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by akie 15y ago
So you want to have a benevolent dictator, basically. If you look at actual dictators ('single owners') and the ratio between "benevolent" and "not-benevolent" you'd see that those are pretty rare. Singapore had one. Steve Jobs was one. But
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by akie 15y ago
Well, that's about as competent a response as you can realistically expect in a situation like this. Kudos to the Dutch Government?
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by akie 15y ago
I work with PHP daily and do not know of what you speak. Haters be hatin', but your 'eye-stinging bugs' are unknown to me. Care to provide some examples? You are probably referring to the mountains of crappy PHP code? About the inconsistent
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by akie 15y ago
I would be very interested in those breakdowns. Does someone else maybe have some info on that?
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by akie 15y ago
Nice, but is the templating engine really the bottleneck for your application? And if not, does it really matter that this implementation is 40 times faster?
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by akie 15y ago
Hurray!!
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by akie 15y ago
Nice! But it would be nice if they could please make it work with the swipe left/right on the macbook pro... that would be brilliant.
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by akie 15y ago
I really like the Yii framework - very clean if you ask me
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by akie 15y ago
The math in the original 1998 PageRank paper might not be mathematically 100% sound, but why would they need that in the first place? Do you really think you need a formal analysis before you build something? This is not academia, you know
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by akie 15y ago
If everyone had that attitude, we'd still be stuck at HTML 3.2... Yes, it needs time to catch up, sure, but in a few years it will be useful to have.
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by akie 16y ago
and besides, I'm not entirely sure that these are "unbreakable" whatsoever. If you really want to break this, I'd do some math-specific OCR + WolframAlpha...
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by akie 16y ago
Yes - I've been doing a lot of YII related searches the past week, and I've noticed that a lot of times a site called 'devcomments.com' pops up somewhere in the first 5 results. Usually with a bogus page that does contain the keywords you w
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by akie 16y ago
Neither of the games he mentions were won by luck alone. True, there was some luck involved (and some bad decisions), and his argument in general still holds, but to the games he mentions it doesn't apply.
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by akie 16y ago
And its larger brother, dependency hell: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dependency_hell
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by akie 17y ago
Of course it does.
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by akie 17y ago
Ok, I would have expected to be downvoted. Dissent on VI vs Emacs is not tolerated among Computer Scientist (and I'm one myself).
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by akie 17y ago
Oh please, here we go again. Stop advocating your love for that 30 year-old piece of software. Please. Stop it. You don't hear ME expressing my love for Eclipse on a daily basis, now do you? Seems like you have some convincing to do? Plus,
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by akie 17y ago
But, but.... isn't this what journalists are SUPPOSED to do in the first place? Hearing both sides of the story, I mean?
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by akie 17y ago
I would be very grateful. http://mailhide.recaptcha.net/d?k=01aaSUu-LDcy1otDtry4kMTw==...
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by akie 17y ago
I've seen police men and parking inspectors on them, quite recently - both in the Netherlands and in Switzerland. So I thought they were finally catching on. Also, it gave me (and some friends) a good laugh by yelling the A-team tune at the
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by akie 17y ago
It just did...
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by akie 17y ago
Agreed. You would probably have to start by explaining that there's important data, and that it is stored at a nanoscale. Then you would have to proceed to explain how they might get access to that data. But that's not the whole of it. Once
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by akie 17y ago
You also need to build a machine that is able to read it in one billion years time. Anyone in the room that is still able to read a laserdisc? Didn't think so. So, storing the information is one thing - being able to read it is a completely
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by akie 18y ago
First, they make a website. This gets them acquainted with HTML and CSS. Then, they make another website, and then another one. Then they discover that Javascript or PHP can make your website 'do stuff'... which essentially means they just
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by akie 18y ago
True, but it's a temporary situation. As an old teacher used to say: you could wake a medieval scientist in the middle of the night, and he would probably curse at you in Latin. Same holds for present day scientist and engineers (myself inc
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by akie 18y ago
Richard Stallman is an extremist. Seriously.
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by akie 18y ago
If coding in Java is an option, I would highly recommend SWT ( http://www.eclipse.org/swt/ ). It's the toolkit that was used to build Eclipse, and it has a very 'native' look & feel (click the link for examples). Plus, Java itself is
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by akie 18y ago
I really dig the simplicity of this approach, yet I think it's disaster waiting to happen. Essentially, you're moving a part of your functionality (the part that determines which URLs exist, and which parameters are defined in those URLs) f
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by akie 18y ago
I would personally like to nominate The Netherlands: good universities, internationally oriented, business friendly.
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by akie 18y ago
Now that's a great idea.

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