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by eob 16y ago
This is the technology I've been waiting for ever since I first saw a laptop. I don't care if it is monochrome, or washed out in color, this is huge news!
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by eob 16y ago
Whenever I read stories like this, I always look in awe at the white-beards in my building who were around back in the days when computers were machines instead of abstractions. The Story of Mel -- A Real Programmer comes to mind: http://w
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by eob 16y ago
How does deployment usually work with these types of frameworks? Developing in HTML+JavaScript is great from a cross-platform point of view, but I imagine many developers still want to deploy via App Stores because it enables them to have a
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by eob 16y ago
> He then got out a blank form and handed it to me, saying ``Here, fill it out again and don't mention that. If you do, I'll make sure that you never get a security clearance.'' That sentence perfectly sums up my experience with the sec
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by eob 16y ago
Didn't come off that way to me. Care to explain?
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by eob 16y ago
At that point, I suppose it is just a matter of taste: should the routes be specified inside each controller class, or should they be specified in a separate configuration file. The over-engineer in me likes the way Rails 3 does it. That wa
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by eob 16y ago
If the HTML5 working draft just specified SQL92, would you jump on board? It seems like your main complain isn't relational databases, but rather the fact that the HTML spec, as stands, essentially specifies "whatever SQLite implemented" as
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by eob 16y ago
Why can't we just have SQL92 on the client side along with some nice API that accepts keyed JSON objects and performs the standard CRUD operations with them. I get that people want simple Key-Value and Object storage APIs because they provi
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by eob 16y ago
That's an interesting observation. Before going back to school, I worked at a place where Eclipse was the gospel. And Eclipse is a wonderful tool when you're a Java coder, but I often found myself doing exactly the same thing (except with T
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by eob 16y ago
Thanks a lot for sharing Vitaly. I think one of the hardest things about moving to the emacs/vim world is the fact that, in addition to learning the editor, you also have to find a good .emacs/.vim file to start yourself out with.
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by eob 16y ago
Thanks for the links. I don't mean to start a holy war, though they are fun :) I'm looking more for a reasoned discussion of the pros and cons of different editing environments.
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Ask HN: What code editor do you use?
43 points by eob 16y ago|138 comments
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by eob 16y ago
How does Facebook claim to make money if they also claim the above points?
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by eob 16y ago
This is exactly the sentiment I think we need to get rid of. I have it too. Why? Because it is depressing to think of ourselves as a product; we'd rather just dismiss that idea as "being of a culture we do not choose to belong to". But the
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by eob 16y ago
I think the answer to this lies in regulation, but I think we also need to start treating the thriving market for our personal data differently. Privacy and regulation is super important. But I think we, as "products" also need to become ac
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by eob 16y ago
I agree. Of course, we also benefit from everyone playing along (Google Maps on the iPhone, for example). But I think we need to have more all-out competition between the big companies in the mobile market. When everyone plays it too-nice,
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by eob 16y ago
As far as I know, yes, it is by design. MIT's philosophy toward just about everything is famously open. - You can walk around in just about all of the buildings during the day, and many even at night without a special access card. - A CS pr
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by eob 16y ago
Next thing we know, the Tea Party is going to start protesting APIs taking our jobs. EDIT: In seriousness, though, this is a good thing for ML PhDs like you (and eventually me in a couple more years). Building the progress that's already
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Facebook's Product is You(edwardbenson.com)
2 points by eob 16y ago|0 comments
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by eob 16y ago
I wonder if there will come a day when financial investors can not do without this type of tool. Ever since Google became big, I've always assumed that they must have the ability to beat the market ever day because they have access to queri
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by eob 16y ago
Hah! Tell that to the sweat stains on the back of my shirt! :)
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by eob 16y ago
Interesting language tidbit related to the warm/boiled water custom: a common term for drinking water in Taiwan is 開水 (kaishui3), which literally means "boiled water". The first few times people asked me if I wanted "kaishui" I got confused
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by eob 16y ago
First our water, then our coffee? All of Kendall Sq will shut down! :/
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by eob 16y ago
Who uses Zephyr? Professors and staff who've been there a long time? I'm a grad student in CSAIL and have never once seen it in use.
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by eob 17y ago
4 minutes per page? As someone who has written two books, I call BS.
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by eob 17y ago
I agree. People always seem to bash Safari in discussion boards, and I always read these comments a bit confused. I've used Safari full-time for the past 2.5 years, and I've never once had a problem. I downloaded Chrome and didn't notice an
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by eob 17y ago
You could always email the author. Often times academic code is slow to be released because the types of things that tend to be thought of as required for software release (documentation, install help, bug fixes, coherent code organization)
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by eob 17y ago
This is exactly the app that I first though of when the iPad was announced. Nice job for putting this together. Here's what I would love to see in a version 2: - Allow people to upload their own boards & pieces to some site. Or better y
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by eob 17y ago
Given your comment, what a smile it brought to my face when I read your HN profile and learned you created a URL shortening service of sorts :) Apologies if I breached HN Etiquette. I'll post full URLs in the future.
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by eob 17y ago
The HTML5 Spec actually has a nice explanation of how to do the manifest. You can find it here: http://bit.ly/aLbKP0 I wrote a blog post a while back that talks about how browsers handle the manifest files. Forgive the shameless self-prom

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