functionform | 13 years ago | on: Eclipse Juno released
Nope, I'm always there on day 1 also :D. They always do such a great job, I'm always around poking installing/trying out new enhancements and sub projects for at least a week.
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functionform | 14 years ago | on: What to do when a company refuses to fix a vulnerability I disclosed to them?
Take your business elsewhere is step 1. Your information/service is not guaranteed if they aren't willing to protect it.
functionform | 14 years ago | on: Poll: What text editors do you prefer?
Interesting, no Textpad?
functionform | 14 years ago | on: Paul Graham has lost the plot
There are ethical and economical reasons for low to zero-cost mp3s.
1. The artist actually gets even more of a shit deal with digital distribution than they did with physical media. You are supporting the machine, not the musician.
2. The cost of developing a quality recording has plummeted dramatically, the only substantive cost remaining is the advertising. The exception might be for faux artists like Rihanna that hire top notch songwriters to pen hits, but for lesser known musicians, mp3 distribution has been shown in studies to have a positive impact.
3. mp3s can function as the advertising medium itself. The money can be made elsewhere like endorsements, or touring. Live music can never be "stolen".
functionform | 14 years ago | on: I don't know who I am anymore and I can't tell anyone
Get out of the company. Find yourself something laid back where you can see your family as much as you would like. Sounds like you have the resume to push telecommuting during hiring negotiations.
functionform | 14 years ago | on: Kevin Rose Will Join Google
Maybe you've never heard the famous expression "Ideas are like *, everybody's got one".
functionform | 14 years ago | on: Poll: Do you test your code?
That's not Murphy's Law, its lack of coverage.
functionform | 14 years ago | on: Poll: Do you test your code?
After reading this thread, I've realized I have to make sure my next employer actually believes in testing.
I don't know how anyone can move forward in a long term application without having regressions done for you in the form of testing.
functionform | 14 years ago | on: Poll: Do you test your code?
I chose tests all functionality, but thats completely unrealistic. We TRY to test everything beyond just critical items, but we'll never get there.
functionform | 14 years ago | on: Milk Inc. to shut down Oink on March 31st
Honestly I had no interest in anything associated with Kevin Rose thanks to Digg.
functionform | 14 years ago | on: Popular game developer halts work on Android
This is a very real issue, that's why there are no Android apps.
functionform | 14 years ago | on: The all-new Basecamp is live
Exactly, its not a bug, its a feature. Just like mass assignment.
functionform | 14 years ago | on: What I learnt pretending to be a programmer
I find this true, but its also true of other languages. Like first commenter noted, closed minded Rails devs are usually close minded.
functionform | 14 years ago | on: CoffeePhysics: A JS/CS Physics Engine
Compiler safety for the design. Implement a base class, and force implementation for sub classes. I know that CS philosophically is about keeping JS's openness, but I feel it would be a time saving convenience if the compiler told me I was missing a method.
functionform | 14 years ago | on: CoffeePhysics: A JS/CS Physics Engine
Standard Coffeescript (in my experience).
edit: hah, just saw who i replied to.
double edit: the renderer hierarchy he created is yet another good example of why I believe coffeescript needs interfaces...
functionform | 14 years ago | on: As Staff Flees, TechCrunch’s Traffic Plummets
Crunchpad anyone? I found him too infrequent to be a major reason to visit the site. I suspect that most of the traffic hit techcrunch thanks to the endless link baiting of MG or popularity contest blather like their Twitter "coverage". Twitter used to be every other feature.
Other big winners were Sarah Lacy saying that old media is dead and no one wants to be a journalist at WSJ (how did that turn out btw) or other random bouts of idiocy (RSS is dead!)
Frankly, Techcrunch has long been a source of tech trolling. For trolls, by trolls. Its no wonder it went under - the sugar high simply ran out.
functionform | 14 years ago | on: How LulzSec kept itself safe during the summer of 'lulz'
If I remember correctly some guy posted lulzsec member identities online after simply following them in irc..
functionform | 14 years ago | on: Rails 4.0: PATCH will replace PUT as the primary HTTP method for updates
what a pointless change.
functionform | 14 years ago | on: Tesla responds to "bricking" issue
tl;dr don't take your tesla camping, or it will 'discharge' coughbrickcough
functionform | 14 years ago | on: Went Off The Rails: Why I'm Rebuilding Archaeopteryx In CoffeeScript
After everyone saw how it easy it was to write your own blog in Rails, everyone ... used Wordpress anyway.
The Rails use case was always truly limited. I still don't know any application that achieved maturity and stayed coded in Rails. For a while that was Twitter, but then they started moving stuff over the jvm.
Node will probably end up in a similar way, because at the end of the day no one wants to manage thousands of lines of Javascript (or any other language that doesn't enjoy the benefits of a statically typed ide).
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