andrewvc

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by andrewvc 16y ago
Ugh. Another FB article. When the revolution comes, the spark that lights the fire won't come from Hacker News. /me goes off to find a greasemonkey script to drop FB articles.
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by andrewvc 16y ago
Infrequent bugs are a feature, they keep users from having to upgrade their software, which is annoying. That's why I avoid Wordpress. I've never looked at the WP codebase, but I'm just flabbergasted that a piece of blogging software that's
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by andrewvc 17y ago
Don't worry, soon the stylistic tides will turn and the analogy will be war/raising kids/making the perfect turkey sandwich instead of dating, and the articles will flow just as freely.
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by andrewvc 17y ago
Fun conversion, convert carrots / Hr to Horsepower:# http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=((1+carrot+calories+in+... )
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by andrewvc 17y ago
Change is good. Temporary uncomfort is good. This isn't like moving to a new city to broaden your horizons. I didn't find changing the side the buttons were on expanded my consciousness and brought about a refreshing personal transformati
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by andrewvc 17y ago
I agree, this reminds me of how people would get up in arms about 2d artwork created on a computer. Sadly, many people confuse craftsmanship for art, this leaves people who like things the way they are angry, and those who want the new shin
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by andrewvc 17y ago
Luckily, this is easy to fix, just: run gconf-editor then, Change apps -> metacity -> general -> button_layout to ':minimize,maximize,close' without quotes
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by andrewvc 17y ago
EDIT: After looking at this http://nodejs.org/jsconf2010.pdf from sh1mmer's post, it looks like I need to be using a Buffer object to serve data over 64kb due to v8's garbage collector making a performance mess when using strings. EDIT2:
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by andrewvc 17y ago
Hah, so I'm not the only one to go the Futurama robots route. My personal fave is Boxy (Is he objecting or backing up? I can't tell!)
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by andrewvc 17y ago
Agreed, I personally moved the window controls back, but otherwise 10.04 is a huge step forward.
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by andrewvc 17y ago
Well, then why do all the examples in the article look like those horrible skinned apps? I have a feeling that what the author proposes leads us down the road of pretty but ridiculous interfaces.
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by andrewvc 17y ago
I think to a certain extent we already had Movie OS in the early 00s / late 90s when all kinds of apps were skinned. People would make all kinds of baroque skins that looked like they came out of movies, that acted much like this, but you k
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by andrewvc 17y ago
Perhaps, but its inevitable that they'll improve, and the second they do, no one will want to subject themselves to this review process.
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by andrewvc 17y ago
And why would I put myself through this when I can setup one of the many stack overflow clones on a VPS right now?
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Clojure and its approach to concurrency (Video)(blip.tv)
3 points by andrewvc 17y ago|0 comments
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by andrewvc 17y ago
* flash is a fading technology now... in a few years HTML5 will replace it for video purposes. * In a few years people will be using HTML5 video, and fall back to flash where not available. A few more years after that, maybe things will be
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by andrewvc 17y ago
That may be, but all the specific shortcomings he mentioned in the article are definitely not there with CouchDB, which he specifically mentions. The futon (builtin) interface to Couch solves every one of the gripes he mentions with ZODB.
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by andrewvc 17y ago
Basically, he used to use Zope, and didn't like that you needed to instantiate an object to get it out of the DB. Then he complains his coworkers had some kind of ambiguous problem with this that only the author was smart enough to solve, t
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by andrewvc 17y ago
So, I think the title should make it clear that this is Britain's Minister for Digital Britain. To my American eyes this read as if some random clergyman was confused.
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Visual Aesthetics in Early Computing(metafilter.com)
1 points by andrewvc 17y ago|0 comments
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by andrewvc 17y ago
that's all I needed to hear, I'll likely go with mongodb for my next project now.
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by andrewvc 17y ago
Thanks for the helpful info, I do still have one reservation about mongo however. There is one thing that couch does to better than mongo, and thats single server durability. You can pretty much kill -9 couch and it won't care (that's prett
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by andrewvc 17y ago
I'd be interested to hear a little bit about choosing between CouchDB, MongodB, and others. Couch and Mongo are the two I'm most interested in, but I haven't had the time to really look at either closely.
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by andrewvc 17y ago
You're right, I was acting on some mistaken premises, I'm up and running now, thanks for the tip.
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by andrewvc 17y ago
You're right, I have to take most of that back, that was mostly my frustration trying to install it on Arch linux, which has no Java packages. Additionally, I was following an apparently out of date tutorial that said I needed all that othe
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by andrewvc 17y ago
EDIT: Clojure is easy to get up and running with! This was written before I got some excellent feedback in the comments below. Apparently I've been following an out-of-date Clojure tutorial. I just got Halloway's book, and I have to say, ge
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by andrewvc 17y ago
I'd agree that load average just isn't intuitive. I personally just look at CPU, Memory, and IO usage separately.
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by andrewvc 17y ago
They give you $25, since most stuff on Gilt is pretty pricey (most items are $80+, with a lot that extend into the hundreds) my guess is it all works out for them. Plus, they have a rather steep $12 shipping+handling fee.
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by andrewvc 17y ago
Well, the big advantage is it doesn't listen on a port, which means if the system in question has a crazy local firewall policy, this works better. Also, on a multi-user system, this is more secure as other users cannot connect to this port
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by andrewvc 17y ago
The same people who learn arcane vi/emacs/cli syntax complain about moving their mouse to the opposite corner - please! I use vim, but the arcane syntax makes using it significantly faster. Moving buttons doesn't do this. I'm glad you alw

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