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by fendale 17y ago
Anyone know what font the 'fontsquirrel' logo at the top of the page is in? I want it at the top of my apps page!
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by fendale 17y ago
I reckon I am about 1 month away from a 'Sandy' type replacement - hopefully by publicly saying this (even if only a few see it), I will actually pull my finger out and get it finished, instead of wasting time on HN! Hadn't thought of Twitt
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by fendale 17y ago
I think it blocks on write for 'the smallest possible time' (its does as much of the data change preparation as possible before locking the database). If you are just using it as a single user for generating excel style reports then this do
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by fendale 18y ago
Aquamacs (emacs port to Mac) pretty much does just that (allows you to type and get your syntax highlighting right out of the box).
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by fendale 18y ago
OK, good point. But isn't writing a text editor one of those garden path problems - a near never ending amount of work to get to just what exists already? I guess I also wonder what inspires developers to start new text editor projects too
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by fendale 18y ago
I don't get why people are building these fancy new editors - You can get both Emacs and Vim to behave Textmate like in many ways. They are both usable everywhere, including in a terminal. No matter which editor you want to use, you have t
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by fendale 18y ago
Just happened to us this week. Promise of 7-10% bonuses and now we are told we will get little or nothing, communicated by a faceless email. Needless to say all my good will has gone along with my motivation!
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by fendale 18y ago
Almost all major oracle operations can be done online ... Index rebuilds, table reorgs etc. Depends how much hardware you have how much it affects things ...
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by fendale 18y ago
> I'd be furious if I found out that a site I trusted lost all my data because they hadn't even tested their backup system Exactly - first rule of backups - test them. For a database, it can be as simple as using your nightly backup to
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by fendale 18y ago
well straight away I can think of younar youner yuner I guess it depends on how you say it and how people pick it up - ask 20 people you know to spell it for you after you say it just once to them and see what the results are like ...
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by fendale 18y ago
It sure is mired in complexity. I am an Oracle programmer by day and once you put it under load there are some pile of bugs that start to show up! That said, Oracle can do so e amazing work, if you have people on hand who can make it do it!
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by fendale 18y ago
I just have Aquamacs with all the default bindings. Then I installed ECB and all the rails goodies, of which I use very few actually! Flymake is the most useful as it highlights syntax errors without even compiling.
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by fendale 18y ago
Then you can still lose a days data. Why not switch and ship the mysql binary log every x minutes? Last backup plus all the logs gives you much better recoverability
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by fendale 18y ago
Yip, I am another one. The only think my xbox (not a 360) gets used for is watching DIVX's on!
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by fendale 18y ago
Quality - I didn't know about that!
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by fendale 18y ago
But what about all those in different time zones? Freezing the site for periods may make it tricky for people in some places to contribute at all.
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by fendale 18y ago
> Just remember, your app will not be the final app that makes use of the data. Your app comes and goes, along with many other apps written by many others. But the data lives "forever." Here here - that quote is so close to what Tom Kyt
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by fendale 18y ago
BT offer an SMS SDK that allows you to send and receive texts on from your app. Their pricing is not what I would describe as really competitive, but there is (or was the last time I checked) a trial account that allowed you to do some sma
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by fendale 18y ago
You are correct - that was a typo. I edited above to correct it. If I ever get my side project moving toward completion, I intend to look into this side of things in the new year.
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by fendale 18y ago
It doesn't sound ridiculous to me, but then I no little of the legalities behind it. I am in the UK, and as I understand it, its only costs a few £100 to setup a PLC (private limited company) - the main overhead is that you have to post you
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by fendale 18y ago
I have been thinking about this very problem myself recently. To add to this question, would it make sense to setup a limited liability company to release a side project under? If something really goes wrong, and some big company or rich i
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by fendale 18y ago
I don't think it's fair to put a hard disk failure down as a failed mac ... It's one of those things you think are supposed to fail someday!
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by fendale 18y ago
Open Emacs and type C-h t (ctrl and h together and then t) that will open the emacs built in tutorial. Start going through it, then download one of the many cheatsheets and print it out and stick it somewhere you can see it from your desk.
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by fendale 18y ago
I cannot give you a video, but the 4 part series of blog posts I wrote sometime ago explain how to get it up and running along with the Emacs Code Browser - I used it successfully in a terminal window via Putty to a Linux box and in Aquamac
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by fendale 18y ago
Many developers have no choice but to use windows thanks to corporate policy ... I am not saying that is a good thing, but its the way it is (at least where I work). I resorted to doing Rails dev using Emacs + Putty, which was easier than
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by fendale 18y ago
I think a few of the recent ones were getting posted online elsewhere, so he just started putting them on his own site - cannot remember where I read or heard that though!
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by fendale 18y ago
I like that tip about talking to the user in the language as the APP expects - hadn't though of that myself.
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by fendale 18y ago
p.s. One possible future thing could be to make extensions for things like Thunderbird that actually gives a "Todo", "Remind" and "Follow-up" buttons alongside the "Reply" and "Forward" buttons ;-) That would be very much in the future! I
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by fendale 18y ago
I have seen a few places that do these things, but how is the question. Care to elaborate on how you go about it? What tools/libraries you use etc and how successful it has been?
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by fendale 18y ago
Actually I started this before I heard about iwantsandy.com, which I only heard about last week when it was shutting down. At that point I simultaneously thought 'damit, there is a tool to do what I wanted and here is me wasting time writi

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