sammyo

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by sammyo 16y ago
Yep, someone here added a type check to Ruby, there are some functions through the codebase that check each argument but I've not seen any real life benefit.
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by sammyo 16y ago
I liked Joshua Bloch's point that during development there should be at least two-three different apps that excercise the api preferably developed by different developers.
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by sammyo 16y ago
In all recent browsers. For silly corporate reasons one box I work on is stuck at firefox 1.5 and this displays nothing.
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by sammyo 16y ago
Sorry to be old and reactionary : ) but the young folk that make theses arguments, or are even aware of these arguments are something of outliers. Have this young lady go back to her highschool and find 100 folks that are capable of running
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by sammyo 16y ago
Adding another "sure, try to make it".
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by sammyo 16y ago
I hang with old ship guys and all of the 'underwater archology' ideas seem to be presented by folks with little real life experience with oceans. Sea water is incredibly powerful and corrosive. Just watch the shoreline, if not maintained so
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by sammyo 16y ago
What? You can ride on I5? Even if it were allowed it seems really scary.
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by sammyo 16y ago
On this point: "it's too complicated, there's no order" An important element of useablility that is often ignored and misunderstood is familarity. In many ways it just does not matter that MSWindows or Facebook is clunky, or violates import
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by sammyo 16y ago
Went for a sail. Lots of dynamic problem solving in a very different domain. And fresh air.
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by sammyo 16y ago
Is 'commit count' the new 'lines of code' metric?
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by sammyo 16y ago
A bit similar to Medical experience, a deep familiarity with computer systems that many fine opaque may come across quite arrogant. Picture someone struggling with a setting and you fly by, "hot key to x menu, third tab, look for option Q,
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by sammyo 16y ago
"To iterate is human, recurse devine" -Anon
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by sammyo 16y ago
second (foo, I'm just not fast enough to post much around here ;-)
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by sammyo 16y ago
Looks good, but what happened to a small reference that fits on a single fan-folded card? Many 'cheatsheets' as good as they are, were they to be printed would be longer than the classic K&R C Language Reference.
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by sammyo 16y ago
You should consider linking to an outline/synopsis with a link to the pdf. This would make it more accessible to those(we) of short attention spans as well as the very busy.
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by sammyo 16y ago
Lol, I work on a Ruby app that is entirely internal and processes an incredible volume of information. The key here was the ease of adding a few key C modules.
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by sammyo 16y ago
Yikes, used for $500! Looks like a publishing model that is seriously being missed. I know a screenwriting book that sells for a couple hundred if it can be found. A lot of work to get the copyrights for a short publishing run but sure look
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by sammyo 16y ago
Depends somewhat where you fly. From one major city to another major hub airport no question. But across a couple states that are not major routes say a small town in Montana to Wyoming, it could be a significant differential.
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by sammyo 16y ago
If there happens to be excess inventory, the last minute bids can be quite good. That is a gamble, how big a gamble depends on knowledge of the high/low periods and any extra large conferences.
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by sammyo 16y ago
It's an art project but there are upside-down trees at MASS MoCA http://www.massmoca.org/event_details.php?id=29
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by sammyo 16y ago
I think remember that the full time heads up guy (Steve Mann? MIT?) needed anti-nausea drugs to handle the constant visual disturbance of the display. Perhaps there are resolution improvements to the goggles. Learning to use a chording keyb
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by sammyo 16y ago
Lemma: More coffee. Derived from the theorem that a mathematician is a machine that transforms coffee into theorems. Ok other thoughts. Go listen to some hard stuff. I loved a talk by Ron Graham about problems that would never be solved by
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by sammyo 16y ago
During an aerobatic glider ride for the initiation of the first maneuver all I saw was the horizon rise then slowly drop below the edge of the cockpit. A few moments later the pilot behind me said to look straight up. Directly above me were
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by sammyo 16y ago
Standard mass production should bring the cost way down. As for theft, just make sure they are free for anyone that wants to have one, the biggest cost for a big program will be the planting labor. But it will not solve global warming in th
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by sammyo 16y ago
If just the folks reading this forum were to write a snailmail letter to their congressman it would likely have a significant effect. The value of a non-form/non-crazy-rant letter is something like ntimes greater than an email, n being some
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by sammyo 16y ago
There are huge areas away from the main coastal population centers, this is a really big continent. But you might have to live without easy connection to the grid, drill your own well, handle you own electricity generation, deal with some l
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by sammyo 16y ago
Quite cool but there isn't there just one rather obvious google service that is missing. Nudge nudge, wink wink? Wouldn't it be handy to run an internet wide grep with all the various search arguments and a nice filterable output?
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by sammyo 16y ago
Another Reimplementation Conundrum?
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by sammyo 16y ago
Change position. Reading this I noticed I was sitting in the 'good' position, but through the day I also lean a bit forward, all the way, to the side. I'd love an automatic desk that let me stand part of the time. If you do like to sit stra
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by sammyo 16y ago
I think you can buy this one now: www.jetlev-flyer.com It's connected to a water source which limits about a 10M altitude, and the market seems to be focused towards a adventure tourist market.

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