qaexl

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by qaexl 15y ago
Hmm. Maybe? Seems impoverished to me. Someone on the comments for the original article said, the big idea in Rails wasn't so much MVC as much as separation of concerns. I'm on-board with that. Thinking in that way has brought a lot of advan
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by qaexl 15y ago
Agreed. I can't find any insight or advantage in making this kind of a distinction. The article attempts to address it by saying that people attempt to implement Model2 on a Javascript front-end. That is awkward. However, it isn't awkward
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by qaexl 15y ago
+1. This is useful for me.
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by qaexl 15y ago
I'm observing some people trying to break into technology. Yes, there are online tools available. Yes, many of them are free. One of the complaints I hear is that the target platform you choose moves so fast. Generalized, it means software
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by qaexl 15y ago
Funny you should mention that. Right after you talked about shapes, I browsed through Sensei's Library and saw that too. Thanks for the recommendation.
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by qaexl 15y ago
:-D I'm glad you said something about shape. It's something I'm stumbling through right now.
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by qaexl 15y ago
See (4) about unconscious incompetence.
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by qaexl 15y ago
You ever played Weiqi? (Otherwise known as Go). Unlike chess, stones don't move once played. They can only be captured. On a 19x19 board, you have to balance short-term gains with long-term gains. Since there are no left-right or top-bottom
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by qaexl 15y ago
(1) I have respect for people who can put a project together and get revenue flowing through it. (2) This technology stack sucks. (3) That your technology stack sucks does not mean you suck. (4) Maslow's Four Stages of Competence starts wit
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by qaexl 15y ago
I got it for my iPod Touch. From working with it, I'd like to use it on the iPad.
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by qaexl 15y ago
I don't remember. I'm not very good at writing posts that get a lot of upvotes. You are more then welcomed to try -- this app can get all the marketing help it gets.
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by qaexl 15y ago
Want to see a non-incremental innovation for multi-touch calculators? A friend of a friend wrote this: http://mathtouchapp.com/ (He doesn't know I'm linking it here). The app throws away the calculator metaphor and starts from scratch. In
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by qaexl 15y ago
I'd upvote this comment if I could.
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by qaexl 15y ago
Edo, You ever practiced something like Tai Chi?
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by qaexl 15y ago
I've had similar, fleeting thoughts brewing for a while. Seeing this stated together like this crystallized it. Thanks for sharing.
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by qaexl 15y ago
kree10, thanks for bringing up Vagrant. I might use it in my next laptop, though I'd have to make some improvements to it.
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by qaexl 15y ago
Gentoo can be a pain in the ass, but the occasions when I need package masking and using precise, specific library versions, there's nothing else that does it. Ultimately, I think Homebrew will win out because: (1) It is on github ( http://
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by qaexl 15y ago
Oh yeah, Vagrant. That is the name of it. If I had to use VirtualBox, that would be what I would be using to manage the VMs.
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by qaexl 15y ago
Some context. I started this current gig 18 months ago. I develop on Ruby on Rails (of course), and ultimately deploy it into the Rackspace Cloud. I also wanted to mess around with Opscode Chef. I had also watched friends and business partn
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by qaexl 15y ago
I run Linux ... virtualized in OSX. Because OSX and MacBooks has wireless that just works. It has networking that just works. And it has suspend/wakeup that just works. But its bundled UNIX toolchain sucks, and Macports, et. al. don't just
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by qaexl 15y ago
The general doctrine sounds great. The specific solution outlined sucks. My hypothesis: easier to get in touch with primal survival instincts and twiddling that directly. The author is still answering those self-reflection questions with ab
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by qaexl 15y ago
I didn't think about this until I saw these slides: https://plus.google.com/photos/100238778462210489846/albums/... Friends List sounds like the same as Google+ Circles. However, FB Friends List requires both parties to accept friendship,
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by qaexl 15y ago
iTerm 2's visor mode was still a bit wonky so I keep Terminal.app around just for visor. But that was when I was using the alpha and beta versions. I've been using iTerm as my main vim screen for over a year now. iTerm 2 alpha chugged right
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by qaexl 15y ago
"I don't think that myth exists at all - I've never seen anyone say it until you brought it up." Fair enough.
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by qaexl 15y ago
nl pointed out some things and I went back and checked it again. I was wrong about some things.
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by qaexl 15y ago
@nl: I thought he was talking about user lists at first too, but he kept talking about groups, so I tried addressing both. You can see it in my reply. But just to be sure, I had attempted to use user lists in the same way to restrict postin
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by qaexl 15y ago
Someone published a hack: (1) Open up a Yahoo account (2) Import Facebook contacts into the Yahoo account (3) In the add people to circles page, import from the Yahoo account.
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by qaexl 15y ago
There's a persistent myth that Facebook Group is the same as Google+ Circles. They are nowhere near each other. In fact, Google+ does not have the equivalent of Facebook Groups, unless you count in the older Google Groups. Facebook Group is
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by qaexl 15y ago
Yes. I saw that. It doesn't work all that well. One of the comments I saw on Google+ is making a distinction between a "plaza" and a "warren". Facebook defaults to plaza though it can do warren with some contortion. Likewise, Google+ defaul
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by qaexl 15y ago
Google+ solves most of the problems I have with Facebook. The circles more or less reimplement what I have been using with Livejournal for ten years now. I've been migrating as many of my contacts off of FB as I can, with the plan to cull m

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