desu

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by desu 17y ago
Well, I was interested enough to download and run the OSX version. Fails with some library issue, even tried off the disk image which the help says can be done. I'm sure it's great but not exactly a good first impression for this mac user!
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by desu 17y ago
Well, it's more like the pro is that there is no profit motive to keep her there. The staff would be delighted to get rid of her to a bigger facility elsewhere. I live a kilometre north of a large hospital in Sydney, Australia and we get he
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by desu 17y ago
I saw a presentation a while back which indicated there was a bit of erlang creeping into the mix behind the scenes, too.
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by desu 17y ago
Like, say, Facebook?
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by desu 17y ago
Thanks. I want to know the answer, but not so much that I'm willing to spend the several hours necessary to familiarise myself with a large foreign code base. I was hoping someone here could give a quick top-level explanation. From looking
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by desu 17y ago
It would get too large quickly. Check this out for a good explanation of why you want to keep cookie sizes as small as possible: http://yuiblog.com/blog/2007/03/01/performance-research-part...
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by desu 17y ago
Yeah, that's what you'd do as the user makes a vote. But how would you load the page in the first place? The front page is different for each user, as they've likely voted up and down numerous links on it. You could load a generic page an
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by desu 17y ago
Seems to mainly be about Reddit. Didn't seem to answer the #1 question I had in my mind - how do they cache votes for logged-in users? Do they, say, cache a generic front page and then apply the user's prior voting choice via JS? Or do they
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by desu 17y ago
... but if you want to do that, why not just have a website so everyone can look at it? You don't need to tie it to people who bought the album on iTunes. I understand your point about music moving into the background when you're at a compu
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by desu 17y ago
I see no point to this at all, but seems some people like it. When I listen to music I'm appreciating the creative output of the artist; there's no need for it to be dolled up by animated web pages and visualisers and what not. In fact I fi
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by desu 17y ago
ClickAgents! I remember them! I still have an uncashed cheque from them from 1999 or something. Somehow my personal website managed to make USD$40 or something. It would have cost me $30 to cash in Australia so I just kept it as a momento o
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by desu 17y ago
They try their best to make you feel like a real asshole for walking away, though, especially if they took you for a test drive and everything. I think a lot of people just don't have the "jerk DNA" to do that. They prey on people's basic p
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by desu 17y ago
But people don't just buy houses, they buy lifestyles and locations in which they live. The actual physical house might be better but who cares? Your average NYC dweller probably wouldn't even live in Jackson if the rent was totally free. T
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by desu 17y ago
Oh, I didn't mean that. I just meant that "how much stuff you can buy" is perhaps not the only possible measurement of quality of life. And I've long thought PPP to be almost irrelevant in developed countries. Every single thing I buy I buy
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by desu 17y ago
Lausanne!? That's practically in France! edit: well it is!
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by desu 17y ago
I guess that depends on what you mean by "standard of living". I can give you a triple gold plated guarantee, though, that the Germans would not consider living in Jackson in your $129k house next to Wal-Mart a "high standard of living". So
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by desu 17y ago
Hm, the problem with PPP is that it's very unclear what it's measuring. Someone with a wal-mart nearby has a higher "PPP" than someone without it. Definitely Americans have access to a lot of cheap crap; it would not surprise me if an avera
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by desu 17y ago
Raw powerpoint: http://www.cs.indiana.edu/~jwmills/EAC.ppt
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by desu 17y ago
This article made me want to go and re-read this one: "Confessions of a Car Salesman" http://www.edmunds.com/advice/buying/articles/42962/article....
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by desu 17y ago
I'm not condoning this company's actions but since it is almost certainly a completely automated process, how does this differ from, say, gmail reading kids' conversations to display ads? Should gmail be restricted from doing such for minor
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by desu 17y ago
Exactly what I was thinking - I bet 95% of their customers never even hear about this and furthermore, the activity is probably in their 30-page EULA so the parents agreed to it. This kind of thing reminds me of that study which asserted th
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by desu 17y ago
I guess I just don't like integrated mega-software like "team studio". Give me some nice, loose tools that work together well. Git is all the collaboration tool I need. And, for what it's worth, the open source community will give you unlim
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by desu 17y ago
Seeing a few startups' websites fall over says precisely nothing. They could have been on $20 VPSs for all we know - a twenty dollar VPS being something that is possible with OSS. Or maybe not well tuned - since the vast majority of startup
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by desu 17y ago
And how does your reckoning change when the big day comes that you have to buy another server? And another? And then another 20? And you've locked yourself into the MS stack? That $2k/box starts adding up real quick.
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by desu 17y ago
Windows can also execute all the Java and Ruby stuff that you see in nix platforms.* Really? Hit any Ruby mailing list and every second post is a Windows user complaining that something doesn't work. Not just obscure things either - DataM
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by desu 17y ago
Not to mention the subtle insinuation that the open source "freeware" is just a toy and everyone knows you have to pay for the real stuff. I cannot imagine how Microsoft developers begin a project. "Today, I'm going to write this new web ap
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by desu 17y ago
Oh yeah, in his particular case sure. But I was speaking about the general case of journalists whose words might affect the market or who could otherwise stand to gain by influencing public opinion. That is much more common than Pogue, who
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by desu 17y ago
It's wonderful for redundancy as well. I recently migrated our DNS from two dedicated servers in the same data centre, to three $20/month VPSs all on different continents. I don't need power or bandwidth, what I need is super-redundancy. Th
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by desu 17y ago
You should publicise it more on the WP home page! I'm pretty technically able and yet it took me quite a while to even realise I could do that.
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by desu 17y ago
This goes way beyond Pogue. There are plenty of journalists of all stripes whose writings I would suspect a lot less if I knew, say, their entire stock portfolio. Having David place all ( all! ) his personal investments into a blind trust s

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