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ryanbraganza

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ryanbraganza··on HTML5Wow
Personally, I think a lot of it is impressive, but the cube animation gets old really fast.
ryanbraganza··on Functional Programming Principles in Scala: Impressions and Statistics
Compilers had quite a lot of programming - https://www.coursera.org/course/compilers
ryanbraganza··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··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··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··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··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··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··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··on Data.gov is open source
Australia - http://data.gov.au/

New South Wales - http://data.nsw.gov.au/

ryanbraganza··on Shortest url shortener
it's no shorter than http://tinyarro.ws or plenty of others...

e.g. http://➡.ws/1wz

ryanbraganza··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··on Kickstarter for a JavaScript top level domain (.js TLD)
I can't wait for the .bash_profile tld to become available.
ryanbraganza··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··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··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)

http://store.ovi.com/search?q=Fodor%27s+Avante

ryanbraganza··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··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··on Google will abandon Android
This post is about branding, only.
ryanbraganza··on Ask HN: Best Python web framework
from ">>> import this"

"There should be one-- and preferably only one --obvious way to do it."

ryanbraganza··on It's time for an App Store 2.0
The android market (oops, i mean Play) has an option to require entering a PIN before a purchase is made.
ryanbraganza··on Epic Pull Requests
I prefer this one https://github.com/saberma/shopqi/pull/409
ryanbraganza··on Why This Is What Samsung Is Calling Ice Cream Sandwich
Nope: http://ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
ryanbraganza··on JQuery Events: MouseOver / MouseOut vs. MouseEnter / MouseLeave
The demo (just above the comments) in the jQuery docs is helpful.

http://api.jquery.com/mouseenter/

ryanbraganza··on Stack Overflow, stop blocking me
http://blog.medusis.com/dont-tell-stackoverflow-im-a-hacker-...
ryanbraganza··on Best of Vim Tips
The PDF linked at the bottom is a little more palatable.

http://gav.brokentrain.net/projects/vimtips/vimtips.pdf

ryanbraganza··on GUI Architectures
Good thing HN hasn't gone mainstream.
ryanbraganza··on Is JavaScript a Lisp in disguise?
"It is something of a commonplace to say that JavaScript is a Lisp or Scheme in disguise."

Has that really become common??

ryanbraganza··on Two Things
3. It's never a bug in the compiler (except when it is).
ryanbraganza··on Damian Conway on Physics and Programming
http://a8.video2.blip.tv/9280007175117/Osdc-TemporallyQuaqua...
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