danieldon

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by danieldon 16y ago
Is the problem that they're sitting there in a city without any other Internet industry orbitz, groupon, careerbuilder, peapod, everyblock, skinnycorp, grubhub, the onion, ars technica, to name a few
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by danieldon 16y ago
Search is practically necessary for using the web. Social networking websites are neither necessary for using the web nor for socializing.
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by danieldon 16y ago
My first web app had authorization. I didn't even go to school for CS. Simply put, they focused too much on trendy tools and libraries like MongoDB and CarrierWave and neglected the basics.
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by danieldon 16y ago
I'm in my 30s. My social group is mainly urban and mobile. It certainly seemed that vast majority of people around my age were on MySpace, and I say this as someone who never actually joined it with a real account. Incidentally, the same pe
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by danieldon 16y ago
Well, my mom already quit facebook. Also, I have a relatively large family, many of whom are on Facebook. A year ago they were trying to use Facebook for family notices and communication. These days they've gone back to email. Everyone has
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by danieldon 16y ago
It's interesting to see people on HN downvoting some for being responsible with information while upvoting those who advocate irresponsible disclosure.
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by danieldon 16y ago
Well, there's at least one glaring security issue that should be obvious to any Rails developer.
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by danieldon 16y ago
In my experience, those systems are in dire need of replacement, anyway.
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by danieldon 16y ago
That's not what it's dependent on. IE6 will be supported until 2014. Even with Explorer's glacial release cycle that will be about 5 newer releases than IE6, 4 for the still supported IE7 and so on.
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by danieldon 16y ago
It's not just IE6, it's IE7 and IE8.
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by danieldon 16y ago
Some people like to use explicit self to differentiate methods from local variables. Also, there are consistency issues. Explicit self is required for attribute writers and implicit self can call private methods on parent classes. Personall
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by danieldon 16y ago
It's pretty universally acknowledged, even among PHP developers, that the language is a mess. There are reasons to use it despite this, but don't try to pretend it's something it isn't.
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by danieldon 16y ago
No. If your differentiating feature is a principle, then you can't ignore that principle. Today, DVCS is essentially the foundation of developer social networks, both formally (github, bitbucket) and informally. How are you going to make a
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by danieldon 16y ago
I didn't downvote you, bmelton. it also seems like a much more performant idea Why is performance important to you? Presumably to make it cheaper to run, in which case I suggest you weigh the costs of coding and maintaining multipl
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by danieldon 16y ago
I strongly and completely disagree. For a supposed next-generation, distributed open source application, language and version control choices are important. There are arguably valid reasons for using PHP, none of which you provided in eithe
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by danieldon 16y ago
We know and so what? Not only is it in a language that many hackers dislike, but it's a supposedly decentralized social app in a centralized (and, in this context, archaic) SVN repo.
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by danieldon 16y ago
Immoral? No. A bit tasteless and silly, though. Really, if your goal (what you call a "win") is to get rich, go into finance. It's far easier to get rich in finance than entrepreneurship. Hell, your whole career path is even planned out for
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by danieldon 16y ago
Big surprise: it's a Python app. Yet more proof that the Python web development community is filled to the brim with trolls. Stuff like this is why I completely stopped contributing to open source Python projects after nearly 10 years.
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by danieldon 16y ago
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1566709
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by danieldon 16y ago
stop, stop, play
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by danieldon 16y ago
The 1 DB/customer approach is usually a bad idea. Strict data security requirements are one of the only situations this approach makes sense compared to the traditional single DB approaches or individual installs.
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by danieldon 16y ago
it's the ability to serve business customers who are willing to pay for heavy customizations and the extra support those entail You'd need to have flags in the app itself, which would likely turn into an unmaintainable mo
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by danieldon 16y ago
Be very careful with stratfor. I was a subscriber back before and during the Iraq War, and as the war progressed it was clear that their information, as in-depth as it sounds, mostly reveals itself as BS in the long run. One example relavan
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by danieldon 16y ago
Don't hold your breath. Apple has forever only released one model of each product at a time, with usually no more than 3 different options of slightly different specs. And it's not like this is the first time that a model has problems; long
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by danieldon 16y ago
no. they use scala for some of their services, like message queues.
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by danieldon 16y ago
this isn't targeted at bloggers Except for the part where they actually already have famously targeted at least one blogger.
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by danieldon 16y ago
It seems utterly bizarre that posters here apparently belive that the AP's copyright stance is no big deal. The last time I checked, the AP still considered using headlines to be a copyright violation and the only reason they weren't going
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by danieldon 16y ago
We are talking about the Push Button Reset feature and resintalling operating systems, not defragging a drive.
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by danieldon 16y ago
he only discusses controversial ideas Seriously? Zed Shaw loves to rant about people. Ranting about people brought him into this tiny, niche internet spotlight in the first place. And have you even looked at http://oppugn.us/ ? A
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by danieldon 16y ago
it is only available to Windows 7 Professional, Enterprise, and Ultimate editions That's sounds like a business issue, not a technology limitation, unless there are costs associated with it that make it impossible for them to

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