brendanobrien

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   by brendanobrien 13y ago

   I'd love to know where the fact(s) that support this "majority" come from.
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   by brendanobrien 13y ago

   I disagree with the principle that we should make more things to reduce waste. I'd much rather take the 800$ I'm supposed to spend on buying this phone, and give it to someone trying to repurpose old electronics.
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   by brendanobrien 13y ago

   I really, needed to read these exact words this morning. Thank you to the author. Now time to refocus!
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   by brendanobrien 13y ago

   wahoo!
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   by brendanobrien 13y ago

   Sounds like solid logic to me. Glad to have that one explicitly worked out :)
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   by brendanobrien 13y ago

   I;d say, it's his wedding. The answer to "Why not do it this way?" is that as a couple, that's not what they wanted. This only looks "faked" is because we have no personal connection with the couple. I'm w
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   by brendanobrien 13y ago

   +1 I think many of us would pitch in on a hacked-together version of this just hosted on github. The repo that builds this out could itself be a testing ground for the project.
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   by brendanobrien 13y ago

   find of the week.
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   by brendanobrien 13y ago

   What a fantastic method for making technology seem less daunting.
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    by brendanobrien 13y ago

    Thanks Twillio for a proactive response to a horrible situation.
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    by brendanobrien 13y ago

    I humbly disagree. Building a company to be the size of Microsoft is not a trivial matter, no matter how you stretch it. You'd need to catch a VERY big wave of innovation. I'm totally on side that the author is exercising a little "wishful
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    by brendanobrien 14y ago

    I think this serves as a great testimony to just how homogenous / under-considered the "flat" aesthetic has become. For crying out loud, flatUI is a kit for replicating this appearance! I love the flat look, but as soon as kits for replicat
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    by brendanobrien 14y ago

    I've been using HAProxy in the interim.
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    Send Solarship to Africa(indiegogo.com)

    1 points by brendanobrien 14y ago|0 comments
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    by brendanobrien 14y ago

    I agree, but think the issue is slightly deeper. The branding lays the sass / pass / social elements on a little too thick for my taste. I immediately get the sense that this software is limited compared to a 'hard core' game engine. I'm su
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    by brendanobrien 14y ago

    Because in Canada it's impolite to be number one :)
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    by brendanobrien 14y ago

    So excited! Thank you Stripe!
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    by brendanobrien 14y ago

    first. world. problems.
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    by brendanobrien 14y ago

    +1 Backbone. For me the more open-ended approach has allowed space to try different approaches to see where they fail, and refactoring. This open-ended approach seems to jive well with the spirit of js, and has definitely made me a better d
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    by brendanobrien 14y ago

    Couldn't Agree more. A professional dev should know one of these languages well. They should be judicious enough with their time to know that it doesn't make sense to "just pick up" a language for job-related work.
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    by brendanobrien 14y ago

    Absolutely agreed. Given the magnitude of the platform at this point, I'm assuming some of the 'MySpace vibe' is a necessary byproduct. Pruning overgrowth from companies like Zynga & co is my number one request as a facebook user.
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    by brendanobrien 14y ago

    If you're still complaining about this, I'm here to tell you to move on.
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    by brendanobrien 14y ago

    I really like the general theme of pointing the designer into the core of the startup, and think a lot of this is very good, accurate advice. As a long time designer turned developer, supported. I would have made the tone a little less prea
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    by brendanobrien 14y ago

    +1 Twilio!
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    by brendanobrien 14y ago

    So good!
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    by brendanobrien 14y ago

    To the OP, thanks for writing. I'm going to try to act on it and get out to some sort of meetup. To you, catastrophallie, on behalf of male developers who happen to think women–ESPECIALLY women who program–are totally awesome, I'm sorry. I'
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    by brendanobrien 14y ago

    couldn't agree more.
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    by brendanobrien 14y ago

    I didn't know this whole demoscene existed. This is amazing.
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    by brendanobrien 14y ago

    Spec work for startups? ... Spec work in general?