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by thenduks 15y ago
I was forced to use Visual Studio in school, I hated it throughout and took every chance I could get to use Python or Ruby or something else with a unix-y stack. Trying it again now would be pretty far out of my way just to reaffirm what I
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by thenduks 15y ago
Try just being helpful to other people and not worrying about reputation points and badges and who's going to use the answer for what potentially commercial purpose. It can be pretty rewarding to have someone thank you profusely for helping
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by thenduks 15y ago
Yea, I really don't. What's wrong with different windows? I prefer to read documentation in a tool that is good for reading documentation (don't understand the IQueryable crap? Just jump over to StackOverflow in a couple keystrokes). The de
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by thenduks 15y ago
That doesn't sound all that good to me. My steps to finding what IQueryable provides: * Cmd+Tab to Chrome * Cmd+L for location focus * \IQueryable searches DuckDuckGo for IQueryable and takes me to first result I get to use the editor I wan
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by thenduks 15y ago
Proud to have scored a solid -115 :)
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by thenduks 15y ago
It may not be mentioned in the beginner docs... I feel ok insisting that professional software developers read more than an intro to the framework they are using. Also not mentioning it isn't the same as avoiding it 'at all costs'. To conti
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by thenduks 15y ago
On one hand you have `update_attributes` - IMO you should just never use this (seems raganwald agrees), but hey, it exists and it can be useful for simple stuff. So on the other hand is `attr_accessible` - You need to specify what is allowe
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by thenduks 15y ago
Link is on the upper right of the page. 'Fork me on GitHub'.
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by thenduks 15y ago
I disagree that node doesn't need more projects like this. And I disagree that express/geddy/etc are 'modeled after rails/django'. But, a framework that spans client/server could be really interesting. Have you seen Derby? http://derbyjs.c
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by thenduks 15y ago
So, with something like Tower.js the code is written in coffee to start with ( https://github.com/viatropos/tower/tree/master/src ), but in the repo (and in npm) you'll actually get the resulting JavaScript as well ( https://github.com/viat
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by thenduks 15y ago
Tried it several times over the years. Unfortunately it doesn't meet the 'properly' criteria :)
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by thenduks 15y ago
Honestly, contrary to this article, I think you'd find that most developers using Macs use them more for the OS than for the hardware. If I could build a seriously beefy desktop machine and run OSX properly on it, I would. For laptops the n
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by thenduks 15y ago
Apple pays fair market value for the labor (that would be China's market), ships the result across the ocean/vast distances, and then sells it at fair market value elsewhere. Also, as per the article, 'low income' is relative. Low to you, h
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by thenduks 15y ago
How about the fact that zsh enforces that you spend a certain amount of time per day just contemplating your existence: % time zsh -c exit zsh -c exit 0.22s user 0.21s system 97% cpu 0.436 total $ time bash -c exit bash -
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by thenduks 15y ago
Of course they aren't advocating that. They're just saying you can try it out by dropping that script tag on your page. Their first suggestion, and the one they are definitely implicitly recommending, is: "Use it as a part of your asset pac
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by thenduks 15y ago
Khan Academy is a training/teaching company. I don't think it's a leap to assume they will be providing online tools to write code with (eg http://c9.io/ ).
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by thenduks 15y ago
I started working on a bug tracker (who hasn't at some point, right? :)) because we were using Bugzilla at work and I absolutely hated it and didn't think it fit with our workflow at all. About a year later I brought it to the team and we d
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by thenduks 15y ago
I'm not sure I really see the problem, or even how gender is at all relevant. I generally don't bother negotiating salary either. Money isn't (even close to) the most important thing to me and I will take the first offer that puts me in a c
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by thenduks 15y ago
I find the word 'fuck' plenty interesting. Also I hardly think, in the context of giving presentations/talks at conferences, that it is overused like 'awesome'. In fact the presentation seemingly in question (the documentation one) only use
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by thenduks 15y ago
All those that ridicule iTunes on Windows have never tried to use a Google product on iOS! :)
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by thenduks 15y ago
Another shortcut to whole-phrase is using `.` hacker.news == "hacker news"
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by thenduks 15y ago
Oh please yes. cough Posterous
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by thenduks 15y ago
Great point. Also imagine the space you save by not having a user serviceable battery compartment. No latches and contacts in a little plastic housing and walls to separate the battery from the rest of the device. You can make it any shape
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by thenduks 15y ago
Except for one item. They've heard of iOS5, want it bad and have no idea what this silly named 'gingerbread' thing is. For my part, some of their plusses are actually detractors. Removable battery? Every phone I've had was rickety and ended
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by thenduks 15y ago
Hmm, sounds more like reddit is the thing that has jumped the shark :) Most people using Node I've had contact with are firmly in the 'right tool for the job' camp. No one sane does CPU intensive tasks inside the event loop... that's what d
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by thenduks 15y ago
Ok, fair enough. I thought what you were trying to argue was "Your tablet can never be a replacement for your laptop. Period."
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by thenduks 15y ago
The point is that we all did pay for good tools. We paid for TM1, and TM1 included the promise of a free update to TM2. I already own TM2, see?
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by thenduks 15y ago
That is an... interesting approach. I, for one, who would gladly pay for TM2 separately had I not already purchased a license for it , would not appreciate that kind of attitude and make sure never to do business with Macromates again.
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by thenduks 15y ago
How can you not understand that $60 is huge money to some people? It doesn't matter the price, it's expensive to someone. He made a promise about what that $60 buys you (namely, TM1 and TM2), so he better deliver.
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by thenduks 15y ago
It has nothing to do with being a 'cheapskate'. It also has nothing to do with the amount. Next to the 'buy' button in 2005 there was text along the lines of "upgrades are free all the way to 2.0". Changing that now, added to the fact that

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