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by sghill 13y ago
> Why can't I go online and order the Jeep (or whatever else) I want and have it delivered or pick it up from a non-jackass? True, you can't go to Amazon Cars or equivalent, but there are options. Have you tried the internet sa
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by sghill 13y ago
It'd be interesting to see some research on that. Most of the plants I'm aware of aren't actually in Detroit proper, but the metro area. A quick glance over the list of GM factories[1] shows just one assembly plant in the cit
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by sghill 13y ago
> 37 Signals sells good to techies (and where techies are in charge of the order) but this particular product was specially geared towards non-techies, hence it would be really hard to make it work. Based on what? I've always assumed th
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by sghill 13y ago
> Java never delivered on its promises Which promises? Write-once, run-anywhere? My last Java project lasted 15 months, during which time we had developers working on Windows and Mac, with production running CentOS. I can't recall one p
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by sghill 13y ago
No, I can't say that I have. I just looked up Yahoo's Mail app on Google Play[1]. Unfortunately, the very first thing I see in the description adds to my perception of its quality and doesn't make me want to try the service: > NOTE: We
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by sghill 13y ago
I think Yahoo has a lost generation[1] problem on its hands. Gmail in particular has made Yahoo's products look like Detroit's cars in the 70s and 80s. Anecdotally, at some point in the 2000s, it became embarrassing to have a Yahoo email ad
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by sghill 13y ago
> One advantage people don't often talk about with finance industry jobs is their incredibly lax moonlighting clauses. Interesting. My first programming job was in a finance company who had a "we own everything you make, here or at home
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by sghill 13y ago
Nice work! This looks quite useful. I'm definitely going to check it out. Big plus for having it on maven central. I have a more general question -- where do I go to find more stuff like this? Do you also announce new versions somewhere wit
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by sghill 13y ago
> I really don't understand why co-op hasn't been adopted almost universally. It's hugely beneficial to all parties. I completely agree. I went to a much more traditional school in the US, but recently got the chance to visit Waterloo t
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by sghill 13y ago
Great post. Thank you for sharing this. > Surely, I would fill my days with an eclectic mix of hobbies and spontaneous travel, funding the whole thing with the ultimate passive income stream. Was this the original goal for not having a
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by sghill 13y ago
He's done some really great work in engaging the public with the ISS. He has a bunch of videos on the Canadian Space Agency YouTube Channel[1]. Wringing out Water on the ISS - for Science![2] was the one that got me hooked. Hopefully the ne
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by sghill 13y ago
> It doesn't even register on my offensive scale Does it have to? In my experience, taking into consideration how the message receiver might be offended is more important. I'm not personally offended by the language of the tumblr, but I
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by sghill 13y ago
That'd be great! If it's possible to throw something on the footer of the page, that would also be useful to people who don't happen to find it through HN. Nice work in collecting all of these. They make for a great showcase.
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by sghill 13y ago
> This guys is totally free to make his points colourfully and passionately however he wants to. I agree. He's created a very good and useful showcase of a specific frustration that many of us would prefer to never implement or deal wit
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by sghill 13y ago
> It could also be that Spring works better with the waterfall model I've used spring mvc in an agile setting a couple times now, and it has worked fine. It doesn't tend to make developers all that happy, in my experience. If you're in
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by sghill 13y ago
Nice work on an interesting project! Google Maps' urls were always hideous for sharing before they introduced the shortener. Maybe worth noting? I opened this up in Firefox (Aurora) for Android, which changes the URL bar to show only the pa
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by sghill 14y ago
If you're interested specifically in building web services, I've had some good trials with Mozilla's cornice[1][2], which is built on top of Pyramid. [1] http://cornice.readthedocs.org/en/latest/quickstart.html [2] https://github.com/moz
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by sghill 14y ago
I would have described my work the same way, even if that's taking a bit of poetic license. I started developing in Aurora about six months ago to try out some of the new dev tools. The question of why is a surprisingly regular conversation
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by sghill 14y ago
Timezones in javascript. We ended up stitching together 3 libraries into something that sort of looks like 10% of joda-time. Definitely not a solved problem.
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Metropho.rs: Remapping The World with Tweets(metropho.rs)
3 points by sghill 14y ago|0 comments
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GemJars.org: Seamlessly Resolve JRuby Dependencies with Ivy(gemjars.org)
2 points by sghill 14y ago|0 comments
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by sghill 14y ago
The choice is less clear obvious when you've started to ask why use server-side templating at all? I've spent quite a bit of time on both Rails and Java webapps. The conclusion I've come to is I'd really rather the server just returned JSON
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Introducing The Mountaintop Scale(sghill.blogspot.com)
3 points by sghill 14y ago|0 comments
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by sghill 15y ago
The first one was the dealbreaker for me. I signed up using part of my real name instead of my full name. Within hours I was blocked from adding anything to Quora. As a result, I haven't been back since signing up.
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by sghill 15y ago
I find the discussion over profanity in posts on HN interesting. When I initially read the post, I expected similar comments about professionalism and unnecessary vulgarity. Instead, just about every response (save one on the actual linked
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by sghill 15y ago
My first degree was in Economics, and I graduated in an economically depressed area of the US. I quickly figured out I wanted to try my hand at development, so I went back to school the next year for a CS degree. I really doubt I would have
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by sghill 15y ago
I used Python for the first time to copy the information from one of my required timesheets into another required timesheet. It uses BeautifulSoup, mechanize, and selenium.
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by sghill 15y ago
Just about every developer I know has Firefox on their machine, but that's just because our automated tests tend to be written for Firefox. Almost none of the teams I have been a part of use Firefox for development, and even fewer for perso
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by sghill 15y ago
http://www.edmunds.com/car-loan/four-square-basics.html
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by sghill 15y ago
Really excited about the potential of the Model S and electric cars generally, but a little disappointed to see this marketing angle. Carreras aren't exactly known as supercars for their speed. It's a full second slower than everything maki

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