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by gord 15y ago
I left it unsaid that I assumed SQLLite was normally used in places other than the traditional back end server data store - I tend to use postgreSQL / mysql or perhaps a noSQL variant such as couchDB/Mongo for server-side data. So I meant t
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by gord 15y ago
For me JSON has replaced SQLLite, with a large reduction in code and complexity. [ Admittedly I've written my own routines to access it more simply/directly on iOS ]
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by gord 15y ago
they're called brackets
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by gord 15y ago
All of it, the general approach is wrong - so the nonsense is the part where you believe your current set of abstractions about distributed networks are adequate. Also the part where you reapply those same abstractions to fix the hole, with
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by gord 15y ago
This article reads like nonsense - but this is not a criticism of AWS. The real problem is there is no good mathematical model of distributed behaviour, from which statistical guarantees can be made. I think we're at the limit of what the s
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by gord 15y ago
helpful, thanks.
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by gord 15y ago
You sound very self motivated, so I dont think you really need much advice. If you're already looking into Javascript, I would recommend jQuery for practical reasons, and Node.js for more subversive reasons. Have a look at source of some c
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by gord 15y ago
I suspect there are similarities to : Why aren't the smartest people the richest, why dont they get laid the most? The lisp language 'microkernel' is clearly a fundamentally important construct - the essential core of all computer language.
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by gord 16y ago
I think github is where the action is - HN these days seems more about navel gazing, posturing, karma chasing and down-vote wank-fests... and the result is uniformity. In contrast, the people who want to get-shit-done are changing the world
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by gord 16y ago
I [obviously] disagree.. while HTML DOM may be a mess, I think SVG + Javascript is a really nice way to do UI. The pain is almost all in the area of browser compatibility. I kind of agree with your point, in that I think there is a layer mi
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by gord 16y ago
thx, I do trust LWN to give us the gist.
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by gord 16y ago
Can anyone point me to a good architecture/dev overview of Gnome Shell and Unity ? I find it hard to sift out the marketing from the tech in what Ive seen.
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by gord 16y ago
These problems might take forever to solve [as the organisations are large]... In the meantime, I wouldn't be surprised if someone came up with a better technology model as a replacement. Id like to see a desktop development model more like
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by gord 16y ago
I remember writing a bit of assembler in A86 shareware on an 8086 machine with 640k RAM, 20Gb disk. One day I discovered it had a Hercules graphics card. Another day I found a book on TSR programs. Later came turbo C & turbo pascal, w
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by gord 16y ago
>absolutely no fucking attempt to worm its way into my social graph Quote of the year.
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by gord 16y ago
wheres pg ?
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by gord 16y ago
Dereks post are invariably excellent.. Im sure Im not the only person expecting him to publish a physical book with all these articles in one place. Title?
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by gord 16y ago
Agreed, has the visual readability of a Captcha
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by gord 16y ago
Whats the HTML5 rich web app development experience like for Android? ie. do webkit style animated transitions work? smoothly? [ Found a partial answer to my own question, here : http://blazingcloud.net/2010/08/11/jqtouch-slide-transition-
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by gord 16y ago
In absence of a better term for this, 'Sexual Assault' does convey the emotional experience of being abused in this way. Yes, it is clearly not about sexuality, but it is a situation where there is a massive imbalance of power. Who is th
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by gord 16y ago
reference implementation ?
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by gord 16y ago
It seems the 'introduce friends' feature should be an open standard - in the same way hopefully OAuth2 will solve reciprocal login credential validation.
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by gord 16y ago
Excellent, helpful, understandable - thankyou.
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by gord 16y ago
ouch.. Overlaps exactly with Googles Android promo event - http://groups.google.com/group/android-australia
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by gord 16y ago
The video takes too long to get to the point. A better approach might be to sell the performance upfront very quickly, by having a video [ autoplay ? ] of a real user entering real text ie. 8pen on iPhone actual footage. Only then is it o
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by gord 16y ago
Conrad, absolutely loved your video. My 6yo will pore over your comic and Ill no doubt see land-of-lisp refs crop up in his battle scenes. This all got me thinking about developing interactive stories and the ideal lisp game development en
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by gord 16y ago
I mostly agree. I think we need to accept some false positives [such as foul language] in order to preserve a reasonable level of freedom of speech on HN. Here I mean freedom of speech in the weak form, ie. that you stop posting something y
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by gord 16y ago
Quote : "Unity brings together a powerful set of technologies designed to empower application developers and deliver a unique user experience" From the above hype I mistakenly assumed Unity was something other than a nice Window Manager. P
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by gord 16y ago
Is this a new C api [competing with KDE / QT and GTK] ? Why not use Javascript/SVG/HTML5 for Linux desktop UI ? It will happen eventually, anyway, Im not the only person saying this. The browser stack is a better alternative to X-Windows pr
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by gord 16y ago
I genuinely meant this. Better wording might be "I think his work is worthy of a Nobel Peace Prize", to avoid the impression of sarcasm ?

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