rawsyntax

interesting that many people say telecommuting. If you guys really feel that way, apply for telecommute jobs!

it depends on how you think of functions... If you think of everything as an expression, of course it has some kind of value.

That being said I prefer not to have to write "return" but work plenty with languages outside of ruby and have no issues writing return when necessary.

Sparrow

Leaving emacs open makes it more IDE like, the stuff you were working on last is still loaded. Instead of having to quit and then find all those files again. I work the same way as you. Tabs for any large number of buffers would be a nightmare

I'd just like to add I made a similar blogpost, 20337 available alliterative .com domain names http://rawsyntax.com/post/4839370351/20337-available-alliter...

I hear what you're saying here. But I get to pay $40 a month... to have to troubleshoot and fix my own connection?

I think comcast should stay on top of their shit, isn't that what we pay for?

I wrote a blog post about how to generate possible domain names and check if they are registered. I generated 20k available domain names http://rawsyntax.com/post/4839370351/20337-available-alliter...

comcast internet is slow in my experience. Much slower than advertised. Comcast has also done a lot of bittorrent throttling, given there are legitimate uses for bittorrent.

Also in my local market there is comcast or att dsl. ATT dsl is slower than comcast, so I'm forced to pick the lesser of two evils.

Hardware - macbook pro 15", and external 24" 1920x1200

OS - os x, and windows xp via VMWare

Shell - zsh

Language - mostly ruby

Editor - emacs with emacs-starter-kit

Git client - CLI, or magit from emacs, occasionally GitX

second p90x

well.. any ideas on how to make it better? I think we all want better regex syntax.

Also, I don't necessarily think it's the syntax, but simply the power / complexity that regexes have.

There's plenty of hosting providers that provide ruby and python and all the rest. PHP because of ubiquity, I could see holding water 7 years ago, but not now.

I make a text file per project.. and remove items as they are completed.. If the notes are more complex than that, typically it goes into the bug tracker (redmine, or similar)

if html5 video is any indication, it has to fall back to flash for browsers that don't support it, as well as encode the video in various codecs to account for different codec support (per browser)

One wonders what is he so angry about?

I switched from Slackware to OS X precisely because I felt OS X did more things automatically for me. Also, If you've used slackbuilds, they are actually quite similar to homebrew, in my opinion.

from the article: "While it worked fine with Tweetie because most of its users probably only use one or two Twitter accounts, Sparrow built it’s UI around it without thinking it through: What about people with several email accounts?"

Since it's a gmail client, I have setup one master gmail account that proxies to all other accounts (configured through the web browser client), and have setup aliases in Sparrow. It works great

use homebrew to build emacs --cocoa, and check out the emacs-starter-kit for sane defaults on a mac

I take notes in an emacs buffer

generally I think, this implementation time only. ie, the design decisions have already been made, and problems have been solved.

I once did this. However it involved some in-depth analysis of problems with the existing code, and new ideas on how to solve the same problems. This came about because the existing code didn't really fit a feature they were trying to add on

yes I use a blanket, but then again I work from home.

I find getting a hot cup of tea / coffee works.

Before I got my first software dev job... I was told it's important to learn what you don't like as well.

I would A/B test, but they all sound spammy, sorry.

I'd recommend coming up with a totally new headline

github for source control, redmine or possibly pivotal for issue tracking, and the wiki on github for wiki info.

I would change the design to encourage more reporting, and make it harder for bots to crawl.

Here's one such link http://wordsthatlinger.posterous.com/how-facebook-screws-ove...

The only con is that if you build buzz you have to launch reasonably soon. If you blow the deadline, then it's difficult to build buzz a second time.

I think writing an ebook as a weekend project can make money. As long as you are knowledgeable about a particular subject.

cause we're noobs

Checkout http://authoringebooks.com/ it's $50, but it's by jeremy mcanally and he wrote http://www.railsupgradehandbook.com/ making $40k in a year.

So I think it covers a little about what tools to use etc..