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bemaniac

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About bemaniac

UI/UX nerd, Ruby lover, Hardcore DJ, and Simpsons fan.

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    Comment #10567329

    For some context: This is the first app I've ever gotten onto the App Store. I have an engineering background, but I spent the summer learning Swift, and this was the fruit of that…

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    Comment #7527475

    They're not welcome to the club when they're taking actions to strip the rights of another individual. Opinions are one thing, concrete actions are another.

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    Comment #7527454

    If sexual orientation is a choice, then why aren't there throngs of "straight" male scientists choosing to be gay for a while, fucking a bunch of dudes, enjoying it (that's the key…

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    Comment #3838487

    I think for someone who already loves CoffeeScript, this stuff shouldn't be review. This post is intended for people who have specific objections to using it. Anyway. To each his/h…

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    Comment #3838464

    I wasn't defining a function in that example, I was calling a function that contained a closure as an argument (in both JS and CS). This is perfectly valid JavaScript. I've edited …

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    Comment #3378910

    To rephrase, we found that most logic in our app was view/event/interaction-related, and we found that keeping that stuff in the views made more sense for us.

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    Comment #3375834

    Ah I see what you mean. No, we generally don't unbind events on models/collections, but this is mostly because we don't remove views/subviews from a page that often. We try to cach…

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    Comment #3375827

    Yeah, it seems weird, but that's the way it works in Backbone (at least for us). Views are more similar to iOS' UIViewController than a Rails view. Backbone views handle event bind…

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    Comment #3374992

    I didn't go into much detail because I could have gone on and on forever. We keep our models and collections very bare. They essentially just have methods that communicate with our…

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    Comment #3374678

    I guess it just depends on your definition of "big". I'm curious to see how many views they have. We have many, many views. Our new Posterous Bar -- http://blog.posterous.com/intro…

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    Comment #3236504

    Your ideas are intriguing to me and I wish to subscribe to your newsletter.

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    Comment #3109374

    In my experience, these recruiters just grep for words like "Ruby" and "Javascript" and blindly send out form letters. I will say though, when I was looking for a job, a recruiter …

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    Comment #2759794

    Inline styles. For shame.

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    Comment #1609304

    The main difference is that these buttons require no images, while the Zurb ones still require an image. The lack of images makes the buttons highly scalable.