danieldon

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by danieldon 16y ago
Indeed. Sass and Compass have been doing this for years. Using mixins for CSS framework rules so markup stays semantic is basically the core concept behind Compass.
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by danieldon 16y ago
That's certainly one leading theory, and probably the most likely. However, that happened earlier in the summer, a month or more before he actually shut everything down. There are other possible theories, eg, in his last tweets he lamented
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by danieldon 16y ago
Ruby still lacks in scalability and speed compared to Perl Ruby is faster than Perl, according to the language shootout: http://shootout.alioth.debian.org/u32/which-programming-lang... http://shootout.alioth.debian.org/u32q/whi
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by danieldon 16y ago
if I remember correctly You don't. _why left open source for unknown reasons.
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by danieldon 16y ago
89033 modules Only 21694 distributions, though. The analogue in Ruby is a gem and RubyGems already has 19502.
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by danieldon 16y ago
That would conflict with "Apple doesn't have to spend their time discussing with you about legal dispute among copyright holders."
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by danieldon 16y ago
I look forward to your campaign to change hg init project to mercurial-admin.py startrepository project Those Ruby developers and their magic. Or something.
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by danieldon 16y ago
I haven't, but I know it works fine. Heroku is more of a Rack host than a Rails host, so any Rack-based framework (AFAIK, all Ruby frameworks at this point) run seamlessly on it.
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by danieldon 16y ago
What happens when you do a django template "your way" or "they way we can do it in 2 hours instead of 12"? I've worked on a lot of projects and can't imagine the situation where you'd have this kind of a variation in time to
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by danieldon 16y ago
Have you looked at Padrino? I recently experimented with it and was surprised that it was an extremely awesome middle ground, to the point where I'll probably use it for my next project. It's very fast, close to Rack and easy to use with Ra
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by danieldon 16y ago
I don't presume to know your work environment, but personally I work on my own projects and do contract work and, in my experience, taking on debt is usually a sign that there's a problem with the requirements and estimates, so I usually ch
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by danieldon 16y ago
Python will be more useful if you decide to do something with the language other than ruby on rails If by "ruby on rails" you mean "anything to do with web development, deployment and server config management," then you'd have
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by danieldon 16y ago
You have that completely backwards. If you are coding your Python like that, you are doing it wrong and almost certainly drawing the ire of the people you work with.
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by danieldon 16y ago
How is Django not dramatically more opinionated? It is, we all know it and we know that it's a virtue in that it produces consistent, readable code code. Why are you trying to pretend otherwise? With Django, there's a whole philosophy beh
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by danieldon 16y ago
the most recent post is more than a year old It gets asked every month or so, the last time I remember was just last month: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1830063 And I'm going to refer to my comment from that discussion:
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by danieldon 16y ago
Right, it doesn't make the hotmail situation look better, it just reinforces how bad they both are. What's also horrible about the yahoo policy is that there is that you can reactive the account (at least for some period of time), but the e
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by danieldon 16y ago
According to the docs and the developer comments they do get deleted. Presumably using the account with xbox live and other services is what's keeping it active, even if you don't log into hotmail directly. I've also already experienced bot
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by danieldon 16y ago
I don't think I ever would've seen as many pictures of the random events in the lives of my family and friends without Facebook That hasn't been my experience at all. Seriously. Savy people use/used flickr, others used M
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by danieldon 16y ago
People know more about the lives of their friends and family than they ever have before Wow. I couldn't disagree more. Event notifications are probably the only thing that is substantially more useful in facebook as far as I c
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by danieldon 16y ago
The content of the URL field is dependent on the tab. It arguably makes far more sense to have this strong relationship represented by containing the URL field in the tab itself rather than having a global URL field in one part of the windo
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by danieldon 16y ago
european citizens...people...people...them...innocent people...them Why are you using plurals? Where did the cables discuss anyone fitting this description other than Khaled el-Masri?
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by danieldon 16y ago
I'm a 30-somthing urban professional and almost no one I know still uses MSN or AIM. Tons of people use gchat and gmail, including people who used facebook first. Looking at my adium contacts right now, there are more people signed into gch
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by danieldon 16y ago
Regarding the outsourcing thing, it's clear that even they aren't getting high quality. I'm checking out their Convert Units app, for instance, and the drum scrolling and selection is totally broken, although it works just enough to still f
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by danieldon 16y ago
Honestly, I think these "Ask HN: X vs X?" posts should be strongly discouraged here. The Rails vs Django threads get posted at least once a month, often more frequently, and it's beyond tiresome. They already get flagged and killed half the
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by danieldon 16y ago
I gave up coffee a year and a half ago. My current daily drink pattern: * 8-13:30 - lots of water * 13:30-19:30 - steamed milk * 19:30-22:00 - water * 22:00 - 1:00 - wine (usually italian red)
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by danieldon 16y ago
It goes above the Kármán line (100km/62 miles), which is the international standard for the boundary: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/K%C3%A1rm%C3%A1n_line
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by danieldon 16y ago
Proclamations predicting the imminent decline of Apple got old many years ago.
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by danieldon 16y ago
It's mildly interesting to watch the quality of submissions on HN absolutely node dive on the weekends.
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by danieldon 16y ago
It's an interesting concept. The "Hold down the left mouse button to start moving" line seems problematic to me, as are the other "mouse" references. I have not has a mouse for year, nor do I have a left mouse button. At least some visitors
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by danieldon 16y ago
miss out a lot of social interaction http://i.imgur.com/EpTdz.png from http://www.slideshare.net/padday/the-real-life-social-networ... This has been my experience as well.

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