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by skinnyarms 8y ago
Most stores keep their numbers private, but I'd wager that Steam has most (if not all of them) beat by a large margin. Presumably these companies believe that the higher margins and control they get from running their own stores are wo
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by skinnyarms 8y ago
It sounds pretty sensible to me, I filed it away for next time I need to do something like this.
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by skinnyarms 8y ago
I've been doing some experimenting with Gatsby to generate static sites for me, and it's made me realize how much I've missed server-side rendering.
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by skinnyarms 8y ago
I like heading to the comments because I feel like I get a much more rounded perspective on a publication. Unfortunately, if you spend too much time in the comments then it's easy to leave with an unfair impression of a topic or author
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by skinnyarms 8y ago
That is about when I was started as well, and it while it seems annoying compared to today's standards I remember it being about par for the course. The other audio I listened to at the time was either downloaded/burned or purchas
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by skinnyarms 8y ago
Nicely done, I've always heard that we can listen about 4x faster than we can speak. Most podcast listeners I know do 1.5x - 2x speed, myself included.
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by skinnyarms 8y ago
Hello, author here. The app is still taking shape, but hopefully the gist is clear enough. Podcast apps are typically organized around subscribing to shows, but I wanted something where I could focus in on particular topics. For example, I
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by skinnyarms 8y ago
Oh hey, thanks!!
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Can Side Projects Reinforce Bad Habits?(codingblocks.net)
3 points by skinnyarms 9y ago|0 comments
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by skinnyarms 9y ago
I didn't get that from the post at all, I thought the post advocates mostly for integration tests and I didn't see anything about refactoring code to make unit testing easier.
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by skinnyarms 9y ago
I saw a similar behavior in their binding formulas, I noticed the formula method would never get called unless you had used a "get" method inside of it. This may have been documented, not necessarily a bug - but it made me think t
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by skinnyarms 9y ago
Wow, love the cognitive load vs popularity ratio idea. react-boilerplate has a great ratio :)
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by skinnyarms 10y ago
Power chords aren't actually chords, since they're only two notes.
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by skinnyarms 10y ago
You should try building a toaster from scratch https://www.ted.com/talks/thomas_thwaites_how_i_built_a_toas...
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by skinnyarms 13y ago
I would love to hear Joe read the "Joel on Software" books, I was a big fan of the Stack(Overflow|Exchange) podcast.
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Audiobooks for Programmers(joezack.com)
3 points by skinnyarms 13y ago|1 comments
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Username Validation Without Information Disclosure(joezack.com)
1 points by skinnyarms 13y ago|0 comments
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by skinnyarms 13y ago
Dah! Thanks.
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by skinnyarms 13y ago
Oh man, that's embarrassing! I should have checked the copywrite, Amazon shows the "publication date" as 2004. If I'm reading it right the intro and 1st chapter were added in 2004.
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“Secrets and Lies” Nine Years Later(joezack.com)
34 points by skinnyarms 13y ago|4 comments
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by skinnyarms 14y ago
According to the re:Invent keynote Amazon has dropped aws prices 20+ times over it's 6.5 year lifespan. Google doesn't need to tap into it's records to know Amazon is playing the high volume\low margin game. Edit: typo