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by zampano 14y ago
I don't know about you, but my iPhone 4 was feeling pretty sluggish doing normal everyday stuff in iOS by the time I upgraded to the 5. That said, I have used a friend's 4s and it was also quite a bit more fluid than the 4. Between that and
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by zampano 14y ago
Well, that was disappointing. Spent about 20 minutes trying to get in on this, only to find out it is sold out when the site finally loads. If they want developers to give Windows 8 a spin, they'll need to put in a little more effort to mak
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by zampano 14y ago
I totally understand the feeling. I'm currently in a low pay full time coding job without benefits. I'm in no financial situation to consider quitting (I wouldn't last a month). Only doing what I do at work advances my skillset little, so I
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by zampano 14y ago
In OSX, instead of setting caps lock to "no action", I set it to be another control key. I have never been able to hit the pathetic little excuse for a control key on Mac keyboards without also tapping fn or option.
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by zampano 14y ago
yikes, I can't remember the last time I saw a TOS on my iPhone, can anyone else confirm that this happens?
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by zampano 14y ago
My grandma used to work as a TSA screener in Southern California, both before 9/11 (when they were ran by a private organization IIRC) and after. She would regularly have to go take classes because she would miss the dummy guns and grenades
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by zampano 14y ago
Part of it is personal value. I spent years learning Japanese and frequently felt that, while there were many resources for learning kanji, there were few routes that one could take to mastery that were not mostly self-guided and didn't tak
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by zampano 14y ago
I would build a comprehensive framework for teaching Hanzi/Kanji to non-native learners of languages that use Chinese characters. Anecdotally, I've seen what I assume is a disproportionate amount of passionate learners of languages that use
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by zampano 14y ago
I requested one in September and got the invite in early December so I'm not sure if there is any real rhyme or reason to how the invites roll out. You might check your spam folder as well; mine had somehow ended up there.
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by zampano 14y ago
To all those pointing to cast iron, have you tried using carbon steel pans? I hear that they have many of the same properties as cast iron pans (they're seasoned the same way) but weigh less and heat up/down more quickly. I have been thinki
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by zampano 14y ago
Agree wholeheartedly on the Victorinox Fibrox not holding their edge, though I don't have any experience with their chef's knives, just the santoku.
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by zampano 14y ago
Anecdotally, I went from working a part-time job making 11/hour a year ago to working full-time as a (very) junior Rails developer for double my old pay after a friend encouraged me to make the transition. I did have a lot of general comput
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by zampano 14y ago
While most of this can be forgiven thanks to Simple being a newcomer to banking, having all that extra information sent along (ssn, dob, etc.) just seems like a horrible oversight. As a recent Simple convert, I sincerely hope they listen to
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by zampano 14y ago
What I really miss from Japan are the toilets with a sink on top of the water container on the back (something like this: http://f00.inventorspot.com/images/profile-toilet.jpg ). You flush the toilet and the water refilling the container c
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by zampano 14y ago
Kind of fits with what he says in the article: "For me, Bootstrap is very fun, not serious – nearly every line is a joke. It’s trying to provoke you. Taking shortcuts. Demanding that you reread it. Reread it again. It’s very pop. Very optim
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by zampano 14y ago
This is great. I'm still fairly new to programming and all my experience until now has been confined to dynamically-typed, interpreted languages (other than a little dabbling into C for learning's sake), so I'm really appreciative of any ef
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by zampano 14y ago
I've heard murmurs of a RailsGirls workshop here in Austin and I know a few of my female friends were very interested in attending when I talked to them about it. I think it's great to try to get more women involved in the industry, and whi
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by zampano 14y ago
I agree entirely. I started programming with ruby and rails about a year and a half ago and have made a habit of going to meetups and conferences in the area. I have seen nothing that wasn't intended to be constructive and helpful and I wou
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by zampano 14y ago
I heard a speaker at a conference say that Sass covered a lot more of the weird CSS edge-cases than LESS, can anyone comment on the validity of that? I've used Sass in Rails but I wouldn't be opposed to checking out LESS if there was a comp
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by zampano 14y ago
I think the bit about talking to the manager is key here. Many of my friends are servers and customers will sometimes stiff them entirely on tips because they are upset about the quality of the food or some other transgression of the restau
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by zampano 14y ago
That seems to have been a major problem in many Japanese families, to the point that the absentee father is kind of a trope in a lot of Japanese media. If any of you guys played Earthbound, you might remember that, while the mom was always
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by zampano 14y ago
I'm not sure there are 100,000 family-owned businesses where the owner has 75 years+ experience, spends 15+ hours a day at work and takes their job so seriously. I've worked in kitchens that were highly-rated in their own cities, but they n
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by zampano 14y ago
Why not just call the gym in question? I've had numerous accounts with recurring charges, but I've never dealt with them by changing account or card numbers.
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by zampano 14y ago
This is great motivation. I've been doing much the same as you, just over a longer period of time, but I've been a little too intimidated to put myself out there so to speak. It is great to know others are getting results in return for thei
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by zampano 14y ago
I've never really understood the Ruby community's attitude toward for loops. I learned Ruby as my first language and read many blog posts and instructional books that told me to absolutely avoid the for loop. Of course when I started to lea
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by zampano 14y ago
Excuse me if this is a stupid question, but why would timeout issues on large files affect something like Heroku more often than other types of hosting services?
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by zampano 14y ago
Giving this an up vote just so you might get some response. I'd probably try to report it normally and specify what happened in the notes in case this doesn't hot the front page.
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by zampano 14y ago
I can't recommend The Well-Grounded Rubyist higher myself and totally agree regarding it's accessibility in comparison to the Pickaxe. This is the book that taught me programming.
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by zampano 14y ago
Honestly, if you're planning on focusing on Rails eventually, I'd start with the Rails Tutorial by Michael Hartl ( http://ruby.railstutorial.org ). It's easy to get lost as a total beginner with all the various things Ruby itself is capable
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by zampano 14y ago
I have no idea if what he's trying to do here will actually work out for him, but I went ahead and donated $5 because I have to respect him for at least trying.

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