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Thanks for spelling that out, I see that it can be a useful exploration tool. For me though, the act of thinking about a problem in terms of data and relationships helps a lot in e…

> Relational databases are great, but they're almost an optimization -- they're way more useful after the problem set has been well defined and you have a much better sense of data…

If you absolutely need to debug something on the device in iOS 5, I wrote this a few weeks ago: https://github.com/brainlock/ios-remote-inspector I had a rendering bug that only ha…

And again, all of this is US only. I don't understand this, they are able to ship a standard Kindle to Europe, why not a Kindle Touch?

I just finished the Commonwealth Saga + The Void Trilogy by Peter F. Hamilton, loved it. Both set in the same universe, the first two in the relatively near future (about 300 years…

The pollution comes IMHO not only from having the timestamps in the commit (and to fix that the idea of using git-notes that came up in a sibling comment seems to be a perfect fit)…

I wholeheartedly agree and share the frustration. This only detracts from web apps in favor of native apps. At this point a solution (or a way to mitigate the problem) would be som…

Why do you find it depressing? I'm not saying that there aren't better programming languages than Javascript. I'm just saying that there is a subset of Javascript which is really e…

I'd add that it has functions as first-class citizens and closures. Javascript has for sure some crappy parts, but there is also a lot of good in it.

If you use git submodules, what you do is exactly like tagging. An example from a project I'm working on: at some point I want to add a submodule for a dependency I need $ git subm…

GLaD to see they're still alive ;-)

Does anybody know about a release date?

You can download a Chrome extension/theme to match the Ubuntu one (it's called Ambiance if I recall) and have Chrome use the system window decoration (right click on a free spot in…

Maybe a bit late, but here is my experience. At the end of the job search I had to choose among two companies. One was developing in python, the other in php. At first I felt incli…