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by awj 15y ago
I'd say that both Okami and Dark Cloud 2 managed it, but they're rare exceptions that do more to support your statement than undermine it.
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by awj 15y ago
...why? This isn't supposed to be the one true rails queueing implementation, just a standard interface to code against. Without it third party libraries have to resort to all sorts of ugly workarounds to push work into the background ... o
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by awj 15y ago
Well ... yeah. I have a bit of experience buying things, but know nothing about creating and running companies that design and build rockets. I'd probably buy Instagram too since the rocket thing would die in my ineptitude.
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by awj 15y ago
> Why not just serve the whole site over SSL constantly? Because now you have to serve every single bit of your page over SSL (to avoid security warnings) and that means none of your page content can be cached. It also makes relatively
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by awj 15y ago
The problem, generally, is that rendering the tiles is computationally expensive. You have to wade through each feature (thing that could be represented in the tile) and decide if it intersects the tile, then decide if/how it will be rend
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by awj 15y ago
It is. Most of the time this is expressed as test-to-code, and I suspect it was originally written that way before being reworded.
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by awj 15y ago
That sounds good, with the caveat that most applications should have their business logic roughly organized into libraries. After those libraries get their unit tests, integration testing the application<->library barrier makes a lo
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by awj 15y ago
That's fine, but I would argue that even for this purpose the number is kind of useless. It's only vaguely a proxy for appearance or ability, so why not measure what you're trying to do more directly? Interested in appearance? Go for waist/
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by awj 15y ago
A lot of people will have a lot of advice, but the simple truth is that the only thing that works is diet and exercise. Being in shape is a lifestyle issue. It's not something that happens overnight or that you can do in one go, it requires
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by awj 15y ago
I didn't actually say (or mean to imply) I approved of the original post, just that the follow-up comment was of little value. If the best you can manage is to pull a quote out of context and make a snide remark, why post it?
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by awj 15y ago
I don't think selectively quoting to omit "I very much doubt the legitimacy of this story" then commenting "Great source!" is adding anything useful to this conversation.
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by awj 15y ago
PHP actually seems like a good balance in terms of server support vs. (what I can guess of) the application requirements. It's brain-dead simple to run and if you weren't precomputing everything a page needs for response-time reasons the la
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by awj 15y ago
> Surely won't be long before there is a LISP for it. I'd guess there probably would be a FORTH dialect first. It seems a lot more fitting with the context.
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by awj 15y ago
> While the Premium button is immediately available and the other isn't Since we're talking about "the average user", the argument should probably stop here. Most people on the internet will click the first button that looks like it wil
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by awj 15y ago
In all likelihood we wouldn't have gotten into or through the industrial revolution (hell, probably even the renaissance) without people performing many of the loan and financing functions modern day "bankers" fulfill. The current possibili
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by awj 15y ago
I was going to counter this with "that's what 'M-x apropox <thing>' is for", then I remembered that around a third of the time that's the lead in to me diving into the source. That said, the other 2/3 of the time Emacs does relative
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by awj 15y ago
I don't think it would be. Also, if you're constructing purpose-built javascript the best solution might be to merge that information into the url scheme so that you can cache the results.
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by awj 15y ago
Yes, and can you imagine how much worse the app store would be if the people screening apps didn't have apple charging a $100 cover?
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by awj 15y ago
That's specious reasoning. All Walmart had to do was decide that the data was worth buying . This is no indication that the analysis they are already doing is ineffective, only that they think their analysis would be more effective with
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by awj 15y ago
I don't trust the "many eyeballs" approach anywhere near that much. I doubt that a lot of people will look too closely at something dhh supposedly committed, and even if they were worried by what they saw they may put trust in the system (a
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by awj 15y ago
> GitHub is great because you get to use git. That's exactly my point. The article seems to be confusing a concern about Github for a concern about Git and then spends most of its time addressing the latter. I can (and do!) use Git
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by awj 15y ago
The out-of-the-box configuration for Postgres has a lot of performance issues compared to MySQL. I'm not really sure what scenario it's designed for, but I've always needed to make changes for my use case. Postgres' query optimizer is a
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by awj 15y ago
I honestly don't find this reasoning very convincing. Mostly because it seems to be mistakenly equating Github with Git. All of the issues presented on both sides (i.e. "why are we depending on this third party" and "I don't want to go ba
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by awj 15y ago
I don't think they're the only ones, or that they're particularly good ones, but they are some of the only ones that we can measure . That said, our anecdotes at least agree. I'm with you on that hunch, too.
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by awj 15y ago
One tiny tip I have is to use underscores in ids and hyphens in classes. That way if I see $(".things-to-find") the fact that "thing-to-find" is not recognizable as a javascript variable gives that much more of an indication that it will be
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by awj 15y ago
I think ElliotH knows that. His point is that OSM is probably going to be more effective publicly welcoming and reminding than throwing a hissyfit, even though they'd be justified in doing so.
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by awj 15y ago
Yeah, screwing up one thing obviously means that every single other idea they've had is boneheaded.
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by awj 15y ago
> Who's lost out? Well, the market, for one. All of your non-revenue market effects (discussion with friends, perceived usage, etc) show up as apparent success for a product that you feel is not worth buying. This can help promote purch
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by awj 15y ago
That's true, it would. In that case you'd need alternative methods to carry the identity across hash changes. Companies participating in this tracking could use their legitimate cookies, or even just login events, to pair up one hash with a
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by awj 15y ago
> they properly wasn't even CGI then I'm going to choose to pretend that wasn't a typo. ;) Seriously though, there are some great older action movies out there. There's some pretty top notch new ones, too. It's all good.

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