Encosia

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by Encosia 16y ago
> Still not a Mac though. In the more general market of consumers that want a ~3 pound 13" device, the ones that see Win7 vs. OS X as an important differentiating factor are a small minority. For the market served by the underpowered A
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by Encosia 16y ago
I've found that it's beneficial to embrace the divide between a fast boot drive and a large data drive. If you only store your OS and programs on the boot drive, space isn't a big concern and you gain a lot of flexibility. It's less hassle
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by Encosia 16y ago
For what it's worth, the current Sony Z model uses an i7 (and dual SSDs in RAID 0). It's significantly more powerful than anything Apple has in the 13" form factor, coming in at about the same weight as the new 13" Air (3.04 lbs). Actua
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by Encosia 16y ago
The Core 2 Duo is disappointing. I've been holding off on replacing my Dell, hoping Apple would announce a more powerful 13" model of some sort. My Dell has been technically excellent (LED backlit display, SSD, etc), but the build quality
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by Encosia 16y ago
A few answers, off the top of my head: > Why doesn't Exchange and Outlook expose enterprise IM better? This should be standard everywhere. Office Communicator handles inter-office IM well, including handy features like integrated deskto
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by Encosia 16y ago
I think Bill's passion has shifted too far away from Microsoft's business for him to ever come back in earnest. I assume that's why he left in the first place. Jobs, on the other hand, was immersed in the same tech/philosophy at NeXT that
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by Encosia 16y ago
That isn't necessary. This does the same thing: var d = $('#elm'); d.color('red'); // do some stuff here. d.text('new text');
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by Encosia 16y ago
Fundamentally, jQuery is just a JavaScript API to normalize the DOM. It doesn't force you to program or organize your code in a certain way (i.e. Spaghetti coding). I'm honestly curious to see a legitimate example of what you mean.
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by Encosia 16y ago
That seems like an unfairly contrived example. Even so, you should be using a real debugger anyway at this point, not printf debugging. Stepping through tight code like that and observing some watches is very easy in a client-side debugger.
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by Encosia 16y ago
I think the fizzbuzz thing is a myth reinforced by confirmation bias. No one takes to the Internet to talk about how an interview went as expected, and rarely to mention a better than expected outcome. We're only hearing from the subset of
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by Encosia 16y ago
Problem is, the "threat" of uncontrolled update rollouts significantly hampers adoption in many large organizations (which is where the majority of IE6 laggards are located).
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by Encosia 16y ago
Distributing your app across 34 servers will require a non-trivial development effort itself. Not to mention, there was a story here just this week about how communication between EC2 nodes may be a lot of reddit's performance trouble. Sca
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by Encosia 16y ago
They've got Firebug with 400k+ LoC, Firefox with ~60K LoC, and Chromium with almost 4 million LoC. That doesn't inspire much confidence.
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by Encosia 16y ago
I haven't finished it yet, but I've liked Call me Ted in a lot of the same ways as Branson's book, so far. http://www.amazon.com/Call-Me-Ted-Turner/dp/0446581895
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by Encosia 16y ago
If you're interested in learning the philosophy behind Virgin from start to finish, I highly recommend Richard Branson's Business Stripped Bare . I just finished reading it a couple weeks ago. It's a quick/enjoyable read, but also contain
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by Encosia 16y ago
Personally, I'd be happy to see less gratuitous Silverlight usage in web apps. I think using it for anything you can accomplish with HTML/CSS/JavaScript is a mistake; modern-day Java applets and ActiveX controls. I wrote about that a whil
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by Encosia 16y ago
> that's been pretty much understood by any seasoned .net guy for at least 2 years One would think, but you'd be surprised. I've seen the defunct ASP.NET Ajax Library shown in presentations as recently as two months ago (and that's just
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by Encosia 16y ago
I find the idea of inhabiting a planet "tidally locked" to its star fascinating. I'd never heard of such a thing until reading that article.
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by Encosia 16y ago
My guess would be it's because the comment was factually incorrect. From an ad-blocking perspective, the Google AJAX Libraries CDN and the rest of Google's properties are in no way related. The Google API, Libraries CDN, and supporting doc
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by Encosia 16y ago
Google's jQuery CDN is hosted on a separate domain (that doesn't share cookies with Google services like AdWords, AdSense, and Analytics). Blocking Google.com doesn't block their jQuery CDN, nor is there a good reason to block their cookie-
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by Encosia 16y ago
Don't be embarrassed. It happens; especially in this kind of economy. Unless the failure was due to gross negligence on your part, no one who matters will hold it against you.
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by Encosia 16y ago
Also, Don't forget the dividends he's been accumulating from his Disney stock. That alone has been tens of millions of dollars each year.
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by Encosia 16y ago
That's a scenario that the local-fallback technique handles well. The CDN reference will immediately fail for those overly-firewalled users, jQuery will be undefined in the next script block, and the fallback can detect that and inject a s
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by Encosia 16y ago
To be clear, I did not adjust any of my numbers to include an extrapolated extra 10%. Any numbers you see in my post are based on direct observation of a script tag's src attribute.
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by Encosia 16y ago
One of the biggest underlying benefits of using a shared, public CDN for this is that you can take advantage of cross-site caching. As more and more people use it, the potential for that is greater and greater. However, it only works if si
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by Encosia 16y ago
Pingdom tested Google, Microsoft, and Edgecast's jQuery CDNs every minute for a couple weeks and found all of them averaged between 100-150ms to download jQuery[1]. Google's was actually the slowest of those, averaging a turtle's pace of ~1
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by Encosia 16y ago
These highly-available, distributed CDNs hosting static content don't have the same failure characteristics as something like an advertising script or Twitter widget. Where the latter do often hang the page (frustratingly), the popular C
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by Encosia 16y ago
You're correct. That fallback technique mitigates the majority of failure cases though (NoScript, overbearing firewall, blocked regions, etc). The CDN itself being slowly-down is vanishingly rare.
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by Encosia 16y ago
I decided it's outside the scope of that post (which was already laboriously long winded), but you can/should use a fallback technique like this to mitigate the potential for Google downtime: http://weblogs.asp.net/jgalloway/archive/2010/0
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by Encosia 16y ago
If Google's CDN were hacked (as unlikely as that is), it's almost certain that you'd find out about it far sooner than if your own server were hacked. There would be a huge controversy and then it would be quickly fixed, probably in the

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