zalambar

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by zalambar 13y ago
This attitude is both hateful and harmful to our profession. It is not ok and I wish more of our peers would step up to tell you that this is not acceptable. You are also making wildly inaccurate statements to justify your abuse and I hate
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by zalambar 13y ago
Unless you are a minority in the field in which case your success apparently requires tolerating disproportionate abuse from your socially inept peers. Hardly the meritocratic environment we like to imagine here.
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by zalambar 13y ago
If students are being harassed and driven away from a subject by their peers I don't think the out of date curriculum is the most significant problem in that classroom.
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by zalambar 13y ago
> While designed to make things easier for newcomers... The idea that Rails was designed to be accessible to newcomers seems to be pervasive but I don't think that has every been a top priority for the project. The framework is desc
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by zalambar 13y ago
Don't worry, we can replace that with CSS too: http://html5advent2011.digitpaint.nl/14/
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by zalambar 13y ago
Caution is a good attitude to have when working on critical code with non-obvious modes of failure. However I agree with davidw; this "dont' touch it" or "we're not smart enough" attitude is tiresome. Couldn&#x
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by zalambar 13y ago
Oddly I don't see any mention in the article or linked paper of financial aid as a contributing factor to these decisions. I recall my college social circle being intently aware of GPA requirements for continued merit based financial a
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by zalambar 13y ago
I found it to be possible but difficult to get KeePass running on every machine I want a password store on. When I last used it running the KeePass itself under Mono was an annoying install process, slow to launch, and far from a native UX.
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by zalambar 13y ago
I was briefly a user of LastPass until that service lost every credential set I had added to it. I tried a KeePass store in DropBox for a while but the poor cross platform support and mobile support got me to try 1Password. For what little
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by zalambar 13y ago
AVFoundation is a library provided by Apple. CocoaDocs documents third party libraries published through the CocoaPods ( http://cocoapods.org/ ) tool.
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by zalambar 13y ago
I've talked to folks from Simperium before and think that they have a good idea but I remain skeptical of their approach . In particular their Core Data syncing strategy. As I understand it Simperium observes changes to the Core Data models
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by zalambar 14y ago
Disappointing that this is still not supported. The need to be able to join multiple organizations is what prevented me from advocating for my company to switch to HipChat a year ago. Unfortunately it looks like http://help.hipchat.com/for
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by zalambar 14y ago
I find it interesting to see how many new developers, and perhaps problematically teachers of new developers, set out to learn programming via web development in Rails. I like Rails. Rails enables developers to solve a common class of probl
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by zalambar 14y ago
That seems to be enough to pay back all of LaunchGram's funding( http://www.crunchbase.com/company/launchgram ) and serve as a signing bonus for joining refer.ly. That sounds better than most startups manage to do.
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by zalambar 14y ago
Your response seems to suggest that the OP has not been successful and is no longer a member of the "startup scene". I don't see why you would assume any of that to be true or to be the motivation for this post. I found it to be a useful re
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by zalambar 14y ago
We have a great many people relying on a volunteer run project here. It would be great to have someone sponsored to spend time maintaining the site. Unfortunately I don't see any way to help fund such an effort. Is there an officially suppo
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by zalambar 14y ago
As others have pointed out; Brian is a well known and highly respected designer. He also served as the chair of the board of the International Game Developers Association (advocates of diversity, quality of life, and giving game credits to
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by zalambar 14y ago
You released a free app in a crowded market. You are going to need something exceptional to stand out. Searching for "sudoku" in the Play store returns "at least 1000 results" for Android apps. Potential buyers are unlikely to discover your
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by zalambar 14y ago
We're not going to be "stuck" with 1.9. Use 2.0 for a smaller and faster library on modern browsers and 1.9 to continue to support old IE versions. http://blog.jquery.com/2012/06/28/jquery-core-version-1-9-an... "Our goal is for 1.9 and 2
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by zalambar 14y ago
What do you imagine this API would look like if it existed? What use case do you believe it serves (who would use it, what existing behavior would it replace)? If you're going to call this a "startup" then what is the business plan beyond s
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by zalambar 14y ago
Why do you assume photo redistribution is National Geographic's concern? Perhaps they are more worried about the ToS changes allowing Instagram to sell off use of the National Geographic brand within the service. The ToS currently read "Ins
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by zalambar 14y ago
The attitude I see is that detailed plans can be dangerous but that not having a plan does not mean you should not have a process. I think this often comes from Steve Blank's definition that "a startup is an organization formed to search fo
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by zalambar 14y ago
I understand that tweets were sent because a user opted-in and use some setting to elect to share activity on the site. As a developer I know how tempting it is to defensively declare "that's not a bug" when you feel that no error exists in
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by zalambar 14y ago
What makes you think that is the case? It looks equivalent to a "git merge --no-ff <feature-branch>" to me. The feature branch is then merged with master (or whatever the target branch was) and would appear if you ran "git branch [-
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by zalambar 14y ago
I don't see why you allowed the system to feel "broken" to your users in the first place. It sounds like you asked them to do work when you could have said "we received your request and we'll get back to you" and done the work yourself. In
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by zalambar 14y ago
As the article mentions; at a certain reputation level StackExchange users are granted a followed link in their profile. Similar metrics could be applied to questions and answers with the "nofollow" being removed from highly rated user cont
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by zalambar 14y ago
Take it easy, I wasn't trying insult you or suggest that I believe you don't know what you are doing. I read "hopefully the zero-size test is reliable" as "is a reliable way to detect if there is a problem with my files" and that is what I
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by zalambar 14y ago
0 byte files are not necessarily a sign of a bug. There are many cases where you, or the tools you use, may intentionally create 0 byte files which would appear in DropBox. There is a problem only if you see empty files which you expected t
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by zalambar 14y ago
Git is distributed and there's no reason you should have to stop working, or committing, just because github is temporarily unavailable. At least for dependencies only on git. Losing access to wikis, pull requests, and issues may be a probl
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by zalambar 14y ago
Seems to me like this is reinventing parts of ember.js on top of Backbone. That's neat but when my apps need this sort of behavior I'm willing to be they will also need solutions to other common problems and I'd rather not reassemble a larg

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