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by SlyShy 17y ago
I think the article itself makes it pretty clear. For those who are curious, The Economist also reported on this recently. It's not that the iPhone isn't popular, it's that the Apple iPhone isn't popular, because the knockoffs are both
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by SlyShy 17y ago
You could always get this exact functionality by searching for "define: word". But still, I like that they have a wrapper interface now. For times when my word choice matters greatly I still refer to the Oxford English Dictionary , however
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Facebook is just the Solitaire of the younger generation. ;)
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It certainly does have value, but considering how much people pay to go to college it seems wasteful not to take advantage of the classroom resources. Going to college is great for finding a co-founder, making friends, etc. Whether class ti
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by SlyShy 17y ago
Grudging upvote. One of the most depressing sights I see these days is lecture halls full of students on Facebook. I guess a lot of students don't care about red black trees or strongly connected components, despite ostensibly seeking a CS
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by SlyShy 17y ago
Blogspam of the Guardian article mentioned, which was already posted on HN and given a thrashing regarding its wild claims and poor use of terminology.
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Hubris: Embedding Haskell in Ruby(github.com)
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Well, he doesn't appear to have much background in programming from what I gather. So perhaps having to use apt-get is a hassle for him.
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I haven't applied this principle to my daily life like he has, but it is an important problem solving technique that I apply when programming. Most people just call this "managing complexity". ;)
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Since it doesn't render correctly on Firefox it's very likely that he didn't design for smaller screen sizes, which I find to be a common usability error made by people with print design backgrounds.
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Cute, except that it doesn't render correctly in Firefox either. And I'm using Chrome on Linux. ;)
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Not to mention the homepage of his website doesn't render correctly for me on Chrome with a 1024px wide screen.
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In the mean time, I've found it's not too difficult to work around the RAM limitation. I'm working with pretty small servers, and I just use another database (MySQL usually) as a datastore for infrequently accessed data.
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IE is Being Mean to Me [video](youtube.com)
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I don't personally use this at a large size, but I have found that it looks pretty nice even when large. http://damieng.com/blog/2008/05/26/envy-code-r-preview-7-cod... I hope you find something that suits you. Best of luck.
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And, of course, building applications is useful practice if nothing else. I recently finished a poor reddit clone which I have no intention of actually using to test some of these new fangled key-value stores.
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My question to you is: Are these ever not good traits for someone to have? I chuckle whenever I see this kind of post, because saying "having <positive trait> makes you better for <something>" is a non-statement--that's th
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"I wonder which comes first, the curiosity or the success?" That's a weird question to ask at the end. Children aren't born successful, but they can be born curious.
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It's interesting that you feel that way. I've taken two foreign languages at the university level, and they were both taught in an "immersion" style manner (that is to say, all the instruction was in the native language) and have found it b
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I think this is a really neat idea. Lets people get some well deserved kickback from their open source coding, hopefully.
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Yeah, quality speaks for itself, and people are generally good at identifying quality when they see it. The trick to promoting your product isn't to try and convince people of its high quality, but just to get people to look at the product
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Yeah, and then in the comment section the author starts to talk about his love of Myers-Briggs, which illustrates exactly my beef with Myers-Briggs. It creates four false dichotomies between personality "types".
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I don't see what this has to do with introverts in specific. The general advice applies to any kind of person. When building a brand name you should control what you say. On the internet you have an unparalleled ability to control exactly w
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That's got to be the laziest design work I've ever seen.
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Consumerist: Google bans scammy advertisers(consumerist.com)
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by SlyShy 17y ago
Hilarious and true. As a writer I see this on a daily basis. Ninety-eight percent of ideas are turds. This means you have to execute a hundred before you get a gem or two. The moment I have a story idea, no matter how half-baked, I commit i
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by SlyShy 17y ago
Hm. What if it was actually the musician being out of practice that was creating this perceived difference? My mom is a piano teacher, so I've heard a lot of pianos and a lot of piano players over the years. A "poor" piano can sound quite g
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One thing I noticed right away is: I entered in what I wanted to do, and I'm instantly prompted to register. Fair enough, this is a common pattern. But after I've registered, the thing I entered in already isn't listed, and I have to re-ent
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Thanks for the link, that's an interesting possibility. I probably won't be getting rid of MySQL however, because it serves another purpose for me. I'm not comfortable having my entire dataset in memory, because I'm currently constrained in
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I've started using Redis for the majority of my projects, with one caveat. I still need full-text search, so I use Redis in combination with MySQL. Small and frequently accessed user data is all stored in Redis, while the large chunks of te

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