ethyreal

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by ethyreal 6y ago
Related there is a related video series if your interested: https://egghead.io/courses/professor-frisby-introduces-compo...
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by ethyreal 6y ago
we did this book for our work book club a year or so ago. most people in the club enjoyed reading it. there were issues getting the some of the examples to work at the time but that's another matter.
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by ethyreal 12y ago
any proof to back up those claims?
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by ethyreal 14y ago
"A lot of folks, especially Apple supporters, like to characterize Amazon as irrational, even crazy, for its willingness to live with low margins. It must be frustrating to compete with a company like that." This assumes that Apple is actua
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by ethyreal 14y ago
it's also funny that I can't think of any IM services that are making money.. or rather I have no idea how they make money. however it seems like with geo fencing and a willingness to share your address book with a new service it can do all
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by ethyreal 14y ago
it seems like all you have to do is convince you friends to install the app and set locations / status they want to share and the app ( uses geo fencing ? ) updates the status for them and you when they enter those areas.
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by ethyreal 14y ago
they have a "featured" profile here: http://tapfame.com/daniel.amitay/ But I agree that requiring Facebook is always a big turn off of many people ( me included )
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by ethyreal 15y ago
I've found peepcode and rails casts of be extremely helpful. http://peepcode.com/ http://railscasts.com/ For a total beginner check out meet rails on peepcode: http://peepcode.com/products/meet-rails-3-i I think its like 12 bucks, but
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by ethyreal 15y ago
I guess it depends on your target market. If it is for native english speakers then adding voice files for each kana sound would be a good thing. For native Japanese speakers ( usually kids ) I'm not sure they need sounds. I released someth
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by ethyreal 15y ago
this is exactly what I was think while reading the post! at some point abstraction isn't just a something to geek out on, it is necessary. maybe the problem is not know some assembly or at least some C when you write Objective-C or C++ you
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by ethyreal 15y ago
i found the ever changing world of rails intimidating when i first started and that was in the wonderful world of 1 moving to 2 but at the end of the day all you really need is to get the same version of rails that your book/tutorial covers
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by ethyreal 16y ago
in my experience it has been moments these that have forced me to grow, forced my out of my comfort zone. more often then not resulting in new friends. its a lot like traveling alone verses traveling with friends. if you have friends arou
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by ethyreal 16y ago
Every keyboard in my office has had it completey removed! For that very reason.
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by ethyreal 16y ago
...there are always nay sayers, who are usually wrong as time passes..
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by ethyreal 16y ago
Yup! Though they take a lot of flack over the draconian control they wield, the results are a brilliant ai, out of the box accessablilty! (I sound like a dirty apple whore)
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by ethyreal 16y ago
PHP is a language and Rails is a framework. You might be better asking PHP Vs. Ruby or CakePHP, Zend Frameworks Vs. Rails. Is it Rails that makes you happy? If so i understand CakePHP to be a rails clone in the PHP language.
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by ethyreal 16y ago
I love that a four year old programming rant is still poignant.
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by ethyreal 16y ago
The same short term profit paradigm that seems to prevent most corporations from engaging in sustainable business practices. Only if you forget short term profits and look to enduring sustainable profits does any sort of sustainable busine
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by ethyreal 16y ago
Try issh I,ve used it to much success, but I have not tried with a blue tooth keyboard.