bradwestness

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by bradwestness 13y ago
It's only "wasted" if you got no value out of it. If you thought it was entertaining (which, presumably people who watched it many times did) then it's no more of a waste than time spent listening to The Beatles or Beeth
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by bradwestness 13y ago
Making no mention of Microsoft SQL Server seems like a pretty big oversight.
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by bradwestness 13y ago
Humans can't multi-task.
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by bradwestness 13y ago
Yeah, Apple doesn't really invent stuff, they generally just come out with the same incremental technology improvements as every other company. They're mostly just good at combining components into aesthetically pleasing products,
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by bradwestness 13y ago
If their performance claims bear out (which, we'll see) I could see this becoming a popular way to deliver apps and games to mobile devices without giving 30% of your income to Apple or whoever.
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by bradwestness 13y ago
From a discoverability standpoint they are. There's not really any way to find like-minded people you don't already know and strike up a conversation with e-mail, because everything is private. Which is kind of the definition of "social".
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by bradwestness 13y ago
A kids soccer game is different than a competitive league. The point of having your kid join soccer is for them to get exercise, have fun and make friends, not to see what team is the best. If they were still doing the "everybody plays, eve
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by bradwestness 13y ago
Even if you don't exercise in your "computer room," it'd be trivially easy to put your laptop or tablet on a chair and do the exercises with it in your field of vision
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by bradwestness 13y ago
Yeah, I'm not about to buy Google Glass any time soon, but arguing about it ruining your life is kind of like claiming that having a GPS robs you of all the fun of getting lost and knowing how to fold roadmaps
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by bradwestness 13y ago
The thing is that being in the tech industry (I assume based on the fact that you're posting on HN in the middle of the day), you don't really need a smartphone because you're likely at your computer most of the day on most days. I don't ha
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by bradwestness 13y ago
Yeah this is the same thing that happened with the iPad (it's a huge iPhone without the phone part? who would ever buy that?!) and more recently, with Windows 8 (metro is a failure! Microsoft is doomed!). Google Glass, in its current iterat
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by bradwestness 13y ago
I don't see how, given that the content is knowingly provided for public consumption by the individuals
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by bradwestness 14y ago
I don't understand the point of what he's proposing. Rewriting WordPress as completely as he wants and breaking all existing plugins and themes would surely just result in someone forking the existing code and maintaining a backwards-compat
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by bradwestness 14y ago
A lot of it is due to the fact that it's much easier to sell an end-user on a plugin to their existing site that requires little to no server configuration than a completely separate system. Whether or not it makes sense as a WordPress add-
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by bradwestness 14y ago
The problem is that this utility defeats the battery life savings which is the main point of the metro "one app at a time" model by breaking the suspend/restore functionality by enabling you to run many concurrent applications. It's very li
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by bradwestness 14y ago
Yeah, and other languages certainly don't require a separate server instance per application. I have about 25 .NET apps running on my production server at work and it's humming along quite nicely.
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by bradwestness 14y ago
I don't think it's so much that it's considered an upside, but rather that it's basically impossible to displace PHP with something better unless the thing you want to replace it with is equally easy, or easier, to implement.
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by bradwestness 14y ago
I agree, and I think that means it will be very difficult for any language that requires more understanding of OOP concepts to get started with will have a hard time competing with PHP in this arena.
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by bradwestness 14y ago
This is what the team behind Discourse is attempting to address somewhat, making Ruby software as idiot-proof to set up as PHP applications. Whether they will end up succeeding is yet to be seen, but this does definitely seem like an area w
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by bradwestness 14y ago
Not exactly sure what the "tips" are in these, most of them just look like cruddy PHP code. In the 2nd part of Example 2, using "else if" instead of several "if" statements to check the same value would result in fewer comparisons having to
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by bradwestness 14y ago
I think so. In the natural arc of a new medium, social media is now at the point that television hit thirty years ago, when the "big three" networks started losing control to a host of new cable channels. TV is obviously still around, but i
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by bradwestness 14y ago
A lot of that can be ascribed to being in the right place at the right time, however. Lots more people have access to the internet, or are internet-savvy enough to use social media sites, than twelve years ago, when MySpace was in its prime
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by bradwestness 14y ago
Yeah, I don't know that it's really anything to do with Facebook per se, but rather the fact that it's 2012 and people's parents are now signing up for social media sites.
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by bradwestness 14y ago
It already has, in the sense that early adopters and content creators have largely abandoned it in favor of other services (mostly Twitter, Tumblr, Instagram and now Vine). Facebook is now mainly the realm of corporate-sponsored pages and g
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by bradwestness 14y ago
Yeah using pt works too. The problem is that everyone uses 12px in their CSS rather than 12pt.
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by bradwestness 14y ago
12pt Times New Roman is the standard for publishing, so that's become the go-to size for a lot of websites. It was plenty big on 800x600 displays, but I agree that it's generally too small for today's resolutions. However, the solution isn'
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by bradwestness 14y ago
Yeah, if posting comments and replying to comments is a design rip-off, then every forum in the world is also a rip-off. Hacker News looks nothing like Reddit, and the internet can support more than one discussion site (obviously).
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by bradwestness 14y ago
I commented in here a couple times and I do ASP.NET MVC development in C#. It just seemed like the concepts are so similar that whether you write it in C# or Ruby doesn't particularly matter.
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by bradwestness 14y ago
Well, the business logic that the given model is responsible for belongs in the model. For instance, calculating an order total belongs in the Order model if you are building a shopping cart. However, you shouldn't break separation of conce
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by bradwestness 14y ago
Yeah "CreatesContract" is a weird name. ContractCreator, or ContractRepository (so it can do more than just create objects) makes more sense to me. Plus he should probably just break the send_email method into it's own method, which he can

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