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by rudd 16y ago
I won't agree that it looks dumpy, but it certainly doesn't look modern, or in any way similar to the Googleplex. Of course, that's nearly everything in New York. Many think that's a plus...
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by rudd 16y ago
To be honest I had the same problem, but did eventually scroll. I think my initial hesitation to scroll was because the top of the page looked so much like it could be an entire landing page, with prominent twitter, facebook, and email link
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by rudd 16y ago
Well, they can't really say so clearly exactly what they did. In an effort to stop people from gaming it, they keep their exact algorithm hidden. When people get around it, they tweak it further, in an endless cycle. My guess is that their
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by rudd 16y ago
I don't get why I'd want to use virtualenv if my production servers allow global package installation. Ideally my Python deployment should be the only thing running on the server, right? In that case, having a virtualenv seems like overkill
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by rudd 16y ago
The truth isn't that you don't need a teacher. You may be able to learn everything from a book or solitary practice, like yourself. But others probably can do that sometimes, may sometimes need a teacher, may sometimes need to discuss with
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by rudd 16y ago
My mistake. When I checked after their announcement yesterday they had not updated their store page ( http://www.sencha.com/store/touch/ ). Also, their license was a bit confusing to me, and I thought it was only free for those who wished t
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by rudd 16y ago
Still costs money if you want to use it for commercial applications, no?
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What Java is Missing(ruddzw.com)
2 points by rudd 16y ago|0 comments
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by rudd 16y ago
I love this. The implementation would be so much nicer if they would extend it to full books, but it still works perfectly for previews. The scrub bar, the previous/next arrows, and all the other stuff make it very similar to other common w
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by rudd 16y ago
The plural of corpus is 'corpora': http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Text_corpus
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by rudd 16y ago
I came into my current job having always pronounced it Ess-Cue-Ell. However, not a single person at my job has pronounced it as such. Sequel all the way. I quickly picked up the local pronunciation.
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Sweet Talking Your Computer: Why people treat devices like humans(online.wsj.com)
1 points by rudd 16y ago|0 comments
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by rudd 16y ago
I'm surprised that so many people here are saying that pure-CSS buttons are actually a good thing, because they're programmatic. Sure, they're programmatic, but the code behind them is really confusing. I'd much prefer to use a sane drawing
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Tornado Web Framework/Server hits 1.0(groups.google.com)
73 points by rudd 16y ago|3 comments
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by rudd 16y ago
Note that {} still means an empty dictionary, not an empty set.
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by rudd 16y ago
Absolutely. If you hear the startup life glorified enough on sites like this, there's a chance you're going to want to start a startup, but you won't have an idea yet. Also, some people just naturally recognize ideas, whereas other people m
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by rudd 16y ago
I actually disagree that that is nicer. e^(i pi) = -1, which means you can square both sides to come to the also factual statement, e^(i tau) = 1. However, if you only knew the latter you'd be wondering whether e^(i*pi) would be 1 or -1.
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by rudd 16y ago
I don't have Menlo on this computer (still on Leopard), but from what I can tell from comparing this font to my current coding font, Droid Sans Mono, they must be very similar. It's okay, but it looks like all the things that annoy me about
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by rudd 16y ago
Sure, Firebug may in fact have bugs. However, a sometimes buggy program is better than one with fundamental flaws. IE6's rendering errors have cost developers thousands of hours in finding and fixing problems, because everyone runs into the
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by rudd 16y ago
I love the glossy screen on my iMac at work for one reason: I can see when someone is walking up to my desk behind me. The great expanses of darkness in the empty spaces of my text editor make the screen a gigantic mirror.
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Reduce, Reuse, Recycle - The Three Rs of Programming(ruddzw.com)
4 points by rudd 16y ago|0 comments
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Corrupted Callings: Finding your life's work vs. loving your life(calnewport.com)
4 points by rudd 16y ago|0 comments
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The Stray Space(ruddzw.com)
3 points by rudd 17y ago|0 comments
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by rudd 17y ago
I currently commute 4 hours a day (2 hours each way) on the subway and trains. I hate the subway because it's crowded, and on the train I always feel like I'm fighting for a good seat. I wish I didn't have to commute like this, but that's t
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Employment contracts: What are they good for?(37signals.com)
14 points by rudd 17y ago|5 comments
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by rudd 17y ago
On the StackOverflow podcast, I believe he mentioned something about not wanting to dominate the blogging world anymore. Someone says "Joel" and everyone else thinks "Spolsky." Yet, he doesn't mention that at all here. I wonder what's up wi
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by rudd 17y ago
It's actually the same length in Python. Just take out the extra line breaks from the gist: def hasmethods(obj, *meth_names): return all(hasattr(getattr(obj, m, None), '__call__') for m in meth_names)
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by rudd 17y ago
Not sure if you're being sarcastic, but the date is right at the bottom of the post: "(Published Nov 10th, 2004)"
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by rudd 17y ago
I think more interesting than this actual article is Fog Creek's "QA and Test Specialist" job listing linked at the end: http://www.fogcreek.com/Jobs/QA.html There are a bunch of small errors on the page that are the kind of things they'd
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by rudd 17y ago
It may be unfair to candidates trying to get a job at Facebook if they didn't come from Stanford or Harvard, but it's completely reasonable to focus their hiring efforts on those two schools. It makes it less work for them. As a plus for no

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