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by countessa 13y ago
Unsurprising really - most older programmers I know are fed up with solving the same problems over and over again with whatever the new technology happens to be. After a while, writing what amounts to CRUD by and large is pretty dull.
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by countessa 14y ago
Sad news - RIP.
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by countessa 14y ago
"10x represents the best freelance programmers and designers" not to be too snooty, but couldn't they get one of their best design freelancers to give their site a bit of a makeover?
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A new pope is elected(bbc.co.uk)
8 points by countessa 14y ago|0 comments
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Joseph Priestley the inventor of soda water's birthday(en.wikipedia.org)
2 points by countessa 14y ago|0 comments
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by countessa 14y ago
dodgy popups that encourage you to "join Free as a Bronze member" :/
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by countessa 14y ago
Nothing specifically for the eyes. I take cod liver oil regularly and zinc if I start to feel the early stages of a cold.
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Ask HN: Recommend me an intermediate Django tutorial
1 points by countessa 14y ago|0 comments
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by countessa 14y ago
this should so have been called "How to make a quick bug"
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by countessa 14y ago
I use Ctrl-Ins and Shift-Ins on Dvorak for one handed copy paste, but I also don't really find the standard ctrl-c ctrl-v a problem with two hands, I sort of poise my middle finger over "c" and pinkie over "v" with left hand on the ctrl ...
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by countessa 14y ago
nicely done. It would be extra awesome if you could weight the answers a little by date and whether the current version of the language matches the date. Actually that would probably be a pain. Maybe just some (optional) sorting by date?
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by countessa 14y ago
sucks to be on the receiving end of some nasty/uncivil comments. On the other hand, you are now the person that re-wrote sed. That's pretty awesome.
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by countessa 14y ago
Mostly, BBC
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by countessa 14y ago
I had RSI a few years ago. Apart from paying attention to posture (I took up tai chi to help with that), I changed to a dvorak keyboard layout which helped a lot.
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by countessa 14y ago
Not sure I see the point of this with tools like RVM and rbenv around.
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Rails, MiniTest Spec and Capybara for the uninitiated(rubyflewtoo.blogspot.com)
1 points by countessa 14y ago|0 comments
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Ruby, facemash and the Elo rating algorithm(rubyflewtoo.blogspot.com)
2 points by countessa 14y ago|0 comments
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by countessa 14y ago
very nice - thank you for these
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Chruby - Changes the current Ruby(github.com)
4 points by countessa 14y ago|0 comments
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by countessa 14y ago
it's easy to sling mud, and I'm fighting my knee jerk reaction to sling some back but I wonder if Josh was provoked into that comment, otherwise it seems unnecessarily aggressive....especially given that the ruby community is probably poore
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Game that bends the law of gravity(techcrunch.com)
2 points by countessa 14y ago|1 comments
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Stop asking for a ninja when you want a samurai(rubyflewtoo.blogspot.co.uk)
1 points by countessa 14y ago|0 comments
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by countessa 14y ago
http://socialcoder.org
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How to override the equality operator in Ruby(rubyflewtoo.blogspot.co.uk)
2 points by countessa 14y ago|0 comments
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by countessa 14y ago
the noun project is awesome much kudos to them
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by countessa 14y ago
Please change the "Wanna" - it just grates. There is nothing wrong with "Want to ....." maybe even just "Have" and "Want" buttons.
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by countessa 14y ago
On the other hand, the trap of always "doing" something or "going" somewhere is equally harmful. You can trick yourself into thinking you are achieving something when you are just spinning your wheels. Like anything, balance is the key. "If
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by countessa 14y ago
don't know the twitter api very well, so....maybe instead of scaling back and doggedly trying to get the current record set, you simply mark the 1st 1000 as having an error somewhere, proceed to the 2nd 1000....come back to the ones giving
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by countessa 14y ago
In general, I think people are often too worried about this. In any industry where you already have the relationships with the customers, you are already ahead of the competition. It takes hard work to foster relationships and sell well. An
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by countessa 14y ago
oh yes - I kept that sheet taped to my monitor for a few weeks as well, but once its gone.....heh looking at the keyboard while i type these days, just confuses me :)

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