This attitude is both hateful and harmful to our profession. It is not ok and I wish more of our peers would step up to tell you that this is not acceptable. You are also making wildly inaccurate statements to justify…
Unless you are a minority in the field in which case your success apparently requires tolerating disproportionate abuse from your socially inept peers. Hardly the meritocratic environment we like to imagine here.
If students are being harassed and driven away from a subject by their peers I don't think the out of date curriculum is the most significant problem in that classroom.
> While designed to make things easier for newcomers... The idea that Rails was designed to be accessible to newcomers seems to be pervasive but I don't think that has every been a top priority for the project. The…
Don't worry, we can replace that with CSS too: http://html5advent2011.digitpaint.nl/14/
Caution is a good attitude to have when working on critical code with non-obvious modes of failure. However I agree with davidw; this "dont' touch it" or "we're not smart enough" attitude is tiresome. Couldn't we…
I was briefly a user of LastPass until that service lost every credential set I had added to it. I tried a KeePass store in DropBox for a while but the poor cross platform support and mobile support got me to try…
AVFoundation is a library provided by Apple. CocoaDocs documents third party libraries published through the CocoaPods (http://cocoapods.org/) tool.
I've talked to folks from Simperium before and think that they have a good idea but I remain skeptical of their approach . In particular their Core Data syncing strategy. As I understand it Simperium observes changes to…
Disappointing that this is still not supported. The need to be able to join multiple organizations is what prevented me from advocating for my company to switch to HipChat a year ago. Unfortunately it looks like…
I find it interesting to see how many new developers, and perhaps problematically teachers of new developers, set out to learn programming via web development in Rails. I like Rails. Rails enables developers to solve a…
That seems to be enough to pay back all of LaunchGram's funding(http://www.crunchbase.com/company/launchgram) and serve as a signing bonus for joining refer.ly. That sounds better than most startups manage to do.
Your response seems to suggest that the OP has not been successful and is no longer a member of the "startup scene". I don't see why you would assume any of that to be true or to be the motivation for this post. I found…
We have a great many people relying on a volunteer run project here. It would be great to have someone sponsored to spend time maintaining the site. Unfortunately I don't see any way to help fund such an effort. Is…
As others have pointed out; Brian is a well known and highly respected designer. He also served as the chair of the board of the International Game Developers Association (advocates of diversity, quality of life, and…
You released a free app in a crowded market. You are going to need something exceptional to stand out. Searching for "sudoku" in the Play store returns "at least 1000 results" for Android apps. Potential buyers are…
We're not going to be "stuck" with 1.9. Use 2.0 for a smaller and faster library on modern browsers and 1.9 to continue to support old IE versions. http://blog.jquery.com/2012/06/28/jquery-core-version-1-9-an... "Our…
What do you imagine this API would look like if it existed? What use case do you believe it serves (who would use it, what existing behavior would it replace)? If you're going to call this a "startup" then what is the…
Why do you assume photo redistribution is National Geographic's concern? Perhaps they are more worried about the ToS changes allowing Instagram to sell off use of the National Geographic brand within the service. The…
The attitude I see is that detailed plans can be dangerous but that not having a plan does not mean you should not have a process. I think this often comes from Steve Blank's definition that "a startup is an…
I understand that tweets were sent because a user opted-in and use some setting to elect to share activity on the site. As a developer I know how tempting it is to defensively declare "that's not a bug" when you feel…
I don't see why you allowed the system to feel "broken" to your users in the first place. It sounds like you asked them to do work when you could have said "we received your request and we'll get back to you" and done…
As the article mentions; at a certain reputation level StackExchange users are granted a followed link in their profile. Similar metrics could be applied to questions and answers with the "nofollow" being removed from…
Take it easy, I wasn't trying insult you or suggest that I believe you don't know what you are doing. I read "hopefully the zero-size test is reliable" as "is a reliable way to detect if there is a problem with my…
0 byte files are not necessarily a sign of a bug. There are many cases where you, or the tools you use, may intentionally create 0 byte files which would appear in DropBox. There is a problem only if you see empty files…
This attitude is both hateful and harmful to our profession. It is not ok and I wish more of our peers would step up to tell you that this is not acceptable. You are also making wildly inaccurate statements to justify…
Unless you are a minority in the field in which case your success apparently requires tolerating disproportionate abuse from your socially inept peers. Hardly the meritocratic environment we like to imagine here.
