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Re: The Artists and Cartoonists Who Designed Pee-wee Herman’s World – Part One

Grant Hutchins — Sat, 16 Sep 2023 19:27:49 -0000

To this child of the 80s, it’s amazing to even consider a world before these madcap characters existed. Seeing them as a rough idea on a scrap of paper is both mesmerizing and inspiring.

Re: One More Person

Grant Hutchins — Mon, 01 Nov 2021 08:37:21 -0000

> What should we call the person who comes up with a philosophical thought-experiment?

I would call them the designer.

Re: Ad Tech Could Be the Next Internet Bubble

Grant Hutchins — Sat, 24 Oct 2020 17:40:11 -0000

Link is missing.

Re: Chocolatey Software | Visual Studio Code 1.54.3

Grant Hutchins — Tue, 05 Nov 2019 11:08:37 -0000

Why is dotnet 4.5.2 a dependency? I'm pretty sure vscode can be installed independently just via its installer. Please remove this dependency.

Re: Pivotal Cloud Foundry Developer v1.7

Grant Hutchins — Mon, 20 Aug 2018 12:36:08 -0000

You should prefer to use the autoconfiguration as it will be less error prone. Spring Boot is designed to look in the correct location automatically and there is no need to override it to look in the same location.

A twelve-factor app should ideally store configuration in the environment, not in files checked into source. (See https://12factor.net/config )

Re: Static Analysis for Java Projects with SonarQube

Grant Hutchins — Tue, 24 May 2016 10:48:44 -0000

In an email, Felix Reyn said:

PMD, Checkstyle, and Findings are a strong combo. All 3 have maven plugins for immediate feedback, IDE plugins (Eclipse), and Jenkins support.

Re: OS X 10.11 で RubyGems の native extension のビルドに失敗したら

Grant Hutchins — Mon, 19 Oct 2015 10:07:16 -0000

Thank you!

Re: Annotated Spring

Grant Hutchins — Thu, 03 Sep 2015 20:13:26 -0000

Nice video!

Re: This is What Agile Development Should Look Like in the Federal Government - Nextgov.com

Grant Hutchins — Tue, 10 Feb 2015 17:20:52 -0000

The UK has some great resources on using agile methodologies in government. https://www.gov.uk/service-... https://www.gov.uk/service-... https://www.gov.uk/service-...

Re: Who Wants To Audition for Millionaire

Grant Hutchins — Mon, 02 Jun 2014 20:16:02 -0000

I did the same thing ten years ago! I ended up on the show with Meredith Vieira and it was a blast. (10 questions right, $25,000!)

I always tried to give a sentence to explain why I thought that the answer was a particular one. For example "Oh yeah, I read that book in school, it's definitely Harper Lee", for example. Nothing too fancy, but it plays well for the camera and then people get on your side.

I also got totally called-out by the next contestant who just had to add, "I knew all the questions Grant got, including the one he got wrong, so I think those were meant to be my questions." Then she ended up getting one question further than me. Who gets called out on national TV like that? Oh well, what can I do.

The most fun is waiting in the green room with the rest of the upcoming contestants and watching them go out one at a time. They have a live TV inside showing you how they do while you wait.

Re: Riding Rails: Rails 4.0: Release Candidate 2 released!

Grant Hutchins — Sat, 15 Jun 2013 16:34:04 -0000

Found and fixed a bug in 4.0.0.rc1, fixed it in 4-0-stable, still present in 4.0.0.rc2 :(

So contributors, please check to make sure your bugfixes make it onto the 4-0-0 branch and make additional pull requests if not.

Re: UConn's Academics and Athletics Come Together

Grant Hutchins — Mon, 29 Apr 2013 21:26:51 -0000

"OBEY WOLF" (the helmet)

Re: Oreo, Audi & Walgreens Newsjack Super Bowl “Blackout Bowl”

Grant Hutchins — Tue, 05 Feb 2013 22:24:05 -0000

If you haven't heard, #SodaStream requires no electricity. #fizz on friends! #NoPowerOutageProblems #SuperBowl47

https://twitter.com/SodaStr...

Great reaction after having to censor their Super Bowl ad.

Re: Rails 3.1.0 has been released!

Grant Hutchins — Wed, 31 Aug 2011 21:09:00 -0000

Congratulations!

You should make sure to tag this blog post with “Releases” btw

Re: Rails 3.1.0 has been released!

Grant Hutchins — Wed, 31 Aug 2011 21:09:00 -0000

Congratulations!

You should make sure to tag this blog post with “Releases” btw

Re: libimobiledevice 1.0 & Transition

Grant Hutchins — Tue, 06 Apr 2010 00:53:19 -0000

Good job!

Re: Was acid house born in India?

Grant Hutchins — Sun, 04 Apr 2010 16:57:33 -0000

Pitchfork reviewed this back in January 2007. http://pitchfork.com/featur...

Re: Why Do Some Online Services Thrive?

Grant Hutchins — Tue, 29 Sep 2009 15:20:04 -0000

I think that in this case a great name also contributes.

It&#039s very easy to explain what you could do with a DropBox, whereas who knows what something like Wuala or Zecter does. (Did a quick Google search to look for DropBox competitors and those names came up.)

Re: A Simple .union Extension For ActiveRecord

Grant Hutchins — Fri, 26 Jun 2009 12:01:29 -0000

How is this plugin licensed? You don't include any sort of license with your plugin.

I'd suggest the MIT License, to give developers the most options.

Re: New code contributor index

Grant Hutchins — Mon, 18 May 2009 15:03:00 -0000

Looks like the DNS is still propagating. There is a wildcard entry that points to the blog it seems.

I just went and cleared the OpenDNS cache, so hopefully that will help a lot of people see it faster.

Re: New code contributor index

Grant Hutchins — Mon, 18 May 2009 15:03:00 -0000

Looks like the DNS is still propagating. There is a wildcard entry that points to the blog it seems.

I just went and cleared the OpenDNS cache, so hopefully that will help a lot of people see it faster.

Re: BNO News beats New York 911 call

Grant Hutchins — Sun, 09 Nov 2008 14:33:31 -0000

Pretty impressive.

Please call 911 first before letting BreakingNewsOn know about something like this, so that emergencies can be handled quickly.

Re: How to display a collection grouped by an attribute value in Rails

Grant Hutchins — Sun, 19 Oct 2008 03:05:27 -0000

You can also do:

@authors.sort.each do |author_name, quote|

because Hash#sort returns an array of 2-value arrays of the form [key, value]

Re: Prototype 1.6.0.3: A long-awaited bugfix release

Grant Hutchins — Thu, 02 Oct 2008 14:43:00 -0000

Is there a definitive place to download the latest update helper javascript?

Re: Locale App for Android Phones “Wouldn’t Even Be Possible on the iPhone,” Says Winner of $275K Developer Challenge

Grant Hutchins — Thu, 02 Oct 2008 12:09:36 -0000

Saying that it "wouldn't" be possible implies that it is never going to be possible. I think that the answer is more along the lines of:

It is not currently possible, when following Apple's rules.

Certainly it is possible on something like a jailbroken iPhone.

So there's nothing inherent about the iPhone that prevents this sort of app from ever being developed. Last year someone could have written a tip calculator for Android and said that it "wouldn't even be possible on the iPhone".