brettbender

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by brettbender 14y ago
Love rubular, use it every single time I write or edit a regex, just to test some weird cases while I think through the syntax.
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by brettbender 14y ago
>> No, even in a skill game, it is possible for someone who does not understand the rules to make the perfect play. > Disagree with your first point You may, but it is possible for a much better player to lose (even in a "skill
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by brettbender 14y ago
> If it’s true that poker is a skill game, then only the true greats should be able to play perfectly. No, even in a skill game, it is possible for someone who does not understand the rules to make the perfect play. It is just extremel
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by brettbender 14y ago
Sorry, didn't mean to get your knickers in a twist, I was only being tongue-in-cheek.
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by brettbender 14y ago
Have you ever used PHP before?
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by brettbender 14y ago
So you did not read the article which actually addresses people who make this argument?
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by brettbender 15y ago
When people talk about 'the objectification of women,' they're not talking about the dictionary definition of the word objectification. It's shorthand for sexual objectification. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sexual_objectification
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by brettbender 15y ago
The best part of being in a field that changes so often is that years of experience don't count. You max out after a year. -------- And... quit reading.
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by brettbender 15y ago
Thanks a lot! We appreciate your help.
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by brettbender 15y ago
We personally prefer the user experience that we've crafted. Notifications in the app differentiate between new messages and mentions (in the room list), for one. We also feel that the display of messages in each room is superior, and pre
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by brettbender 15y ago
Technically, both Propane and Briquette use a Webkit view, but behind the scenes Briquette actually implements the Campfire API instead of scraping the campfire site for its content. Briquette also supports Growl, multiple sites, customizab
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by brettbender 15y ago
Thanks, hope you enjoy it as much as we do.
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Show HN: Briquette, a Mac OS X client for 37signal's Campfire app
13 points by brettbender 15y ago|14 comments
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by brettbender 15y ago
Yes, we've known (and been enraged by) the font-size changing bug as well. Not sure what the deal is with the beachball you've gotten intermittently, but there are a few updates in the pipe (waiting on App store review process). One of th
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by brettbender 16y ago
I agree, it's very important that we never do things that we might not be good at, or people traditionally think don't 'fit' with what programmers in general do. Any chance of failing at being a designer/artist/photographer/whatever is too
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by brettbender 16y ago
While his statement was definitely prejudiced, don't you think assuming that 21-year-old nerds can't identify lightly applied makeup is also somewhat prejudicial?
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by brettbender 16y ago
Also note that translation is a very different task than parsing, or part-of-speech tagging, for example. Summarization and translation are both open research topics in NLP from what I understand, and aren't really 'solved' in any language
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by brettbender 16y ago
Love the entitlement evident in his reply, "I'm a fucking Engine Yard programmer for fuck sake. We promote mongrel as a stable deployment stack" - does he think the fact that they promote zed's work means it's okay to ignore zed's rights re
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Facebook knows when you'll break up(cnn.com)
22 points by brettbender 16y ago|18 comments
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Practical Use of Ruby Blocks(viget.com)
2 points by brettbender 16y ago|0 comments
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by brettbender 16y ago
If it's that easy, why not just implement it in the first place and give people less of a reason to lambaste your application that supposedly centers around privacy?
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by brettbender 16y ago
At least now the next time a client wants me to do something in .NET I have a good excuse to gently persuade them to something else (until this gets patched, at least).
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Trouble with Diaspora(blog.steveklabnik.com)
153 points by brettbender 16y ago|161 comments
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by brettbender 16y ago
If you hate researching new technologies and learning new languages, maybe developer wasn't the right profession?
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How-to safely use models in your Rails migration (gem-session.com)
1 points by brettbender 16y ago|0 comments
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by brettbender 16y ago
I have a hard time believing sleeping like this will be the same quality of rest as sleeping comfortably.
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by brettbender 16y ago
Having a "major stake" doesn't necessarily imply that it owns the majority. You wouldn't call 49% a major stake in NBC?
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You can't be excellent without passion(blog.steveklabnik.com)
7 points by brettbender 16y ago|0 comments
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by brettbender 16y ago
"More, he confidently states that his product will offer the BEST browsing experience despite it not supporting Adobe’s Flash player (thus discarding a vast majority of web sites), and gets away with it." Wait, since when do most sites have
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by brettbender 17y ago
People use the word "please"?

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