bryanl
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13 years ago
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on: Nobody Knows That I Use These Apps
Isn't this what analytic packages are for? The app receiving the push message on your phone could anonymously provide analytics back to the server and with that knowledge alone, they know you are using it. Also additional analytics can be provided to see if you actually open the app.
bryanl
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13 years ago
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on: The Perl Renaissance
Ruby doesn't have great support for math, science or AI. There are projects out there trying to make the ecosystem better, but currently it trails Python.
bryanl
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13 years ago
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on: WTF Google, you stole my $5
It could have taken less time to call your CC company than to write this blog post.
bryanl
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13 years ago
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on: Mapping Racist Tweets in Response to President Obama's Re-election
Speaking as a black person, I can see cases where racist tweets would have been flagged, but weren't really racist. A black person (in some circles) could say, "Damn, that nigger Obama was reelected!" Is this racist? In this case, the use of "nigger" could be a term of endearment. It would have still been flagged during this survey.
bryanl
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13 years ago
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on: JRuby 1.7.0. Released
The JDBC driver doesn't support EXPLAIN or COPY
bryanl
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13 years ago
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on: Racism at a gaming company
I've taken walks through Baltimore. Unfortunately an oppressed people will lash out at those who they think are oppressing them. You could have never performed any ill acts to those black men who beat you, but to them, you represent the reason why they think they can't get ahead. It's not right, but it is a reality.
Also, please don't support your views with the, "I have black friends" excuse. It doesn't help your cause.
bryanl
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14 years ago
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on: On Mastery
I believe those numbers matched up to the his Ignite slides. 20 slides at 15 seconds a piece. He wasn't thumbing his nose at anything.
bryanl
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14 years ago
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on: Android Ported to C#
People have responded with MonoTouch, but there is also Unity3d
http://www.unity3d.com. You can author games for quite a few platforms with it.
bryanl
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14 years ago
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on: Pastie.org host pulls hosting after DDoS attack
bryanl
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14 years ago
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on: Putting out fires at 37signals: The on-call programmer
I believe that programmers shouldn't have to work support "sometime in their life", they should be working it at their current position. Sometimes it is all too easy to throw the problems over the fence to a tech ops (fancy name for sysadmins?) or the even worse -- the dreaded app support team. Having to live with the decisions your code makes can hopefully only make it better.
bryanl
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14 years ago
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on: Why it's OK to leave a tech job at 5 p.m.
How far you've come. I'm proud to see you write this.
bryanl
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14 years ago
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on: Microsoft Censors Pirate Bay Links in Windows Live Messenger
bryanl
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15 years ago
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on: Is this some kind of private feud?
It most definitely is not. I want to progress my community by helping where I can. I don't see the value in charging my peers to get started. I'm under the each one teach one philosophy.
bryanl
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16 years ago
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on: The Prime Lexicon: A list of English words that are prime in base 36
One of the words is halloween. How fitting.
bryanl
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17 years ago
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on: How I reliably enter the Zone: TDD
You can TDD at the functional level. I don't see what the big deal is.
