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by tjstankus 16y ago
Good points, all. I'm not advocating that they should upgrade. I understand they're in budget slashing mode. Just pointing out that the longview approach would likely be cheaper and that their "more cost effective" statement should probably
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by tjstankus 16y ago
I'd venture to guess that not upgrading from IE6 is more costly in terms of overall, sustained economic impact. Sure, it costs the government money to upgrade right now . But multiply the costs of continuing to support IE6 across all the
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by tjstankus 16y ago
Barry Sears (of the Zone Diet), among others, has been saying essentially this for 15+ years. But I think ppl are starting to catch on, e.g., most know that corn syrup is terrible for you.
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by tjstankus 16y ago
Pay attention to macronutrients (carbohydrates/protein/fat) and eat them in proportion to each other. You'll need to do some reading and a bit of experimentation to find what fits your needs best. Getting the right balance of macronutrients
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by tjstankus 16y ago
I love that there's a Facebook Like widget in the right column as you scroll down.
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by tjstankus 17y ago
Most of the Nintendo DS games involve a lot of text. One example of a game that she played quite a bit recently is Fossil Fighters. The Nintendo DS games pretty much all assume you can read, though, so it's not hard to find ones that develo
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by tjstankus 17y ago
My wife studies multi-modal literacy as part of her PhD studies. She was, at one point, staunchly against letting our young daughter play too many computer games, but as a result of her studies has done a complete 180. We monitor what our d
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by tjstankus 17y ago
You may be in for a rude awakening. I have health insurance for my young, healthy family of 3. (Two 30-somethings and a healthy 4-year-old. No prescriptions, etc.) I pay $700/mo., have a $50 copay for pretty much anything, and no vision or
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by tjstankus 17y ago
I'm with you. I like screencasts for getting started with a new tool but once I'm up and running I tend to reach for in-depth written documentation or reference materials. But, this makes screencasts really valuable IMO. When you have an ho
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by tjstankus 17y ago
About to show my age here... I still have the hardcopy issue of "Maximum Rock n Roll" that this article first appeared in. Albini is one smart dude. And he totally gets that Rock can be a thinking man's music.
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by tjstankus 17y ago
I think President Bush used this technique as well. (Sorry, couldn't help myself.)
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by tjstankus 17y ago
What's also important, but not addressed in this article is the kind of app you are building. I'm generalizing a bit here, but Django seems to focus more on the CMS-y content type of applications whereas Rails shines more for non-traditio
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by tjstankus 17y ago
I use RedLaser a bit and the scanning works better when I use the macro lens of my Clarifi case ( http://www.griffintechnology.com/products/clarifi ). Note: I'm not associated with Griffin in any way. Just thought I'd share this tip.
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by tjstankus 17y ago
A comment in the techcrunch post tipped me off to http://ecouteapp.com/ Liking it so far.
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by tjstankus 17y ago
Amen. I've moved to Songbird for playing music on my Mac. It's not perfect, but I prefer it to iTunes. And there's nothing out there that's more compelling. I still use iTunes to sync my phone, but that's what I've come to see iTunes as - a
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by tjstankus 17y ago
I think most of us on HN realize it's gonna take more than a few days and a few pages of reading to truly understand what it takes to create a programming language, not to mention becoming the next Guido or Matz. The table of contents looks
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by tjstankus 17y ago
It's great that Apple are listening, but this quote from the article stands out to me: "Technically, nothing specific has actually visibly changed in the last few days. I said I wouldn’t go back until I could see actual demonstrable progres
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by tjstankus 17y ago
I've been considering an iPhone-native app for a web app I'm creating. But honestly, I've never been enamored with the App Store. Submit for approval? Gimme a break. Instead, I plan on developing a targeted UI for Safari on the iPhone. If t
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by tjstankus 17y ago
The spirit and message of this post remind me of one of the best books I've read: The Practicing Mind. ( http://www.amazon.com/Practicing-Mind-Bringing-Discipline-Fo... ) I fight myself over striving for perfection constantly. When I get cl
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by tjstankus 17y ago
Upvoted for researching the cost and posting that information here.
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by tjstankus 17y ago
Well, since my comment on nytimes.com apparently got moderated out of existence, I retrieved it from my clipboard history. Here it is. (And maybe someone can help me figure out why this would get ditched by the moderator.) Keep in mind this
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by tjstankus 17y ago
I commented over on nytimes. http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/07/10/online-backups-coul... (might still be awaiting moderation) The gist of my comment is that the issue is not backup services, it's the bandwidth.
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by tjstankus 17y ago
What bothers me about posts like this, and some of the reaction, is that it boils things down to absolutes. While it's true that there are decisions that should be made quickly and on gut instinct, it's also true that there are decisions wh
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by tjstankus 17y ago
Actually, I'd argue that quote is a pretty good description of Henry Rollins's behavior and work ethic. Of course, if you also consider that he started his publishing company while living and working in a tool shed, it might be hard to call
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by tjstankus 17y ago
I hope this is not true, but it looks like you have pretty good evidence. I've been a happy emusic subscriber for years. I don't mind spam so much only because Gmail's filters are pretty good. But, I do get quite a bit of it. > 1000 i
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by tjstankus 18y ago
I would tend toward that idea: a module that can be included. Injecting a sum method into the object's ghost class also maintains scope of responsibility, but feels a bit more magic. I'd opt for less magic. At first, anyway. :)
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by tjstankus 18y ago
I don't think global variables were mentioned in the article. Do you mean the global (top-level) namespace? If so, then yeah, "Don't do that" is pretty much the solution.
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by tjstankus 18y ago
Yup, proper use of namespaces would solve the problem, in part. Supposedly Rails3 will be using namespaces quite a bit more than the current version of Rails. That will allow things like mounting apps inside other apps, aka slices. What I t
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by tjstankus 18y ago
I've read similar numbers elsewhere, but came to an entirely different conclusion. Wall Street lured a lot of really smart people by promising them a lot of money. Then, in turn, they asked of those same smart people to create as much money
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by tjstankus 18y ago
My favorite Cameron Crazies chant ever: "Whose your Daddy? Battier."

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