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thomasdavison For the first time ever, the number of poor people is declining everywhere

I would rather read the un-educated essay than your over-educated pseudo-intellectual nonsensical dribble.

lol loved the last line, keep it up brother!

thomasdavison For the first time ever, the number of poor people is declining everywhere

I find it disgusting that you could even try talk of capitalism in a good light. I'm sure citizens would also find it absolutely degrading.

thomasdavison For the first time ever, the number of poor people is declining everywhere

This is all bullshit, capitalism sucks, everyone needs to slow down and live a little.

thomasdavison Streak.com (YC S11) Takes On Salesforce With A Simple CRM For Gmail

Seems like it's gonna be pretty popular

thomasdavison "Lighten up"

Attack sexism, not humour! Please stop killing humour

thomasdavison Slavery's last stronghold

Slavery exist everywhere, we just call it 'life' or '9-5'

thomasdavison Single Page Web Apps with Backbone.js

No one else has mentioned using a view manager/factory to handle the life cycle of views?

instead of

  var view = new SomeView(options);

  view.render();

we do

  var view = Vm.create('some descriptor', SomeView, options);

  view.render();

The factory/manager can do many things! List out active views, clean up all views at any stage during their life cycle, default cleaning methods etc etc

thomasdavison Bootstrap 2.0.2 released

Bootstrap sucks and is everywhere!

thomasdavison Chaplin, an Application Architecture based on Backbone.js

IMO one of the best attempts at a Javascript framework to date, look forward to giving it a go if it survives infancy.

thomasdavison [dead]

that is crazy creepy

thomasdavison "I haven’t been drunk in 3 years... and I’ve been partying way more than you."

aha I came here for this.

Damn fear campaigns generating 'non-conforming' conformist.

thomasdavison So You Want to Save the World

Man is dead.

thomasdavison Protest SOPA with stopcensorship.js

The bar probably needs to be fixed

thomasdavison Protest SOPA with stopcensorship.js

Update:

http://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/sopa/1.0/stopcensorshi...

  <script type="text/javascript" src="http://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/sopa/1.0/stopcensorship.js"></script>

Edit: My support http://thomasdavis.github.com/

thomasdavison Protest SOPA with stopcensorship.js

Showing our support from http://cdnjs.com by uploading the script, will share the link in a few minutes when it's finished.

thomasdavison Backbone.js Fundamentals

More documentation can be found at

http://backbonetutorials.com

thomasdavison Dropping out is probably not for you

I completely agree, 4 years of learning leading technologies in IT will put you far ahead of 4 years of learning possibly outdated stuff. Education is FREE!

thomasdavison It's Never Really About Dropping Out

Great men live for mastery and academia but modern universities have nothing to do with either therefore attending is a waste of precious years. University takes up your spare time that you could be learning things that you're passionate about, it also seeds poisonous ideas into your head.

This is mostly relevant to the tech community at the moment because we have had the tools to make our education open enabling the guys mentioned in the article to educate them self.

Once the other industries start openly publishing educational material then the true power of passionate self development will be known.

thomasdavison Require.js + Backbone.js = Robust Modular Application Development

5 hours of silence

thomasdavison Cdncss.com - the next step

Hi guys, January this year we created "cdnjs.com - the missing cdn". Since then we have acquired full sponsorship from CloudFlare.com who have stabilized the hosting infrastructure and reached new speeds Amazon S3 could not.

Cdnjs has had measurable popularity and going into the new year we thought it's time to step it up a notch and host popular CSS snippets/frameworks. The idea itself is in a trial and once the community has spoken we will again make informed decisions on infrastructure if we are to go ahead.

At the moment we are inviting anyone and everyone to contribute to the cdncss.com project.

Simply create an issue or comment on issues that you think are important, if you have the time we would greatly appreciate populating the actual repository via a fork request.

thomasdavison Cdnjs - the missing cdn

http://stats.pingdom.com/4jg86a2wqei0/362854

Pingdom stats

thomasdavison Why do we let sexist creeps pervade the software industry?

The picture is not offensive to anyone who matters, honestly if you are offended you should probably go build a sexless utopia and die off in a generation.

thomasdavison Show HN:Non-Anonymous Chat

I had fun, talked to Mark Bao, a beautiful woman and a 7 foot dude from SF.

thomasdavison Is the Internet an extension of human memory?

This is definitely what I was trying to communicate, thanks for verifying the essence for me!

thomasdavison Is the Internet an extension of human memory?

Well my counter thoughts are that the difference in look up speed is big enough to make a distinction.

If I read information from an encyclopedia I would be much more inclined to try remember it at the point in time.

Whereas it's habitual for me to now just skim over information on the internet and store the reference point to it instead.

Edit: Effectively instead of filling my memory with facts I store it with pointers to facts. Which makes it harder to put two and two together.

thomasdavison Is the Internet an extension of human memory?

I was actually trying to find resources when I was writing this but couldn't so this is very helpful, thanks!

I recall reading about other mechanical devices like the steering wheel and computer mice being extensions of the human body. Does anyone know what it's called?

thomasdavison [dead]

As posted by somebody else it's also worth using a local fallback. html5boilerplate has been doing it for jQuery for some time now.

This can be done with most libraries by identifying the libraries global variable. e.g. for Modernizr