ryanbraganza

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   by ryanbraganza 14y ago

   Personally, I think a lot of it is impressive, but the cube animation gets old really fast.
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   by ryanbraganza 14y ago

   Compilers had quite a lot of programming - https://www.coursera.org/course/compilers
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   by ryanbraganza 14y ago

   If you're in Australia, call lifeline ( 13 11 14 ) or they have a chat service at particular hours - https://www.lifeline.org.au/Get-Help/Online-Services/crisis-...
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   by ryanbraganza 14y ago

   You know how I know you're 15? Light grey text on a white background. I remember when I was younger and discovering ImageMagick - a perennial favourite for building little tools on top of.
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   by ryanbraganza 14y ago

   > People don't really read things online, they scan. some things jump out, and only if you're very intrigued will you actually read the individual words. In fact, very few of you will even get to this line that I'm writing. The chances
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   by ryanbraganza 14y ago

   I don't disagree. Although, I think CoffeeScript is more similar to JRuby than FastRuby.
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   by ryanbraganza 14y ago

   I agree, and this reminds me of two other quotes. "Strong opinions, weakly held" http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/2008/05/strong-opinions-wea... http://bobsutton.typepad.com/my_weblog/2006/07/strong_opinio... "I aim to fight as if I am
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   by ryanbraganza 14y ago

   I'm not seeing much of an argument against factory_girl (in unit tests) other than: it's not as fast as setting up your model by hand. And no description of the alternative?
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   by ryanbraganza 14y ago

   Was there a particular part you found especially pleasurable? What made it more pleasurable for you to read than other writing?
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    by ryanbraganza 14y ago

    Australia - http://data.gov.au/ New South Wales - http://data.nsw.gov.au/
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    by ryanbraganza 14y ago

    it's no shorter than http://tinyarro.ws or plenty of others... e.g. http://➡.ws/1wz
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    by ryanbraganza 14y ago

    from " http://www.theverge.com/2012/5/31/3055620/oracle-java-api-no... " " Judge William Alsup ended the discussion today, ruling that the SSO of the APIs is not covered under current copyright law — and dismissing Oracle's related claims
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    by ryanbraganza 14y ago

    I can't wait for the .bash_profile tld to become available.
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    by ryanbraganza 14y ago

    "Thanks to that team, folks in our side of the dev world now have an easy path into Git and GitHub, and can go about our merry way building things without ever having to parse what it was that you did in your second paragraph." ... except w
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    by ryanbraganza 14y ago

    I can bump it up in the embedded player... It also helps to enable fullscreen on the player.
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    by ryanbraganza 14y ago

    "Oh, and all our apps are FREE." Not for Nokia, they aren't. (AUD 6.60 each) http://store.ovi.com/search?q=Fodor%27s+Avante
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    by ryanbraganza 14y ago

    There's this: http://ruby.sadi.st/Heckle.html It changes your class, then runs your tests to make sure they fail. I haven't tried it myself.
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    by ryanbraganza 14y ago

    Yes, I think this is the first HN thread I've seen where jokes aren't being downvoted into oblivion. (And I don't think it's terrible! Fingers crossed that nobody tells me to go back to reddit)
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    by ryanbraganza 14y ago

    This post is about branding, only.
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    by ryanbraganza 14y ago

    from ">>> import this" "There should be one-- and preferably only one --obvious way to do it."
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    by ryanbraganza 15y ago

    The android market (oops, i mean Play) has an option to require entering a PIN before a purchase is made.
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    by ryanbraganza 15y ago

    I prefer this one https://github.com/saberma/shopqi/pull/409
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    by ryanbraganza 15y ago

    Nope: http://ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
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    by ryanbraganza 15y ago

    The demo (just above the comments) in the jQuery docs is helpful. http://api.jquery.com/mouseenter/
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    by ryanbraganza 15y ago

    http://blog.medusis.com/dont-tell-stackoverflow-im-a-hacker-...
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    by ryanbraganza 15y ago

    The PDF linked at the bottom is a little more palatable. http://gav.brokentrain.net/projects/vimtips/vimtips.pdf
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    by ryanbraganza 15y ago

    Good thing HN hasn't gone mainstream.
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    by ryanbraganza 15y ago

    "It is something of a commonplace to say that JavaScript is a Lisp or Scheme in disguise." Has that really become common??
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    by ryanbraganza 15y ago

    3. It's never a bug in the compiler (except when it is).
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    by ryanbraganza 15y ago

    http://a8.video2.blip.tv/9280007175117/Osdc-TemporallyQuaqua...