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by xyzzyb 14y ago
If you want to go old school you can check out the Hacker's Diet (free online, and recently got an epub version): http://www.fourmilab.ch/hackdiet/ After a lifetime of thinking that diets had to be permanent and results were only possible
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by xyzzyb 14y ago
Shameless plug: I collected a bunch of resources for learning Ruby, Rails, and general programming on Rake Routes a couple months ago: http://rakeroutes.com/blog/learning-ruby-rails-and-programmi... On the article, I strongly disagree tha
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by xyzzyb 14y ago
I'm genuinely curious: what do you find so infuriating about market research/validation? Where you able to find another book/resource to meet your need? If not, why deny yourself the knowledge that you were interested it getting?
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I'd love to be able to step through this graph year by year. An animation tracing each tornado would be fantastic too.
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Tornado tracks(flowingdata.com)
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A tag was created specifically to respond to Sound Museum and is already a great collection: http://www.freesound.org/browse/tags/sound-museum/
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Heh, no worries. It just caught my eye (former WP dev). I'm actually really impressed with offerings like Octopress or, more Rails specific, Bloggy: http://www.engineyard.com/blog/2012/introducing-bloggy-a-sim... But, wow, that configurat
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EyeZo: current ISS location(eyezo.com)
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My schedule is similar, except our four year old is now totally in bed asleep around 8 - 8:30. Given that we wake up with the newborn around 4-6am that doesn't leave a big time window for getting sleep and hanging out with the wife and doin
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by xyzzyb 14y ago
To make a site really, really freaking fast serve static content. That cool curl command against rakeroutes.com: Total time: 0.439 Time pretransfer: 0.175 Time starttransfer: 0.270 Size download: 17506 Speed download:
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Yeah, #1 is based on my recent experience of adding a newborn to a four year old. 1+1 is apparently 27
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And a great way to see if your site is getting faster or not is Blitz: http://blitz.io/
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Zipdecode(benfry.com)
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Tip #1: don't have kids. They are awesome, but complete side-projects themselves and take up more time than a full-time job. :-) Tip #2: do something and blog about it. What worked, what didn't work, what tangents were useful? Post your upd
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by xyzzyb 14y ago
Ready Set Rails is running PHP? I'd think that a site promoting Rails and a Rails workshop would be, you know, using Rails. :-)
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I haven't heard phrases like that since browsing book covers years ago. In large part -- although perhaps just online -- the programming community seems to have moved on from the "Hey, this is so easy! Buy my book!" phase. We now have tutor
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by xyzzyb 14y ago
Always be learning. Don't learn Rails to make a career out of it (although that may end up happening!), learn Rails to expand your mental models. And don't just learn Rails! Learn Django. Learn Sinata. Learn Erlang-Web or Nitrogen. Learn Sm
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For what it's worth, I love your design and the strong call to action.
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Back when I was a PHP programmer the "PHP Cookbook" published by O'Reilly was a terrific resource. Unfortunately it looks like that isn't being maintained. Still might be worth picking out of the bargin bin though.
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Whitespace is already extremely significant in programming. "foo[1]" vs "foo [1]" for example.
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Not so much. If you're going to need to view video away from data service or WiFi then, yeah, you have no choice but local storage.
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Neither has bandwidth. :-)
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Sure, but then you'll have to use up precious gigabytes for video storage. Via plex I have streaming access to my entire video library.
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Plex runs on a computer at home. You then stream that computer's media over the Internet on the iPad/iPhone using the Plex app. To make things super-easy you can register your home Plex server on myPlex and sign into it using myPlex on the
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by xyzzyb 14y ago
Try hosting your video files on a Plex media server paired with the Plex iOS app. No need to copy files to the iPad, Plex streaming works great even over 3G. You can register your server with myPlex then sign on Plex clients to make getting
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Getting up to speed on a new git repo(rakeroutes.com)
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by xyzzyb 14y ago
Agreed. There's a big difference between being sorry and being sorry you got caught. Miso management is sure coming off like the latter.
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For the record, I disagree with the article but thought the idea was interesting. Public branches are useful for all kinds of things. I really can't picture doing any serious development without them. Intra-project pull requests alone are a
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Git Branches Considered Harmful(unprotocols.org)
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Sounds like a cool project. Good luck :-)

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