cosmo7

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by cosmo7 15y ago
Diaspora - Ruby on Rails
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by cosmo7 16y ago
> GNU Mono I see Miguel finally caved!
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by cosmo7 17y ago
I wouldn't be surprised if Apple starts more collaborations with Microsoft. Remember how IBM was Apple's big enemy and then they got into bed with each other?
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by cosmo7 17y ago
Unsurprisingly, ubercool job ad is for a site that uses table layouts riddled with inline CSS.
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by cosmo7 17y ago
Article is predicated on the idea that evil and innovation are mutually exclusive. I think it's more true that evil and innovation are pretty tightly coupled.
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by cosmo7 17y ago
I love embedded servers. I don't think adding SSL would be that hard. I've done something very similar in C# and kept putting off SSL, only to find that X.509 authentication was trivial. The harder part is maintaining session info between r
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by cosmo7 17y ago
> I'm just hoping MacRuby will enable the Ruby world to build our own open source Textmate clone so we'll be able to ditch this abandonware piece of crap. Thanks for reminding me why I don't want to do Ruby.
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by cosmo7 17y ago
> since the Windows stack is so closed in general Huh? What about NetBeans or Eclipse? There is tons of open software for Windows.
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by cosmo7 17y ago
You might get more money from making the application into a web application and getting commission from click-through sales of actual hardware.
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by cosmo7 17y ago
I write code by analyzing requirements and then breaking them into a series of milestones and attaching requirements to each milestone. I show the client how I have interpreted their requirements and make sure we are in sync. I then delegat
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by cosmo7 17y ago
I agree that compiled statically typed code is more robust than scripts, but I'd choose a safer language like C# or Java over C.
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by cosmo7 17y ago
You might want to consider separating your front and back ends with an API that could be accessed by Flash or AJAX. You can then introduce a simple client and progressively enhance it according to your client's sensitivities. If you use AJA
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by cosmo7 17y ago
That doesn't mean they're the most popular. It might be people all sharing stuff to say "look how retarded this code is." (just saying)
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by cosmo7 17y ago
I've given up smoking several times, the last time, successfully, about 3 years ago. The previous attempt was pretty much doomed - it was mid-August 2001 and I was living in lower Manhattan. The thing that is most difficult about nicotine i
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by cosmo7 17y ago
Please keep it clean folks.
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by cosmo7 17y ago
Wishful thinking aside, The Gimp < Photoshop.
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by cosmo7 17y ago
This guy comes across as being angry that people quit Linux, as though they owe Linux something.
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by cosmo7 17y ago
Pouring molten solder into a mold seems kind of crude; solder is rather blobby even with flux. I'd have thought that using printer technology would be easier. You could print conductive areas and semiconductors and resistors directly onto a
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by cosmo7 17y ago
My project, phpSprockets ( http://code.google.com/p/phpsprockets/ ) does nested markup by working as a node system. After all, if you're going to generate HTML in code you might as well do it in an object oriented way. $table = new Sprocket
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by cosmo7 17y ago
Wow, what a douchebag.
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by cosmo7 17y ago
Well Scala does that () thing too. On the other hand, an infinite loop in Scala would run much more quickly than in Ruby.
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by cosmo7 17y ago
> My point is I seriously doubt Scala is much better at scaling than Ruby I spoke with some people at Twitter the other day. They said that they were switching to Scala just to annoy alecco on Hacker News. The performance and scaling ad
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by cosmo7 17y ago
Threading.
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by cosmo7 17y ago
Although the Reg sensationalizes the story, it's interesting to see how Ruby is in limbo. How much damage has been done to Merb by the 1.8 to 1.9 fiasco?
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by cosmo7 18y ago
Wow, Hacker News is playing by Fox News rules. The warning is to avoid situations where someone has sent intellectual property without legal basis and then feels that that property has been misappropriated. It's entirely normal for a VC to
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by cosmo7 18y ago
"C# is too verbose for most web work" Lame.
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by cosmo7 18y ago
This is what people mean by "it just works", because if it doesn't you give up immediately.
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by cosmo7 18y ago
This is very similar to my own experience of working with people who prefer Ruby on Rails. The technology is fine, but the culture seems to attract the worst people to work with.
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by cosmo7 18y ago
Ohm my god.
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by cosmo7 18y ago
At the risk of sounding vindictive, I don't think I've ever been more happy to see someone getting PSAs on their Adsense.

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