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vaporstun

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About vaporstun

Victor Quinn

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http://victorquinn.com @victorquinn

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    There is no entropy generation here, it is based on the Mersenne Twister, so it is pseudo-random only at this point. If none is provided, the seed is just the current timestamp. I …

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    The other downside of Features in Drupal is that if we export something as a Feature (say a View) and then our site builders tweak and change that View for our clients and then we …

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    > Your comments comparing Rails and Drupal surprises me. I feel like you are writing without realizing how Rails development is done. First, no offense taken. Next, I do have a fai…

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    Drupal developer with 4+ years of working with it under my belt. The nitty gritty is that we use it in an environment where we basically have 2 teams. One that builds custom code/m…

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    I disagree. I think companies ought to develop for every platform, companies ought to create a market, but developers ought to specialize generally. I don't think most developers a…

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    A Google search is hardly the way to resolve that. OS X searches for anything with OS or X whereas OSX only searches for things with OSX so of course the former has more hits. I me…

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    I disagree. Even Citibank doesn't use the "bank" part on their main website, instead going by just Citi: http://citi.com There are also many other large banks that omit "Bank" from…

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    While I think this may be true at first, if they gain any critical mass, the "Bank" in BankSimple would become redundant and wasteful. I think it is good and forward looking to reb…

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    > _foo_bar=Something&baz=Else > could parse as either of: > {foo:{bar:"Something",baz:"Else"}} > {foo:{bar:"Something"}, baz:"Else"} I don't think this is right, or at least, it sh…

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    Right, and they can gauge interest easily and anonymously without requiring me to tell them specifically that I am interested in it. I value my privacy and find it silly that I hav…

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    I am a little turned off by the fact that I have to log in to view this information. What is the point? Is this now Facebook? I'm interested in the API but don't feel as though I s…