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barumrho··on Repository Next
+1 Also, how often do contributors look at the source code on github? Contributors will most likely have the repo cloned on their machine. I think if management interface were to exist, it should default to Pull Requests or Issues, or some kind of dashboard that summarizes new activities in both.
barumrho··on What is the rule for adjective order?
At Starbucks, whenever I ask for "Grande Iced Americano", they repeated the order by saying "Iced Grande Americano". It's interesting to see that I am not the only one confused about the ordering.
barumrho··on Die Git Die
From my experience, git pull origin branch didn't do what I expected. (Pulling from the remote branch to the current branch.) I haven't figured out what it does, so I just use git fetch then merge. :(
barumrho··on Ask HN: A patent troll is targeting my transit app
By Lemer & Company in the patent infringement claim that I received. I am guessing that after GTTA got sued, they decided to settle and license the patents.
barumrho··on Ask HN: A patent troll is targeting my transit app
Yes. Unfortunately, it did not help with my situation.
barumrho··on Ask HN: A patent troll is targeting my transit app
Thank you for reminding me about this. I am going to look into that.
barumrho··on Ask HN: A patent troll is targeting my transit app
Thank you for your comment. The problem is that I cannot afford to take this to court, even if I am guaranteed to win.
barumrho··on Ask HN: A patent troll is targeting my transit app
Yes, I will be doing that. I was just hoping to find someone who already went through this, because there are many transit apps out there.
barumrho··on Ask HN: A patent troll is targeting my transit app
That is my conclusion as well and I will be seeking legal help.

I thought that if there is anyone out there that dealt with or is dealing with the same issue, I could get some help.

barumrho··on Ask HN: A patent troll is targeting my transit app
That's what I thought too at first, but GTTA is listed as a licensee.
barumrho··on Ask HN: A patent troll is targeting my transit app
Since the URLs do not get linkified on the main post:

Patents: http://brevets-patents.ic.gc.ca/opic-cipo/cpd/eng/patent/228... http://brevets-patents.ic.gc.ca/opic-cipo/cpd/eng/patent/236...

barumrho··on Show HN: Followshows – Never miss an episode again
So, how does watching shows work? Is it legal?
barumrho··on Why all my iOS Apps are on hold - or iCloud sucks Part II
I wouldn't rule out core data just from this post. Core data may have some quirks, but it's pretty reliable and very useful from my experience. I haven't given iCloud + core data a try, since I wasn't sure if it were reliable yet.
barumrho··on Fullscreen in Mountain Lion still renders second display useless
This is exactly how xmonad handles multiple screens. I am not very hopeful that Apple will implement this, since it can be pretty confusing to users.
barumrho··on Web designers: you need a Retina MacBook Pro
But retina display is the future. (At least I hope so.)
barumrho··on Coda 2 available for download
What exactly is the use case for Coda? It doesn't seem like it offers any benefit for dynamic websites, but then it doesn't have wysiwyg editing either. I am curious why it is popular.
barumrho··on Coda 2 available for download
There is 7-day trial.
barumrho··on What is the best way to solve an Objective-C namespace collision?
This file seems to do the trick. Using macros to override class names. https://github.com/jverkoey/nimbus/blob/master/src/core/src/...
barumrho··on Spry: Obnoxiously Easy iOS Development With RubyMotion
Sure, that could be a pro of RubyMotion, but then that's not the goal.

I develop in Objective-C as well, and I am very interested in what RubyMotion will bring to the table. So far, what I've seen is typical Objective-C code translated to Ruby. That doesn't offer me any advantage. What I want to see is something that will significantly boost productivity. REPL seems like one of them, but I want to see something on the code level.

barumrho··on Spry: Obnoxiously Easy iOS Development With RubyMotion
Hmm, the code translates to Objective-c almost one-to-one. I don't think it shows the potential of RubyMotion.

The thing is, when you create a table view in iOS apps, most of the work is for design and interaction like swiping to show a set of controls.

barumrho··on We don't support Internet Explorer, and we're calling that a feature
Can't you disable zooming to solve that problem?
barumrho··on A keyboard case that makes your iPad look a lot like the MacBook Air.
I think battery life is a big factor. (I don't personally own an Air, so I am assuming that Airs don't actually achieve specified battery life: 5~7 hours.)
barumrho··on How to read Korean in 15 minutes
Oops, forgot about the other character sets. But, I think properly designed fonts require a lot more than what you mentioned. According to this article, for Windows, it requires 11,172. (Second paragraph in http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Korean_language_and_computers#C...)
barumrho··on How to read Korean in 15 minutes
I am not familiar with many languages, but something that is unique about Korean "alphabets" is that alphabets combine to form a character.

This makes sentences more compact in appearance, but it also creates difficulty in creating fonts, since a single alphabet looks slightly different in combination with different alphabets. (For example, Gulim font, a standard sans-serif font, contains 49,284 glyphs according to this Wikipedia article: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Gulim.)

barumrho··on Dvorak7min: The free way to learn Dvorak in Linux
I learned to use Dvorak using this site: http://learn.dvorak.nl/.

Caveat: It took me about (painful) two months to be able to type normally, but I switched back to Qwerty because I couldn't use any other computer without looking like a computer-illiterate.

barumrho··on Why TeX and LaTeX are the defacto standard for writing math equations
Existing papers do not really force new papers to be typeset in LaTex, since end products are just PDFs.

I don't know of any alternative solution that is as easy to use and produces a high quality document.

barumrho··on Show HN: MuniWatch, iPhone app for Muni provides real-time bus locations
This is my side project. I do not live in San Francisco, so I would appreciate any feedback to make this app better.

(My original app was for TTC in Toronto, but Muni happens to share the same API.)

barumrho··on Poll: Which text editor do you use daily?
I use XCode for iOS development and Vim for everything else. Tried to use Vim for iOS development as well, but XCode has incomparable integration of code completion, compiler, etc. (Even though it is slow and buggy.)

I am open to using other editors/IDE if they came with better code completion and integration for Web related technologies, but I have not found one that outweighs the benefit of using Vim.

barumrho··on How github was hacked
I am not familiar with Rails, so I am a bit confused about what caused this. What does it have to do with mass-assignment?
barumrho··on Mountain Lion: John Gruber's personal briefing
I think you missed the point of this post.
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