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by byroot 13y ago
> I was surprised to read that the right to freedom of speech is not recognized in France. It is. The french constitution state: > La libre communication des pensées et des opinions est un des droits les plus précieux de l’homme ; tou
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by byroot 13y ago
Yeah it's not great, but I wonder if I don't prefer this over maintainers that let their project die, don't answer PR/issues and never tell they would like someone else to take over. I mean, I understand that it's p
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by byroot 13y ago
> I was hoping that it would not be like TextMate Ironically I just received a mail from Allan Odgaard warning me that the Maverick update may break some bundles because of the ruby update.
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by byroot 13y ago
> maybe you're mistaken with some Nordic countries? I think it's switzerland [0] [0] http://www.rts.ch/info/suisse/1118676-bientot-des-amendes-se...
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by byroot 13y ago
Here's the law http://www.legifrance.gouv.fr/affichCodeArticle.do?cidTexte=... (Google Translate at your own risk) It's indeed pretty restrictive, some parts: > Les informations nécessaires à l'interopérab
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by byroot 13y ago
> Anything you can do with SQL you can do with in-memory data structures. Sure, but unless you also do some indexing manually, you can't really query your whole dataset when it start to become too big.
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by byroot 13y ago
Sure you have full permalink support, but why do you have to rely on closure to do pagination ? My guess: because by relying on in-memory data-structures you can't do what any half assed php forum do, ad hoc queries.
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by byroot 13y ago
> What's wrong with the Viaweb/Arc/HackerNews/Mailinator approach of just using in-memory datastructures https://news.ycombinator.com/x?fnid=cjVXpi8HxVR5TTze3bqSCa Unknown or expired link. Oh I
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by byroot 13y ago
Please don't speak for others, especially when you claim that you don't know what you're talking about in the same sentence. And FYI CookieStore is just the default, because it's convenient and require no dependency. But
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by byroot 13y ago
If you already use ActiveSupport, then you can use Array#wrap http://api.rubyonrails.org/classes/Array.html#method-c-wrap
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by byroot 13y ago
Sure you can hack things up like that. But when you use and update a library, you don't want to rely on deprecated behaviors.
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by byroot 13y ago
> Am I missing something? Well, I can't give you stats about the codebase anymore, but to give you an idea, the app was stated with Backbone 0.3, and contain between 2 and 3 hundred views, collections and models. For the `.add` etc,
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by byroot 13y ago
I don't think I'm very picky about versions meanings. But still the first two items are huge breaking changes for a dot release... If I hadn't left my previous job, It would take me a day or two to upgrade. Even Rails 3.2 =&g
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by byroot 13y ago
> The only software compatibility layer is for PS1 titles THere was a partial software emulation for european PS3s as stated by wikipedia. > the hardware architecture of the new consoles is completely different from the older generati
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by byroot 13y ago
Given the performance gap (16 times more RAM, etc) I suppose software emulation was an option, a bit like rosetta. The first version of PS3 had an hardware support for PS2 but following versions had software emulation: http://en.
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by byroot 13y ago
> Brand loyalty goes out the window with new consoles - But they could have easily ensured it by supporting / emulating previous generation games. I really don't understand why they haven't done it.
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by byroot 13y ago
Probably not, the language and most core libraries are supported by Mono, but things like WPF etc, are windows only. So unless your Windows app is in GTK#, you won't be able to help them. Saying that C# is multiplatform is like saying
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by byroot 13y ago
Infrequent (I don't remeber that it happened to me during the hundred or thousand deploy I made with capistrano) and mostly harmless. If the deploy fail for any reason, it's aborted, you just have to run it again.
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by byroot 13y ago
Not totally related: It remind me of the case of "Free" a French ISP, they were forced like others ISP to send to the government the customer information related to IPs caught on P2P networks [0]. But the law did not specified how
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by byroot 13y ago
Self-reply: Milimail is not dead, it got renamed Trustedbird.
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by byroot 13y ago
They most probably tweaked it to remove that kind of things. The French Gendarmerie as a pretty good IT department. They even developed a big security plugin for thunderbird called "milimail" (may be abandoned now).
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by byroot 13y ago
Also the Facebook mantra being "move fast and break things" (that anyone working with their API appreciate), it's easy to have a high productivity in most languages.
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by byroot 13y ago
About: > The common pattern for application level caching data = cache.get('stuff') if data is None: data = list(Stuff.objects.all()) cache.set('stuff', data) return data I'm wondering if y
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by byroot 13y ago
To be fair, it's not obvious for every audience.
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by byroot 13y ago
> And reflows aren't that hard to understand or control, and it can also easily only do one Yeah you easily get bitten by jQuery because it mix reads with writes under the hood. I prefer to use it most of the time for browser compat
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by byroot 13y ago
I used a similar technique once to align dynamically some elements as column (no I couldn't use an array). > I would be shocked if you can't relatively-trivially make a faster JS implementation I'm not brave enough to do a
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by byroot 13y ago
Since she is "friend with a linux kernel contributor, and ARM developer, etc", I wouldn't be so sure about that...
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by byroot 13y ago
I totally agree with your comment, one thing though > a crappy experience in the male-dominated programming world. It's a bit far fetched to call a high school level programing introduction class audience the "programming world
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by byroot 13y ago
And for the next 6 month Susan get bullied even more by all the class for being teacher's pet. I don't say the teacher should do nothing, but this just don't work.
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by byroot 13y ago
AFAIK it's not true. First they don't use raw php: https://github.com/facebook/xhp/wiki Then they use it only for the view layer, it only pull some data from memcache to render HTML. But all the hard wor

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