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by apl 16y ago
I'd argue that it's exactly the other way around. GAE offers massive scalability at relatively little cost, at least theoretically, but you lose flexibility. (For instance, you're limited to a very specific database backend and so on.) A ch
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by apl 16y ago
I'll have to admit, that's exactly why I don't find the idea of developing for iOS/webOS/Android very appealing: the necessity of buying corresponding hardware. Maybe even client-side application development in its entirety. I can work on p
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by apl 16y ago
Thanks. Is it feasible at all to (ab-)use this free Micro instance as a real development machine for running little experiments? Assuming I keep one instance running at all times, without adding any new ones, it seems like I could just igno
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by apl 16y ago
It will be in the long run.
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by apl 16y ago
As someone who does live in a place with what you call socialized health care, I find it utterly bewildering that anyone would ever found a start-up starting from zero. The cognitive dissonance of working on a silly web app while worrying
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by apl 16y ago
I'm not a web developer but somewhat curious, so please excuse this potentially inane question: How much can I actually do with one Micro Instance? Is it comparable to, say, a VPS in terms of handling and capabilities? Or is it an entirel
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by apl 16y ago
It's not good evidence, but it's definitely not irrelevant either. Don't be childish! By the way, I can confirm that observation. Now we're at N=2.
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by apl 16y ago
I'm amazed by the fact that Apple keeps neglecting the software side of "the cloud." New MBAs? Great; they look like fine little machines, perfectly suited for the transition towards server-side computing. But MobileMe ? An odd mixture of
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by apl 16y ago
I guess you're right, yes. From a technical point of view, Windows is quite fragmented. However, it always offered surface-level consistency, with the exception of proprietary management software for certain tasks. Put a customer in front o
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by apl 16y ago
Differing hardware isn't even the core issue here. It's differing software. Windows was always consistent across Dell, HP et cetera. Android is not.
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by apl 16y ago
Equating fragmentation with choice doesn't do the phenomenon justice. The question isn't if there should be choice: it's quite clear that there should be. I'd suggest that Jobs would not object to this. But it's crucial to have sensible c
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DOA? Verizon sells Galaxy Tab for 600$(engadget.com)
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by apl 16y ago
I'd rather spend my working life in Emacs than in Photoshop, but I guess just as anything else, UI preferences differ.
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by apl 16y ago
Competition isn't intrinsically beneficial. Within the Android ecosystem, all you get is pseudo-competition: none of the players are interested in making Android any more open than it has to be.
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by apl 16y ago
Hm, obviousness aside - would you mind elaborating on that? Additionally, even if warped, personalized and differentiated Android variants have turned the underlying OS into a success, that doesn't imply that it's a good thing. Coincidence,
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by apl 16y ago
That's all great and witty and so on. But his pseudo-definition of "free" is rather misleading. I don't think Jobs argues that Android isn't free in the sense of being closed-source, or being sold for money, or not being available on most d
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by apl 16y ago
In a perfect world, inhabited by fantastic engineers and no one else, aye. So Graham's slogan may hold true for LISP hackers, or possibly even the dynamic languages crowd (Perl, Python, Ruby and their ilk). PHP, however, is primarily used b
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by apl 16y ago
Not necessarily, though. I think Python, for instance, strikes a fantastic balance.
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by apl 16y ago
> It is heavily refactored, so don't expect > any backwards compatibility with the original library. Thereby defying the purpose of refactoring code.
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by apl 16y ago
Sorry to throw a tiny little wrench, but the list reads like a well-crafted parody of modern startup culture. There's nothing truly interesting in there. Just bland reshuffling of pseudo-innovative social networking stuff. Sure, some of the
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by apl 16y ago
Great framework, terrifying logo.
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by apl 16y ago
I'm willing to bet that a solid 90% of all people desperately yearning for JVM (or similar) "in the browser" as well as stuff like these DOM bindings don't realize that JS is a powerful, decent, fast language. These days, at least. Instead
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by apl 16y ago
Well, it's more like "fück". Still, unfortunate.
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by apl 16y ago
It's a logical next step. However, given the integrated nature of 95% of all JS development (CSS/HTML/...), I'm not quite sure whether it's a particularly good idea as well.
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by apl 16y ago
There are better alternatives out there. Inconsolata, Anonymous Pro, et cetera - take your pick. Nobody was staring at Courier before this font arrived. (Well, I wasn't.)
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by apl 16y ago
Well, if I may, even more like "hacking stuff together that SHOULD be thrown away within two years but never is".