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maxtilford | 5 years ago | on: Ask HN: What's the name of that office design layout?

Sounds like the Eudaimonia Machine concept: https://blog.fentress.com/blog/the-eudaimonia-machine-a-spac...

maxtilford | 6 years ago | on: Interfaces Generally Belong with Users

What you quoted doesn't mention an IDE at all. "extract interface" is just the name of series of steps that you can accomplish with or without an IDE.

Martin Fowler's book 'Refactoring' gives names a whole bunch of these. That might be where the op is coming from.

maxtilford | 14 years ago | on: Sticky headers for iScroll

The demos are broken due to git merge tokens. (line 87 "<<<<<<< HEAD")

maxtilford | 15 years ago | on: JSONSelect

That S-expressions can/often contain code doesn't make them more complicated when used for data only. Anything can contain code.

maxtilford | 15 years ago | on: Rails 3 - Fully Loaded

No technical limits were hit. They have nearly the same feature set.

Geocoder's api feels a little bit more modern Geokit (rails3 vs 2). Having read the code for both, Geocoder was cleaner and would be easier to tweak if necessary.

So really it's just a preference: they do the same thing.

maxtilford | 15 years ago | on: Rails 3 - Fully Loaded

I just switched from geokit to geocoder in the app I'm building. I found geocoder to be significantly better for my purposes.

maxtilford | 15 years ago | on: Ask HN: Looking for a rails mentor

You're welcome to contact me anytime with questions. (emails in profile)

maxtilford | 15 years ago | on: Learn you a Haskell: Zippers

I think this blog post will be relevant: http://blog.sigfpe.com/2006/12/evaluating-cellular-automata-...

maxtilford | 15 years ago | on: Ask HN: Who Is Seeking Interns? (November 2010 Edition)

CommonPlace -- Cambridge, MA (http://commonplaceusa.com)

We're a nearly-funded startup creating a social platform for local communities and neighborhoods.

* Web Dev Intern: Will be working on a Ruby on Rails web app with some civic-minded Harvard students. Some programming experience nice, but not required. We will help you learn as needed.

Contact maxtilford at gmail

maxtilford | 15 years ago | on: Ask HN: Who Is Hiring? (November 2010 Edition)

CommonPlace -- Cambridge, MA (http://commonplaceusa.com)

We're a nearly-funded startup creating a social platform for local communities and neighborhoods.

* Web Developer: Will be working on a Ruby on Rails web app with some civic-minded Harvard students.

Contact maxtilford at gmail

maxtilford | 15 years ago | on: Draw on any webpage. Share your ideas - MarkUp

C-z

maxtilford | 15 years ago | on: Show HN: Review my project: MarkUp, a tool to draw on any webpage.

Very nice. That's a tool I was just about to need. My circles and rectangles are a bit sloppy... Scratch that, I found the toolbox. Awesome.

maxtilford | 15 years ago

It didn't. I'm pretty sure.

maxtilford | 15 years ago | on: Ask HN: Python+Ruby hackers - which OS/distro are you using?

I use linux: gentoo, arch, and ubuntu. But if you're using ruby, you should just use rvm. Then the distro doesn't matter that much.

maxtilford | 15 years ago | on: Introducing lisp.js: a Lisp for node.js

Mainly, I'm tired of using $.getJson, and I liked your on-server macro. Also, how is the server going to watch references on the server and vice-versa?

maxtilford | 15 years ago | on: Introducing lisp.js: a Lisp for node.js

Awesome. I've got it up and running. I've been looking for a solution for the client/server distinction for a while. How much have you thought about the implementation of that?

maxtilford | 15 years ago | on: Ask HN: Who's Hiring?

Cambridge, MA

We're building a social network for communities and neighborhoods and ooking for Rails developers.

Contact [email protected] if you're interested.

maxtilford | 16 years ago | on: Ask HN: What is something you would recommend learning in a day?

I spent some time the last couple days learning two songs on a penny whistle. Great fun.

maxtilford | 16 years ago | on: New Amazon patent: sending video of orders being boxed

I bought a nice hat from http://www.kleinbottle.com/ and he sent me pictures of it being packaged up, so this sort of thing has been done before. I've no idea about patentability though.

maxtilford | 16 years ago | on: Ask HN: Still using thesixtyone?

I used it a lot before and I use it a lot now. It took a bit of getting used to, but I rather like the new design. I've found that I'm listening to a lot more new music, where before the redesign I just kept listening to the same stuff over and over.