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by helium 17y ago
There is a great description of a true first-class continuation on Wikipedia: Say you're in the kitchen in front of the refrigerator, thinking about a sandwich. You take a continuation right there and stick it in your pocket. Then you get
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Instant Mockup for Eclipse SWT Applications using Balsamiq (in.relation.to)
1 points by helium 17y ago|0 comments
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Rails Development No-Nos(chadfowler.com)
9 points by helium 17y ago|15 comments
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by helium 17y ago
The point of the article is that you can use more powerful, but less used languages when developing web based apps. That hasn't always been feasible when writing software targeting the desktop. Which of course is true, but could have impl
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by helium 17y ago
Well sometimes it's a case of gluing together the right components and quickly getting it out there. Not everyone has to be the next Google.
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by helium 17y ago
Sure. On some projects your advantage is on a technical level. But on others it's time to market. Or an unique idea that's never been tried before. In these cases it's to your advantage to use the mainstream tools because there are so many
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by helium 17y ago
Startups often don't have the time or resources available to them to re-write everything. Many open source libraries have been developed by dozens of very smart people over many years, do you really think your solution will be better?
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by helium 17y ago
Counterpoint: Use any language you want, as long as you keep in mind that you might have to re-write libraries that are available to you in more mainstream languages or use inferior or incomplete alternatives. On many projects this isn't as
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by helium 17y ago
Yup. These underhanded tactics makes them seem less like the 'victims' of the music companies. This can diminish their cause quite a bit in the eyes of the public, not just for themselves but for anyone else that might face a similar lawsui
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by helium 17y ago
I have written a screen scraper for the page in ruby. Mail me if you want it. You might be able to generate a feed from that.
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by helium 17y ago
Same here - Temporary Error (500)
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by helium 17y ago
It's easier to organize thoughts clearly when writing. Once you have said something it's already been broadcast. You don't have a chance to go back and revise, restructure or edit the message in any way.
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Running an Ioke web application on Google App Engine(blog.hendrikvolkmer.de)
1 points by helium 17y ago|0 comments
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by helium 18y ago
I created a poll for this for those who are worried about privacy: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=509693
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by helium 18y ago
I'm high right now
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Poll: How many of you (coders) use marijuana?
7 points by helium 18y ago|0 comments
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by helium 18y ago
I never use marijuana
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by helium 18y ago
I only use marijuana socially
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by helium 18y ago
I only use marijuana whilst working
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by helium 18y ago
I use marijuana socially and whilst working
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The way to make a program faster is to never let it get slower.(webkit.org)
33 points by helium 18y ago|18 comments
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by helium 18y ago
I have played with heroku in the past(what is now herokugarden.com) and I have to say I have been keeping an eye on this. It seems they have abandoned the whole web-editor idea and focused solely on the ruby\rails hosting-in-the-cloud aspec
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by helium 18y ago
Well it's on the front page
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by helium 18y ago
In that case couldn't this help with the adoption of Arc?
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Ask y combinator: Why not release the Hacker News source as open source?
6 points by helium 18y ago|7 comments
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by helium 18y ago
I would still rather pay for an audiobook read by a person if I really wanted it. A human voice can still convey a lot more emotion than any current technology.
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by helium 18y ago
Wow, I just realised how much I rely on gmail.
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by helium 18y ago
Reading the comments has made me think about this some more. The most frequently used categories should be the real easy to find, more obscure/rarely used might need filtering or searching and should actually be difficult to find, thus disc
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by helium 18y ago
The items represent dynamically defined category hyperlinks. These will all be all be top-level categories that are not nested. They will be enforced to be short single words. They might be loosely related to each other, although I'm not su
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Ask HN: Alternative to the tag cloud?
16 points by helium 18y ago|11 comments

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