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georgedrummond

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About georgedrummond

http://georgedrummond.com

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    Comment #24504517

    No doubt the intent of this tool is to tightly couple your development flow to GitHub/Microsoft. Makes switching to other vendors more painful further down the line.

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    Comment #12970637

    > Every other framework relies on JQuery This just isn't true. OP mentioned React, Vue.js, and Mithril. None of these use jQuery as a dependency. Neither does Angular, Backbone, or…

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    Comment #10650991

    This change was committed on Jun 14th 2013, about a week after the PRISM programme had been leaked by Edward Snowden. It is a clear reference to the programme but by this point it …

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    Comment #8253111

    I love bland and hate surprises. One of the features I despise most in Ruby is Monkey Patching since it changes expected behaviour.

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    Comment #8185717

    There are some very serious privacy concerns that need to be addressed with this plugin

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    Comment #7918325

    I guess he didn't read "Lean Startup"

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    Comment #7915600

    However, an acre of land can produce a far greater quantity of vegetables than meat. An enormous amount of energy is lost in producing meat. While overpopulation is a problem the w…

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    Comment #7901202

    This looks like a really cool project. You can also contribute code here https://github.com/bikeindex/bike_index

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    Comment #7813265

    How does this differ from Ruboto http://ruboto.org/ ? I've only just started playing with Rubymotion and it does seem very nice. I'm excited its going to support Android too but Ru…

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    Comment #7712726

    The examples are like a spaghetti code visualisation

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    Comment #7709615

    > More teaching, less tech-ing Horrible copy

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    Comment #7707896

    Asking for access to your entire email history? No deal.

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    Comment #7207414

    It's important to capture the imagination of young people and encourage creativity. Projects like Scratch are a fantastic introduction to solving problems with computers, and young…