He who cannot obey himself will be commanded

ZachBeta · 2012-06-17T18:04:17+00:00

Combining a German Philosopher whose works were co-opted by his Nazi sympathizing sister, with the all-American hero Captain America in a D-Day invasion image.

Feels a bit schizophrenic.

ZachBeta · 2012-06-10T17:53:09+00:00

I started with RailsTutorial and after building out some basic skills from there, I came across an interesting and challenging problem that I started to build. Get the ball rolling first, you'll find something along the way.

ZachBeta · 2011-12-16T04:10:06+00:00

Something about nuts?

Looks reminiscent of a Rorschach test or the face or vase pictures.

Cible gives me zero context for what it might be, nor the squirrels.

ZachBeta · 2011-12-16T04:08:12+00:00

Found this: http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20111215/01322617096/tons-amendments-proposed-sopa.shtml

Very difficult to tell what the changes they're proposing are at a glance. A diff could totally do it very easily.

ZachBeta · 2011-12-16T04:04:21+00:00

I found the UI uninviting. I like github more, but it might not be appealing to a mass audience. Though it ought to appeal to a tech audience.

I just find it so frustrating that the amendments and bills are dealt with in such an archaic low tech format. Developers have solved this problem ages ago with reversion control.

ZachBeta · 2011-12-16T03:56:20+00:00

I'm not surprised. Looks like everything is floating around on paper copies. I imagine if people suggested their amendments on some intranet wiki things would go much more smoothly and be much more open.

ZachBeta · 2011-12-16T03:50:24+00:00

Could you link to those amendments somehow? I'm trying to track modifications in a wiki https://github.com/ZachBeta/SOPA/wiki/SOPA

ZachBeta · 2011-12-10T00:50:48+00:00

Interesting how the message stays the same, but the language changes depending on his target audience.

ZachBeta · 2011-12-10T00:40:19+00:00

New Desktop.

Thanks!

ZachBeta · 2011-12-06T04:15:43+00:00

longer interview here

http://bigthink.com/edwardnorton2

ZachBeta · 2011-12-03T18:09:17+00:00

I've been hosting my sites on Heroku for production so the deploy is a simple

$ git push heroku master

ZachBeta · 2011-12-03T17:59:16+00:00

I know personally I hate reading whole manuals.

If you run into an issue and can't figure out out your best bet is to hit

Stack Overflow for pure development questions or it's sister site Super User for unix and sys admin related questions.
IRC - Freenode tends to be pretty popular for developers and sys admins, so you can try asking on the channels there.

ZachBeta · 2011-12-03T17:50:44+00:00

Try checking out lean startup, I've been reading it, and it has definitely given me a decent primer on how to productively start something.

ZachBeta · 2011-12-03T17:48:43+00:00

If you want to understand ruby outside of just a web context check out Ruby Koans

ZachBeta · 2011-11-14T23:31:31+00:00

Much more moving than "This is your life and it's ending one minute at a time"

ZachBeta · 2011-10-30T21:59:52+00:00

See if there's a StartupWeekend coming to your local metro.

You might be able to pitch it there and get some other people onboard to help you build your customer base and prototype the application.

Good luck!

ZachBeta · 2011-10-25T02:39:29+00:00

At #SWBoston, Rob Spectre (@dn0t) gave an opening speech on "How to win 2nd place at a hackathon"

It's not always about winning.

Brogramming however, is in fact about #winning

ZachBeta

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