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tonycoco··on U.S. GDP grew at a 4.9% annual pace in the third quarter, better than expected
Treasury issued $600B in debt in one month to accomplish this. Congrats. Can't wait for their "revision" in ~2 months.
tonycoco··on LK-99 isn’t a superconductor
"70% CuS impurity"
tonycoco··on A physicist who bets that gravity can’t be quantized
When was the last time an insider made one?
tonycoco··on Tesla cuts car prices by up to $5k
Cheapest Taycan I could find was $145k. 192 mile range. I'll take the Model S that is faster and nearly double the range at this point.
tonycoco··on Organ donation in England has moved to an opt-out system
This might be the world's worst "unsubscribe" button ever.
tonycoco··on Ask HN: What's the best book on modern UI/UX?
The Visual Display of Quantitative Information: Edward R. Tufte

Ways to Connect: On Interface and Product Design, Ryan Singer

Something on color theory

Design language books (Bauhaus, etc)

The entire Google design team has quite a few open resources: https://material.io/design/ and https://design.google

tonycoco··on Voters say “yes” to city-run broadband in Colorado
Thanks for this. I needed some sanity.
tonycoco··on Nestle says it will cut sugar in chocolate by 40%
Now I can eat 40% more Nestle chocolate! America!
tonycoco··on Apple Unveils the iPad Pro
Exactly. His point, I think, was trying to get rid of the need for people pulling out a stylus in a car sitting in traffic and scribbling notes and smiley faces. Not catering to artists and people sitting in meetings taking notes. The iPhone doesn't need a stylus. A tablet (especially at that size) acts more like a blank canvas and it makes perfect sense to get a drawing tool like a pencil on that big surface to encourage even more apps and creative outlets.
tonycoco··on Apple Unveils the iPad Pro
You can already see it in action. Go to a Tesla showroom, a boutique clothier, a Square-enabled café, etc. They are all embracing the iPad as a multi-functional device. Oh, and those aren't usually even considered "enterprise" clients.
tonycoco··on Rails JS frameworks: Ember.js vs. AngularJS
I worked on a blog post for Ember and Rails (using the Ember CLI and building a completely separate Rails API)... Check it out: https://www.devmynd.com/blog/2014-7-rails-ember-js-with-the-...
tonycoco··on Introducing Ampersand.js
Isn't Backbone.js already 6.5kb, Packed and gzipped? Why is the stress put on making it smaller/modular? I don't think that is the problem at all. The problem is one that frameworks like Ember.js are trying to solve... reuseable, convention-based and opinionated. This is what Rails got right and something I think that client-side frameworks lack. Rails' success, for the most part, is due to its really strong opinions and conventions. These client-side "frameworks" are often brought in with the byline that its intent is to be TINY. To me, that's not what these ambitious JS frameworks should be bullet-pointing first.
tonycoco··on Facebook acquires Oculus VR
Ready Player One.
tonycoco··on Maverick Bird
It's so fast and such a small screen! Very challenging! haha
tonycoco··on Ruby is too slow for programming competitions
This whole, "Ruby is slow," diatribe is just ridic.

Everyone here that has done any C/C++ or Ruby development would probably agree that if you're looking for number smashing, Ruby is just not cutting it unless you're into rockin' C extensions and getting what you want... for now.

Ruby, within a few years, will probably have some VM action, whether the JVM with JRuby or Rubinius wins out, who cares.

In any case, in like 5 or 6 years when we all have 50/100 core machines, Ruby's gonna be just fine for almost everything. Maybe by then we will be done arguing and just agree that Ruby is the nicest language to look at and develop in, even if it has subpar performance. Because if you're arguing something different, you've probably never gone from Ruby to C or Java or even Python... just so you all know, it blows.

tonycoco··on Facebook Home
This is going to be so cool when I hang out with my hipster friends.
tonycoco··on Facebook Home – What Can Go Wrong
Isn't this just due to the fact that your friends are clowns and not the fact that Facebook Home can go wrong?
tonycoco··on EmberJS Confuses Me
Agreed. I'd like to spend some time and come up with a longer screencast that did a little bit more of a "deep dive".
tonycoco··on EmberJS Confuses Me
That's def a job for the adapters. Django, for instance, has a REST adapter that has been worked on here: https://github.com/toranb/ember-data-django-rest-adapter

As far as the root objects are concerned, I've always been a fan of that part of Rails. Not to say that it cannot be easily gotten rid of with something like this (for ActiveResource)...

