anko

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by anko 12y ago
I used to admin VSS for a team. We had to run a nightly scheduled task to uncorrupt the database. We ended up buying perforce which saved our arses but the days of VSS were dark days indeed.
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by anko 12y ago
I know I'm late to reply, but i'm interested. What cool stuff is happening in the node.js community. The only thing I can think of that is really cool is meteor. I think the thing that sucks about node is that javascript sucks.
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by anko 12y ago
I wish this idea could work. I really really do. And not living in an area with snow means I don't understand how important this factor is. But, the grid seems to be having a pretty hard time just dealing with the influx of solar pow
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by anko 12y ago
Well if I were in the market for a new smoke alarm, nest wave was a feature that would steer me towards nest. While i'm sure it's still a decent alarm, this is a pretty big feature to recall.
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by anko 12y ago
This. I don't know why more creativity seems to happen in the ruby ecosystem, but it really does. My preference of ruby over python comes down to elegance and string interpolation operators (ie. not much). But ruby attracts people t
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by anko 12y ago
You're right, but this round developers are also considering how much 1) people are spending on each platform, 2) how fragmented each platform is If people are spending 80% of software sales on a platform with 15% of the market, with 5
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by anko 12y ago
like volvo? http://www.sartre-project.eu/en/Sidor/default.aspx
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by anko 12y ago
I'm interested in it because I plan to use docker to ease application management, and with CoreOS I barely have to maintain the operating system because it's so lightweight. So it greatly simplifies things :) If you think docker
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by anko 13y ago
Thank you for writing that.
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by anko 13y ago
> called Rocks (built in Python and shell scripts) Regardless of if it "worked", I think mixing languages in an application is a bad idea, and should be avoided whenever possible. There are a few reasons, 1) maintainability -
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by anko 13y ago
I don't mean to this sound snarky, and I really appreciate vagrant. I've had patches merged over the years, so I'm a strong supporter. BUT, I'd be genuinely interested on the reasoning behind charging for a vmware provi
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by anko 13y ago
> So what does CoffeeScript give me, that JavaScript does not already have? It actually doesn't give you anything. This seems like the core of your argument against CoffeeScript, but it's fundamentally flawed. CoffeeScript fix
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by anko 13y ago
> We've reached the turning point where you hear far more about big companies moving from rails, than switching to it. A lot of this is because 1) they jumped on the rails bandwagon without understanding it or if it suited their ne
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by anko 13y ago
I'd like to add to this. It's the little things that i like about my macbook pro. The magsafe has saved my laptop several times. Optical audio out makes music so much more enjoyable. The trackpad is easily worth 5x as much as
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by anko 13y ago
I don't know any worthwhile editor that can't show tabs.
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by anko 13y ago
i thought this was going to be about star wars.
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by anko 13y ago
This is a late reply, but just in case you read it. > I'd say there's valid reasons to dislike Apple's stance on many issues. That's not apple hatred, and it's not what I'm talking about. > Every OS Googl
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by anko 13y ago
What are you talking about late 80s? it's still happening with consoles today. On XBox, for example, you need a dev kit. They have a lengthy sign up process, they don't allow students or universities to get one, etc. It costs $$
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by anko 13y ago
nobody complained about this junk when it was nintendo and sega doing it, for a lot more. It's just that this time; 1) people have this illogical apple hatred and 2) people buy into google's spiel about being open. The app store,
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by anko 13y ago
It's a pretty arbitrary constraint. I wonder if he's looked into docker or other methods of containerisation?
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by anko 13y ago
I'm pretty interested in your experiences with linux on azure. I've been to both azure and aws workshops, and I found the azure presenters to be somewhat hostile towards alternative operating systems. They had a slide saying th
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by anko 13y ago
I guess losing depends on a matter of perspective.. are you losing if you have less market share but more profit?
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by anko 13y ago
What do you mean by fragmentation FUD? Are you seriously saying that android isn't more fragmented than iOS? There are 5 resolutions to support in iOS. For most purposes, there are only 2 versions to support. What's the situatio
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by anko 13y ago
> The sheer flexibility and number of choices for each and every part of the linux desktop world makes the whole experience chaotic, inconsistent, buggy and complex to setup and maintain. I think that's what vendors like ubuntu sho
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by anko 13y ago
Is it just me or is ubuntu getting worse? I really thought it was good when it was gnome 2, and then they moved to unity, seemingly targeting netbooks. Now nobody has a netbook, and they are talking about phones and other such nonsense. I
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by anko 13y ago
middleman is fantastic. It does all this from what I can tell, and has an amazing plugin system, with plugins written for things like livereload so when I save a file, it re-pregenerates it and reloads my browser. It's SUCH a nice wo
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by anko 13y ago
at my work we use custom javascript/php to render our graphs with d3.js. It works quite well - we have things like a live(ish) piechart oh the status codes of web requests in the last (hour/timeperiod). the upside is we have a da
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by anko 13y ago
google glass and self driving cars are really them just monetising r&d. They aren't suitable for real world use. Apple doesn't talk about their r&d until it's a real project. It's really hard to compare the two
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by anko 13y ago
can you just download chrome and use the flash player that's built in?
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by anko 13y ago
why not jruby and rails? rails has a lot more of a community, and you'd still get to run it on java.

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