tdavis

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by tdavis 17y ago
Thanks, bud; I'm thrilled to be back!
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by tdavis 17y ago
I actually tweeted about this exact thing after catching up to the announcement: Despite iPad propriety, higher res + HTML5 make web apps much more relevant and far cheaper/faster to develop & iterate. I think this is absolu
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by tdavis 17y ago
So you chastise other programmers for writing business applications for the dominant operating system, using a framework that allowed OS-level integration that was in no way available at the time (and in many ways still isn't)? You're right
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by tdavis 17y ago
Replication is coming in 8.5 :) (and I think it's already in the Alpha)
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by tdavis 17y ago
I work out of a co-working space here in Boston that has Airtunes hooked up. I like it. Sometimes people are on the phone or playing something I don't particularly like so I throw on headphones. Other times it's nice to remove myself from t
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by tdavis 17y ago
Driving a car is like force feeding me toxic exhaust when all I want to do is walk down the sidewalk. It's disgusting. Please stop driving everyone. I don't need to drive, why do you? I am within walking distance of everything I need; you s
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by tdavis 17y ago
I think you missed the entire point of the article: living is as much of a gamble as smoking, statistically speaking. You inhale carcinogens daily. Your mind is slowly decaying, along with all your other organs. You could die tomorrow cross
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by tdavis 17y ago
In Afghanistan, Internet was only really available on a couple bases. Our's (U.S.) offered troops 56K to your plywood shack for $35/mo and it had about 50% uptime. After a year of that, pretty much all domestic Internet connections rock. I
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by tdavis 17y ago
Your example only makes sense if that somebody was very proud of their hard-coded HTML form with poor validation. And even then, if it was better than they'd done before, they could still be proud. There are "pitiful" tiers of code, relativ
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by tdavis 17y ago
Out of curiosity, what makes you want to avoid significant whitespace? I think it solves the issue quite nicely. For what it's worth, I used to think SW was completely absurd. Then I spent a few years actually writing Python and have no des
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by tdavis 17y ago
You seem to have a very strict requirement for pride; I wasn't aware there was a "pitiful" tier. I feel like life would be pretty depressing if I needed to create something greater than me for the social good that had a purpose just to feel
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by tdavis 17y ago
My proudest moments as a programmer are those where I manage to develop some functionality in a week or two that took another team of programmers months or years to do by using a novel approach or stitching together preexisting code. Every
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by tdavis 17y ago
I really wish he would have added GZip as a feature. It's a pretty big problem that Rackspace doesn't currently support it and it makes the speed / response time far less meaningful if other providers happen to (well, for certain uses anywa
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by tdavis 17y ago
Awesome, now instead of merely having no idea where a link on Twitter is taking me, I can be left in the dark by links from many other top websites as well! And to think this entire "space" could have been avoided by Twitter not counting UR
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by tdavis 17y ago
A post about global warming is off topic enough, but from Fox News ? I hope you're trying to be ironic.
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by tdavis 17y ago
Screencasts can definitely be useful! Take the Compass screencast[1] for instance. When I first watched it I had no intention of using SaSS/Compass right then; it took me a few more months to find an opportunity to make use of it. What I di
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by tdavis 17y ago
Interesting. Whenever I hear discussions of these sorts of things they're made out as basically swapping plugins -- Site X will now use Site Y's search algorithms, index, etc. instead of their own. If it truly is a melding that could result
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by tdavis 17y ago
Two biggest problems with this: 1. The interface is awful and terribly slow. I don't feel like you can have filtering as a "coming soon" feature when the entire service is based around filtering. Also, I don't know what sort of awful JS is
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by tdavis 17y ago
I'm amazed at how good TicketStumbler is at keeping off all YC-related lists! You can add another "Active/Accidental Stealth" to S08 if you like ;)
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by tdavis 17y ago
I couldn't get a single demo to show up in Safari 4.0.4.
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by tdavis 17y ago
I don't think they were wrong or that you overreacted. The thing about design firms that have a very distinctive look is that they have probably taken the time to refine and largely automate the design process (Photoshop actions, etc.) Take
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by tdavis 17y ago
I am confused. He didn't like that there was copyrighted material on the site and rather than attempt to remove it he just closed down the site? If the copyright holder didn't care, what did it matter?
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by tdavis 17y ago
I've yet to find a considerable value-add in Haml. With Sass the value is pretty clear -- CSS can benefit from having variables and functions to make scripts more reusable and easier to manage. As a Python user I'm a lover of significant wh
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by tdavis 17y ago
Possibly because all people are not you. Life is more interesting that way.
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by tdavis 17y ago
Ha! Yes, that would make more sense in context, wouldn't it... ;)
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by tdavis 17y ago
I was unaware how abysmal the voice version of some CAPTCHAs were until I tried one a week ago, having failed 5 times to register for an account somewhere. It was completely intelligible. If that was the standard, blind people must be compl
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by tdavis 17y ago
Cool, working with a company now who is going to use Twilio for some SMS stuff; the API seems very simple and straight forward. But please fix your copy: ...and a *ding* somebody people enter and leave.
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by tdavis 17y ago
I don't find that particularly true with Twisted because for every common blocking library there is a Twisted equivalent. Whether you need http, ssh, db, or a multitude of other protocols and interfaces, Twisted has them. Sure, you have to
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by tdavis 17y ago
Drat! I'll no longer be able to watch 320px-wide video on my 40" TV! Do people really watch YouTube on their televisions? It seems like a terrible waste to me.
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by tdavis 17y ago
I think his point was simply that writing such CSS is hardly complicated. I like this abstraction and think it will be pretty handy for Compass users (of which I plan to become one), but this mixin basically reduces ~8 lines of CSS to two.

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