ryanbraganza | 13 years ago | on: HTML5Wow
Personally, I think a lot of it is impressive, but the cube animation gets old really fast.
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ryanbraganza | 13 years ago | on: Functional Programming Principles in Scala: Impressions and Statistics
Compilers had quite a lot of programming - https://www.coursera.org/course/compilers
ryanbraganza | 13 years ago | on: I am depressed and I need someone to talk to
If you're in Australia, call lifeline ( 13 11 14 ) or they have a chat service at particular hours - https://www.lifeline.org.au/Get-Help/Online-Services/crisis-...
ryanbraganza | 13 years ago | on: Show HN: I'm 15 years old, and I released my first NPM module: Wizardry
You know how I know you're 15? Light grey text on a white background.
I remember when I was younger and discovering ImageMagick - a perennial favourite for building little tools on top of.
ryanbraganza | 13 years ago | on: Two front page Hacker News posts and why one converted 20x higher
> People don't really read things online, they scan. some things jump out, and only if you're very intrigued will you actually read the individual words. In fact, very few of you will even get to this line that I'm writing. The chances that you'll read each line decreases exponentially.
I only read that first sentence of that paragraph.
> Note that I've made all of my main points in the first sentences of what I've written. Did you even read everything, or did you just scan through and pick up on a few words? The attention paid to each line decreases exponentially as you continue.
Then I read this and went back through it.
ryanbraganza | 13 years ago | on: An experiment in static compilation of Ruby: FastRuby
I don't disagree. Although, I think CoffeeScript is more similar to JRuby than FastRuby.
ryanbraganza | 13 years ago | on: Take Time to Develop Fast
I agree, and this reminds me of two other quotes.
"Strong opinions, weakly held" http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/2008/05/strong-opinions-wea... http://bobsutton.typepad.com/my_weblog/2006/07/strong_opinio...
"I aim to fight as if I am right, and listen as if I am wrong" http://blogs.hbr.org/sutton/2010/08/its_up_to_you_to_start_a...
ryanbraganza | 13 years ago | on: Why I don't like factory_girl
I'm not seeing much of an argument against factory_girl (in unit tests) other than: it's not as fast as setting up your model by hand. And no description of the alternative?
ryanbraganza | 13 years ago | on: A Gray Beard Explores F#
Was there a particular part you found especially pleasurable? What made it more pleasurable for you to read than other writing?
ryanbraganza | 13 years ago | on: Data.gov is open source
Australia - http://data.gov.au/
New South Wales - http://data.nsw.gov.au/
ryanbraganza | 13 years ago | on: Shortest url shortener
it's no shorter than http://tinyarro.ws or plenty of others...
e.g. http://➡.ws/1wz
ryanbraganza | 13 years ago | on: Oracle can't copyright parts of Java - court ruling
from " http://www.theverge.com/2012/5/31/3055620/oracle-java-api-no... "
" Judge William Alsup ended the discussion today, ruling that the SSO of the APIs is not covered under current copyright law — and dismissing Oracle's related claims outright. "
ryanbraganza | 13 years ago | on: Kickstarter for a JavaScript top level domain (.js TLD)
I can't wait for the .bash_profile tld to become available.
ryanbraganza | 14 years ago | on: GitHub for Windows
"Thanks to that team, folks in our side of the dev world now have an easy path into Git and GitHub, and can go about our merry way building things without ever having to parse what it was that you did in your second paragraph."
... except when github messes up, forces you to do a SSH key audit and then you're back to needing to know "scary crypto stuff".
... or when you try and use git outside of github
ryanbraganza | 14 years ago | on: Watch me work: Video of me building a new Rails app from scratch
I can bump it up in the embedded player... It also helps to enable fullscreen on the player.
ryanbraganza | 14 years ago | on: Yelp, You Cost Me $2000 by Suppressing Genuine Reviews. Here’s How You Fix It
"Oh, and all our apps are FREE."
Not for Nokia, they aren't. (AUD 6.60 each)
ryanbraganza | 14 years ago | on: I Hate It When My Tests Pass
There's this: http://ruby.sadi.st/Heckle.html
It changes your class, then runs your tests to make sure they fail. I haven't tried it myself.
ryanbraganza | 14 years ago | on: Semicolon: A language of semicolons
Yes, I think this is the first HN thread I've seen where jokes aren't being downvoted into oblivion. (And I don't think it's terrible! Fingers crossed that nobody tells me to go back to reddit)
ryanbraganza | 14 years ago | on: Google will abandon Android
This post is about branding, only.
ryanbraganza | 14 years ago | on: Ask HN: Best Python web framework
from ">>> import this"
"There should be one-- and preferably only one --obvious way to do it."
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