If students are being harassed and driven away from a subject by their peers I don't think the out of date curriculum is the most significant problem in that classroom.
> While designed to make things easier for newcomers... The idea that Rails was designed to be accessible to newcomers seems to be pervasive but I don't think that has every been a top priority for the project. The…
Don't worry, we can replace that with CSS too: http://html5advent2011.digitpaint.nl/14/
Caution is a good attitude to have when working on critical code with non-obvious modes of failure. However I agree with davidw; this "dont' touch it" or "we're not smart enough" attitude is tiresome. Couldn't we…
I was briefly a user of LastPass until that service lost every credential set I had added to it. I tried a KeePass store in DropBox for a while but the poor cross platform support and mobile support got me to try…
AVFoundation is a library provided by Apple. CocoaDocs documents third party libraries published through the CocoaPods (http://cocoapods.org/) tool.
I've talked to folks from Simperium before and think that they have a good idea but I remain skeptical of their approach . In particular their Core Data syncing strategy. As I understand it Simperium observes changes to…
Disappointing that this is still not supported. The need to be able to join multiple organizations is what prevented me from advocating for my company to switch to HipChat a year ago. Unfortunately it looks like…
I find it interesting to see how many new developers, and perhaps problematically teachers of new developers, set out to learn programming via web development in Rails. I like Rails. Rails enables developers to solve a…
That seems to be enough to pay back all of LaunchGram's funding(http://www.crunchbase.com/company/launchgram) and serve as a signing bonus for joining refer.ly. That sounds better than most startups manage to do.
Your response seems to suggest that the OP has not been successful and is no longer a member of the "startup scene". I don't see why you would assume any of that to be true or to be the motivation for this post. I found…
We have a great many people relying on a volunteer run project here. It would be great to have someone sponsored to spend time maintaining the site. Unfortunately I don't see any way to help fund such an effort. Is…
As others have pointed out; Brian is a well known and highly respected designer. He also served as the chair of the board of the International Game Developers Association (advocates of diversity, quality of life, and…
You released a free app in a crowded market. You are going to need something exceptional to stand out. Searching for "sudoku" in the Play store returns "at least 1000 results" for Android apps. Potential buyers are…
We're not going to be "stuck" with 1.9. Use 2.0 for a smaller and faster library on modern browsers and 1.9 to continue to support old IE versions. http://blog.jquery.com/2012/06/28/jquery-core-version-1-9-an... "Our…
What do you imagine this API would look like if it existed? What use case do you believe it serves (who would use it, what existing behavior would it replace)? If you're going to call this a "startup" then what is the…
Why do you assume photo redistribution is National Geographic's concern? Perhaps they are more worried about the ToS changes allowing Instagram to sell off use of the National Geographic brand within the service. The…
The attitude I see is that detailed plans can be dangerous but that not having a plan does not mean you should not have a process. I think this often comes from Steve Blank's definition that "a startup is an…
I understand that tweets were sent because a user opted-in and use some setting to elect to share activity on the site. As a developer I know how tempting it is to defensively declare "that's not a bug" when you feel…
I don't see why you allowed the system to feel "broken" to your users in the first place. It sounds like you asked them to do work when you could have said "we received your request and we'll get back to you" and done…
As the article mentions; at a certain reputation level StackExchange users are granted a followed link in their profile. Similar metrics could be applied to questions and answers with the "nofollow" being removed from…
Take it easy, I wasn't trying insult you or suggest that I believe you don't know what you are doing. I read "hopefully the zero-size test is reliable" as "is a reliable way to detect if there is a problem with my…
0 byte files are not necessarily a sign of a bug. There are many cases where you, or the tools you use, may intentionally create 0 byte files which would appear in DropBox. There is a problem only if you see empty files…