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by awj 13y ago
> but Zuckerberg's success is as likely as winning the state lottery. I'd say it's even less likely than that. How many state lottery winners have we seen since Facebook went huge? How many grand slam successes have we see
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by awj 13y ago
Not every idea is a good idea. Not all criticism is offhand dismissal. In fact, critical evaluation is necessary to separate good ideas from bad ones. HN may have gone a bit crazy on Dropbox when it came out, but the proper response is to
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by awj 13y ago
The problem was with their temporary storage on a local filesystem, not S3. I'm sure there's some kind of limit to what S3 will allow you to store based on how they distribute data to servers, but 64k isn't it.
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by awj 13y ago
Then evaluate things on their merits and ignore the fanboys. There are plenty of people in this world looking for silver bullets, that someone excitedly claims to have found one is no reason to believe them.
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by awj 13y ago
> Horrific is really stretching it too though. I'd love to hear how you're better acquainted with 'nikatwork's feelings on JavaScript than he is.
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by awj 13y ago
...then the solution is to write a post that can stand on its own merits. That shouldn't be difficult if Meteor can live up to this kind of hype.
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by awj 13y ago
Yeah, and we saw how well that worked. Java projects sprung up to incorporate the good ideas from Rails, Rails itself picked up a load of developers and evolved into something decent, and the world moved on. Nothing was killed, but all the
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by awj 13y ago
That's a bold claim to make when your blog can't function without cookies. Also, after it loaded, the only point that seemed to be directly related to Rails had to do with teaching designers to use templates and the asset pipeline
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by awj 13y ago
What does that have to do with any of the points raised?
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by awj 13y ago
A quick browse of the source turns up nothing conclusive. Looks like D3.js is involved, not sure if that's what is drawing the map itself, though.
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by awj 13y ago
You're talking about cost , not value . The two are only loosely related at best.
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by awj 13y ago
Yeah, if I didn't know any better I'd say it was a brand new program for a feature Amazon likely had trouble getting publishers to participate in. ...wait.
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by awj 13y ago
> For example every element may have an epoch, and every time a new element is added the epoch is incremented. Then what you could do is to only remember elements with epoch <= the epoch at which you started iterating, so that all the
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by awj 13y ago
> Prefab needs a factory to make the prefab sections. Why do you think one or more significantly smaller printers couldn't be used as an on-site prefab factory? That seems like a much more reasonable way to approach this problem.
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by awj 13y ago
Source for that? I'd prefer to hang on to my outrage until it's actually justified.
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by awj 13y ago
...I'd like to see this mysterious Kickstarter page that has had basically no work done in advance.
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by awj 13y ago
It's a business in a similar vein to someone selling things at a local craft fair. What would have to change about his idea for you to consider it a business?
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by awj 13y ago
I'd be really interested to see what you're doing that uses >300k lines of javascript all at once.
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by awj 13y ago
> If it spreads everywhere then that is because it is valuable everywhere. Well, there is a downside in that you're now having to choose between adding type annotations where you don't particularly want them or ignoring compile
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by awj 13y ago
Actually, your web server being able to make requests out on the open internet is considered a security liability. If it lives behind a proxy, a web server being able to talk to anything but the proxy server and database is a matter of de
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by awj 13y ago
Yeah, I'm right there with you. Rubygems is a wonderful and powerful tool for getting libraries set up and adding new code. It's not really suited for putting things into production, especially when people think pulling old versio
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by awj 13y ago
Your point seems to be "I'm willing to read the mysql introductory documentation, but not the postgres introductory documentation". I will definitely grant you that mysql is easier to use than postgres if you're only wil
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by awj 13y ago
> You can't simultaneously say that he has the "social instinct of a cockroach" and that he's selfish. I'm pretty sure you don't need social skills to be self-centered.
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by awj 13y ago
As someone who has done work in lisp-like languages, I would call the clojure code legible but not "clear". It's perfectly fine for a one-off solution, but I wouldn't consider it acceptable for anything I planned on comi
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by awj 13y ago
> I seriously don't care that's he comparing core.type ...so you object to his solutions because you don't care about the point of the article, which is what forces him into those specific solutions.
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by awj 13y ago
> Because real life is full of dichotomies, and they are not all false. That doesn't justify the specific dichotomy you presented. Nor does the general lack of (vaguely defined) "fancy-ass" websites with good content. In m
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by awj 13y ago
> Would you rather read PGs eassays in his website, or some moron's zero-content marketing fluff on a great looking, fancy-ass website, with CSS 3D transforms and the whole works? I'd rather read PGs essays on a great looking,
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by awj 13y ago
> How about you tell me line by line where I'm wrong? Beware that I do this for a living Then it should be pretty easy for you to point out some factual account of an action or property of Google that backs up your claims. Feel free
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by awj 13y ago
Is it baseless assumption Thursday? What evidence do you have to support any of this?
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by awj 13y ago
> Just because you're too dim to understand the science here doesn't give you an excuse to mock it. This is "effective" advocacy at its finest. Write an otherwise useful response, then sneak in a personal attack to en

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