rob_rasmussen

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by rob_rasmussen 12y ago
This list is from Rob's "Notes on Programming on C", written 25 years ago: http://doc.cat-v.org/bell_labs/pikestyle Worth reading for some context.
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by rob_rasmussen 15y ago
Austin, Texas - Onsite, full-time, will relocate. Spiceworks is hiring http://www.spiceworks.com/jobs/ We're mostly a Ruby shop. I'm a developer there and it's easily the best team I've worked with.
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The 4 requirements for a VC-backed CEO (reoverthinking.com)
2 points by rob_rasmussen 15y ago|0 comments
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Tom Brady's Guru(thepostgame.com)
2 points by rob_rasmussen 16y ago|0 comments
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by rob_rasmussen 16y ago
The three20 code has shuffled around a lot in the last 8 months or so, but if you look at the change log here http://github.com/facebook/three20/blob/master/CHANGES#L93 you can see that the maintainer, Jeff (who was a college student at t
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by rob_rasmussen 16y ago
I was there two years ago, and it was easily the best conference I've attended. Can't recommend it enough. What's the general atmosphere of the event? It's intense (lots of content), and no-nonsense. Every speaker had something valuable t
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Kindle and the Future of Reading(newyorker.com)
13 points by rob_rasmussen 17y ago|20 comments
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by rob_rasmussen 17y ago
There's a new api for shake gestures in 3.0, your firstResponder needs to implement motion[Began|Cancelled|Ended]:withEvent. Works fine in the simulator.
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Capital Factory Invests in Five Startups for 2009 Fund (capitalfactory.com)
2 points by rob_rasmussen 17y ago|0 comments
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Testy.rb - ruby testing that's mad at the world(drawohara.com)
3 points by rob_rasmussen 18y ago|0 comments
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by rob_rasmussen 18y ago
Great story, and also gave me a flash of insight: when considering people to work with, "Would I plan a bank heist with this person?" isn't a half bad question to ask. It implies complete trust both in the person and their ability to perfor
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Distinguishing constructive criticism from bad business advice(blog.asmartbear.com)
1 points by rob_rasmussen 18y ago|0 comments
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by rob_rasmussen 18y ago
That he gave Javascript another chance says more about him than his dismissal of it four years ago. However: The Python community is the frostiest on the planet. They're complete kneebiting buttheads to the last man. I try hard not to con
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by rob_rasmussen 18y ago
For a different perspective on Object#returning, (and Symbol#to_proc and friends), see http://wiki.merbivore.com/pages/it-is-a-bug-if merb is one of the best-written Ruby libraries I've seen, in large part because they're focused on avoid
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by rob_rasmussen 18y ago
Well said. Jack Sheridan's talk at startup school ( http://omnisio.com/startupschool08/jack-sheridan , a good talk that's not a sales pitch) was an eye-opener for me -- I've become much more disciplined about simply documenting agreements.
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by rob_rasmussen 18y ago
he said he cut and pasted code from other projects, so no way to know how much code he typed in that day.