features from the Slicehost control panel, and the migrations will be nothing more than moving images around on their backend (Yeah, right). One big thing miss
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by qaexl 15y ago
Agreed. T-mobile is awesome. Their customer service is all right, the last time I had to call them up years ago. If the merger goes through, I'll be jumping ship. Some of AT&T arguments on how much T-mobile suck is absurd.
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by qaexl 16y ago
Wouldn't that just mean that parents would add some imaginative play with their own kids? What do you think about this? http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20100311190247AA...
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by qaexl 16y ago
How's that Socrates championed these ideas on success? I'm curious. I never studied Socrates in detail and the closest I've come are hodgepodge collection of folklore. Do you have any quotes or references?
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by qaexl 16y ago
Agreed, Black Swan and all. I have two friends who have experience with Montessori, and like you, I'll put together funds to get my future kids in there some day. One of my friends is an Aikidoka. He had started hanging out with some folks
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by qaexl 16y ago
If you're going with Fat Models and Thin Controllers, then the controller shouldn't be doing anything more than something standardized. You can probably reduce that code down to using inherited_resources (though with Rails 3, it's just as e
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by qaexl 16y ago
I did the same thing until Rails 3 came out -- skipping controller and view tests completely. Now I do Rack-level tests, at least for the non-HTML endpoints. If they are using standard REST conventions, they are even easier to test. I send
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by qaexl 16y ago
Sometimes you pay it forward, but sometimes you pay it back.
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by qaexl 16y ago
The point of arguing, according to "Thank You for Arguing" and rhetorics, is to persuade and be persuaded to take some sort of action. The article described fighting, not arguing. Platonic dialectic is related yet different, but I can see h
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by qaexl 16y ago
http://xkcd.com/182/
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by qaexl 16y ago
See Boyd's work on OODA or ask a Go/Chess person about tempo.
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by qaexl 16y ago
With their concept of "free-standing services" for each endpoint, it sounds like they took the idea of CGI scripts and compile the logic against an HTTP wrapper. It -could- work if the build process spits out separate binaries from a single
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by qaexl 16y ago
There are some things I'd want to see in Rackspace Cloud (being able to add subordinate accounts for billing and systems management), but yeah, all my new stuff has been on Rackspace.
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by qaexl 16y ago
Xmerge looks great. Too bad I'm on git.
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by qaexl 16y ago
So that isn't quite the same as Meld's left-, right- and center panels where the center is whatever output you want saved.
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by qaexl 16y ago
I would like to at least know what I'm getting in trade for allowing the app to know my location. As it is, I load the site, it displays a blank page with a weird icon on the left, and it immediately asks for the location ... and I have not
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by qaexl 16y ago
Does Diffuse have three-panel merge?
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by qaexl 16y ago
Meld is the only tool I know of that shows a 3-panel merge. That's the killer feature for me. Now, if there were an OSX-native app that does 3-panel merges, I'd gladly switch off of Meld.
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by qaexl 16y ago
My first thought reading the article was that his prediction in 1996 was wrong. Then I realized that most of my work now is on desktops, specifically related to development work on the command line. That's not a mainstream use-case. I build
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by qaexl 16y ago
Wow. Hacker News ate my text. Let's try this again. Steve Blank wrote an article http://steveblank.com/2010/11/24/when-its-darkest-men-see-th... on why the traditional barriers of entry for businesses, particularly Internet-based business
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by qaexl 16y ago
Steve Blank wrote an article http://steveblank.com/2010/11/24/when-its-darkest-men-see-th... on why the traditional barriers of entry for businesses, particularly Internet-based businesses, are -simultaneously- falling down ... at the sam
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by qaexl 16y ago
I am very interested in that "database dag". If it works the way I think it does, I think it will be far more significant than the source control part of the product. For example, I'd like to be able to put together a decentralized knowledg
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by qaexl 16y ago
I also think the upward trend for Objective-C more interesting than the slight downward trend for Ruby, and I doubt it has anything to do with the inherent advantages of its syntax.
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by qaexl 16y ago
Tangent, something I wrote a couple months ago: http://hosheng.blogspot.com/2010/02/intangible-assets-and-su...
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by qaexl 17y ago
I think a better of thinking about this is that, sometimes, evolutionary processes falls into a local maxima or a local minima. There is a trick in the wording of, “The better adapted you are, the less adaptable you tend to be”, since “adap
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by qaexl 17y ago
Really. How so? (No sarcasm, I'm curious).
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by qaexl 17y ago
I downloaded the SICP course and I'm working my way through it. Had a sort of mini-enlightenment on the first lecture. Related to that is breaking out the Schuam's outline on Calculus and really nailing it instead of making do the way I did
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by qaexl 17y ago
OT: That was interesting, watching Google Docs report anonymous users logging in to read the document.
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by qaexl 17y ago
Ha I see. In other applications, this is the "hook", the elevator pitch. Or the quick bio when networking that gets people coming back to hear the story. I'm not quite sure how this applies to the "startup story".

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