Ruudjah

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by Ruudjah 16y ago
Weird. I can access the provided link, but when I click the homepage, I need an account.
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by Ruudjah 16y ago
In 2000, having a guestbook on a website where you can post a message anonymously was the norm, spambots did not exist. in 2005, the ability the reply using an account was the norm, where replies could be rated 1-5 (slashdot and the rest).
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by Ruudjah 16y ago
We're just a few years into serious codegeneration tools. Most people still have the bad taste of MSVS code generators in their mouth. When it evolves, code generators will be unbeatable to manual coding, area by area, language by language,
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by Ruudjah 16y ago
"A calm river of nerditry"
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by Ruudjah 16y ago
GWT solves it for me while javascript has these problems.
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by Ruudjah 16y ago
I was thinking... Will every datastructure eventually gets it's own database to facilitate distributed persistence of mass collections? Why, or why not?
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by Ruudjah 16y ago
Maybe include generic libs into browsers.
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by Ruudjah 16y ago
> And for the posts on social sites, are they more often about the creator or what they created? You hit the nail right on the head. Github is about sharing code. The code is the creation. Github's unique selling point is the webinterfa
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by Ruudjah 16y ago
The problem is currently GUI. There are no good GUI's to work with git. Windows and Mac OS X have some GUI tools scratching the surface of what's possible with git, but none come close in opening up the full possibilities of git. Linux has
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by Ruudjah 16y ago
John Resig started a project to generate resumes from the contributions at github. Regularly I see posts at HN/reddit/etc sites of users saying: "I build this and that, check it out!". Personally, a motivation (of a lot more motivations) is
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by Ruudjah 16y ago
These kind of talks depress me somewhat. It shows that there is a need to educate scientists into sharing data. Which is kinda sad, because scientists should know this and share by default. It shows current state of science is not yet very
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by Ruudjah 16y ago
I hate it when the scrollbar extends while scrolling. Please don't do that.
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by Ruudjah 16y ago
It's one of those very, very scarce texts where mild swearing adds something. 99 out of 100 times, it's just deteriorating the post quality and signs of bad writership.
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by Ruudjah 16y ago
I tend to agree on this. However, I'm curious how some hardware specific stuff will be abstracted. Will html5 support sensors, cams, mics, et cetera? Currently, only the GPS sensor is supported. I have not yet seen any proposed features hea
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by Ruudjah 16y ago
Is there any need today to talk manually to a web server using telnet?
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by Ruudjah 16y ago
> Not only is C easy for humans to understand, Is he being funny or serious?
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by Ruudjah 16y ago
> Writing Clear, Concise, Sentences With a title like this, I won't even read the thing. So many things are wrong with this first sentence. 1. Why The Capitals For Each Word? That screws with my human word recognition algorithm. 2. The
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by Ruudjah 16y ago
The article forgets a step; it puts the question "will libraries become obsolete?" on the table. That assumes the book itself will not disappear, which is a very questionable assumption. My prediction is that books eventually will disappear
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by Ruudjah 16y ago
> Castro: If you accept the fact that piracy is a problem, government needs to do something. Piracy is not a problem. There are numerous studies proving piracy increases popularity of games, artists and software. If you can't monetize p
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by Ruudjah 16y ago
There's also sorting algorhitms based on this law iirc. Can';t find the link in 5 mins googling. Anyone?
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by Ruudjah 16y ago
Dictionaries are an artifact of an elitist society where only a small part was lettered. Language is a living thing, just like computer languages are. Oxford dictionary included internet terms like lol and imho, to reflect the current statu
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by Ruudjah 16y ago
Keep in mind that an HTML5 app can behave itself like a native app.
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by Ruudjah 16y ago
Chrome 10: Succes (although I can only select a folder) Firefox 3.6: fail Chromium 10: loads, fails to play Opera: loads site with errors, clicking button doesn't do anything
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by Ruudjah 16y ago
It's not just the search, it's the search with the economic model. The network effect and the volume that gives Google a castle. I can take a crawler, indexer and server and have a competitor up tomorrow. But I don't have cheap bandwidth (G
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by Ruudjah 16y ago
I completely agree. I'm curious how we would abstract the rest of the hardware though. cam/mic/sensors can't be accessed from javascript (yet?).
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by Ruudjah 16y ago
> Error establishing a database connection Nice way to quit. We did it. We HackerNewsed it. Uh. YCombinatored it. Hm. We hacked it. No. We slashd... NO. We Redd.. NO! o.O
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by Ruudjah 16y ago
Html5 is the new app platform. Microsoft trying to push silverlight is really just another way of their triple E strategy (embrace, extend, extinguish). In this case, embracing web apps, extending it by their .NET platform, then trying to e
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by Ruudjah 16y ago
> What do you look for? Determination. When we started, we thought we were looking for smart people, but it turned out that intelligence was not as important as we expected. If you imagine someone with 100 percent determination and 100
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by Ruudjah 16y ago
Well written, clear syntax highlighted examples. Upboat.
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by Ruudjah 16y ago
TOO MUCH CAPS CANT HANDLE IT After that, what the hack am I supposed to do?

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