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by tterrace 14y ago
Thanks for the info, I'll probably give them another shot in my next project after I go through the book.
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by tterrace 14y ago
Last time I used Django, I loved everything except class based views. I thought my view code was much clearer and easier to work with after I switched to FBV's. I see the book touches on both methods, but overall is it opinionated one way o
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by tterrace 14y ago
This is very cool. I also just noticed a neat quirk - if you switch tabs (I'm on chrome) the animations pause but the timer to show the text keeps ticking. So all the text bunches up at the bottom until you switch back at which point the te
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by tterrace 14y ago
There's still many popular libraries that haven't been ported over. Django has recently been taken off the list but PIL, paramiko (and by extension, fabric) and other libraries that a beginner might see mentioned on python tutorials are sti
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by tterrace 14y ago
C++ comes in second behind java in terms of jobs according to stats from indeed: http://www.indeed.com/jobtrends?q=java%2C+C%2B%2B%2C+C%23%2C... . It might not be the new hotness, but there's still plenty of work for C and C++ programmers
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by tterrace 14y ago
This is awesome, there's just something that's inherently cool about building things that take physical input using hardware other than a mouse & keyboard.
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by tterrace 14y ago
Gotcha, I love those "them and us" commands, thanks!
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by tterrace 14y ago
Since everyone's already mentioned Rich Hickey's talks, I loved Bjarne Stroustrup's talk on C++11 style: http://channel9.msdn.com/Events/GoingNative/GoingNative-2012... . He provides a crystal clear view of what he thinks C++ could do bet
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by tterrace 14y ago
I don't understand the part about .gitignore not working for passwords.php: because that’s committed too, so then you risk someone forgetting about their valid edits of the file later .
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by tterrace 14y ago
It would be interesting to see if these groups of small companies could band together and share resources to fight something like this. On their own, a small company has no shot but everyone that received the letter together might.
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by tterrace 14y ago
The first sentence alone should be enough to ward people off from reading this post.
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by tterrace 14y ago
That was the first thing I thought of when the author mentioned exploding eyeballs.
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by tterrace 14y ago
It would be better to pick one and go into how it's used, the benefits, drawbacks, etc, rather than a link with a sentence or two.
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by tterrace 14y ago
Looks to be down, here's the cache: http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:Fdewfzb...
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by tterrace 14y ago
Here's the comment thread for the original blog post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5158837
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by tterrace 14y ago
Here's a throwback to the bad old "best viewed in 640x480" days from pcmag: http://i.imgur.com/TJEMjvy.png
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by tterrace 14y ago
Well I'd say the jump from java to python would be akin to jumping from autocad to a different CAD tool. You're not completely starting over, there's some things that carry over (and I'm not a manager fyi :)).
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by tterrace 14y ago
Six months is an estimate - it obviously depends on what you're working on. The two years I'd be willing to bet on.
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by tterrace 14y ago
I think your constant is way too high, if a new hire can't get up to speed in six months and is still floundering after two years then I don't think the right hiring decision was made.
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by tterrace 14y ago
I wouldn't say a good escape route from a particular stack is to just jump into learning another one, you're just picking another small area of specialization. If you have a good understanding of the fundamentals, the data structures and
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by tterrace 14y ago
You can use that now in 2.x: http://twitter.github.com/bootstrap/scaffolding.html#respons...
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by tterrace 14y ago
I didn't see any proprietary elements, which ones do you mean?
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by tterrace 14y ago
How is the title sensationalist? It describes exactly what happened.
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by tterrace 14y ago
I haven't seen anything that breaks zoom in the browser (do you have an example?) but many of the responsive-type sites break the pinch zooming on mobile which is extremely annoying, especially if they have images that hang off the viewable
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by tterrace 14y ago
To update, it looks like both the gwt quake to and the OP's quake crash safari and chrome on osx, but work great in firefox. The quake 1 demo actually runs noticeably quicker than the gwt one for me. This is a great showcase for what's poss
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by tterrace 14y ago
Oops, I meant to say crashing on osx, the browser is chrome 24
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by tterrace 14y ago
This one is crashing osx for me, but the GWT team did a similar JS port for quake 2 back in 2010, playable here: http://crystalin.dyndns.org:8080/GwtQuake.html .
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by tterrace 14y ago
The book is available from amazon here: http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0670023329/ It's been on my list since I saw his interview on CNN.
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by tterrace 14y ago
I would try explaining those concerns to a client to see just how silly and nonsensical they are.
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by tterrace 14y ago
I think the first step the author took on the refactoring path was one I wouldn't take. It breaks the "do one thing" rule and the rest of the post is the pain that naturally follows from having an over-generalized method that tries to do to

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