davidlumley

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by davidlumley 14y ago
Facebook _doesn't_ run PHP. A large portion of it is coded in PHP, but it runs C++ through HipHop[1]. Facebook may as well be written in anything that compiles down to C++. 1: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HipHop_for_PHP
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by davidlumley 14y ago
I would completely understand if this _was_ a server side shopping cart, but it's not. It's a client side shopping cart which you can use on any architecture - you just have to give it data, and then check the data at payment using whatever
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by davidlumley 14y ago
It's a client side cart, not server side - why does it need to be a node package? (genuine question)
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by davidlumley 14y ago
>But that depends on the right window being the "top" Not on OS X >I also have problems with accidentally brushing my palm over the touch pad and "what the hell just happened". Palm brushes don't register on OS X That's why I wanted
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by davidlumley 14y ago
> The touchscreen solves my long standing problem with using laptops - I find touchpads nearly unusable. Have you used a macbook running OS X before? I find the touchpad handling much better in OS X than I do in Windows so would be inte
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by davidlumley 14y ago
It's been a while since Microsoft have changed the interface for finding and running applications (I think the last major change would have been from Windows 3.1 to Windows 95 and the introduction of the start menu), but I'd be surprised if
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by davidlumley 14y ago
You're right that there should be some sort of affordance to access programs. What I meant was that the problem isn't that there's no `start` menu - it's that there's no consistent, intuitive, and quick way to access any program (along with
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by davidlumley 14y ago
Am I the only person who thinks the lack of a start button and a 'traditional desktop' are non issues? The lack of a start button/desktop is not a usability issue in and of itself - it's everything else that makes it such a nightmare.
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by davidlumley 14y ago
Is there a specific reason why pricing is not as transparent as pricing in the US and other regions?
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by davidlumley 14y ago
For me, having learnt to program in multiple different languages means I've learnt that being a programmer is more than syntax and given I've programmed from C++ to Ruby to Node.js that I've usually got (some) insight into the best language
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by davidlumley 14y ago
I think you completely misunderstand the audience for Rachet. It's a HTML/JS/CSS prototyping tool, so if you're building a web application for iPhone it makes it so much easier to get a basic prototype together and start hallway testing. In
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by davidlumley 14y ago
More shipment based speculation with little regard to actual sales. For me, the biggest difference between Mac vs PC, and iOS vs Android is that Mac and PC are mostly comparable. iOS and some Android phone/tablets are comparable but a large
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by davidlumley 14y ago
Ironically, if you posted the same question on stackoverflow you'd probably be directed (or have it moved) to programmers.stackexchange. Frustratingly, I can't find anything in the FAQ which would indicate why the thread (and countless othe
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by davidlumley 14y ago
While I'm not confident that being this tightly coupled to MongoDB is a great (or even a good) idea, I'm really glad to see Meteor get closer to 1.0 especially seeing as it's not another Rails clone. The other concern I have is how testable
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by davidlumley 14y ago
Sidenote: Node.js isn't a framework, it's a platform.
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by davidlumley 14y ago
I think there's a difference between languages designed to compile down to JS (e.g. CoffeeScript) and wanting to convert a completely different language (e.g. Ruby or C#) into JS. JavaScript has a lot of good and bad parts, and given we don
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by davidlumley 14y ago
> Thats not really how Pow[1] works. I think you will find that is _exactly_ how Pow works. Because you're just creating a symlink (ln -s source_name link_name) you can name it whatever you want. (i.e. ln -s ~/sites/my_full_url.com.au ~
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by davidlumley 14y ago
Total sales are up by 51%, stock price has risen by 70% (from article), yet the article goes on to say Apple is vulnerable and would have never released anything as incomplete as Maps under Jobs' leadership (Siri?). Constant improvement of
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by davidlumley 14y ago
This. I wish there had been more context in the original article.
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by davidlumley 14y ago
I can't help but feel this is an attempt to calm people from switching to mapbox ( http://mapbox.com/ ) and OSM. The price is now on par but unless they improve their JavaScript API I can't find a compelling reason to go back to Google Maps
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by davidlumley 14y ago
It's older than that - http://techcrunch.com/2007/07/10/ring-the-alarm-clock-you-we...
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by davidlumley 14y ago
The most confusing thing for me, is that this _isn't_ Stack Overflow - it's Programmers. While SO is meant to have objectively correct answers, and that's why they are so quick to close threads, Programmers is meant to be more open and allo
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by davidlumley 14y ago
I thought Braintree was also looking at launching in Australia during Q3? Was hoping to find that in this release as well, as the only real alternative (pin.net.au) is still in private beta.
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by davidlumley 14y ago
screenshot of issues I'm seeing on Chrome: http://i.imgur.com/YqRLQ.png
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by davidlumley 14y ago
This. It's less about scaling a framework, than it is about scaling your particular application. If you find that MySQL is a bottleneck in particular, Ruby (and by extension Rails) has a wide range of database adapters and database ORM's av
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by davidlumley 14y ago
Do they though? As a frequent reader of his blog, and related blogs I have always thought they read as someone who values the time Apple spends designing their product, which is why when Google release a product that is similarly well desig
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by davidlumley 14y ago
When you mention cursor, I assume you mean caret? Similar to Textmate?
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by davidlumley 14y ago
I keep hearing people mention Facebook as a reason why PHP is a great development language but they compile it down to C++ using their HipHop compiler, and from what I understand they develop Facebook _in spite of_ PHP ( http://www.quora.c
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by davidlumley 14y ago
While I understand your position, I find it interesting that there is no group of people who are similarly angry and loudly boycotting Samsung phones and other products for consistently taking design cues from Apple. I personally don't buy
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by davidlumley 14y ago
Even then, I wouldn't be surprised to find the majority of people hopping on the wagon aren't consumers of Apple.

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