spiralhead

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by spiralhead 18y ago
Unfortunately, in my experience, ROWE remains an exception to the rule. This is exactly what drove me to freelancing. Although this is not true for everyone (including people I care about), traditional "ass-in-your-char" office environments
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by spiralhead 19y ago
Nice marketing stunt, lady
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by spiralhead 19y ago
What I would really love to see is affordable hosting like this but with the ability to do stuff like run a custom web server. I know this thread isn't really about hosting but has anyone seen something like this or is it even technically p
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by spiralhead 19y ago
i disagree
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by spiralhead 19y ago
http://box2dflash.sourceforge.net/
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by spiralhead 19y ago
I'll admit what everyone else here is apparently afraid to: Flex/ActionScript 3. I don't really see a future for MXML in it's current form but the rest of the stack--mainly ActionScript 3 / the SVG drawing API, Video/Audio APIs are definite
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by spiralhead 19y ago
I can't help but wonder how this story made it to the top with the new policy and all http://ycombinator.com/hackernews.html Will I be deemed a "bad hacker" for up-voting it?
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by spiralhead 19y ago
not if you cache your data structures intelligently... probably not a good solution for something like PHP or Rails where you lose your application state across requests Or do you mean that using "like" is slow? i would think that it would
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by spiralhead 19y ago
My solution to that: store representations of trees as simple paths like "/trunk/branch/leaf1/", "/trunk/branch/leaf2/", etc. And just rely on the application layer to parse it all out into a friendly IU. When you want a specific branch, ju
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by spiralhead 19y ago
Arguably, Ruby does things better/lighter/cleaner/more elegantly than PHP, but at the end of the day, they're both accomplishing the same business objective. And when the end result is the same, what PHP provides in the way of stability/ind
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by spiralhead 19y ago
stone & chizzle
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by spiralhead 19y ago
Re: your rant This is exactly why I'm seriously considering Flex for my next project. Progress in browsers is now moving at a glacier's pace. It still sucks. It's still incredibly limiting. Appealing to the W3C and Microsoft to fix stuff is
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by spiralhead 19y ago
im assuming the above code is equivalent to: class foo { public function someMethod() { trace("blah blah"); } } new foo().someMethod(); just different approaches to the same problem
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by spiralhead 19y ago
"but I think it was removed in as3" Wrong. I was curious so i tested it (i've been experimenting with Flex 2). The following code outputs "blah blah": var foo:Function = function() {} foo.prototype.someMethod = function() { trace("blah blah
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by spiralhead 19y ago
Could be wrong but I think you can still use the prototype syntax if you want.
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by spiralhead 19y ago
i can only dream
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by spiralhead 19y ago
excellent article. I agreed with most of it--especially about startups attracting freaks and misfits. I can vouch for that. haaha
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by spiralhead 19y ago
couldn't possibly disagree with that
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by spiralhead 19y ago
what am i supposed to glean from this? Adding new features to a living system is hard, even in Ruby.
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by spiralhead 19y ago
I never noticed Charlie Rose's southern accent until now for some reason
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by spiralhead 19y ago
curious--is anybody actually using OpenID or is it like one of those things everyone promotes publicly on principle (like feeding hungry kids in 3rd world countries) but ignores privately?
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by spiralhead 19y ago
I think you could use some fiber in your diet (am I supposed to include some sort of programming metaphor?).
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by spiralhead 19y ago
I agree with the "productivity comes in spurts" sentiment. I typically have about 2-4 hours of real productive brain chemistry per day--where my mind is conducive to creating something, or solving something. This usually comes in the mornin
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by spiralhead 19y ago
I think it is natural for engineers (hackers, especially) to deal with situations on an as-needed basis. We just solve problems. We make at least SOME effort to solve them in such a way where they won't continually come back and bite us in
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by spiralhead 19y ago
wrong. sell when Steve gets sick and cant work anymore
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by spiralhead 19y ago
The TV commercials gave me the impression that Google maps works. That's about as advanced as javascript gets.
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by spiralhead 19y ago
"Good news, everybody! Now you have to make sure your site works on another platform!" The iPhone ships with Safari, doesn't it? So if you're app works on Safari it should work on the iPhone
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by spiralhead 19y ago
Maybe is the key word there. It would be challenging since you would have to apply some sort of noise filter to each of the fakes to simulate a scanned image. You would also have to consider fonts
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by spiralhead 19y ago
who's to say the user will not enter an incorrect word or mis-type? To get reasonably accurate results, you would have to take a handful of samples for each word and take the one with the highest frequency. And even then, users will figure
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by spiralhead 19y ago
i enjoyed the 10 commandments post though. I feel bad now

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