Hacker News: rawsyntax

New comment by rawsyntax in "Ask HN: What medical datasets do you need?"

rawsyntax — Wed, 05 Apr 2017 01:18:53 +0000

https://www.healthcarebluebook.com/

New comment by rawsyntax in "Ask HN: How do you know if you've mastered a programming language?"

rawsyntax — Tue, 24 Jan 2012 01:01:26 +0000

How do you know if you've mastered the hammer?

New comment by rawsyntax in "Learn Emacs: Useful Links"

rawsyntax — Thu, 10 Nov 2011 13:20:46 +0000

Thanks for you interest. I'm the author, let me know if you have any questions / comments

New comment by rawsyntax in "Not cool, Reddit"

rawsyntax — Thu, 13 Oct 2011 15:00:37 +0000

This must be a joke, HN auto [dead]s all my submissions now. Even deaded an article from my blog that got 11 upvotes before it was deaded

New comment by rawsyntax in "How to find a job for hackers "

rawsyntax — Mon, 19 Sep 2011 13:32:55 +0000

honestly this looks like a little advice on how to format your resumé / look for a job online. I saw nothing about acing the interview or how to write a really killer cover letter. I wrote a post about how to get a programming interview a few months back, I feel it provides more detail than your article

http://rawsyntax.com/post/6249655944/how-to-get-a-programmin...

New comment by rawsyntax in "Emacsrookie.com - Hints about the emacs text editor"

rawsyntax — Fri, 16 Sep 2011 14:51:19 +0000

cool site, I look forward to your emacs tips.

I have been doing a "Learn Emacs" series on my blog for a while now. http://rawsyntax.com/tagged/emacs and I have a lot more post ideas in the works.

New comment by rawsyntax in "Unofficial Ruby coding style guide"

rawsyntax — Fri, 16 Sep 2011 02:05:48 +0000

like any language feature it can be abused, however I find I like it

New comment by rawsyntax in "IE 10: Metro style browsing - one engine, two experiences"

rawsyntax — Wed, 14 Sep 2011 22:17:56 +0000

what' he's referring to, in my experience is the fact that microsoft has been trumpeting IE and HTML5 for some time (particularly on windows 7 phone). And that except for the hd7s and samsung focus, windows 7 phones are stuck with ie 7 mobile, which has no HTML5 support. From what I can tell other windows 7 phones cannot run the 7.5 "mango" release, which actually includes an HTML5 capable IE browser.

New comment by rawsyntax in "HN Lament"

rawsyntax — Fri, 02 Sep 2011 23:51:42 +0000

A few weeks ago I had an article dead'ed after getting 10 upvotes. And now all my submissions are marked dead seemingly permanently. So what am I todo except stop contributing to HN

New comment by rawsyntax in "9 million hits/day with 120 megs RAM"

rawsyntax — Wed, 31 Aug 2011 15:34:32 +0000

Thanks for the info, after hearing people praise wordpress as the holy grail of blogging, I found it to be very very slow. Hopefully this plugin will help

New comment by rawsyntax in "Ask/Tell HN: What's with all the spam lately?"

rawsyntax — Tue, 30 Aug 2011 18:14:14 +0000

I'm not sure, but my submissions are being marked as dead automatically now.. So I guess HN thinks I'm a spammer. What's interested is one submission that got 10 upvotes before getting dead'ed

New comment by rawsyntax in "Ask HN: Getting traffic to a new Blog"

rawsyntax — Tue, 30 Aug 2011 18:11:14 +0000

careful submitting to HN. My submissions are now all marked dead automatically for the past 2 weeks... Even one of my blog submissions got 10 upvotes before being marked dead.. No idea why this is happening / how I can stop it.

New comment by rawsyntax in "Best SSDs For The Money: August 2011"

rawsyntax — Mon, 29 Aug 2011 15:44:05 +0000

From what I read at the time, (january 2011) sandforce based SSDs got much better performance on mac systems. I think this was to do with OSX's lack of support for TRIM.

On the other hand, right after I upgraded my SSD, I went to ruby 1.9.2 and rails 3, which are much slower due in part to a bug that makes requiring files take forever.

New comment by rawsyntax in "Ask HN: How do you backup your dev machine"

rawsyntax — Sun, 28 Aug 2011 22:21:58 +0000

I back up with time machine too. I used it once when I had to send my macbook pro in for maintenance. I just hooked up my timemachine drive to my wife's macbook pro, and it worked great.

New comment by rawsyntax in "Ask HN: Best cloud host?"

rawsyntax — Fri, 26 Aug 2011 22:36:47 +0000

I tend to use heroku's free plan for testing out ideas. I wrote a post detailing how here: http://rawsyntax.com/post/8737142015/host-your-side-project-...

New comment by rawsyntax in "Ruby on Android: Ruboto"

rawsyntax — Fri, 26 Aug 2011 22:24:00 +0000

ruboto code on github https://github.com/ruboto

New comment by rawsyntax in "Backbone.js Screencast - Introduction and Views"

rawsyntax — Fri, 26 Aug 2011 16:29:21 +0000

don't sweat it, thanks for the hour long screencast on backbone.. that must've taken some time to put together

New comment by rawsyntax in "Ruby Devs – You’re too trusting. Gems could screw you. » RubySource"

rawsyntax — Mon, 22 Aug 2011 02:31:35 +0000

I take a similar approach. Fork any git-based gems to my account on github, and specify an exact version of each gem I use in my Gemfile, like

gem 'rails', '3.0.7' # for example

And also version the Gemfile.lock file. That way my environment is locked down until I decide to upgrade.

New comment by rawsyntax in "Show HN: I made an open source iOS HN reader"

rawsyntax — Sat, 20 Aug 2011 19:22:56 +0000

This looks awesome. As somebody who has considered getting into iOS programming, but hasn't taken the dive yet (more focused on ruby based websites / mobile websites right now), thanks for making it open source.

New comment by rawsyntax in "Spin.js, a pure JS spinner"

rawsyntax — Thu, 18 Aug 2011 18:49:23 +0000

This is cool just for fun, but practically there are sites like http://ajaxload.info/ that generate spinners for you, if you don't know how to do it yourself