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by dotborg 14y ago
Moving stuff into CSS seems to be a good direction. i.e. you don't have to code shadows/animations/etc. in JS anymore.
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by dotborg 14y ago
as long as they don't enforce this to search results it does not exist, but when they do that, carwoo etc. will cease to exist.
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by dotborg 14y ago
Most of C++ production code I know, looks very similar to Java. memory managers, garbage collectors etc. are being used, most of language features are not used, so the code is simple, like Java, Powerful language full of features yet progra
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by dotborg 14y ago
author didn't mention users at all.. maybe because they won't see any difference? maybe except css filters, but we are yet to see webgl being used in production environment where mass audience is the target those things are really cool from
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by dotborg 14y ago
There are always millions of people, who are going to die from cancer anyway. I bet some of them are in good shape and would be interested.
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by dotborg 14y ago
Modern front-end developer is more like racing car driver, he is just driving the car aka using tools he is given by developers working on them.
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by dotborg 14y ago
WebGL is not supported in IE because of some important reasons, it's just not secure enough.. yet. Most succesful games are not using it anyways.
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Ask HN: Who is being paid for work on the night?
4 points by dotborg 14y ago|3 comments
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by dotborg 14y ago
you should start from giving some numbers i.e. you want it to work for 10mil documents, how ofter they will be updated etc. if it's less than 1mil and they are not updated frequently, you should go for postgres and have some fun with SQL, m
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by dotborg 14y ago
still there is "our backend", nevertheless it sounds very cool:)
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by dotborg 14y ago
University graduate might have much higher potential to learn(and get teached), while solo coder hero may not be able to learn anything other than he wants to. Graduates are used to being teached and that's what many employers expect from t
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by dotborg 14y ago
Your idea is great, but you will end up with average Joe using it for other cases thus MongoDB will be nontransactional database engine with SQL interface and sharding feature, which will be much slower and will have less features than any
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by dotborg 14y ago
"pure javascript" ?
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by dotborg 14y ago
Don't waste your childhood on programming. Get some other knowledge outside of computer science.
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by dotborg 14y ago
the idea of universe size increasing speed now comes to my mind, if the speed is greater or equal to speed of light, how we can be sure that we won't see ourselves in telescope? I mean, even if the radius is infinite, because speed is incre
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by dotborg 14y ago
*A few billion years after that, you'll be standing on a hill looking up on a clear night, and the sky will be close to pitch black* not that long ago we didn't know that we live on a sphere what if universe is a 4 dimensional spher
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by dotborg 14y ago
FYI: UE does not end on UK, Germany or France
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by dotborg 14y ago
API is cool and dandy, but I think project should go in other direction. Lucene focus should be REAL support for languages, lack of proper dictionaries, lame stemmers makes it hard to use. For me Lucene was always an NoSQL database and the
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by dotborg 14y ago
Ideas like crowdsourced distributed hosting now come to my mind :)
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by dotborg 14y ago
there are few more levels of knowledge and experience to achieve in order to improve overall quality of your work and that's the point of this article, you can ALWAYS achieve your target in a better way
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by dotborg 14y ago
Reminds me about Turbo Pascal, I love it!
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by dotborg 14y ago
Just like DDG this one didn't mention the real challenge of making a search engine: reaching other languages than english and other countries than america. Google is amazing about that.
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by dotborg 14y ago
Prostitues usually can choose and refuse, who they will have sex with. Maybe you were one of those, who do not have such choice?
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by dotborg 14y ago
like AdSense bans are anything new, yet another news about it on HN, coincidence or..?
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Ask HN: YC preparing some competition for Google AdSense?
2 points by dotborg 14y ago|0 comments
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by dotborg 14y ago
Laptop - is it considered as a mobile device?
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by dotborg 14y ago
You can become a web developer without pretty much any knowledge(how computer is built, how it all works etc.), so it's not a big suprise here that there are many badly designed and/or coded websites. Flash websites or one page JavaScript c
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by dotborg 14y ago
Current DirectX/OpenGL API and I would try to build a renderer in C++.
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by dotborg 14y ago
Spreading your personal data across many vendors is bad idea and average user is aware of this problem. How hard it is to remove data from centralized facebook? It will be a nightmare in case of decentralised networks.
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by dotborg 14y ago
aside of the "math", after reading this article I came to conclusion that there is some swindle going on about "global carbon dioxide budget", a global swindle.

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