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by glassx 15y ago
Exactly! It's not about being "the lab's IT guy", writing content management systems for a pharmaceutical company, or parsing medical records. This is just another boring programming job. Some real life examples. I know a social science uni
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by glassx 15y ago
I don't have much experience beyond the basic with Sequel (DataMapper is my drug of choice), but a simple test here shows that require 'sequel' makes my IRB memory consumption jump from 15.2 to 18.6 megabytes, while require 'dm-core' makes
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by glassx 15y ago
This fictional talk reminds me of Joey Spolsky's article on "architecture astronauts", people trying to solve a non-existant problem for pure geek pleasure. http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/fog0000000018.html I admit it must be one
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by glassx 15y ago
"I expect these restrictions will be coming to Macs over the next few years." Considering the influx of open-source hackers and ex-windows users that migrated to Mac after the switch to Intel, this is just... nuts. Or maybe just FUD.
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by glassx 15y ago
Your reply makes a lot of sense, considering we had a major Amazon outage just a few months ago. Redundancy is the way to go.
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by glassx 15y ago
Did you even read the article? He was quite obvious and unbiased (except - DUH - on the part where he said "I’m biased"), by acknowledging that both strategies have pros/cons. Jesus (to quote you), people like you are worse than fanboys.
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by glassx 15y ago
Agreed. I think they're both fighting at both fronts, when you consider how Android embraced the app model and even expanded it (widgets etc), and how Apple was the most vocal of the HTML5 advocates...
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by glassx 15y ago
Distributed software will work perfectly, provided it works under perfect conditions :) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fallacies_of_Distributed_Comput...
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by glassx 15y ago
Somebody please correct me if I'm wrong, as I'm still reading the readme and the code, but I think Elixir is closer to Erlang (the language) intents, being immutable and 'more functional'. Reia has some object-orientation built in, with sta
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by glassx 15y ago
I asked myself the same, lol, OSX is lagging behind when it comes to accepting HTML/CSS/JS as a first class app environment... Except for Dashboard Widgets, of course.
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by glassx 15y ago
Curiously, mostly fan-subbers are very ethical about that. Those subbers only translate and distribute stuff that isn't licensed outside of Japan, so the "would not buy it" is, in fact, "can't buy it because it's not for sale and even if it