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Book: Clojure Applied Now in Beta from PragProg(clojure-applied.com)
2 points by sfamiliar 11y ago|0 comments
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by sfamiliar 17y ago
think about a cocktail party. the host comes in, introduces everybody around. you meet new people, talk about stuff. generally a good host will tell you a little about the other people you haven't met, and say something like 'they'd be a
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Canonical urls, rails plugin.(intridea.com)
3 points by sfamiliar 18y ago|0 comments
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by sfamiliar 18y ago
no, we absolutely should not hold the developer responsible for the higher up questions -- the responsibility should fall on the shoulders of the person who made the decision. did the developer implement what he was asked? did he render s
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by sfamiliar 18y ago
when we're measuring productivity, what are we trying to measure? i mean, really? ultimately its how much value is created, in what span of time. relevant to this example, the questions to be asked are: 1) how much does joe's paintjob inc
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The best method for developing software: whatever works for you.(blog.flowmingle.com)
10 points by sfamiliar 18y ago|2 comments
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by sfamiliar 18y ago
ruby 1.9.1 is mainly stability fixes to ruby 1.9, which had a few .. quirks. for a less-than-complete guide to ruby 1.9 features, consider reading eigenclass's summary from way back: http://eigenclass.org/hiki.rb?Changes+in+Ruby+1.9
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Ruby 1.9.1 preview released(blade.nagaokaut.ac.jp)
15 points by sfamiliar 18y ago|5 comments
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by sfamiliar 18y ago
jim cramer has said before that one shouldn't have a position you can't afford to spend an hour/week investigating. however you may feel about his financial wisdom otherwise, this point seems sound. in this case, that'd mean an hour/week
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by sfamiliar 18y ago
someone alert Stan Rogers!
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by sfamiliar 18y ago
couldn't have been more aptly named. this is pretty funny, in a sad kinda way. we've all been there, kiddo. thanks for giving us a reason not to go back.
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by sfamiliar 18y ago
sounds like you want a mini-dvi adapter, a big standalone screen, a usb keyboard and mouse, and a steelcase chair, not a desktop computer. if you want processing power for web servers and databases, get a slice somewhere -- they're pretty a
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by sfamiliar 18y ago
nice article, though i'm not sure that's the One Thing. my one thing would be 'know your audience'. that's part message and part usability. if you're designing an app for engineers you design the ui very different than if you're designin
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by sfamiliar 18y ago
they're buying up hosting to compete with amazon, likely. we use slicehost and really dig it. will this adversely affect our service and pricing? time will tell.
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by sfamiliar 18y ago
to include in a website, jsjac is pretty nice. ( http://blog.jwchat.org/jsjac/ ) it can be used to replace nearly all of your messaging functionality -- short messages, group messages, and live chat. it's reasonably easy to configure and
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by sfamiliar 18y ago
walk through your next week and carry a notebook, making a note of all the things you think of that you wish existed, but don't. when i do this, it's generally through little irritations, conveniences that save me 3-4 minutes, realizations
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by sfamiliar 18y ago
lisp was introduced to me as follows: Lots of Irritating Superfluous Paraentheses also: most game boy games were written in lisp. true story.
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by sfamiliar 18y ago
this is excellent. 'curse you under my breath' will henceforth be in every contract i write. they're pretty simple to begin with, but that's choice. i'd correct the first paragraph (emphasis for clarity): '... entered into _today_ and bet
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by sfamiliar 18y ago
seems like git isn't designed to handle long-running branches, or branches with more than one committer. i'm still pretty novice at git, and was hoping this article could clear that up, but mailing patches around seems .. inefficient. anyo
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by sfamiliar 18y ago
If you're working with other people: Pair Programming. Fastest way to learn anything. On your own? I'd look for a reasonably simple project on github, or somewhere the source is available. Before you start trying to understand everythin
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by sfamiliar 18y ago
the win on this article is the comments: he posted the article, someone cracked the license generator, posted the source. there was a brief, friendly discussion about this. if it were one of my previous employers, they would've immediatel
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by sfamiliar 18y ago
nice, solid review. if only there were some sort of wiki where all these ad-hoc Rails security guides could be coalesced. hmm, what to do.
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by sfamiliar 18y ago
most textmate dev nowadays is being done in bundles. while the elastic tabs thing doesn't work quite right in textmate, textmate's tabbing (soft-tabs to convert tabs to spaces, backspace to go back a 'tab', autoindent based on syntax conve
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by sfamiliar 18y ago
also midwestern, and have also historically had problems finding edgish work there. they like their .NET and their java. also, work rates are terrible. i can generally expect to take a $30K pay cut working locally in central ky/southern
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by sfamiliar 18y ago
want.
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by sfamiliar 18y ago
You have to also love making money. I love making money. By definition, it is impossible for me to become unhappy if I have to make money doing what I love. /obvious. I had a girlfriend like this: she was an excellent photographer, had a
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by sfamiliar 18y ago
it's also possible to use twitter to cross-promote a product to a wide userbase. pushing ads for their other products through twitter would be simple. letting other people do it would also be simple. even failing that, the success of twit
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by sfamiliar 18y ago
title should be: Rails Conferences that Matter in general, the conferences that matter most for a given company are those that address the tech on which the company is based and those specific to their market sector (social networking compa
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by sfamiliar 18y ago
an overlay would've been nice, scaled.
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by sfamiliar 18y ago
making online dating reasonable @ flowmingle.com. the balance of structure and expression is a challenge, but a fun one.

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