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tomeric
12y ago
Twitch has rapidly become the site I stay on the longest, mostly for Hearthstone and Magic the Gathering streams. It's the first time I enjoy watching a "sport" live. Just a few hours ago I decided to pay for a Twitch account
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tomeric
12y ago
I've been feeling this way about testing for a while now and I'm glad that DHH wrote about it so I don't have to feel "wrong" or "embarrassed" by it anymore. I personally have gone a bit further and only w
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13y ago
How can Bitcoin ever go mainstream if you need regular people to secure their computers, remember their passwords and backup everything so wallets aren't lost?
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13y ago
This is not exclusive to Kuwait. I've seen several of these kinds of storefronts all over South East Asia. People use an app like "Line" to order stuff and communicate payment options . It's really interesting to see how
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tomeric
14y ago
Because I pay my money and use my bandwidth, so that you can read the content you want.
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tomeric
14y ago
Yes! This would allow developers to set up premium branches: http://premium-branch.org
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tomeric
14y ago
Yes they did: https://github.com/blog/679-github-in-your-language
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14y ago
I have seen a lot of small shops in Thailand that feature iMac's with iTunes accounts that are loaded with apps. People go there, pick out the apps they want, leave their phone there for an hour or so and then pick it up again for a very lo
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14y ago
I think you mean this one: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RyMdOT8YJgY
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14y ago
They can always sell the app and charge for updates Tweetie 2 style. Or add in new features via in-app purchases. Or they can charge for push notifications. Sparrow was selling hundreds of copies each day for 25$, they were making a lot of
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14y ago
The second biggest social network in The Netherlands (Hyves) introduced something like this in 2010. They mainly intended it to be used to pay back (small) debts to friends or relatives, but also made partnerships that enabled you to order
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14y ago
This is one the reasons Hampton Catlin (the original author of Sass) created libsass, a port of Sass to C for portability. Check it out: https://github.com/hcatlin/libsass
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tomeric
15y ago
You can review it on Yelp.com: http://www.yelp.com/biz/yelp-san-francisco
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tomeric
15y ago
The IdentityMap makes sure that there is only 1 ActiveRecord instance for a given row in the database. This basically means that calling Article.find(3) and Comment.where(:article_id => 3).first.article both return the same instance.
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15y ago
I believe that's one of the main reasons this won't be on by default. It's going to be a tradeoff, either you accept that an exception can occur after sending a '200 OK' status code and possibly resort to javascript to display the error in
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16y ago
We think it was because of the economic crisis. The restaurant sector was hit pretty hard and that probably caused a lot of companies to stop advertising. The revenue is now back to it's old levels, but it stayed that way for 6-7 months. We
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We run a big online restaurant guide in The Netherlands. At the beginning of 2009, our income from AdSense (our main source of income) halved overnight and later dropped to about 25%. We had a little bit of money in the bank, but not enough
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We were John's first customer. It was mostly an impulse buy because it was so cheap. We have a restaurant guide in The Netherlands with a dutch name (eet.nu, translates to eat.now) with a big community of reviewers. We want to expand, so a
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Rails 3.0.2 released
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