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   by swanson 13y ago

   I've found that the much more annoying and difficult to deal with fragmentation bugs are carrier specific. You will find things like Samsung has changed how you launch the default browser from your app or HTC doesn't follow the sp
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   by swanson 13y ago

   I like Pixelmator for Mac ( https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/pixelmator/id407963104?mt=12 ). It is in between Paint.NET and Photoshop. I also use Captur ( http://cambhlumbulunk.blogspot.com/p&#x2F
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   by swanson 13y ago

   Some great language there: framing it as an attack by criminals (gains sympathy from users), explains in plain-terms what a DDOS is (front door analogy), emphasizes (twice!) that user data is safe, apologizes for the likely downtime, inform
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   by swanson 13y ago

   http://gfycat.com/ has been gaining popularity on reddit lately. Links allow you to pick gif or html5 video. Example: http://gfycat.com/GlisteningBruisedClingfish
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   by swanson 13y ago

   How is a Policy different than an ActiveRecord::Validator? Could this TicketPolicy not just be a validator extracted to it's own file (and tested on it's own)? http://api.rubyonrails.org/classes/ActiveModel&#x
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   by swanson 13y ago

   I don't think most people with a blog want to build a community. I sure don't. I write to solidify my own thoughts and to share what knowledge I have gained with others. My blog is my place on the internet. A place that represen
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   by swanson 13y ago

   So I assume the buttons are just links then? Can't submit forms in most email clients :)
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   by swanson 13y ago

   I love seeing new "email-first" apps - most of the mailing lists I've used have now moved to either G+ discussion groups or Discourse, so will be interesting to see if this sticks. Are all email clients supported (Outlook, na
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   by swanson 13y ago

   I think I read somewhere that the fine-print states one entry per household, so no brute forcing :)
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    by swanson 13y ago

    http://feeds.feedburner.com/Grantland
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    by swanson 13y ago

    I wanted the same thing - there is a zip file with some code on one of the YouTube video descriptions. I asked the creator and he said it was an older version of the material that he uses for his on-site training.
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    by swanson 13y ago

    Seems like a great blog rollout strategy in general - every section already has several posts (not sure if they are manually backdated or what) - you could easily spend your whole afternoon on the site, which seems great for "launch da
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    Blind Pair Programming Interviews(codemanship.co.uk)

    104 points by swanson 13y ago|43 comments
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    by swanson 13y ago

    I share your love for Amazon Instant. One of my biggest "time vs money" aha moments was when I realized I was spending 15-20min trying to find working streaming links to watch a 22min piece of content (not to mention plugging in m
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    by swanson 13y ago

    It would be so awesome if this is from "Nathan For You" - that show is hilarious, especially if you appreciate dry humor and have ever watched a season of The Apprentice :)
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    by swanson 13y ago

    I'm paraphrasing Merlin Mann, but another benefit of this approach in a day-job environment is that you demonstrate you are capable and deserving of doing cool work. When a shiny Rails project is coming down the pipeline, is it more li
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    by swanson 13y ago

    There is a method `onCreateThumbnail()`[1] that is supposed to allow you to do this, but it doesn't appear to work (reported bugs in 4.0-4.2). The best you can get at the moment is to blank out the thumbnail[2] (for security reasons) o
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    by swanson 13y ago

    Ah - that makes more sense. I have Disqus comments blocked.
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    by swanson 13y ago

    So how do I view the Q/A? Going to that link just has his bio and an email signup form... The banner at the top of the page says "See questions and answers below". What am I missing here?
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    by swanson 13y ago

    I found Apprenticeship Patterns to be a great book to read in your first few months working professionally (or during an internship). It's had a huge impact on me and is one of the three books I recommend to every new hire that I mee
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    by swanson 13y ago

    Great example of observing something that the community is doing (these kind of gifs are all over Twitter and sports blogs) and building a tool to make it easy. I love seeing these kind of "organic" features.
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    by swanson 13y ago

    Just an FYI if you didn't know this, but Pandora will show you the same kind of information if you hover over the song (web) and pick "Why was this track selected?". "Based on what you've told us so far, we're
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    by swanson 13y ago

    Autumn is neat - I wrote a similar function that would turn an email address into one of a handful of colors (hash with some modulo magic), which was used to generate a placeholder avatar for users (until they upload their own). Worked real
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    by swanson 13y ago

    When I saw the fluff commits I was immediately reminded of a conclusion from "Punished By Rewards" - once a reward is applied, people will start doing the minimum required to obtain the reward, as their motivation has shifted from
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    by swanson 13y ago

    Well, I'm no Bill Gates, but here are the best books I read in 2013: * So Good They Can't Ignore You (Newport). If you've ever daydreamed about how much better your life would be if you were only working at that cool company,
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    by swanson 13y ago

    If IDEA 13 supports that, then great! Would love to see a blog post describing your setup.
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    by swanson 13y ago

    Last I checked (October) I could not get the build.gradle to play nicely. Most of the other material online involved using instrumentCompile to trick Android Studio into running your unit tests and a custom runner/plugin: https:/
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    by swanson 13y ago

    The only feature that really excites me is the Gradle support. Things like the 9patch editor seem horribly misplaced (you probably don't want your devs to be editing those...) and others seem so situational (the autocompleting sdk vers
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    by swanson 13y ago

    Here's another approach: Make a templated JSON file that mimics a database-backend. When you generate the site (or just push to a GitHub Pages repo), the JSON file will be populated with the "search index" of your site. Somet
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    by swanson 13y ago

    Most people would agree that practice makes perfect, right? I think a big issue with software estimation is that it is hard to get practice. I'd done full project estimates for 4-6 projects in 3 years of working professionally. Compare