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by tjogin 15y ago
So the good thing about ePub was that it was less capable than HTML, and now they've made ePub worse by making it better?
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by tjogin 15y ago
Yeah, kind of, but the false negatives are really severe. You want to select people who really care about development, and while that question might be a pretty good filter for people in their early twenties, it's also a good way to fil
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by tjogin 15y ago
It depends on how you use SASS. Used correctly, with @extend rather than @include for big swatches of styles that reoccur in multiple places, it will be DRY and light. Your designer colleague probably didn't have a sufficient understanding
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by tjogin 15y ago
The biggest problem with CSS today is that the source code is the product. One possible solution to this problem is to use SASS ( http://sass-lang.com ), thereby separating the concerns of the quality, structure, reusability (etc) of code
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by tjogin 15y ago
I'm not sure if Windows Live Mesh is their latest cloud offering or the one before that, or whatever, but Windows Live Mesh certainly is marketed towards regular consumers: http://explore.live.com/windows-live-mesh
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by tjogin 15y ago
I think there is a difference. Microsoft has tried to build and market various synchronization/collaboration/cloud solutions for over a decade, without any success to show for. If Apple succeeds with iCloud, and that's a big if given thei
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by tjogin 15y ago
You seem to be very unfamiliar with Rails and the Rails community.
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by tjogin 15y ago
First. Using HAML in your project involves all of adding the line "gem 'haml'" to your gemfile. It's not a big deal. Second. You just glanced over the possibility that DHH doesn't like HAML for a rational reason, like for instance maybe
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by tjogin 15y ago
I'm so impressed with Yehuda's ability to be both persuasive and calm while completely destroying every aspect of the argument he is refuting.
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by tjogin 15y ago
That's pretty rare though, I think most programmers in their fifties have been doing it for many years.
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by tjogin 15y ago
No, but they also aren't complete imbeciles. Apple are making money hand over fist overall. First of all, it would be astonishingly idiotic of them to break the law for such relatively little potential gain. Secondly, it wouldn't make any
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by tjogin 15y ago
I think Windows 8 powered tablets are going to suck just as much for corporate as for consumers.
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by tjogin 15y ago
I think you're right. But the consequence of that is, of course, that the touch driven "immersive" part is only going to be skin deep. Which in turn means that Windows 8 is going to fail spectacularly on tablets, for the exact same reasons
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by tjogin 15y ago
Of course, but again, that doesn't explain why other tablets are failing today . Motorola's Xoom contains those same parts, yet its sales are terrible. Because it sucks.
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by tjogin 15y ago
So you're saying that one of the spectacularly failed Windows powered tablets from yesteryear would succeed today, because the "timing is right"? No. Those products were terrible, horrible, awful products, that's why they failed. The timing
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by tjogin 15y ago
I don't think it's a marketing problem, I think the problem is that the products suck.
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by tjogin 15y ago
Agreed. An obvious example from the real world is the tablet. Prior to the introduction of the iPad, Microsoft and its partners had shipped lots of models of tablets for over a decade and they were all failures. Then came the iPad. The iPad
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by tjogin 15y ago
Exactly. For Steve Jobs it's closer to two decades, even. As described in Steve Jobs' closing keynote of WWDC 1997, where he outlines his setup from eight years earlier (1989). http://youtu.be/3LEXae1j6EY?t=14m25s This idea didn't come to
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by tjogin 15y ago
I guess the way I feel about ideas is that you don't own an idea just for having described it once, thus if someone else implements it they didn't steal it either. In my opinion, you don't even own an idea that you've implemented poo
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by tjogin 15y ago
A lot of people were attracted to Rails for a lot of different reasons, but it's pretty clear that people who stay with it and become proficient basically tend to ignore the scaffolding feature altogether. The people you speak of maybe didn
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by tjogin 15y ago
In my experience, scaffolding is a crutch for people unfamiliar with Rails. In my connections with experienced Rails devs, I've hardly ever heard of anyone who uses it. Only time scaffolding comes up in the irc channel, forums, etc, is when
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by tjogin 15y ago
It's a poor UI even for people like me who have never used SVN. Understanding how something works after having learned it is not a sign of a good UI, a good UI facilitates easy learning by having commands do the thing you'd expect them to
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by tjogin 15y ago
The author never claimed the code should be written only for people, then it wouldn't work, would it? You're either trolling or mistaking the rest of us for complete morons.
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by tjogin 15y ago
The author argues that good code should be written for people. The metaphor doesn't break just because you disagree with the author's point. IMHO, any dolt can produce code that only works. All too often I have to sift through horrib
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by tjogin 15y ago
They have one more thing in common; the text is read by other people . And the better written, the more effortless it is to understand. I think this aspect of it is what the slashdot author is mostly talking about, suggesting that if you
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by tjogin 15y ago
And in programming you don't have to worry about capturing the audience, the development of the characters, the story arch, being clear but not being obvious, etc. Both in programming and writing, the actual writing part is the easiest pa
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by tjogin 15y ago
That doesn't make a whole lot of sense. Microsoft are competing on the server with ASP.NET, and shouldn't be competing with HTML5.
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by tjogin 15y ago
The point is that Apple isn't a monopolist. They like to inadvertently brag that they are, but they are not, thus any comparison with Microsoft's monopoly abuse is moot.
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by tjogin 15y ago
Yeah, it's not difficult computer science. The hard part is providing good UI that doesn't get in the way 99% of the times. Remember, you're like the only person this has ever happened to.
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by tjogin 15y ago
> "very good for getting stuff done fast, easy and good-enough" You're saying PHP facilitates a faster development process than most other popular web development platforms? This was probably true, ten years ago. Today, we have several

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