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by amix 18y ago
The main problem with features is that they make a lot of things MUCH more complex. Making Drizzle super small and super fast by removing not-that-used features and cleaning up some of MySQL's mess is a very good fork - - and doing such a t
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by amix 18y ago
At Plurk.com we use automated testing, but we don't develop by the TDD principle or do unit testing - as it's really hard to do with lots of code and lots of diversity (e.g. MySQL, JavaScript, Python, different layers of caching, Mako templ
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by amix 18y ago
I would recommend reading Programming Collective Intelligence ( http://oreilly.com/catalog/9780596529321/ ). It features lots of coding examples and covers lots of topics (like recommendation systems, searching and ranking, document filteri
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by amix 18y ago
Hooray for genetic hacking. I really hope they can use similar methods to wipe out cancer cells as well - thought, cancer isn't a virus and there are lots of different cancer cells.
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OpenSolaris in the real world by JoyNet(cuddletech.com)
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by amix 18y ago
match.com does not want to pay so much to bring traffic to their site, so their idea is to have a free site that can drive traffic to their paid site. plentyoffish on the other hand does not get enough $ for driving users away to match.com,
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by amix 18y ago
I don't think an ad model is that effective in a bad economy. So he is probably losing lots in revenue and trying to find ways to generate new revenue. Just like Google are way more aggressive with a freemium model for Google Apps...
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by amix 18y ago
While Flash looks pretty good, the feeling just does not feel right. I have not yet used a full Flash application where I have said, wow, this is really better than DHTML+JavaScript. The experience just feels sluggish, plus it's hard to scr
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Remember to take breaks (in an inspirational way)(amix.dk)
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by amix 18y ago
Dive into Python was one of the first Python books I read. It's filled with small (and Pythonic) tricks, has excellent examples and great explanations. I especially like the simple way it's written. It made Python click for me. I am looking
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by amix 18y ago
Congratulations! I hope he grows up and becomes a great hacker (like his dad ;-)).
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by amix 18y ago
In the recent years I have built my own, mostly basing it on other libraries and reusing as many things as possible. In Python there's something called WSGI (Web Server Gateway Interface) which makes it trivial to implement your own framewo
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by amix 18y ago
Multiple VM Wares running different versions of IE is pretty solid for testing.
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by amix 18y ago
The author praises Scalaris - it promises a lot of things, unfortunately its performance sucks based on my own benchmarks (that isn't published anywhere, but you could try to do 100.000 sets and compare it vs. CouchDB or that like). One of
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by amix 18y ago
What motivates newcomers to contribute to social networks. Direct access to the article: http://www.thoughtcrumbs.com/publications/paper0778-burke.pd... - worth a read.
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by amix 18y ago
I don't think one should underestimate Microsoft and their ability to enter new markets. They won the Office market from WordPerfect, they beat Apple in O/S wars, they slashed Netscape in browser wars, they are currently winning the console
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by amix 18y ago
I would feel rather empty without coding. That said, I think it's important to have a life outside of one's job. That way, one can escape to fuel up the batteries. Getting a girlfriend, doing some sports and having vacations is a really goo
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by amix 18y ago
I think he meant don't peruse pleasure for the pleasure's sake - e.g. like having sex with a women only because of sex.
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by amix 18y ago
memcached is great for these kind of things.
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by amix 18y ago
Why is Java faster than Python? Because Sun has invested m(b)illions in optimization of Java. They for example have around 50 people+ working full-time on JVM right now.
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by amix 18y ago
"Smalltalk has never had decent performance as far as I know - not even with a JIT backend. Not compared to Java/C# with JIT compilation at least." This is largely because the team that did a JIT enabled Smalltalk dropped it and started to
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by amix 18y ago
While I really love Python as the language I really hate its primitive implementation. 20% is nothing compared to what would be gained if Python ran on a virtual machine that was JIT'ed. Java for example got a 10 to 20 times performance gai
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by amix 18y ago
I think a much bigger player (for example PayPal, Google or Amazon) will step up and do micropayments - simply because they have millions of users, money and connections. I think it's pretty hard for a startup to succeed in this market. [Am
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by amix 18y ago
"Real men don't take backups, but they cry a lot." That said, it's really hard to do backups of lots of data.
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by amix 18y ago
Personally, I don't really do it for the money or making it big. I do it because it's fun, a learning experience and exciting. And I think a lot of other developers feel the same way as I. And really, why settle with the mediocre? Aim for t
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by amix 18y ago
I think majority of their analysis is by looking and analyzing real e-commerce customers by video, hot maps etc. - i.e. they basically do the same thing Paco Underhill does (thought Paco is probably a lot more detailed in his approach).
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by amix 18y ago
Even if it's a small project the code is mediocre at best. For example, isn't there a library for PHP that handles internalization and why do internalization in both JavaScript and PHP (and no is only internalized in the JavaScript version.
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by amix 18y ago
I think Jacob Nielsen is probably an expert in this field: http://www.useit.com/ (beware of a really ugly design). Other than this, I think the safest bet is to trust the data, e.g. A/B testing. Being too smart without any testing could l
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by amix 18y ago
For most things language performance is just a constant - the really hard issue is making something distributed and it's really here that Erlang shines. Being a Python programmer I know that creating a distributed application in Python is f
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by amix 18y ago
"Zed's dead baby, Zed's dead."

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