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by zenocon 16y ago
Be careful with calcium. I was taking a 1000mg / day capsule that included zinc & magnesium, and I recently ended up with a kidney stone. Not fun. My Doctor asked my why I was taking calcium being a young, healthy, individual...and h
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by zenocon 16y ago
Thanks for that. The missing link here is having the tutorial and the editor together for the maximum user benefit. What would be really cool is if the online copy of RWH had this editor embedded in it. What would be even cooler is if it
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by zenocon 16y ago
Nicely done. Would be nice to support copy/paste into the editor. Get rid of the dark grey background on code snippets in the tutorial -- very difficult to read. Having REPL inline with the tutorial is great...wish someone would build som
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by zenocon 16y ago
http://newzleech.com - I've always used newzleech. They were also shut down for a while but they are back now.
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by zenocon 16y ago
Interesting. I built a webapp with jqtouch, which does something similar: http://jqtouch.com/
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by zenocon 16y ago
Thanks. I hadn't heard of you before, and knew little of the origins of Facebook, etc. I just read your book. It was a fascinating read.
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by zenocon 16y ago
Speaking from a little bit of experience in this area...these networks are often not isolated. It depends on the vehicle and network architecture, but there are valid business reasons for getting at the entire network through Wi-Fi. Buffer
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by zenocon 16y ago
I'm running adobe's FP 10.0.45.2. When you hit a site that requires flash the first time, firefox prompts you to install the plugin, and it gives you three options: the adobe player, and two other oss versions. I chose the adobe player. B
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by zenocon 16y ago
I'm also running Ubuntu x64 and have had no issues with Flash
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by zenocon 16y ago
I do something similar, although not as lavish. I'm an independent consultant, and I typically work 4-5 weeks at home, and then co-locate for one week at the client to do planning and design for the next iteration. I've found this to be a
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by zenocon 17y ago
+1 for maven for me. I've used it quite a bit. I've set up (fixed) a lot of really, really bad Ant builds. I have nothing against Ant, but it is easily abused, and can quickly degenerate into a complex mess. Maven has a learning curve --
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by zenocon 17y ago
Yes it does. A good local repo will cache it. They act as mirrors. Once its cached, and your build is working fine, you can force all your developers to use only your local repo. This solves all non-determinism problems by allowing yo
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by zenocon 17y ago
"The trip from suburban home to office will require a few minutes only. A penny will pay the fare." Ha! That very well may have been true if we didn't wreck our economy with fiat currency.
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by zenocon 17y ago
What you're missing here is sort of described in the RTFM. There are a couple very good, free books on maven that describe this, but in essence: 1) You absolutely should have your own local repository (e.g. Archiva). 2) You should use &#
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by zenocon 17y ago
Sounds much more like a rant to me. The complaint about the war file size is a prime example. There are several quick / easy ways to analyze this and fix it / force it to generate exactly what you want. None of that is particularly advan
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by zenocon 17y ago
The performance argument falls down when you consider the embedded domain where there is a long way to catch up before all embedded devices are multi-core with lots of RAM and huge caches.
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by zenocon 17y ago
If you use Java, EasyMock makes this a non-issue. I have found that with a test framework like EasyMock, you no longer have to jump through so many of these goofy tdd hoops. You can mock methods, return values, thrown exceptions, parameter
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by zenocon 17y ago
nail on head. he should read Murray Rothbard's paper, "What Has Government Done to Our Money?" http://mises.org/money.asp
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by zenocon 17y ago
Some fine points. I agree about the quality of the people and the passion, but I disagree that distributed teams only work for routine work. I worked on a large, complex project wherein we re-built a company's internals from scratch. The
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by zenocon 17y ago
I mean a real whiteboard with real people in the same room and some markers :) We would alternate one week co-located and have intense design sessions in smaller teams, then go back to our own time zones and code it for 3-4 weeks. I've look
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by zenocon 17y ago
I did this for three years as a consultant. I worked from the home office (US) 3-4 weeks, and then travel to Europe for a one-week co-lo...rinse, repeat. We grew from 7 people up to 3-4 teams with about 30-40 people. In the end we had a
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by zenocon 17y ago
What are your hardware specs, and how much ram did you give the VM? I have a mbp that is a few years old with 4GB of ram, and fusion has never been slow. I did just upgrade to 3 and installed a Win7 image and it runs seemingly like bare m
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by zenocon 17y ago
Agreed. I'm building a GWT app right now. I know Java inside/out. I don't know all the browser quirks and JS very well. I could spend time to learn it, but GWT seems to solve the problem for me so far. I have hit a few cross-browser is
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by zenocon 17y ago
It isn't just the usenet archive search that sucks -- it includes pretty much anything under the google groups banner. I'm often searching groups dedicated to projects under google code, and the search results are dismal more often than no
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by zenocon 17y ago
I would also add that I use LinkedIn very effectively in this area. Keeping in touch with all your past colleagues / bosses serves you well. When someone updates their status, and you see they moved to a new company/position, it may be ti
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by zenocon 17y ago
I'm using them as well -- have been happy so far. I avoided insurance altogether until a client required it. Don't get it unless you need it. You can get a policy in place fairly quickly.
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by zenocon 17y ago
I've been working as an independent software consultant for about 5 years now. I've found the best way to get work is via past contacts. For example, if you are really good at what you do, then all of your past supervisors / colleagues kn
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by zenocon 17y ago
Yea - so, I have a family which eats up a lot of my time, but beyond that, not long ago I would spend all my living free minutes reading tech books and writing code on projects I never finished...really just to keep myself sharp. I've done
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by zenocon 17y ago
I have to second this. If you are building anything more complex than a very simple project, and you are not using one of the three (Eclipse, Netbeans, Intellij) -- you are wasting a lot of your time. They are not hard to learn. The stuff
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by zenocon 18y ago
happy with HN now. please don't change the formula. i say that knowing it will change...but pleading with you to try to leave it the way it is.

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