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by compay 17y ago
Having owned a merchant account for many years, I can tell you that this advice is 100% correct. Do it now!
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by compay 17y ago
I would not consider this a "considered approach." He's doing a multi-year, ground-up rewrite of a highly successful product in order to add a list of features geared towards Textmate developers (of which there are roughly 1), rather than e
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by compay 17y ago
Allan was saying "the end is in sight" 6 months ago. http://blog.macromates.com/2009/working-on-it/ This really reminds me of a series of blog posts by Chad Fowler, warning against the "big rewrite." http://chadfowler.com/2006/12/27/the-
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by compay 17y ago
And hosting it for free at Github.
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by compay 17y ago
Ha, I would have thought you were a native speaker, your English is excellent. :-) I think you make the same generalizations about Latin that native English speakers often do, though, in assuming rich nominal case = complexity. The issue is
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by compay 17y ago
Sure you can deny it. You picked the classic example of something that seems hard to you because of your native speaker bias. What some languages resolve with conjugations and declensions, others resolve with combinations of prepositions an
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by compay 17y ago
Having studied several languages, I think the biggest difference in difficulty is in how long it takes to acquire basic proficiency. For English speakers, it's obviously easier to ramp up in Spanish or German than Chinese or Korean, because
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by compay 17y ago
No. What I find ironic is the cultural mismatch. PHP seems an unlikely language for technological idealists.
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by compay 17y ago
They're using PHP and Smarty, from looking at comments in the source code. I find it highly ironic that the people in charge of web standards and consistency use the programming language with least consistent syntax.
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by compay 17y ago
I played around with Jekyll a bit and while it's cool, there were a few things I didn't like, such as the fact that you're limited to one "posts" feed, rather than being able to easily publish arbitrary content and have multiple feeds. I al
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by compay 17y ago
No, the giant bunny sitting next to me says you're the delusional one.
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by compay 17y ago
It's a neat trick but as the author says, it's probably too cryptic to use for "real" code. Lua's LPeg lets you create simple recursive grammars to solve problems that are often hard with regular expressions (e.g., matching balanced parenth
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by compay 17y ago
The worst kind of trolls are the ones that are knowledgeable and articulate, but arrogant, dogmatic crusaders. Many programming mailing lists I've been on ended up acquiring somebody like this, at which point I usually have to unsubscribe i
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by compay 17y ago
I liked the iPhone because the features that were lacking at the time were not very important to me, and the features that were implemented are for the most part extremely well done; not because I'm some delusional fanboy. My needs have c
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by compay 17y ago
I worry more about Google's future than present - benevolent dictators are great until they decide to stop being benevolent.
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by compay 17y ago
I hope an Android client is in the works.
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by compay 17y ago
English <-> Spanish has it too.
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by compay 17y ago
Part of me deeply admires 37 Signals for their success, their people, and the quality of the work they do. Yet another part of me detests how they've always tried to sell themselves as some sort of movement, when in fact they're a business
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by compay 17y ago
Sounds like Chile.
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by compay 17y ago
I'll try to make it too.
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by compay 17y ago
In English, you can verb any noun.
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by compay 17y ago
Link goes to the benchmark shootout, the actual announcement it here: http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lang.lua.general/58814 Congrats to Mike Pall on an impressive solo achievement.
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LuaJIT 2.0 Beta released, making Lua the fastest interpreted language(shootout.alioth.debian.org)
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by compay 17y ago
Yes, as in - this is not sarcasm; the actual article title is: "Facebook's Memcached Multiget Hole: More machines != More Capacity"
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by compay 17y ago
One of the nice things about Rip is that it supports RubyGems so, to an extent, you can have your cake and eat it too. The collective investment Ruby developers have in Rubygems is pretty large, so if it gets replaced by something else, it'
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by compay 17y ago
Perhaps in part because it's now working with MinGW for Windows and Snow Leopard, though the official release for these platforms is yet to come out. http://lylejohnson.name/blog/2009/10/20/newly-supported-buil... Many Ruby developers are
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by compay 17y ago
You're wrong. The claim over the islands was laid out in Argentina's constitution in 1985, which you can read here (on page 22): http://docs.google.com/gview?a=v&q=cache:RZIivRFbg_8J:ww... Additionally, the president of Argentina rais
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by compay 17y ago
They're inconsistent with this in Argentina; the Falkand/Malvinas islands disputed by Argentina and the UK are not shown as part of Argentina, and the English names of all the landmarks are used rather than the Spanish ones. http://maps.go
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by compay 17y ago
It would be hard for them to "sneak" a gigabyte of software onto someone's machine, nor would it be ethical or sensible.
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by compay 17y ago
I believe Apple's primary concern is disallowing the installation of a VM such as Flash that could be used to host applications unauthorized by Apple. In the case of Wax, Lua is embedded in the application itself and doesn't provide a VM wh

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