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by elithrar 16y ago
I'm interested to know this as well. With the success of Heroku for Rails deployment, there's definitely room for a parallel player in the Django market — and probably the opportunity to make a lot of money, too.
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by elithrar 16y ago
> I would not be a Rubyist if it wasn't for Rails. Well, maybe I would have eventually gotten around to learning it. But I learned Rails before I learned Ruby... You're not the only one in that boat. Ruby is a great language in its own
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by elithrar 16y ago
That they kept the optical drives wasn't a surprise. For most of us (power-users) — who download software and/or use disk images — it's not a necessity, but a lot of regular Joe's still burn CD's/DVD's. I've had a lot of people look at a Ma
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by elithrar 16y ago
> I'd be interested to know what the "core developers" disliked about Git too. I seem to recall part of the attraction of Mercurial was that it's written in Python.
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by elithrar 16y ago
I'd also argue that consumers are savvy enough to predict a new iPhone coming out later this year — after all, it has been on a yearly cycle since its launch. They may be holding out for a new release rather than committing to a contract/se
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by elithrar 16y ago
Python certainly has lambdas[1], and they're very 'typical' lambdas at that. [1]: http://www.secnetix.de/olli/Python/lambda_functions.hawk
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by elithrar 16y ago
I think a couple of things are obvious, from knowing some Nokia employees: a) These 9 are young, and likely Finns — who are generally proud people and who are guarded against outsiders (like Elop) b) They are software developers. Most of th
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by elithrar 16y ago
> So Nokia becomes Microsoft's RIM. This would have been a good point – and certainly so if this had happened even just a couple of years ago. But it didn't, and business has begun to adopt the iPhone and even Android devices because of
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by elithrar 16y ago
For a site like Quora though, I believe that things should be obvious enough that instructions aren't needed. They're not there yet, but that's what they should be aiming for.
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by elithrar 16y ago
I pay Slicehost USD$20/m for a 256MB VPS + DNS hosting, and I've never had unexpected downtime. Yes, this means I'm doing the sys-admin work myself - but for hosting my own site & static media, it's pretty straightforward. The best part
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by elithrar 16y ago
Sometimes it's worth either paying someone for the convenience (ie. paying a decent provider) or doing it yourself. 55% uptime is horrible, but I'd suggest that instead of complaining you either shell out some more & move away (Drupal d
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by elithrar 16y ago
That's a lot of bands. MySpace is still popular with musicians because it's easily templatable, it allows them to easily showcase their work (songs), detail upcoming shows and their fan-bases are typically familiar with it already. Yes, MyS
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by elithrar 16y ago
Thankyou for introducing me to longform.org & longreads.com - both are excellent!
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by elithrar 16y ago
Jorge the robot? If someone is anticipating a bot, I don't think greeting them with a name is going to dissuade them from asking.
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by elithrar 16y ago
The major downtime sucked, and the minor hiccups still continue to suck. But I think we also need to realise it's free. It doesn't excuse the lack of communication, but lofty expectations of uptime for a service that's offered freely seem a
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by elithrar 16y ago
Exactly. Many people freak out when Jobs is away, but Cook + team (ie. Forstall, Mansfield, Johnson) proved themselves last time Jobs was away for an extended period of time. I'd always be interested to know who would run the company if Job
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by elithrar 16y ago
I hear you. I used to receive > 100 emails a day — some automated, but most thanks to Cc and mailing lists. I'd either read them in batches, or file them for 'later'. As long as that 'later' list was under ~10, I was in control. For my
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by elithrar 16y ago
It seems he hasn't read Jason Santa Maria's article on presentations: http://jasonsantamaria.com/articles/make-yourself-presentabl...
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by elithrar 16y ago
Same here — I have the 1.6/4GB/128SSD version of the 11", and it's been fantastic since day one. I use it for Rails development, general web stuff & some light Lightroom work (when pressed), and as a second machine to a MBP that lives a
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by elithrar 16y ago
For me? · Rails 3 became everything I wanted Rails to be — I've come from Django and am really loving the ecosystem and the way the documentation has matured. · Varnish — just an awesome piece of software. Fantastic job of caching, from sma