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by tomkin 14y ago
The iPhone 4S was a huge improvement over the iPhone 4, but the press and fans shat all over it because it had the same case design and therefore wasn’t “an iPhone 5”. Are we talking about "actual specs" or "perceived differen
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by tomkin 14y ago
I hate to be that guy, but this is a real poor comparison. First, who uses guides anymore outside of print? 1140 Grid or 960 does the job perfectly fine and prepares your design for responsive. You can write an article about Starcraft if yo
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by tomkin 14y ago
I agree with most of what you said, but you accuse me of not thinking of the RoR developer community, which is false. My issue lies with extremely critical community leaders suddenly disappearing into the shadows. If you beat others up, e
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by tomkin 14y ago
Do you know how many Rails developers I've heard pissing on Flash or Java and its security vulnerabilities? Many - until recently. Now suddeningly these faults are an accepted aspect of Rails development. Really. I guess this more of a rant
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Great idea!
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by tomkin 14y ago
I always find that I agree and disagree with these kinds of comments. From an accessibility and standards point of view, I absolutely agree – don't fuck with what people understand. From a progressive, artistic point of view I think these
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by tomkin 14y ago
Oh boy. What a great argument. Telling me to go fuck myself, and that you don't care what any one else thinks. Great rebuttal. Do you think that the 11,000+ people who are killed with firearms are worthless? Because they are being killed by
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by tomkin 14y ago
Yes, the US is so special. Again, other countries have sub-urbs, country residents. Come on, really? This is your defence? That America has vast countryside? Jesus fucking Christ. Can't think of any other country that has this geography? RE
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by tomkin 14y ago
> Personally, I can't understand why you care about how 'we' handle guns in our country. I don't, really. But it is frustrating watching, oh, I don't know, 95% of the developed world somehow getting by without guns while the US can't
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by tomkin 14y ago
This doesn't prove guns solve problems. It just makes it clear that police can be incompetent. This is the most bizarre argument. You're argument is that police do a poor job, so average people should do the job? Here's an idea: spend some
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by tomkin 14y ago
Wow. I love the rhetoric, but it's glaringly flawed. You're suggestion: people are driven by their basic instincts, so...they should all have access to guns. Couldn't make a better case against guns myself. Or is it that government is "spec
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by tomkin 14y ago
Your right to bear arms is silly. Incredibly silly and archaic. You live in 2013, not in colonial times. While the amendment made perfect sense then, it makes no sense now. The pro-gun movement seems to be completely ignorant to the stagg
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by tomkin 14y ago
This is a really poor argument. First, what's "tyrannical" to you? There are various degrees of "tyrannical", just as there are various degrees of terrorism. Can you expect the entire country of gun owners to react all at once? Because I ha
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by tomkin 14y ago
That's all well and good, except no gun you have is going to make a difference. If you're worried about a tyrannical government, you better start investing in drones, nukes, tanks, etc. Otherwise, you're just fooling yourself thinking you s
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by tomkin 14y ago
We started out wanting to do a co-op, but after some legal woes we realized that wasn't going to be easy. This was our compromise. > In particular, what happens if one of those side-projects becomes insanely profitable? So far that hasn
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by tomkin 14y ago
Spot on. As a web development company, we not only encourage it, but also fund and help develop employee side-projects. Bottom-line, if you hire passionate people, you should expect they'll want the same things you do as an employer (I.e. b
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by tomkin 14y ago
This makes me think you may have interpreted my criticism as either PhoneGap or Objective-C bias. For the record, I believe in the right tool for the job , so it does not at all bother me that 37signals went HTML5/PhoneGap/etc. What bother
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by tomkin 14y ago
This. If I could replace my original post with yours, I would. This is exactly what I was trying to say.
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by tomkin 14y ago
Sorry, this bit about ditching is tongue-in-cheek. I don't actually expect them to do so, although I do feel that eventually this will happen and we'll all be back here discussing why it's different because of X . I'm also confused why t
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by tomkin 14y ago
I'm not suggesting a 180 degree about-face. And if we were talking about a company that didn't sell philosophy in the form of books and blogs, my point would have much less relevance. > as any good web developer will know. Am I missin
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by tomkin 14y ago
I did read the article. Both of them, actually. It was clear that most of the app is HTML5, CSS, JS. As originally stated in their previous post, they aren't keen on developing for multiple platforms natively. What they have released goes a
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by tomkin 14y ago
"Eventually we came to the conclusion that we should stick with what we’re good at: web apps. We know the technologies well, we have a great development environment and workflow, we can control the release cycle, and everyone at 37signals c
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by tomkin 14y ago
Funny he calls HN a cesspool, "It appears that HN is following the law of large communities: they go to shit." [1] – using Twitter, a community of millions. Plus, he has posted here as recently as 10 days ago. :D [1] https://twitter.com/dh
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by tomkin 14y ago
I wonder what DHH has to say about all of this? I seem to remember a few of his posts being pretty harsh on security and security of other platforms. I can't imagine DHH completely washes his hands of these vulnerabilities?
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15 Year Old Invents Highly Sensitive Cancer Screening Test(forbes.com)
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by tomkin 14y ago
This is inevitable. I know most won't want to hear that, but like any contention like this, it will be resolved by adding more cloud computing power. "Costs less because 90% of the OS/processing is in the cloud!" will become a selling point
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by tomkin 14y ago
You know what's disgusting? This fucking bubble shit. Let's call a spade a spade. A bubble is when you're in a la la cloud of utopia. This wasn't that. I think there was about a zillion people (rough estimate) who knew where this was all
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by tomkin 14y ago
Thanks :) I personally found that mino/doxycycline were not as good as tetracycline for treatment of acne and I don't know why. I'm concerned that the same is true of the other potential applications.
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by tomkin 14y ago
Somewhat slanting the topic here, but what happened to Tetracycline (non-synthetic)? One of the oldest, inexpensive treatments available – discontinued for, what appears to be, no tangible reason. It was highly effective for all sorts of in
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by tomkin 14y ago
I have to say, I'm pretty happy to see others who have gone this route and lived to tell about it. My family was fairly poor, so we moved around a lot. Education was not really on the top of the list in terms of priorities; my last student

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