YellowRex | 12 years ago | on: Those Mac Pros are going to be expensive
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YellowRex | 12 years ago | on: Let's remove verbs from HTTP 2.0
These best part of the post is Tim Bray's response, where he says he would keep PUT and DELETE because they're idempotent, but declined to defend the rest.
YellowRex | 12 years ago | on: Let's remove verbs from HTTP 2.0
I write tons of Java in my day job, and at this point it only hurts when I laugh.
YellowRex | 12 years ago | on: Let's remove verbs from HTTP 2.0
I just wrote a REST API for my company and used PUT and DELETE (Tomcat doesn't support PATCH yet).
Plenty of DELETE in Stripe's API: https://stripe.com/docs/api#delete_recipient
Github uses HEAD, PATCH, PUT, and DELETE: http://developer.github.com/v3/#http-verbs
Twilio supports PUT and DELETE: http://www.twilio.com/docs/api/rest/request
There are all darlings of the HK community with highly praised, widely used REST APIs. Have you read through the developer docs for most APIs?
(edit: typo)
YellowRex | 12 years ago | on: How to support both Python 2 and 3
90% of it is print statement -> function. I got pretty tired of scrolling past all that to try and find the interesting bits.
YellowRex | 12 years ago | on: Nightcode: An IDE for Clojure and Java
From the announcement blog post:
-Cool looking dark theme, because that’s trendy these days
YellowRex | 12 years ago | on: NSA director heckled on stage at Black Hat security conference
Grrr, the Boing Boing article just links to Forbes.
YellowRex | 12 years ago | on: NSA director heckled on stage at Black Hat security conference
I hate Forbes - interstitial ads and persistent headers are super annoying. Can we stop posting Forbes links?
Boing Boing has the same coverage with a much more reader-friendly site design: http://boingboing.net/2013/07/31/nsa-capo-heckled-at-black-h...
YellowRex | 12 years ago | on: Show HN: For the boaters among us, my small company made an iOS app
HeroLight is hard to read on that background and looks rough around the edges on a non-retina screen.
YellowRex | 12 years ago | on: Introducing Quip
Click through to the "Quip Business" page - they use a Thinkpad instead. Subtle bit of "take us seriously" marketing to business types.
YellowRex | 12 years ago | on: Google Chromecast
So who is writing an app to trigger streaming from a local network file share?
YellowRex | 12 years ago | on: How Browsers Store Your Passwords (and Why You Shouldn't Let Them)
Other side of an airtight hatchway? For this to be at all relevant, you're already got me running your binary with my user's permissions.
YellowRex | 12 years ago | on: Getting Comfortable with the Softer Side of Development
It's trendy and easier to do an okay job with than the kind of baroque skeuomorphism prevalent in iOS.
YellowRex | 12 years ago | on: Getting Comfortable with the Softer Side of Development
One of the courses I took as an elective in my first semester in a Master's in CS program was a course in Human-Computer Interaction, which included user testing off-campus.
It was the second-most useful course I took, after a great "studio-format" software engineering course, which itself emphasized a number of soft skills such as writing and presenting.
YellowRex | 13 years ago | on: Sydney tunnel water screen stop sign for oversized vehicles [video]
A train company did this in North Carolina instead of raising the height of their trestle: http://11foot8.com/
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The only thing I can possibly imagine would be some seriously high-end 3D rendering or massively parallel simulation software.
To the OPs point, there is zero reason to get the Mac Pro over even a Mac Mini.
Seems like there's a hole in Apple's lineup. You can't get a discrete GPU without a monitor attached (iMac) or spending >$3000. Not that it matters much for Illustrator, Photoshop, etc. which are not GPU-parallelizable anyway. At least not yet.