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by zcrar70 17y ago
I hear what you're saying, but I think it's wrong - language is imperfect, and may de facto exclude absolute truth, but it's the 'worse is better' of human communication :-)
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by zcrar70 17y ago
Probably because you were quite rude :-)
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by zcrar70 17y ago
I saw him once! But he was over 40ft tall, and 4 hands each with 20 fingers to be able to type more quickly. He is able to solve hard problems just by looking at them, and he is accompanied everywhere by 30 beautiful maidens. I think this t
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by zcrar70 17y ago
They're a little late to the party...
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by zcrar70 17y ago
Firefox 3.0.10 is horribly slow on my system, it crashes pretty frequently on startup. I've been using the Ubuntu Chromium daily builds off of Launchpad for the past for days ( https://launchpad.net/~chromium-daily/+archive/ppa ), and it's
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by zcrar70 17y ago
So did you actually have a genuine copy of Windows on your PC? Why did it suddenly stop working, was it due to an upgrade or something? As an aside, I don't actually think it's unfair for MS to block access to Windows to users who are using
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by zcrar70 17y ago
Yup - I'm amazed. The Rails community has gotten some flack for this kind of issue before, but rather than listen to the criticism and learn from it, they make the same mistake over and over. It's as if they feel that Rails is a direct prod
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by zcrar70 17y ago
Although he actually calls his article 'Goodbye Browsers', I think he actually means 'Goodbye websites as islands of data'. He talks about data coming from different sources over the web, and getting consumed by applications which may not k
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by zcrar70 17y ago
I just get an error saying that my information couldn't be verified: We are unable to validate your customer information and proceed with your order at this time.
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by zcrar70 17y ago
Neither Flash, Java or Silverlight will work with Selenium either. In fact, it's pretty hard to get any form of automated acceptance testing working with any of the RIA technologies.
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by zcrar70 17y ago
Welcome to the Real World (Of Large Corporations), Dustin...
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by zcrar70 17y ago
I agree with the general gist of the article, but I'm not sure I agree with this: "Wages are compensation for value creation" This implies that compensation in general (not wages in particular) is always relative to value creation, which I
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by zcrar70 17y ago
Actually, Visual Studio does come with Emacs-like keybindings by default - check out Tools > Options > Keyboard, and choose the Emacs option from the dropdown menu. Nice analogy though :-)
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by zcrar70 17y ago
ViEmu rocks. I hope the guy who wrote it does reasonably out of it, because it's a great piece of software.
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by zcrar70 17y ago
Not having a good design for their website is definitely not illegal.
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by zcrar70 17y ago
They're doing something wrong. And they have to fix it. They could start with fixing their customer experience. They're definitely doing something wrong, and they definitely need to fix it. I like your redesign, but I doubt that their exi
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by zcrar70 17y ago
This looks nice, but $1300 seems a little overkill for a home file server! (unless it's a home office?)
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by zcrar70 17y ago
The quote at the top of the page says: "the greatest difficultly of Rails development is that 'best practices' have a shelf life of < 12 months" Sam is quoting this (as opposed to making the statement himself), but putting it at the top
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by zcrar70 17y ago
I also agree with this - I find it particularly difficult to maintain apps that I wrote for an earlier version of Rails, and which I had to lock to that version to avoid the app breaking in hard to diagnose ways; I sometimes don't touch the
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by zcrar70 17y ago
Good article, but all problem description, no solutions. That's true of this article, and often of Economist articles generally; this isn't necessarily a negative though, because it provided an enlightening insight into circumstances that
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by zcrar70 17y ago
U.S. tax rates appear lower but when you combine federal, state, local and property taxes, it is similar to most European nations. I'm interested in this - do you have any numbers to back this up?
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by zcrar70 17y ago
This mightn't be interesting to US readers, but here in Europe, where there is no Kindle, it actually sounds quite a lot more compelling. The most widely available reader on sale here is Sony's at around 250GBP, so something costing 80GBP l
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BiteScript: Ruby DSL for generating JVM bytecode(blog.headius.com)
18 points by zcrar70 17y ago|1 comments
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by zcrar70 17y ago
Not to want to sound snobbish, but £80 headphones are kind of wasted on mp3s in any case - if you compare listening to an mp3 and the same track on CD (or in a lossless codec such as flac), you'd definitely notice the difference, and apprec
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by zcrar70 17y ago
About 7 or 8, it was an Apple II GS :-)
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by zcrar70 17y ago
Only someone with no clue about programming would suggest something like this. It's very worrying that unelected 'officials' being paid by us can try to pass laws that no one wants. Unfortunately, that type of thing happens all over the
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by zcrar70 17y ago
Only $856 in the sale! Bargain. Perhaps a kind-hearted friend might consider it for his next birthday?
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by zcrar70 17y ago
Yup, agreed - he obviously has a particular neurosis, and seems to hope/expect that the population of the world will change their habits accordingly...
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by zcrar70 17y ago
> the signal you're sending by pulling out a PC laptop is that you either can't evaluate good design or you don't see it as a priority. You could also argue that by pulling out a Mac laptop, you're sending out the signal that good desig
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by zcrar70 17y ago
> We’re pretty obsessed with performance at Gilt Groupe Not wishing to troll, but I'm not sure that Ruby/Rails is you're looking for if you're obsessed with performance...

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