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by amock 17y ago
Is there any way to search or filter by tag? Right now you can just look through all the photos, but once you have more photos it would be nice to be able to filter them.
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by amock 17y ago
I think that part of the ugliness comes from having so many contributors and a culture that is used to things not having a consistent look and feel. On OS X almost all native programs look and feel the same way and the frameworks and tools
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by amock 17y ago
Yes, but I don't think that's more true of TailCallHelper than of any function calls using a stack. This sounds like it's saying that even with tail call optimization it's possible for the arguments to a function to be too big for the stac
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by amock 17y ago
Someone mentioned in another HN thread or a comment somewhere else that none of those sites are actually paying anything yet, so maybe they're hoping that by the time they have to start paying they'll be making enough money to make it worth
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by amock 17y ago
Why would you trust them? It seems like a good business decision to not cause any problems for him, but it doesn't seem like there is any reason to trust them.
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by amock 17y ago
The MIPS architecture is also not going anywhere, but its use in desktops and laptops computers is still minimal. Since ARM seems to be gaining popularity in the personal computer market where it used to have no market share I wouldn't be
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by amock 17y ago
Have you had any issues with data loss after a crash? I've seen a few people in the IRC channel saying that they lost tens of millions of records after running a repair after a crash. While replication can help prevent data loss, having t
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by amock 17y ago
I've done some similar testing with my ZFS pool with excellent results. I have hundreds of gigabytes of rarely used and easily compressible data that I store as gzip-9 and all of my data is at least lzjb compressed. I also experimented a
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by amock 17y ago
If you read the other articles on the site you'll see that he's either a troll or a crank.
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by amock 17y ago
How is it game over? Palm still has a great product and they aren't out of money. They're not doing as well as they had hoped to do, but that doesn't mean things aren't going to turn out well for them.
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by amock 17y ago
Why is this comment at -1 while another comment with the same content posted a few minutes later is at 18?
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by amock 17y ago
What makes you think it doesn't run on Linux? From the article it sounds like it only runs on Linux since they say "contributors outside of Yahoo! can choose to build the code on more modern, non-Linux OSes as they see fit."
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by amock 17y ago
Heroku says that four dynos is one CPU. So you pay $106 per month for one CPU. So for $121 per month you get 20GB of storage and one CPU, which seems really expensive once you consistently need resources. Before you consistently need res
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by amock 17y ago
I've had trouble with Window 7 under Bootcamp on other Macs, but if you're going to run XP or Vista you shouldn't have any trouble.
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by amock 17y ago
That makes sense. MacRuby is using the Objective-C runtime as the common denominator but I'd love to see other languages do that same.
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by amock 17y ago
Why do you need HLVM to do this? OCaml already runs on multiple platforms, so all that's needed is some library work. The same is true for Haskell, Standard ML, Lisp, and many other languages. If you want to write languages for multiple
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by amock 17y ago
How is WPF a generation ahead of what OS X has? I haven't used WPF since 3.5 came out, but it didn't seem to offer anything better than what Cocoa offers. I think it's much better than Qt, but Qt has to make sacrifices to be cross platfo
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When Companies Behave Like Incumbent Politicians(cornettexperience.com)
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by amock 17y ago
I think this would be really computationally expensive. You can build indexes of words, but building indexes of arbitrary regular expressions is much harder. I think Google did a study and found that even increasing the number of results
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by amock 17y ago
I think it's a shame because Darcs has beautiful theory behind it and is written in my favorite programming language. I feel the same way about some hardware, like the SGI Octane with MIPS processors, dual board graphics cards, and a cross
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by amock 17y ago
I can't make the link work. I get the error "Sorry, we couldn't understand the date and time '11.00%252CFebruary-9-2010'"
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by amock 17y ago
I don't currently have anything hosted at Github, but I use them regularly to check out other people's code and their uptime history is disappointing. I know that they always explain what caused the downtime and I'm glad that they do. Exp
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by amock 17y ago
Shared memory interfaces are easy to use, but they don't support the same platform as Hadoop and MapReduce because you can't efficiently split them up across machines. With a distribute system like Hadoop you can build a cluster of cheap m
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by amock 17y ago
An extremely long winded post about how Python is a good language because it behaves mostly according to the author's expectations. Unless you have no experience with dynamic languages there isn't anything to learn and even then there are
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by amock 17y ago
It only works if people have a new enough version of the browser. Until that happens it's not a good solution and given the current rate of new browser adoption I don't think that will happen for many years.
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by amock 17y ago
What's stopping you from doing this? If you can get enough people to sign to be profitable from the start it seems like you don't have much to lose.
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by amock 17y ago
Adobe isn't the only company that doesn't support case sensitive file systems on Mac OS. None of Blizzard's games will install, although some of them will run if you install them elsewhere and copy them over. Apple's developer tools used
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by amock 17y ago
It's back up and I don't think we need a HN post every time a website goes down. Interested parties can check the sites status page.
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by amock 17y ago
What's wrong with compiling to JavaScript? It's already widely supported and if you're compiling another language to it you can pretend like it doesn't exist. I can understand not liking JavaScript, but hating it with a passion seems exces
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by amock 17y ago
One of the commenters on the article points out that we already produce enough food to feed more than nine billion people, so the reason people go hungry isn't because there isn't enough food it's because the food isn't in the right places.

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