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by bk 18y ago
Microsoft: concrete prison cell with a wooden stool with splinters for you to sit on. Apple: glass and steel prison cell with an Aeron chair for you to sit on.
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by bk 18y ago
Just as an aside, using Ruby to access the db server via Net::HTTP should limit the performance to at max a few dozen http requests per second per (Ruby) process. I think the more http is used to bridge web architectures, the more critical
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by bk 18y ago
Based on my sporadic use of reddit, short comments are the noisiest form of rot/cancer a in reddit-like engine/interface, such as puns and lame jokes that self-perpetuate into long threads. Perhaps the comment form should have a self-check
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by bk 18y ago
Tables probably for cross-browser support with minimal code size. Inline css and javascript for 1 http request instead of 3. Much faster, and less load. The content-length of the google home page is 2752 bytes (gzip).
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by bk 18y ago
After going through blueprint and 960.gs, I settled on malo as well. It's dead simple, light, stable, and can be learned in 2 minutes. Its only gotcha is to adjust the negative margin value for IE6 if you change your default font-size. You
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by bk 18y ago
World map showing it as percentage of population: http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/f/f7/Internet_... Still doesn't take into account urban/rural split. Urban China should be much higher, for example.
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by bk 18y ago
> Three things: cache religiously, index well, and refactor your database queries. In other words: database, database, database. I can only confirm this, scaling app servers in virtually any language is trivial compared to scaling datab
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by bk 18y ago
I was wondering if that's a bug or a feature...
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by bk 18y ago
Quick update: Looks like enom.com itself is down right now. Ironic dog food. Twitter updates for #enom: http://search.twitter.com/search?q=%23enom
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Ask YC: Google registered domains unreachable right now?
1 points by bk 18y ago|2 comments
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by bk 18y ago
"The best e-mail program ever"? Hardly. "One of the least shitty of the bunch" is probably more appropriate. Gmail easily beats the old-school bunch, but the quantum leap of email is definitely still ahead of us.
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by bk 18y ago
Reach. You'll reach people who otherwise wouldn't (have) access (to) comparable information. I'd even go as far as arguing that informed citizens on public transportation are better than uninformed ones in cars. This is besides the politics
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by bk 18y ago
Their desktop os x client doesn't support Tiger, unfortunately.
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by bk 18y ago
Essentially, you get a hash consisting of key/value pairs, where the keys may have a format such that "key[subkey][subsubkey]" => "some_value" is parsed into {"key" => {"subkey" => {"subsubkey" => "some_value"
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by bk 18y ago
I'm actually curious what a haskell version of this would look like.
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by bk 18y ago
This issue also concerns studies with non-results in all scientific fields. The pressure to produce "results" causes two types of problems: 1. Massive fudging of data to achieve (statistical) significance. 2. Inefficiencies due to researche
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by bk 18y ago
Could be channel switching from interference from a nearby similar device. You can set your router to stick to one channel and this should stop.
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by bk 18y ago
Relationships. Why would you go through applying, having smart enough things to say to get chosen, and then "run off" with a "bounty" of 10-15k, while at the same time burning bridges to an extremely helpful and influential network of peopl
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by bk 18y ago
I'm looking forward to the generic Rack deployment option.
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by bk 18y ago
http://www.zedshaw.com/conferences/cusec2008.factor
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by bk 18y ago
I predict that this will benefit you more, through reflection and conscious living, than your son (through a historical record later in life), but it will consequently greatly benefit him, because you are more tuned in to his development an
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by bk 18y ago
I voted you back up (to 1) because your comment is more insightful than then snarky 37signals bashing above.
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by bk 18y ago
It's always best to quote yourself. ;) http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=323829 Totally kidding. :) But I'm leaving Apple with my next laptop. For coding, Linux is better (same dev/deployment environment, and better repos / package mana
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by bk 18y ago
I don't think it's necessarily superior. I played with Io a long time ago, and my first thought was: "This is lisp/scheme with a different syntax." Personally, I think embedability, its syntax, and prototype orientation are great. Especiall
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by bk 18y ago
It's about managing expectations/perceptions: Gmail is in beta, so Google gets less flak for outages, account lockouts, etc. "It's free and beta, so it's unsupported, take it or leave it". They have a strong position compared to other crapp
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by bk 18y ago
It would be even cooler if this were done by comparing a hash of the library's remote and local copy, so it could be on any server and not bound to the same domain.
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by bk 18y ago
I wholeheartedly agree with the general modular approach. Rack is doing wonders in enabling this approach, with small apps via frameworks like Sinatra, Camping, Ramaze, Merb flat to run as services. However, the big downer of this approach
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by bk 18y ago
If Microsoft had anything worth pirating, I'd pirate it, just to get even close to paying myself a reasonable hourly rate for the time I've had to spend debugging css for IE6.
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by bk 18y ago
Reason one alone should be enough. Two is arguably a toss-up, from hn guidelines: On-Topic: Anything that good hackers would find interesting. That includes more than hacking and startups. If you had to reduce it to a sentence, the answer m
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by bk 18y ago
Blog spam + not HN + was on reddit months ago = flagged

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