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by shoover 15y ago
I had a hard time getting the essay on time and interactivity, but this killer presentation really helped it sink in and dial the frustration to inspiration ratio.
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by shoover 15y ago
No, like read the article and get the point he's trying to make instead of insisting that he's judging one tool against another.
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by shoover 15y ago
Forget the details. They are examples. Back up. Make something.
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by shoover 15y ago
This author enjoys turning a nice line of code or structuring a nice program as much as anyone. Read his past posts. I don't see anything here remotely against art or enjoying the challenge of your work. The point is for him it's important
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by shoover 15y ago
Wow, I thought this was a community that valued shipping. All the top comments here say otherwise. Where are the makers?
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by shoover 15y ago
Click around and read some archives on that blog. The author writes lots of interesting things about all different kinds of technology, lots of it quite old. But he also writes from a perspective of what it means to him. Far from infatuatio
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by shoover 15y ago
Your question--and Teller's advice about the arts--dovetails with Bret Victor's excellent talk, Inventing on Principle, recently released from CUSEC [1]. He starts by blowing you away with demos of software he's built, but then he backs up
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by shoover 15y ago
Yes, that blew me away. Almost too good to be true.
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by shoover 15y ago
Exactly. Sure, technology fads are like a carousel, but that matters most if you insist on staying ON the carousel and make part of your living writing about the fads. I started in this millennium, but I've done it long enough to know that
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by shoover 15y ago
Likewise, some points in the talk brought to mind the OO SOLID principles. It's unfortunate that much of the discussion I saw on HN and twitter after this talk was argument about the value and purpose of testing. More useful would be examin
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by shoover 15y ago
Another way to look at it is Clojure is a reification of his thoughts on simplicity.
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by shoover 15y ago
I wonder how many people who have disparaged JavaScript could actually win a debate with Brendan Eich.
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by shoover 15y ago
He said it similarly in his book, "Programming is not a spectator sport." It takes forever to read a book this way, but it helps to slow down and get it.
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by shoover 16y ago
You're right. And I've seen several public requests in #clojure for him to stop with the unproductive language wars, but he ignores them.
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by shoover 16y ago
The comments here are very UI-centric, but what I found interesting was first the reminder to invest in fad-resistant skills (and don't forget, he drew a distinction between UI and hardcore design skills!). And second the stuff about parser
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by shoover 16y ago
I think I need that fix. Thanks for reporting it!
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by shoover 16y ago
Did you HAVE to chase every new API as soon as they came out? Did MFC suddenly stop working? Did the Win32 API go away? Why couldn't you just keep going as you were until you really wanted to rewrite to new APIs?
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by shoover 16y ago
Good point, but after THAT... horrors.
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by shoover 16y ago
This article made me realize that by Facebook making news countering certain negative portrayals in the movie, they distract everyone from considering worse allegations that aren't in the movie. Is there a PR term for that?
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by shoover 16y ago
Anyone considering going into business with Facebook would also do well to sift the important from the bitter here.
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by shoover 16y ago
Oh, she was lucky, all right. She didn't have to go to the BMV to replace her driver license.
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by shoover 16y ago
Yes. I've always thought the advantages a local shop could use are killer product, free wifi, and great ambience (third place, friendly baristas, local art, etc). For some reason many local shops serve mediocre coffee. Now Starbucks has fre
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by shoover 16y ago
Take a look at the Mongrel/Mongrel2 Ragel grammar and compare it to a hand-written request parser. You might be surprised which is complex.
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by shoover 16y ago
I hadn't realized git incorporated the much-maligned svn merge as a feature.
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by shoover 16y ago
Why do green threads always get thrown under the bus unequivocally? Aren't Ruby's green threads essentially coroutines that yield the processor when they wait for IO? So for an IO-bound app, which seems to be what evented framework users ar
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by shoover 16y ago
Or better yet companies that expect people to sit at computers for 40-60-80 hours should. One good thing about meetings: sitting in them is easier on your hands, if it doesn't drive you crazy...
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by shoover 16y ago
I've been working from home for a year. I'm an introvert, but I think loneliness would've set in by now except for some fortunate balance in my setup. My wife and baby are in the house most of the time (not so much that they interrupt, but
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by shoover 16y ago
That is a ton of code if the goal is writing a web page that does addition. Maybe that wasn't the goal.
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by shoover 16y ago
Hooray, time to carve out some time and brew a second cup!
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by shoover 16y ago
It worked fine on Windows at least a year ago when that build was in the same unofficial and unsupported state it is in now ( http://books.couchdb.org/relax/appendix/installing-on-window... ). What has changed in a year that makes it sudden

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