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by sp4rki 14y ago
Oh I would definitely agree with you just based on the clarity it provides (not even taking into account code size or elegance), but my coworker couldn't use TimeSpan because of certain domain specific criteria so I took his word for it and
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by sp4rki 14y ago
Not necessarily I believe. That assumption is pretty much community, geography, age, OS, and niche dependent. I use - and have for at least 10 years - a combination of Vim, Tmux, and the usual linux utils under Zsh (I actually used screen f
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by sp4rki 14y ago
I know that this isn't probably the case you speak of when you say "If your code reads like math, I expect that its probably done right.", but I have a huge tendency to minimize code size by converting everything to "math". I converted a fe
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by sp4rki 14y ago
Well I claim vim is the ultimate editor (as it is my preference and opinion), and at the same time I can say that: Not only do I prefer Visual Studio when working on dot net stuff, AND not only do I prefer Eclipse most of the time when work
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by sp4rki 14y ago
1) Baseless or not - your generalization is just as bad (or even worse) as the inverse case. 2) He didn't tell you his list of requirements just so you would change your mind about whatever your opinion is at the moment. He did it to explai
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by sp4rki 14y ago
If you don't trust such methods of installation, you don't have to use them. Also, you can always look at the source of the script if you don't trust said method and choose for if you want to install by hand, use the script, or just don't u
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by sp4rki 14y ago
My solution to having to choose what to wear was very simple. When I got a little extra cash I reinvented my wardrobe using slacks and shirts (3 suits also, but that's for special occasions that require them). The trick was to get clothes t
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by sp4rki 14y ago
I would have thought the main point was the email not the documentary which is why I gave it a title referring to the email, not the documentary... C'est la vie.
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by sp4rki 14y ago
Why should we not at least respect him a litte? He did do a gazillion things for the community and made learning (I knew ruby already at the time, but his teaching methods and his excitement off all things Ruby made me revisit the language
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by sp4rki 14y ago
I agree it's weird. I also read his intro to ruby guide. I don't idolize him, but I respect him quite a lot. I think he earned said respect and to a point maybe even earned being idolized, not necessarily because he wrote an intro to ruby,
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_Why Documentary at Rubyconf 2012, Denver(akitaonrails.com)
48 points by sp4rki 14y ago|25 comments
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by sp4rki 14y ago
Not useful or common knowledge to you doesn't mean it's not useful or new for others. If you knew about it, and dislike it, what are you doing commenting here? If I had the same opinion I would have shrugged and told myself "Oh... grunt...
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by sp4rki 14y ago
I agree. I like Tomorrow and everything, but I've got Solarized on my iTerm, Vim, etc all set up already and it's probably the only theme I've felt 99% confortable with and which didn't give me eye strain after 48 hour marathons. What's the
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by sp4rki 14y ago
I would also love an invite! Anyone care to patch me in?
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by sp4rki 14y ago
I've been tempted to do just that: Convert all my Amazon kindle books into MOBI and get out of the "walled garden" as you put it. There was one thing stopping me though. I have an inherent need to support authors as much as I can since I no
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The Difference Between Information Architecture and UX Design(uxbooth.com)
2 points by sp4rki 14y ago|0 comments
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by sp4rki 14y ago
I agree completely. But I think that both subsets, the degree laden and the "no degrees allowed" crowd both apply the same labeling towards one another. Get's to a point where no one who's hiring for a worthwhile company cares about compute
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by sp4rki 14y ago
I don't think that's the case now... I wary of people with a bunch of certifications and college degrees when I'm hiring for my department. I tend to look more for the small details that let me know that the person is up to date and loves p
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by sp4rki 14y ago
Oh but I'm not color blind :) Also solarized comes with various different "contrast versions" have you tried them all? By the way, what's your choice in color scheme being color blind and all?
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by sp4rki 14y ago
Ohhh boy you brought back memories of Textmate for me! I used to use Monokai also. Great color scheme! Loved it until I found a need to have a bit less contrast in my code. For some reason I got so used to the contrast that I only saw stuff
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by sp4rki 14y ago
Being the second in command of a development team I made the decision to change ALL our authentication to bcrypt a week into the job overnight (luckily we where storing password encrypted in way I could retrieve all the passwords), had to h
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by sp4rki 14y ago
Makes me kind of sad that I got used to the Solarized color scheme already (I use it in VIM, iTerm, Visual Studio etc... ), so I have no use for customizing my color schemes any further. I'd love to use this :(
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by sp4rki 14y ago
I agree that sometimes a new job might bring into light a toolset you;ve never used. I've never taken more than a day or two to get everything up to speed though. Interestingly enough, after being a unix guy for more than 10 years, my lates
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by sp4rki 14y ago
Well then use your own repo, or bring a usb, have it veted by IT and get your configs on your dev machine.
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by sp4rki 14y ago
I think this is probably a problem more with new developers vs seasoned developers. I've noticed that configurations woes plague people who haven't got to a point where they have already configured their environments to their liking tens of
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by sp4rki 14y ago
That really depends on what type of programming you're doing and the platform you're developing on top of. If you're doing a crud app in rails, I'd agree with you math itself is pretty much useless after knowing the core operations (add, su
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by sp4rki 14y ago
Actually I agree that new programmers are better of starting with .each, and also that experienced ones can also benefit from an overload of .each to change the patterns they are used to. I commented on why I disagree with Zed's decision th
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by sp4rki 14y ago
Understanding how to drive vs building a car is the same thing as understanding how to use a program vs building the program. Once again the point is that if you want to learn how to program in a specific language, you need to understand it
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by sp4rki 14y ago
For starters, you do realize that the author/troll of the article is Zed Shaw right? The fact that you can read a piece of code doesn't mean that you understand it. The whole point of teaching how to program is to actually get the student t
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by sp4rki 14y ago
I'd argue that using .each is a better choice in both of the most common cases of people wanting to learn ruby. The novice who's learning his first language will probably benefit by being taught early what it's considered the correct way to

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