jjburka

I recently got a pair of MetroFit 220 by LE which can be found for around 80$. (http://www.ultimateears.com/_ultimateears/store/products/met...) Which I like alot. They are buds, put they come with 3 plastic ear pieces of different sizes so you should be able to make them fit. I got these over an active noise canceling one since all the noise canceling ones I have used (and it could just be the ones I used) seem to let out alot of noise when noise canceling.

Not really about the app (It looks neat however) but on the site, the "Take a tour" section should display the screen shots in a gallery, lightbox or some such. It's rather hard to view them all.

'For us the living' is also another interesting book by him. Sorta the anti-Atlas Shrugged.

Another good introduction to Ayn Rand is the 'Virtue of Selfishness'. Its a collection of her essays with some that were written by people in her group. Its pretty short (100ish pages) and in my opinion says about everything she was trying to say in Atlas Shrugged.

The page does make it clearer when a company has endorsed the page or not. A couple observations

* I don't think the "X has Opted Out of this Community" and "X is not yet participating" states are both needed. Just labeling it as unofficial in both cases should be enough.

* The wording in the post a topic to the forum (#6) is strange sounding to me. Maybe "Ask X customers a question"

With the added complexity of making it mulitplayer you would also have to deal with the increased costs of keeping the game running. Right now when they finish a game the only recurring costs they pay is hosting,bandwidth,and support. If the game fails , except for hosting , those costs would go down (less people buying game means less support etc). But if a multiplayer game fails you have to keep the servers running or risk pissing off the people who bought the game

full disclosure : I worked on the project

If its a restful web service you could try http://github.com/yfactorial/objectiveresource/tree/master . It's basically a port of Active Resource to Obj C. You can use it if its not a restful service you just have to override some functions.

The difference is that very few if any plugins are sold and it is somewhat easy to downgrade to an older version of Firefox. Could you imagine what would happen if iPhone OS 2.3 came out and 10% of the apps in the itunes store stopped working? It would be a PR nightmare for Apple.

That dot operator took me forever to understand , its highly unintuitive. @synthesize should of just created the setMethod and getMethod that would make sense. Not some weird property light. I'm also a big fan of the parameter descriptions, it makes it really easy to read.

yeah , it was interesting. It is a little difficult to actually see what they are making , but it appears they have paid for some marketing either 12K or 7K depending on if the 5K free marketing 'income' is applied to the expense

http://unfuddle.com/ has free private repos and they support git

I would also add actually having some text to put in the site helps. Completely off topic , I really like the design of that site.

Exactly, and he seemed to limit his scope of car companies to American car companies. Since the Auto Industry is global one the number is much higher. And just because you have a lot of players in a market doesn't mean all of them are going to be innovative it just means there will be generally more innovation.

the NSZombie and malloc tracing stuff shown in this article helped me out a number of times

http://www.cocoadev.com/index.pl?DebuggingAutorelease

touche

honestly I wouldn't hire anyone that can't take the time to spell out "you"

Wow thanks man. I generally go to ethic stores for spices which is really cheap compared to conventional grocery stores. But not as cheap as that.

If your whole foods has a bulk section its rather economical to shop there for that.

But on the topic of cheap/good for you eats: Can't go wrong with burritos made with beans,corn and rice.

In addition to adding some more color ( I would use kuler and upload your logo then mess around with the colors) , I would removed the 'detele blank images' button you display on the playlist page.

I second the Rails Way book , its a great book thats easy to follow and organized. For learning Ruby I found http://www.amazon.com/Ruby-Programming-Language-David-Flanag... to be great

That code sample is either really old or a good example of why you should read up on the framework your using

If thats the case I shouldn't be able to. I also might add a up button and a down button (like the left/right buttons you have on the top) so the user is aware the list scrolls. Similar to the Google Reader Widget for iGoogle.

Looks nice. The only thing I found is if you scroll up in the news list area it doesn't stop at today's news , it loops back to a couple days ago. Which is rather unintuitive.

how so? I'm rather new to rails and from my understanding of rails and mvc it seems to follow that pattern. Good Practice wise atleast

I think really what he is arguing is the marginal benefit of learning a new language diminishes with each new language. Which is probably true if you only learn the syntax and then move on. But thats not what software development is ,the language is a tool that a culture uses. Using your example with Rails , alot of its culture (MVC , TDD , etc) seem to be being adopted in other communities. I would argue that the reason is someone had a extended vacation in Hotel Rails liked what they saw and then brought it home. Finding out how different people do different things and adapting them to your needs is valuable in all contexts.

Wow I went to one of these , if this is true its a good thing nothing ever came from it. It was a fun experience though

My question would be why did rails' models take so long to do compared to django. The examples they gave the rails were shorter (granted neither were complex) I'm going to assume that they have the same number of models (5ish) so it can't be that.

My complaint with it when I was messing around with it was I wasn't about to sit the and type into a textfield and not use some-sort of editor. But it appears they fixed that. I just wonder how useful it will be to working on the deployed copy, I mean your site would be giving off all sorts of fun errors to the people coming to your site if your sitting there messing the the script.

I agree completely with the rails aspect. I've only been using ror for about 3 months and as long as you think of what you want to do in a 'rails' way you get lots done.

In regards to the parent question , when I first start a side project I spend a fair amount of time on it afterwork. But it usually settles to 2-3 nights a week for a couple hours and 9-5 sat.