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ryanbraganza

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ryanbraganza··on Apology to 37signals
Did you see the update?

"To the users of FunnyJunk: I never had plans to sue FunnyJunk and get it shut down; I just wanted my stolen comics removed -- your admin is a moron who chooses his words about as carefully as a mule chooses where to take a shit."

http://theoatmeal.com/blog/funnyjunk2

ryanbraganza··on How I improved my life with a PS3 controller
I recommend pentadactyl

http://dactyl.sourceforge.net/pentadactyl/

            Pentadactyl was once called Vimperator, initially written by Martin
            Stubenschrott, then developed and maintained by Doug Kearns, Kris
            Maglione, and several other invaluable contributors.
            Doug and Kris, the primary Vimperator developers for several
            years, have left the Vimperator project and now develop and
            maintain Pentadactyl in its stead.
ryanbraganza··on YC and 500 Startups company Curebit caught stealing from 37 Signals
He's not pissed off at elance https://twitter.com/#!/dhh/status/163363094834319360

Also interesting: https://twitter.com/#!/dhh/status/163190258593304576

I think this cooled down a lot quicker if Grant had made a better reply. DHH didn't start out by calling them scumbags. (See his twitter feed)

ryanbraganza··on Google at GitHub
I don't think you really need to be friendly for an empty repo for users who can't admin the repo.
ryanbraganza··on I want to fix programming
Take a look at quickcheck if you want something that works today.

http://www.haskell.org/haskellwiki/Introduction_to_QuickChec...

ryanbraganza··on I want to fix programming
How is it not just prolog?

At the very least, a constraint programming language would be a good basis to start with here.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Constraint_programming

ryanbraganza··on The Noun Project: Icons for everything
Do you think HN would benefit from a bot that reposts 5-month-old resources where the resource would have updated since then?

I think this would only be valuable when the first post is more of a "show hn/looking for contributors" and the second is a "this project has come of age and is valuable for the general population".

Otherwise, if it was valuable then, you would've bookmarked it. If it wasn't, it shouldn't have been submitted.

ryanbraganza··on Twitter Bootstrap 2.0 pre-release demo
What is it?
ryanbraganza··on Steve Wozniak: Android has leapt ahead of Apple in many ways
The article's headline is misleading. FTA:

“If you’re willing to do the work to understand it a little bit, well I hate to say it, but there’s more available in some ways,” said Woz.

ryanbraganza··on Hidden features of Python
Make sure you actually try running "from __future__ import braces"
ryanbraganza··on Abstract Algebra for developers - Cryptography
It's not exactly a short piece somebody could comment on straight away :)

I think it's a good introductory piece.

ryanbraganza··on Android 4.0 updates: It is all about the money
There are two devices in question here - the Galaxy S and the Galaxy Tab. Both of these are touchwiz devices. Samsung claims that adding TW to ICS will require more hardware (in particular, RAM) than these devices have.

One option would be to remove TW - the nexus s and galaxy s are near identical in hardware spec but the nexus s will be updated to ICS. The main difference being the nexus s is non-TW. However, for samsung, this is not really a viable option. Going from TW to ICS is a major change - things work differently under TW than stock android.

Their best "option" (ignoring costs) would be to find a way to minimise the amount of RAM TW uses and enable ICS on these older devices.

The galaxy s has already received froyo and gingerbread upgrades. What do people think is an "acceptable" upgrade timeframe?

ryanbraganza··on Thanks HN for the Christmas colors and Merry Christmas to you, too
Dupe: submitted 366 days ago - http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2034624

Merry Christmas!

ryanbraganza··on All Hacker Monthly issues free for next ~24 hours
019 is up too
ryanbraganza··on All Hacker Monthly issues free for next ~24 hours
Try:

$ wget http://hackermonthly.com/xmas/hackermonthly-issue{001..19}.z...

ryanbraganza··on John Resig: JavaScript as a First Language
NaN !== NaN

Apart from that, I agree.

ryanbraganza··on I miss w
How did you do it?
ryanbraganza··on '===' faster than '=='?
I can think of two.

  * (programmer) laziness

  * if you know you want type coercion
ryanbraganza··on PuTTY 0.62 Released - Prevents passwords from being retained in memory.
For anyone else who thinks their english skills lacking, make sure you read the gp's post aloud
ryanbraganza··on Horseshit - Joshua Topolsky responds to MG & Gruber
This is the entire point of branding.
ryanbraganza··on Can you beat 99% of programmers? Try the FizzBuzz challenge
100.times is also wrong (unless you i+1 in your block all the time)

Cleaner, I think is "1.upto(100){ ... }"

ryanbraganza··on No - you are not supposed to take breaks
In case Jason posts something else and his tumblr updates...

http://jasonshah.tumblr.com/post/14100621401/no-you-are-not-...

ryanbraganza··on Postgresql 9.2 will have boat-loads of performance enhancements
What's the equivalent of template1 in mysql?
ryanbraganza··on Introduction to Roy: a new JavaScript language
previous discussion http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3277027
ryanbraganza··on Android File System Hierarchy
I think it would be nicer if the folders were grouped together (at the top).
ryanbraganza··on GitHub forking has one big flaw
I'm impressed that this blogpost wasn't titled "GitHub has one big forking flaw".

That aside, I think github's model is largely correct. In git itself, a commit is a child of a parent (or parents).

ryanbraganza··on Why the Happiest States Have the Highest Suicide Rates
because all the sad people are dead?
ryanbraganza··on What's the one Linux command you wish you knew years ago?
And for you crazy people on python3..

python3 -m http.server

ryanbraganza··on Lessons I wish I had been Taught
http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=bome "Verb, " I just Bomed that math test!" (Meaning you did a good job)"

Although based on context, I'd guess a misspelt "bombed"?

ryanbraganza··on Google Code Search team says Goodbye
Interesting to see the note about ChromiumOS/Android...

"There is something of a silver lining. googlecode.com will take over search for their projects, and also take over hosting the Chromium search page. (If ChromiumOS or Android are important to you, reach out to whatever contacts you have at Google now and let them know!)There is something of a silver lining. googlecode.com will take over search for their projects, and also take over hosting the Chromium search page. (If ChromiumOS or Android are important to you, reach out to whatever contacts you have at Google now and let them know!)"

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