ActiveResource::Base.include_root_in_json = false

Or, like in my example app, with this (for ActiveModelSerializers)...

https://github.com/rails-api/active_model_serializers#1-disa...

tonycoco··on EmberJS Confuses Me
Curious for yourself? Try following my simple starter app tutorial of Rails + Ember.js here: http://www.devmynd.com/blog/2013-3-rails-ember-js

Though, I understand the pain of coming from a server-side MVC architecture, I found it refreshing that Ember.js takes the "desktop" MVC approach. Our web apps are now living on the client, acting like desktop apps. Most people struggle with this reverse at first, but can conceptually catch on if shown the way. I think what really needs to happen is a good screencast or two walking through these concepts. I'm interested in putting something together and will when I have the time.

tonycoco··on Announcing Topaz: A New Ruby
I mean, it's cool that people want to expose Python's version of Rubinius as a building block to yet another Ruby interpeter, but, come on. Why is this a thing?! Why not waste time improving the JVM, contributing to Rubinius, patch the MRI, or a million other open source projects already tackling Ruby being "slow". By the way, has anyone else realized that, while Ruby is slow, computers are getting faster for us too!
tonycoco··on A Letter from Tim Cook on Maps
Anyone else think Apple Maps just isn't that bad. I used it for a trip from Chicago to Wisconsin and it worked out perfectly. I guess I'm just not that interested in people with problems with Apple Maps in China or small German towns. Here in the midwest US it seems to work just fine and find everything that GMaps used to. I actually like the Yelp! review integration as well.

Oh well!

I suppose I'm the only one to know that this software is driven by a service which, in time, will most definitely improve exponentially with use.

tonycoco··on Man kicked off flight by pilot for wearing anti-TSA shirt
If Delta should be reasonable (getting him accommodations) shouldn't he also be reasonable next time he gets on one of their planes?
tonycoco··on Man kicked off flight by pilot for wearing anti-TSA shirt
No, but what about a "Bombs in McDonalds are cool." t-shirt? Context. Context. That is all.
tonycoco··on Man kicked off flight by pilot for wearing anti-TSA shirt
Isn't it a privilege to fly? Not a right. It's not like an airplane is some public government arena. It's the property of the airlines, just so happens that you have to be cleared by the government to fly. Don't they have the right to refuse service to a customer, especially if that customer is making employees and other customers uneasy. I'm sure if you went into a McDonald's and were wearing some suspicious clothing or start spouting off ridiculous speeches, they'd ask you kindly to leave and tell you that you were not a welcome customer any longer. In fact, I've seen it happen.

There are places for expression and "Free Speech"... maybe sitting next to the 13 year old or grandmother (or any other paying customer) who's flying for the first time in his/her life wearing some silly t-shirt about bombs and anti-government banter isn't the right place for it.

tonycoco··on Groupon Announces First Quarter 2012 Results
Hopefully, because the SEC is doing their job.
tonycoco··on Microsoft sends GitHub DMCA shutdown for Skype open source project
The post of this just implied, to me, that Microsoft is evil for putting in a take-down request. Why else post this? There are literally hundreds of take-down notices on GitHub. Why post this one?
tonycoco··on Microsoft sends GitHub DMCA shutdown for Skype open source project
MS can't catch a break... They defend their copyrights and get slammed on Hacker News for not being "cool" with the OSS community infringing on their properties. Weak sauce, Hacker News.
tonycoco··on Windows 8 Consumer Preview released.
The 64-bit version installed fine, but my mouse is not responding in "Run like Windows" mode. Keyboard is fine though. I was able to peek around. "Run like a Mac" doesn't work basically at all.
tonycoco··on Rails master is now 4.0.0.beta; Ruby 1.8.7 support dropped
Who needs gemsets? Isn't that the point of Bundler?
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