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   by squidsoup 16y ago

   Clearly this would be an exciting announcement, but is Knuth even known to be working on the problem?
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   by squidsoup 16y ago

   I really dislike the term "scripting languages". While you could describe Python and Ruby this way, it does them a huge disservice, implying that they aren't capable of large scale application development. I think this term should really be
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   by squidsoup 16y ago

   The smallish company I work for is in the early stages of transitioning to a new development platform as all their existing systems are antiquated. The company doesn't have any particular dependance on Microsoft technology, and from my pers
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   by squidsoup 16y ago

   > has ASP.Net MVC got anything like cucumber available to it out of the box? Cucumber isn't strictly speaking out of the box - it's dead easy to install of course, but it's not part of the rails core distribution. Rails still uses Te
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   by squidsoup 16y ago

   I think to some extent individuals that continue the process of learning into adulthood naturally become adverse to stating anything in completely concrete terms. Presumably part of this is from painful past experience, but also as one's de
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   by squidsoup 16y ago

   Please don't market yourself as a rockstar - rockstars tend to be characterised by egocentricity, rudeness, and childish intractability. Do market yourself as a skilled craftsman that can contribute to a team.
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   by squidsoup 16y ago

   Clearly the OP is referring to New Zealand, renowned globally for our military might and political strong arming.
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   by squidsoup 16y ago

   I'd be concerned for the students that managed to push mmo-champion.com (a WoW blog) to 9th place!
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   by squidsoup 16y ago

   Rob, I've always enjoyed reading your posts as I've personally been straddling the gap between the two worlds (MS and OSS) for a long time now. Primarily this is due to our local job market - there simply aren't any OSS jobs where I live, a
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    by squidsoup 16y ago

    It was a sad day when he disappeared. _Why inspired me to learn ruby, and reminded me that software can be beautiful (and humorous!).
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    by squidsoup 16y ago

    I liked the variation on this - Yoda Exception Handling (or the lack thereof): there is no try.
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    by squidsoup 16y ago

    Great, but perhaps would have been better to simply link to the SO thread. Loved "hot potato/hot potatoes" for http/https.
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    by squidsoup 16y ago

    I'm from Dunedin, and we have a local group of web entrepreneurs called The Distiller ( http://thedistiller.org/ ). I would imagine there would be something comperable in Wellington, given how many web based businesses exist there.
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    by squidsoup 16y ago

    Given that you're a Cocoa developer, you may find Cappuccino interesting if you decide to start targetting the web. http://cappuccino.org/
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    by squidsoup 17y ago

    I've been living abroad for 12 years and wasn't even aware that I was expected to pay taxes in the states. Presumably if I ever move back to the US to work this is going to bite me in the proverbial...
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    by squidsoup 17y ago

    There's support, albiet indirectly, for flac in iTunes via Fluke. http://blowintopieces.com/fluke/
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    by squidsoup 17y ago

    Any idea if there's any advantage to using Fluid in OSX over this approach? Always happy to have one less application installed, and I'm finding myself in Chrome more often than Safari these days.
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    by squidsoup 17y ago

    I use Selenium regularly and while it is exceptionally useful, it's also quite buggy. I heard mumblings some time ago about Google contributing to the Selenium project or even forking it, but I'm not certain what's happened there.
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    by squidsoup 17y ago

    Similarly, I just use IRB. Languages with interactive shells are great :)
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    by squidsoup 17y ago

    I've been considering using Heroku for my one-man side project , simply because I do not have the time to attend to both development and system administration. I'm aware that it's more expensive, but when your time is precious, I suspect it
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    by squidsoup 17y ago

    That being said jquery is amazingly well documented.
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    by squidsoup 17y ago

    You say that like it is a bad thing :(