jimray

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At Proto is in a creative-explosion phase(macwright.com)
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by jimray 13y ago
I dug up Apple's reorg announcement from 1997, where Steve Jobs was officially brought on as an "advisory" role to then-CEO Gil Amelio. http://web.archive.org/web/19990128084705/http://prod
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by jimray 13y ago
I completely agree with your point, but that's not a problem of renters, per se. If the city of San Francisco (where my wife and I live) made a committed effort to build a stable stock of rental property that allowed families of 3-5 to
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by jimray 13y ago
Not to be too glib, here's another impressively depressing stat: 56% of Americans don't have a problem with the recent NSA tracking revelation and a significant plurality would be happy to see it expanded[1]. What do we do when ou
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by jimray 13y ago
Mule Radio (I work there, you may know us as home of John Gruber's The Talk Show) donated $1000 to the EFF to help fight this patent. You can, too. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2013/05/help-save-podcasting On another note, it's nice to s
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by jimray 13y ago
Just wanted to say thanks for such an insightful, nuanced response.
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by jimray 13y ago
Ease off on the rhetoric. I'm not accusing anyone of anything, I don't think anyone did anything illegal and, for what it's worth, I thought the Times' lawyering was dumb and hamfisted at best. But there was a right way for scroll kit to ha
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by jimray 13y ago
So, the ends justify the means and it's all good because at least his startup got some publicity? Even if the "publicity" turns out to be a net win, what a terrible way to conduct yourself.
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by jimray 13y ago
I'm not a lawyer and my understanding of fair use seems to be about as poor as everyone's. What Scrollkit did, though, was tacky, plain and simple. They built an impressive product but are using someone else's work to try to promote it[1].
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by jimray 13y ago
And the aggregate affect of a crowd full of people instagramming just about every moment of a concert means I basically watch live shows through the screens of other people's phones these days. Throw in a dozen crummy LED flashes going off
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by jimray 13y ago
This was exactly my big gripe with the story, particularly Swisher's insistence on writing it as "rags to riches" (even using that very well worn cliche verbatim). The fact is, Systrom, like Zuckerberg, was practically guaranteed success in
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by jimray 13y ago
Yes. The authors like CBV's and make a strong case for why you would want to use them. Like you, I found CBV's to be wanting, particularly generic views, and all but gave up. A combination of updates to the official docs with 1.5 and this b
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by jimray 13y ago
Reading the utterly passive tone of the OP, with Webkit somehow "emerging" out of KHTML all on its own, nary a mention of Apple, makes it pretty obvious this move is mostly about politics.
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by jimray 13y ago
Made by Sandwich Video http://sandwichvideo.com They do the best (and most imitated) promotional work for tech companies going.
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by jimray 14y ago
This is so well stated. It's something I (age 34, married, no kid(s) (yet)) think about a lot. I live and work in a city (San Francisco) and in an industry (web developer) where being 10 years older than the median age of my neighbors and c
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by jimray 14y ago
"Delightful" is the trend word I'm waiting to die
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by jimray 14y ago
Fair warning: 2 Scoops definitely assumes some familiarity with how Django works, specifically models, views, templates, and forms. It won't introduce these concepts to you but will help you use them better. The official Django Tutorial is
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by jimray 14y ago
Hot dog. I've been working on a small side project the past week or so using the 1.5 RC and following along the best practices recommended by 2 Scoops of Django -- https://django.2scoops.org If you haven't already, I highly, highly recomm
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by jimray 14y ago
That was my first thought as well. And then I started wondering why they are automating so much setup on OS X itself instead of using something like Vagrant for dev stuff. I find OS X to be pretty frustrating to work with natively. I've lon
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by jimray 14y ago
I get what you're saying. I think your response captures one part -- the id, if you will -- of a pretty common refrain I've heard about this article amongst my other nerdy, SF dwelling friends. And in that respect, you're right and certainl
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by jimray 14y ago
> I don't really know the history of Django but I'd wager it took a lot of inspiration from Rails. Not exactly. Django mainly came into existence as a formalization of a lot of helper functions that The Lawrence Journal-World newspaper
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by jimray 14y ago
It takes a highly developed sense of cynicism to see a transparent effort to curb child labor as an attempt to hurt their competitors. Furthermore, Apple has publicly committed to bringing more manufacturing to the US, which isn't exactly p
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by jimray 14y ago
I'm not sure "deserve" is the right way to consider it, more like "what is the social value of billionaires?" Or, why isn't the marginal tax rate on $1B+ 100%. I don't have much to offer in the way of an answer, just something I regularly p
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by jimray 14y ago
Using em instead of px for media queries is definitely a bit of a mindmelter at first. However, if you're truly interested in building a responsive site, not just hitting a few target devices(1), I definitely recommend spending a little bit
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by jimray 14y ago
Perhaps a better title for the series would be "Getting Started with Django in the Real World" Because in the real world, you need to know things like chef, vagrant, ubuntu, apt-get, pip, virtualenv, heroku, ssh... if you want to do anythin
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by jimray 14y ago
This is a great story and inspiring and hits all the right "feel good" buttons. BUT. Isn't the story really "how blind people use the accessibility features of iOS"? Accessibility, specifically Voice Over, is a core component of iOS and pre
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by jimray 14y ago
Here's my first ever tweet. There's a separate JS file for every month of tweets. The JSON object itself is named according to the month. Grailbird.data.tweets_2006_12 = [{ "source" : "web", "entities" : { "user_mention
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by jimray 14y ago
I got mine this weekend. It's a solid implementation, a great 1.0 and something Twitter and the engineers who worked on it should be proud of. When you click the "get my tweets" button, it kicks off a process in Twitter land somewhere. A fe
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by jimray 14y ago
I lived in Seattle for 7.5 years, moved to San Francisco September 2011. My only regret is not doing so sooner. Seattle is a wonderful town (and it really is a big town more than a city) full of wonderful, if slightly insular, people. It's
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by jimray 14y ago
Any particular reason why? South appears to be under much more active development.

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