mccutchen

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by mccutchen 12y ago
I love personal annual report season. Nicholas Felton's (feltron.com) and Jehiah's are the two that I've been looking at the longest. The amount of work that goes into these — being thorough when collecting the data througho
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by mccutchen 14y ago
I think this is a beautifully expressed thought: "… as soon as I saw 'the slow web movement,' I assigned my own meaning to it. Because it’s a great name, and great names are like knots—they’re woven from the same stringy material as other w
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Hexbins(indiemaps.com)
3 points by mccutchen 15y ago|0 comments
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by mccutchen 15y ago
I would always rather see a text tutorial than a screencast.
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by mccutchen 15y ago
Nice. It does seem like one of the lighter-weight Python web frameworks might fit in better with the overall theme of this intro, and Flask is a great choice. I thought about doing the same thing as I read through it.
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by mccutchen 15y ago
Note: In Python 2.6+, you can just `import json` instead of needing to install and import simplejson.
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by mccutchen 15y ago
I'm still confused. I'm neither an iOS nor and Android developer, so maybe this is not a confusing situation to them. But: > What we mean by single backend is you can have one backend and you don't need to know whether you are on an
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by mccutchen 15y ago
Kind of strange title, to me. I don't know why anyone would ever create separate server-side backends for different mobile platforms. I guess this just means that this company is providing libraries for both Android and iOS? Are the othe
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by mccutchen 15y ago
"We do not have any data for your browser, so we can’t give your browser a score." Chrome 16.0.904.0
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by mccutchen 15y ago
Most of this went right over my head, but I enjoyed it nonetheless. I'm endlessly fascinated by Haskell.
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by mccutchen 15y ago
Maybe it's just because I read this before I looked at it, but I agree.
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by mccutchen 15y ago
> _I think this is the current problem with mobile web apps today; too many are trying to feel native. Instead try to make it feel smooth and responsive, as a web app._ I think this is exactly what OP has done. It doesn't feel "native"
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by mccutchen 15y ago
I think Microsoft owns the trademark for the word "Windows". http://www.microsoft.com/about/legal/en/us/IntellectualPrope...
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by mccutchen 15y ago
That's a pretty good approach. I guess the main drawback is that the git commit hash will change far more often than the contents of most of the static files, though, right?
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by mccutchen 15y ago
Ahhh, thanks for the details. The only solution I could think of involved writing out a dict like you're describing and using a template helper to look up the modified asset filenames. I was wondering if there was a more elegant solution
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by mccutchen 15y ago
I like this approach to static assets, where each file's name is changed to include the hash of the file's contents on deployment. But I've never implemented it myself, because I can't figure out a good way to refer to those static assets
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by mccutchen 15y ago
Likewise curious. Seems like that should be addressed in the README.
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by mccutchen 15y ago
To me, it does look like fair use. But I'm not a lawyer. I found this argument pretty compelling, though: http://mrgan.tumblr.com/post/6840184364/hand-pixelated "That cover is NOT the original photo, downsampled. It’s a hand-crafted, p
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by mccutchen 15y ago
"and how 'reflection' is way simpler than any other language" I've never heard this claim made, and it has been a long time since I've actually used PHP in any meaningful way. Care to expand on this? I'd be interested in a comparison to
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Apple's Twitter(dashes.com)
2 points by mccutchen 15y ago|0 comments
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by mccutchen 15y ago
He's referring to the Lobster free web font, which is showing up on more and more sites these days: http://www.google.com/webfonts/family?family=Lobster&sub...
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by mccutchen 15y ago
The big downside of these (for me) is that they don't let me use the great bash completion that git (optionally) provides.
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by mccutchen 15y ago
The title is hyperbole (I'm sure that I've written much, much worse algorithms, many times), but the breakdown of Fibonacci sequence algorithms is really enjoyable.
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"The worst algorithm in the world?"(bosker.wordpress.com)
161 points by mccutchen 15y ago|69 comments
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by mccutchen 15y ago
"iTunes for your git repos" is a great way to describe some of this software. Well said.
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by mccutchen 15y ago
I'm pretty sure they're calling the git command line tool. As far as I can remember, I've had to tell all of the ones I've tried where to find the git command.
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by mccutchen 15y ago
I'm sort of fascinated by this, but out of all the git GUIs I've tried on Mac except for GitX work backwards from how I want/need them to work. I live at the command line, but I do like having a nice GUI for staging commits and viewing his
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by mccutchen 15y ago
The design is overwhelmingly cluttered and noisy. I'm sorry that I don't really have any concrete suggestions, but I'd suggest getting a better feel for whitespace (e.g. http://www.alistapart.com/articles/whitespace ) and visual hierarchy
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by mccutchen 15y ago
I love this idea, but why do you want permission to access and update my Twitter feed?
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by mccutchen 15y ago
> PHP has its own beauty, such as arrays which can support numeric and string indexes at the same time. What's the difference between PHP's arrays and hashtables/dictionaries/etc in languages like Python, Ruby, and JavaScript? As a Py

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