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by avdi 15y ago
I dunno reg, it struck me as ordinary journalistic due diligence. Showing up at his doorstep might have been a bit much (although we praise reporters for doing that in cases with just slightly more scandal than this one). But she didn't do
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by avdi 15y ago
...I also used that as an example below the main example :-) And I have come to the same conclusion as you re: Backbone.
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by avdi 15y ago
There is definitely such a thing as a book that was released too early.
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by avdi 15y ago
I deliberately used a dated example because I figure it would probably ring a bell with a lot of people. Realistically this is a choice a lot of people were probably making around 5 years ago, and the answer at the time would almost undoubt
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by avdi 15y ago
I almost invariably isolate any API calls behind some kind of wrapper facade. In fact, a lot of the presentation is about exactly that: adapting Ruby's IO primitives--which can raise various exceptions, and may return a process exit status
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by avdi 15y ago
I'm using Org-S5 ( https://github.com/sigma/org-s5 ) with some rather kludgey HTML and a heavily hacked-up stylesheet.
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by avdi 15y ago
Footnote to (a): except for the slides which are intended to be unreadable because they are about the shape of the code rather than the content. An effect that works very well across a room but which is rather lost when viewing the slides
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by avdi 15y ago
I'm not sure what you're getting at here, other than that trying to treat an array of arrays as an array of Hashes is a bad idea.
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by avdi 15y ago
Hi HN. If you get some value out of these slides, great! But please, do me a favor: don't try too hard to construct a narrative from a stack of slides which: a) represent about 15% of the actual semantic content of the presentation; and b)
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by avdi 15y ago
Thanks! I've queued this for a closer look.
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by avdi 15y ago
I had someone else report an IE7 crash recently. I wish I could narrow down WHICH JS is the problem. It's just stock WordPress+various widgets.
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by avdi 15y ago
Ruby has a public/private divide which can easily be circumvented. But the circumvention is a bit ugly, which is a good thing - it makes the circumvention obvious in the code. Personally, I think Ruby hits a sweet spot here: the privacy cur
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by avdi 15y ago
The striving is the key. Keep it up!
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by avdi 15y ago
As I'm usingn DPD for this book, I'm happy to hear that! P.S. Would you mind getting in touch with me? I have a script to share with you guys.
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by avdi 15y ago
That's all you'll find in my book, I just made the font really big and quintuple-spaced it. ;-)
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by avdi 15y ago
Yes, please.
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by avdi 15y ago
That sounds super cool. I'm gonna check it out.
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by avdi 15y ago
There's a video on the site of the conference talk that spawned the book, if that helps.
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by avdi 15y ago
As I replied above, I'll probably work on Epub first because that's the format I got the most requests for when I did a survey. But after that I'd be happy to get some Mobi pointers. Email me!
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by avdi 15y ago
I'm gathering feedback on which format to work on next. So far the most-requested has been .epub.
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by avdi 15y ago
Nope! It's strictly a style issue. As I explain in the video (or the book if you buy it), as a result of a conversation with Jim Weirich I'm starting to use "fail" once again.
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I just released an eBook about exceptions and failure handling in Ruby(exceptionalruby.com)
71 points by avdi 15y ago|38 comments
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What's the best way to read mailing lists in 2011?(superuser.com)
1 points by avdi 16y ago|0 comments
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by avdi 16y ago
Oh, Perl. Sometimes I honestly do miss you.
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by avdi 16y ago
Writing it in two lines would defeat the purpose of demonstrating the difference between && and 'and'.
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Distributed Teams are Stagnant Teams(wideteams.com)
3 points by avdi 16y ago|0 comments
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I've started a community site and podcast for distributed teams(wideteams.com)
1 points by avdi 16y ago|1 comments
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by avdi 17y ago
I'm using Ubuntu and my fonts look nothing like that. And no, I don't use the Microsoft fonts. Something's messed up on that machine.
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by avdi 17y ago
Heh. I love that you can publish dozens of technical language-tips articles in relative obscurity, then have one purely philosophical post shoot up reddit and HN - and all the language lawyers come out and quibble about the code samples! No
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by avdi 18y ago
All of the alternative tools - bzr, hg, darcs - have highly optimized protocols as well. This may be a documentation issue - I've never seen documentation for using a dumb server with git. Also, can clients submit changesets back via si

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