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by thedudemabry 12y ago
That's reasonable, but it seems to be equivalent to creating a top-level function and associated global variable in other languages. Java's prohibition of those constructs necessitated the class wrapper, but doesn't appear to
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by thedudemabry 12y ago
I totally agree that the singleton detail is beside the article's point, but what is the modern case for singletons? It seems like singletons are now considered a synonym for global variables. What other purpose do they serve?
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by thedudemabry 12y ago
Yikes! 50x monthly payment + 3 payment deposit for a rental? I had no idea NYC was _that_ bad. I live in Denver, one of the highest cost-of-living growth cities in the US (aside from the spurious oil-boom townships in the midwest), and $2,0
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by thedudemabry 12y ago
My response exactly.
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by thedudemabry 12y ago
On first read, this appears to be the best and most pragmatic of all possible proposals. I'm nervous about its reception and subsequent tearing-down, but this is an FCC I can get behind.
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by thedudemabry 12y ago
I've spent an inordinate amount of time thinking about this problem lately and haven't found a good answer. The need for pagination seems to stem from: 1. The desire to limit the size of HTTP responses. 2. The lack of the ability
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by thedudemabry 12y ago
Depending on your diet and sodium tolerance, broth can be a good alternative to coffee. I'm on a ketogenic diet (high fat, moderate protein, very-low carbs), so I have a few extra mg of sodium to play with, but I've tried stretche
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by thedudemabry 12y ago
While I agree that Monopoly is a rightfully derided board game among the pantheon, I think the author pulled meaningful analysis from why it did initially appeal to the public. Also, in case anyone unfamiliar with modern board games is read
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by thedudemabry 12y ago
I agree. The author has released something into the world in the hopes that it will further progress for someone else or themselves. That's awesome. And the OSS community on GitHub has some great tools to fork the project if the author
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by thedudemabry 12y ago
This is a terrible thought, but my honest first thought when I read the title was, ”Yikes. Someone arranged a ’Most Dangerous Game‘-style scenario over TaskRabbit?“
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by thedudemabry 12y ago
While I was very pleasantly surprised as I read the letter, I had this fleeting thought as well. But although the FCC has been an occasional nuisance in the last 25 years, they naively seem to me to have been a generally good force in broad
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by thedudemabry 12y ago
I really enjoyed the game, but (possible minor spoilers) the game crashed in Chrome Canary right when I think I was about to see an ending. On purpose?
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by thedudemabry 12y ago
I'm not sure I entirely understand his argument. He seems to be arguing that: 1) Javascript is too complicated for non-web-developers who want to develop a website. 2) That complexity means that CSS is great as-is, not that the complex
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by thedudemabry 12y ago
Yuck. While there might be a tiny sliver of a journalistic integrity accusation amidst the noise, this video was a tornado of slut-shaming. I feel gross now.
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by thedudemabry 12y ago
I stumbled upon this book reference, along with Edwin Tufte's awesome trilogy, back in college on Bret Victor's old links page: http://worrydream.com/#!/Links . That reading list has a TON of great links.
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by thedudemabry 13y ago
I completely agree. To borrow a common refrain among my group of coworkers: presume goodwill. It's amazing to see the interactions of a group of very effective developers feeling out the finished product as they venture into interestin
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by thedudemabry 13y ago
Yeah, that thought makes me a little bit uncomfortable. Kickstarter campaigns were interesting precisely because they didn't equate investment with profits. They attempted to align investment with niche product delivery.
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by thedudemabry 13y ago
Agreed. This is a "gamble to win a product that you want" game, not a "gamble to win a stake in a company that you like" game. The very product-based focus of the transaction is intended to discourage thinking of it as a
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by thedudemabry 13y ago
A very good point. Pixar is notably a huge fan of Ghibli studios, which has ventured into less child-friendly fare in the past. But they have always been a big proponent of universal stories, stories which do not demean children nor sacrifi
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by thedudemabry 13y ago
> I was day dreaming about how far they could take this and imagined them freezing the scene and the three of them breaking character/fourth wall to pitch a product and then unfreezing the scene and going back to acting. You could i
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by thedudemabry 13y ago
I'm not sure about that figure. The price of a console-available, AAA game on Steam seems to keep pace with the prices of the big-box stores and specialty retailers for the first 6-12 months. The major differences seem to be the availa
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by thedudemabry 13y ago
Haha, the first in-car app that came to mind was an illegal street racing lap timer. Perhaps it's a positive that the App Store censors will be approving apps, at least initially.
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by thedudemabry 13y ago
"more successful tests on live pigs followed" So... someone's ordinary Wednesday consisted of shooting pigs and stuffing the wounds with tiny sponges? I imagine in a laboratory setting? That's gotta suck.
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by thedudemabry 13y ago
I've been just dumb lucky in that the companies I've worked for have been very supportive of individual engineers’ efforts to learn new things. Whether through funding conference attendance and/or travel, or by simply giving
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by thedudemabry 13y ago
Yay!
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by thedudemabry 13y ago
Wow! That's a snappy site. Major props to the frontend dev(s).
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by thedudemabry 13y ago
A great group blog that keeps tabs on interactive and generative literature is http://grandtextauto.org/ . I highly recommend it. I wonder how blurred the lines can truly become between code and literature, though. If a piec
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by thedudemabry 13y ago
That's an interesting point, that literature can also be approached as a dissection. But I think that Mr. Seibel's observation still holds. Literature is primarily intended to be read and discussed, while code is primarily intende
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by thedudemabry 13y ago
The state has implemented a seed-to-sale tracking system called MITS: http://www.mymits.com/
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by thedudemabry 13y ago
My employer, MMJMenu :)

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