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ryanbraganza

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About ryanbraganza

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    Comment #5019689

    Personally, I think a lot of it is impressive, but the cube animation gets old really fast.

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    Comment #4949683

    Compilers had quite a lot of programming - https://www.coursera.org/course/compilers

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    Comment #4928106

    If you're in Australia, call lifeline ( 13 11 14 ) or they have a chat service at particular hours - https://www.lifeline.org.au/Get-Help/Online-Services/crisis-...

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    Comment #4798800

    You know how I know you're 15? Light grey text on a white background. I remember when I was younger and discovering ImageMagick - a perennial favourite for building little tools on…

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    Comment #4618524

    > People don't really read things online, they scan. some things jump out, and only if you're very intrigued will you actually read the individual words. In fact, very few of you w…

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    Comment #4532180

    I don't disagree. Although, I think CoffeeScript is more similar to JRuby than FastRuby.

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    Comment #4403191

    I agree, and this reminds me of two other quotes. "Strong opinions, weakly held" http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/2008/05/strong-opinions-wea... http://bobsutton.typepad.com/my_web…

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    Comment #4245420

    I'm not seeing much of an argument against factory_girl (in unit tests) other than: it's not as fast as setting up your model by hand. And no description of the alternative?

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    Comment #4125843

    Was there a particular part you found especially pleasurable? What made it more pleasurable for you to read than other writing?

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    Comment #4110232

    Australia - http://data.gov.au/ New South Wales - http://data.nsw.gov.au/

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    Comment #4073294

    it's no shorter than http://tinyarro.ws or plenty of others... e.g. http://➡.ws/1wz

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    Comment #4050463

    from " http://www.theverge.com/2012/5/31/3055620/oracle-java-api-no... " " Judge William Alsup ended the discussion today, ruling that the SSO of the APIs is not covered under curr…

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    Comment #4020962

    I can't wait for the .bash_profile tld to become available.

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    Comment #4004985

    "Thanks to that team, folks in our side of the dev world now have an easy path into Git and GitHub, and can go about our merry way building things without ever having to parse what…

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    Comment #3908380

    I can bump it up in the embedded player... It also helps to enable fullscreen on the player.

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    Comment #3887274

    "Oh, and all our apps are FREE." Not for Nokia, they aren't. (AUD 6.60 each) http://store.ovi.com/search?q=Fodor%27s+Avante

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    Comment #3877992

    There's this: http://ruby.sadi.st/Heckle.html It changes your class, then runs your tests to make sure they fail. I haven't tried it myself.

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    Comment #3857309

    Yes, I think this is the first HN thread I've seen where jokes aren't being downvoted into oblivion. (And I don't think it's terrible! Fingers crossed that nobody tells me to go ba…

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    Comment #3781553

    This post is about branding, only.

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    Comment #3765727

    from ">>> import this" "There should be one-- and preferably only one --obvious way to do it."

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    Comment #3736642

    The android market (oops, i mean Play) has an option to require entering a PIN before a purchase is made.

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    Comment #3736451

    I prefer this one https://github.com/saberma/shopqi/pull/409

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    Comment #3720741

    Nope: http://ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html