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by sunkencity 14y ago
If you cannot follow the code standards of a project (adding a totally new way of structuring the code) and cannot restrain from throwing in new depencencies/frameworks like Ember instead of using jQuery as specified, then don't be a contra
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by sunkencity 14y ago
I really like this style of templating, it's pretty close to how Seaside generates it's HTML, but more direct since it manipulates the dom directly. Also using the DOM directly is very fast.
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by sunkencity 14y ago
Not that I'd ever bother looking up what it encodes, but the pencil-shave qr code http://pinterest.com/pin/23151385554160440/ is pretty damn good looking.
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by sunkencity 14y ago
My survival kit for linux man pages is "/" for search and then "n" until option is found.
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by sunkencity 14y ago
I've had to replace battery at least once and buy a new power adapter for each mac laptop I've had since and including the tibook, which is a white macbook and a 15" mbp. The 5 or so different powerbooks I had never needed replacement anyth
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by sunkencity 14y ago
My gut feeling tells me there's a 10x difference in productivity in almost any field of work.
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by sunkencity 14y ago
All this ruckus for 18 mins of downtime? Moved my main app off heroku this monday for various reasons (mainly to get better log access and to run the app in europe).
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by sunkencity 14y ago
I recently bought "APL an interactive approach" and read it. It seems that most of the good stuff from APL is already present in modern languages, and better when it's lazy. The OO stuff in APL looks kind of crufty. Still it's a wonderful f
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by sunkencity 14y ago
Sounds like an anti-pattern to me. That said, I do host some static sites on heroku.
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by sunkencity 14y ago
Not the LED ones.
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by sunkencity 14y ago
Re literate programming. A scientist friend of mine likes to build his articles so that the graphs in a TeX are generated from an R script. Makes it easy to change some variables or try different input. sweave is another solution http://ww
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by sunkencity 14y ago
Interesting! I use (La)TeX but I didn't know what metafont was about. Even though I am pretty good at identifying typefaces I have forever damaged my changes of identifying the standard mac fonts like Palatino, Times, Helvetica in print. Re
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by sunkencity 14y ago
I too fall for the big monitor fallacy, I like running an external monitor at high rez. One screen with a web browser and the other with a split terminal vim split in 2-4 panes. But it's really just moat. I could do well with just one termi
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by sunkencity 14y ago
Yep, it's impossible to do business in china without good government connections.
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Data-Driven development of Facebook games with Hadoop(followthedata.wordpress.com)
2 points by sunkencity 14y ago|0 comments
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by sunkencity 14y ago
Yep it had a problem where the whole repository could be come corrupt and impossible to repair IIRC. Kind of a deal breaker unfortunately as a consistent repo is a #1 prio when shopping for a VCS.
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by sunkencity 14y ago
Rails itself is not that difficult to debug after it has been refactored to less magic with 3.X. What's difficult to debug is all the plugins written in brittle-dsl-with-lots-of-magic style
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by sunkencity 14y ago
Not wanting to rain on your parade but here's some feedback on the www.shoplocket.com site: the out of focus images hurt my eyes. Please designers, keep it sharp! Why is the "Buy" not centered vertically in the example buttons?
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by sunkencity 14y ago
In Europe everybody and their brother have their own struggling Groupon-clone.
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by sunkencity 14y ago
Trust. The mom&pop look properly executed is the perfect carrier to convey honesty and earnestness.
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by sunkencity 14y ago
I agree. Old site, doesn't look that good, but benefits from old school 'mom&pop web design' look that might or might not inspire trust in buyers. New site has less character and is more bland. I cannot get over the cards and the mac. W
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by sunkencity 14y ago
So does this mean Hologram Jobs is inevitable at WWDC?
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by sunkencity 14y ago
Working with Strings is so much better in post 1.8 ruby. Before it was hell with iconv especially for us guys who work primarily with non english languages. The default splitter for split is newline: "foo\nbar".split => ["foo", "b
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by sunkencity 14y ago
http://phillyrb.org/events/115 SQL injection seems pretty far from the metaprogramming context, if that was the actual event.
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by sunkencity 15y ago
Seeing mottos, manifestos or anything else in list form on wall in your company is a sign that it's time to try to find a new job.
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by sunkencity 15y ago
The picture of Matz, Stallman and the Quilt is priceless. I like that this award goes to Matz, good choice!
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BigData Podcast "Follow the Data" #1: Gavagai Gavagai(followthedata.wordpress.com)
1 points by sunkencity 15y ago|0 comments
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by sunkencity 15y ago
I'd never work for a company that tried to threaten me.
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by sunkencity 15y ago
Yep, now I just want to actively avoid learning what yammer is.
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by sunkencity 15y ago
>He never takes a marginal approach to an issue. Who does and is interesting to read?

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