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by AF 19y ago
Unless you've really got a Ruby fetish, there's just not much of a reason to use it. If you want a similar language with similar productivity, Python gives you that and speed, Unicode support at the language level, and lots of libraries. An
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by AF 19y ago
That clip struck me as Kevin being really shady. He acts like he is a completely objective third party ('they', 'they', 'they'). I bet a lot of people wish that they could promote their site to millions of people for free. Anyway, promoting
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by AF 19y ago
Smalltalk is a really excellent language. Very minimal (yet attractive and understandable syntax), and the use of blocks make very cool things possible. Ruby is about 75% there. Unfortunately Smalltalk suffers from the same problem Common L
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by AF 19y ago
I've had my share of bad experiences with Apple products/computers. You are just trading one corporation for another - I think you should seriously consider getting a decent piece of hardware from any PC manufacturer and install Ubuntu on i
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by AF 19y ago
Ubuntu really isn't difficult to setup at all on most PCs.
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by AF 19y ago
Speaking of Rails, there are other options in the Python world besides Django. Pylons is a very Rails-y framework with the difference being that it is made to be easy to customize. In Rails if you don't like something you are going to have
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by AF 19y ago
One problem with this: people expect to do that in video games. They are spending lots of time to be entertained. For web apps they just want the full functionality right there. They don't want to have to 'work' to get it. I'm not so sure s
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by AF 19y ago
The issue is EFI. The new Intel-based Macs do not use BIOS.
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by AF 19y ago
Heh, well if you are building YouTube, Dreamhost isn't going to do much good either. :)
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by AF 19y ago
Hey guys... I own an Apple and have been trying to get Ubuntu running on it. I got it to work but there's just a lot of small issues and it just doesn't feel solid. What I'm looking for is a laptop which is somewhat attractive like Apple's
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Can anyone suggest a nice laptop to run Linux?
7 points by AF 19y ago|14 comments
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by AF 19y ago
I just wanted to say that if you ever plan on running Linux on your machine, don't get a Mac. Ubuntu in particular works, but there's a lot of hacking to get it to do so and little issues abound (at least that's my experience).
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by AF 19y ago
Please tell me what is wrong with my statement. I don't think it of respectful users, I think it of Digg users, which have never been shown to be intelligent or respectful of either the web site they use or anyone else for that matter.
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by AF 19y ago
I'm fairly certain it isn't revolutionary, it just shows the rampant immaturity of Digg's user base and their mob justice that has no respect and knows no bounds. It isn't the first time they've done this; it is the first time they've done
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by AF 19y ago
The general idea is interesting and possibly even right, but bloggers tend to overvalue and exaggerate blogging's reach.
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by AF 19y ago
Paul just how much impact do you think that Reddit being initially implemented in Lisp had? I mean, sure, relative numbers of Lisp users might have been pretty small, but the very fact that it was written in Lisp may have gotten fans and de
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by AF 19y ago
Never. Think about what you are asking. The probability of anyone's startup succeeding is miniscule. And if doesn't succeed and you've sacrificed friends and who you are, what have you become? Miserable. Don't let a business and money consu
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by AF 19y ago
If the original poster has his service out when he does this, it could end up being both very bad PR for her and very good PR for him. In fact, her ripping off his idea could end up being better publicity than he would've gotten anywhere el
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by AF 19y ago
So basically Digg does what everyone else does? I've always wondered if Digg was written using Python or another language instead of PHP, if they could squeeze better performance out of it.
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by AF 19y ago
Is it? I think the documentation on the actual site is more complete. It will be nice when they just get one set of complete documentation.
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by AF 19y ago
Also keep in mind that Python has much better (quantity and quality) libraries. Compare, for example, SQLAlchemy to ActiveRecord. Not even close. Heck, you could even compare Django's ORM or SQLObject to AR and they too tend to be more impr
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by AF 19y ago
What is wrong with just voting up stories you like? Isn't that the entire point of voting?
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by AF 19y ago
Sorry...double post.
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by AF 19y ago
Seems pretty silly. Why wouldn't people just pop open their web browser and use Google?
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by AF 19y ago
I'm not a huge fan of it, but my immediate thought was 'emacs'.
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by AF 19y ago
I'll be perfectly honest: what is popular on Digg is in no way something to be proud of. Digg is a complete waste of time. The community is one of the most immature you can find online, the content is very poor, and I am disgusted when I se
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by AF 19y ago
"Yes, but what you forget Paul backspace backspace backspace, Paul, is that Microsoft Vista has voice recognition. I don't think that google has voice recognition. At least in that respect, voice recognition will be very hard for all when b
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by AF 19y ago
I think there's a major problem with this, and it is that discussions come in all shapes and sizes across the web. Think about it. Some blogs don't have comments. Some sites require you to register to comment. Some sites use flat threading
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by AF 20y ago
I think the idea behind a 'web OS' is horrible. Web apps are good for certain things: mainly presenting and manipulating text. Once you get outside of that small domain, you need much richer interfaces, and the web just doesn't present that
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by AF 20y ago
This article doesn't make too much sense to me. First of all, as Sam mentioned, the companies aren't that much different in size. GoDaddy is not a startup, it is now a pretty large company and anyone who has money to throw around on Super B

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