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by subwindow 17y ago
He's just now realizing that Java is painful to use? Even PHP had me dreading the tiny bits of Java work I had to do when I last touched it in 2005.
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by subwindow 17y ago
I joined the wrestling team my freshman year of high school, and it did wonders. All of your practice is against real people, so when you try to do a particular move, you really know how to perform it. The best part of it is that it is ge
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by subwindow 17y ago
I freaking hate prescriptive linguistics. The people who love to prescribe are so often prescribing incorrectly. I couldn't get past the first one in this article: > Acronym: this is a word, like radar or NATO, not a set of initials, li
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by subwindow 18y ago
I'm perfectly aware of that, and if you read my comment you'll see that I acknowledge that fact. However, I also said: > they're obviously keeping track of the keys internally in an array to support the ordered hashes. Which means that
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by subwindow 18y ago
In Ruby (w/ activesupport): myhash[myhash.keys.rand] Is an O(n) operation, for no apparent reason. At least in 1.9, they're obviously keeping track of the keys internally in an array to support the ordered hashes. However, when you d
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by subwindow 18y ago
http://www.rttsweb.com/research/studies/study_functionalTest... "...automated test suite saved the client 117 days of manual effort per testing cycle." Sure, it takes more time to construct any given feature with unit tests versus a compl
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by subwindow 18y ago
> if I could only find the time The asinine thing about this is that unit testing saves a massive amount of time in the long run. In the short run, even, it saves time. You're really shooting yourself in the foot.
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by subwindow 18y ago
Try progressive muscle relaxation. That works better for me than meditation because I'm doing something to keep my mind from wandering. After you get used to it, you can do it by yourself, but starting out I find it better to do it along w
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by subwindow 18y ago
> Plus it seemed like the thermometer was pinned at 72 degrees every day. You say that like it's a bad thing.
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by subwindow 18y ago
A friend of mine is CTO at clockspot.net I have no idea whether they're good or not, but they're profitable and he's a nice guy. Worth a try!
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by subwindow 18y ago
I really don't see how Appcelerator can provide a better IDE (and charge for it), seeing as how it is all written in Javascript. I can't think of any tools, short of some kind of WYSIWYG tool, which I don't think they have the resources to
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by subwindow 18y ago
God knows how they're going to make a business out of this. They raised 4.1M, so there's definitely an expectation of revenue. Adobe has more resources and a significant head start. My money is on AIR. (Full disclosure: I'm biased- Appcel
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by subwindow 18y ago
It doesn't: http://api.rubyonrails.org/classes/ActionController/Caching/... Removing them with a cron task is usually the worst way to solve this problem. Using the expire_page method is the correct solution when the updates are being do
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by subwindow 18y ago
There were some parts that were difficult, mostly finding vendors. It wasn't exactly easy to figure out who offered the best/cheapest shirts/stickers/cd pressing. Other than that, if you hire an experienced PR person and booking agent, it
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by subwindow 18y ago
Don't worry, the lead guitarist didn't get it either.
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by subwindow 18y ago
I've quite literally done that before. It worked out OK, but there was never enough capital to market the band properly and we ended up with about 800 CDs that still sit in my friend's closet. The good part about it is that each member get
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by subwindow 18y ago
That's really interesting- I, too, had flagged Salesforce as an 'open' company. Their API is comparatively good, and the AppExchange is virtually unparalleled in terms of openness to third parties. I wonder if this is something specific to
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by subwindow 18y ago
Wake me when I can use Exchange or IMAP to connect to arbitrary mail providers without having to pipe everything through Gmail.
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by subwindow 18y ago
> like a lady dressed in a black dress ..with bright yellow recesses and red knobs all over the place. The Thinkpad looks like a sexy lady in a black dress, but one who took meth for 10 years and is now sickly and diseased.
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by subwindow 18y ago
I agree. I think beta should mean "Not all functionality is complete" as opposed to "Not all functionality is working". There is no excuse to release buggy software. None.
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by subwindow 18y ago
I think the perils in this come in teachers forcing every kid to write perfectly, regardless of any impairments they might have. I have dyslexic dysgraphia, which literally prevents me from writing neatly. It sounds like this guy's kid
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by subwindow 18y ago
The Cappucino version appears to be about 400 lines of Javascript. So the jQuery one is 1/8th the size. Although I doubt the Cappucino version was written with line count in mind.
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by subwindow 18y ago
Gym machines don't exercise your stabilization muscles, and they only work one muscle at a time. When you do pushups (if you do them right), you exercise your triceps, shoulders, biceps, back muscles, and your pectorals all in one go. Calis
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by subwindow 18y ago
I'm not sure it is. When someone asks for a large, but reasonable rate, like $75 or $100 an hour, you generally know that they're good at what they do, and that they're worth the cost. There's kind of a sweet spot in there- less than $35 a
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by subwindow 18y ago
The house painting analogy fails because in software development, you only have a vague idea of how big the "house" is. No painter would give an estimate for painting a house, sight unseen, with only vague descriptors. But yet that's exact
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by subwindow 18y ago
One of the most harmful results of fixed-bid contracting is that it gives offshore developers a huge advantage. It'll take them three times as long and they'll ship a worse product, but the "shipped" cost will still be lower. You don't se
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by subwindow 18y ago
I agree that Lisp would have as much of an impact, if not more. I never said it was mutually exclusive with anything else in this benefit.
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by subwindow 18y ago
I didn't say that it would change the way you write code, I said it would change the way you approach writing code. I'm fairly confident that it did. Once you've really learned it, Ruby creates paths in your brain that you will try to fo
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by subwindow 18y ago
I couldn't disagree more. Even if you spend a month learning Ruby and never use it again, it will still irrevocably change the way you approach writing code.
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by subwindow 18y ago
It isn't so much about language features, as both languages are roughly equivalent in that sense. It is about how the language makes you feel . If you're going to be spending >5 hours a day writing in some language, it is of great imp

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