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Re: http://blog.beanstalkapp.com/post/23998022427

sjs — Sat, 08 Mar 2014 17:46:23 -0000

I wasn't aware of JRuby's class conversion or Clojure's lack thereof. That would definitely hamper things! Thanks for the reply.

Re: http://blog.beanstalkapp.com/post/23998022427

sjs — Thu, 06 Mar 2014 18:49:48 -0000

Out of curiosity, were you previously using or did you try JRuby? I'm assuming you mean MRI when you say Ruby here.

Re: Mac Pro Benchmarks: At $7,000, only 8% faster than Apple’s iMac | BGR

sjs — Fri, 27 Dec 2013 16:43:34 -0000

I wouldn't even say power users. At least how I feel like that term is used. It is for specific professionals with immensely parallel workloads. A/V work (very broad!), scientific computing, serious photography, etc.

I'm a "power user" by most definitions but merely doing things like web development won't benefit that much from this machine. An iMac – or in my case a Hackintosh – is much better value. We'll see if that changes as people find new ways to use those GPUs though.

(Granted I'm not compiling massive projects all day. Some developers have a need for 6+ cores but it's not really that common to work on such large projects. I'm just speaking for myself here.)

Re: Automatically Generate Ember Models From Rails Serializers

sjs — Wed, 04 Dec 2013 23:36:34 -0000

Thanks for sharing this! You saved me a lot of time by writing up the general method with a nice amount of detail. Much obliged.

Re: Twitterrific 5.5 for iOS 7

sjs — Thu, 19 Sep 2013 12:36:01 -0000

It doesn't have gloss on iOS 7, it's only like that on the iTunes website (and possibly on iOS 6).

Re: 64-bit confusion

sjs — Fri, 13 Sep 2013 14:15:39 -0000

The almost certainly are. My company ships an iOS library for developers and it contains x86 code to run in the simulator as well as 32-bit ARM code to run on devices using a (now) bog standard fat binary. This is standard practice for a majority of iOS libraries. We are in the process of adding 64-bit ARM code as well.

Re: Consumer Reports: The Nexus 7 sucks balls

sjs — Thu, 22 Aug 2013 19:33:33 -0000

I trust AnandTech far more than Consumer Reports, and they awarded it their silver editors' choice award[1]. Seems like most of these issues are already resolved. Even Apple has problems with new products. It's just the nature of the business and large scale manufacturing of electronics.

[1] http://www.anandtech.com/sh...

I have the 2012 Nexus 7 and for me the real problem with Android tablets lies in the app situation. I can't find high quality apps for Twitter, app.net, and RSS like I can on iOS.

(Except right now because I use Feedbin and Reeder for iPad doesn't support it yet, the best solution I have for RSS on tablets is actually Press on my Nexus 7. Mr. Reader and Slow Feeds suck balls.)

Re: Instapaper Receives Update With New Features, But You Probably Can’t Afford It

sjs — Tue, 15 Jan 2013 19:25:03 -0000

I'm confused. It sounds like you think he's a jerk because he doesn't want to work for you for free. Do I have that right?

Re: Clean configuration defaults via Object.create in Node.js

sjs — Mon, 02 Jan 2012 17:14:21 -0000

I think there's an extra level of nesting in the body of the first for loop. This may be what was intended:

options[i] = {
value: opts[i],
enumerable: true,
writeable: true,
configurable: true
};

Re: Grammy Hangover!

sjs — Mon, 14 Feb 2011 23:59:29 -0000

I didn't watch the Grammys or really know anything about it except that Arcade Fire won something and some people didn't know who they are, and a group of other people largely consisting of Canadians was surprised that people hadn't at least heard of them, while an even smaller group of Canadians hadn't heard of Arcade Fire and chimed in to illustrate that not all Canadians have heard of Arcade Fire.

My day is going great, thank you! How is your day going?

Re: A CSS3 Overlay System

sjs — Thu, 13 Jan 2011 22:29:51 -0000

If all the tech posts were tagged as such you could browse that tag and subscribe to the rss for only that tag.

Re: Bulk insertion of data with ActiveRecord

sjs — Fri, 20 Jun 2008 02:01:59 -0000

Batch imports from external sources (csv, xml, etc.).