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by scelerat 15y ago
If you've ever driven or biked in San Francisco (or I'm assuming any other marginally bike-friendly city) you'll quickly understand that for bicyclists, stop signs are yields and red lights are stop signs. You're just going to have to get u
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by scelerat 15y ago
nah. it's okay to cry when your friend dies. it's okay for journalists to show people being human.
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by scelerat 15y ago
Yay Steve Jobs for making a dent in the universe. Inspiring.
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by scelerat 15y ago
Having children makes people happy. As in deep, deep happy. It's really not as mysterious as some make it out to be.
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by scelerat 15y ago
I was so enthused by Vico that I wrote a fairly wordy review about it in August. Added some corrections and notes recently. Feel free to add/contribute/fork. I think it's a great editor, with just a few minor shortcomings which I hope will
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by scelerat 15y ago
This is a nice overview. I have been a happy user of Vico for the past two months after years of putting up with Textmate's lame undo. I recommend it if you are comfortable with vi/vim/macvim but want a more Maclike interface plus Textmate
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by scelerat 15y ago
I could have predicted this thread would turn into a PTSD support group for GoDaddy survivors. I have my horrible stories too (all from freelancing days); suffice to say I learned a couple of things: * Cheap hosting almost never is.
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by scelerat 15y ago
People working on teams where each occupies some vertical niche -- designer, developer, etc. -- should have a solid understanding of the territory their own niche abuts. I don't think visual web designers should necessarily be able to fully
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by scelerat 15y ago
I have been enjoying using Vico for the past month or so, a pretty Mac face on vi, with extras like support for Textmate Bundles. The mac-ness of the interface helped me through some vi adjustment rough spots, and now I'm extremely comforta
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by scelerat 15y ago
>To say other people don't care is accurate, but doesn't do justice to the diversity of interests out there. >They have other priorities. Yah, I don't mean "they don't care" as a judgement statement. You're absolutely right about th
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by scelerat 15y ago
Most people don't care. That was my impression anyway after doing about four years of IT and lab support for student government and activity groups at a large UC in the '90s. The ones who did were bound for engineering or science, or were s
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by scelerat 15y ago
The hardest part of learning to program for me (thinking back many many years to THINK C) was learning the environment and what all the terms and messages meant. I think basic programming is actually conceptually easy. I remember being frus
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by scelerat 15y ago
This is very nice. Some more informative messages would be helpful. Some errors are genuine errors while others are simply an issue of not typing in precisely what the lesson wants you to type in.
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by scelerat 15y ago
> cultural belief that a college degree will guarantee a living wage I have more than a few friends and acquaintances who are deep in debt from school loans, many of them with degrees from excellent schools but with low market value (co
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by scelerat 15y ago
I am so much more refreshed and clear-headed after a 20 minute mid-afternoon nap than after drinking any amount of caffeine. However nap or no, just having a regular schedule and 8 hours of sleep a night makes either remedy less necessary.
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by scelerat 15y ago
BART has continuous cell service even in tunnels.
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by scelerat 15y ago
The notion that BART areas are not public and subject to the First Amendment ("right to peaceably assemble...") is absurd on its face and in detail. Of course it's public space. That's where the public is! And, BART is financed by public mo
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by scelerat 15y ago
Before there were lots of easy-to-use self-publishing apps, it made sense to install your own on a $5/month host. Most people nowadays use Wordpress, the service, not Wordpress the PHP package.
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by scelerat 15y ago
I submit that PHP's popularity has much more to do with mod_php and its ubiquity across cheap web hosts than any intrinsic merits as a language. As someone who made a good living for many years by building stuff with PHP... I couldn't get a
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by scelerat 15y ago
Another vico convert from Textmate here. There are still some rough edges, but overall a pleasant experience. Surprisingly Mac-like for an editor that is fundamentally un-Maclike. It's been my main editor for two weeks, and I don't feel lik
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by scelerat 15y ago
I hope this doesn't portend bad things for Firebug down the road; it's nice to have a variety of tools, but kudos to Mr. Barton for making the move and, more importantly, providing a devastatingly useful and revolutionary web development to
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by scelerat 15y ago
For sufficiently large projects, the choice is not "library vs framework" but "use someone else's framework vs write my own." If you have the time and the expertise for the latter, great! Otherwise, do some research and understand the benef
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by scelerat 15y ago
If you were presently witnessing the car being broken into, then that would be 911 level. Agreed, and for clarification, this was not the case for me: I discovered the break-in later; I did not witness it. More irksome was the operator's
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by scelerat 15y ago
Internet access is required to file a police report in Oakland, or so I was told by the OakPD switchboard operator when I called to report my car being broken into and vandalized. i.e. they would not send a car; they would not take informat
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by scelerat 15y ago
The corollary is that just because you went through a gifted program and were a high-achiever doesn't mean you're necessarily smarter or better than anyone else. You just had more help along the way.
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by scelerat 15y ago
It seems to me that the ascendancy of the Mac in the last ten years has a lot to do with them being in the "pro space" -- specifically software and web development pro space -- and being one of the best. The geeks, that is, the mavens and i
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by scelerat 15y ago
Turf, an antecedent. http://www.smedresmania.com/turf/
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by scelerat 15y ago
I find it just plain distracting.
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by scelerat 15y ago
My fear would be some consortium of big-box retailers, the MPAA, police unions, and fearful save-the-children groups lobbying congress to create laws requiring the inclusion of such turn-off features in all cameras. Possibly paranoid, but n
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by scelerat 15y ago
Absolutely the thought of this kind of "feature" used to actively cripple a democratic tool by big gov is chilling. i.e. "What if cops used it to mask abuses?" But somehow it's the more banal applications I can imagine that would deliver a

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