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   by inklesspen 20y ago

   Well, as I said, my company's app needs it. And if you follow the link to DHH's site, you see many people in the comments talking about their apps that need offline support; companies working with Australian ag businesses, for example. Anot
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   by inklesspen 20y ago

   I disagree. See http://spyced.blogspot.com/2006/07/single-column-primary-keys-should-be.html Particularly the three-part series. Multiple-columns can be hard to deal with. But duplicate rows because you're using an autoincrement integer a
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   by inklesspen 20y ago

   Oh, yay, DHH. The same guy who insists that you never need a multiple-column primary key. I currently work for a company (yeah, yeah; the startup is gonna be next year, once I graduate) that produces software for health care agencies. We're
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   by inklesspen 20y ago

   Well, Paul might deserve a bit of the blame. He's written a code snippet or two of "Lisp in Python" -- unpythonic code that mimics the way Lisp does it, because he likes Lisp. See: http://www.prescod.net/python/IsPythonLisp.html
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   by inklesspen 20y ago

   "Each instance predictably provides the equivalent of a system with a 1.7Ghz x86 processor, 1.75GB of RAM, 160GB of local disk, and 250Mb/s of network bandwidth." I'm not seeing where you can't host that DB on EC2. It might not be the optim
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   by inklesspen 20y ago

   Lisp, obviously. (Happy April 1st!)
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   by inklesspen 20y ago

   You can't run a database? What's the point of this, then: http://developer.amazonwebservices.com/connect/entry!default.jspa?categoryID=101&externalID=519&fromSearchPage=true
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   by inklesspen 20y ago

   I guess this depends on what you mean by "most advanced". TeXmacs combines the easy learning curve of Emacs with the familiar word processing paradigm of TeX to form a program usable by 1/10000 of the market. Sure, it's advanced. So's the f
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   by inklesspen 20y ago

   My perception is that the extra coding done to implement things like patterns to get around the fact that Java is so limited a language will cut down on the performance gains. But I don't have any statistics to back that up. BTW, Python is
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    by inklesspen 20y ago

    Yeah, Python is great. But it doesn't give you the live preview in browser, does it? :D
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    by inklesspen 20y ago

    I am a little surprised they get this much performance out of Java. But I guess if you know it like the back of your hand, you can make it fly.
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    Software Development as a Collaborative Game(codinghorror.com)

    5 points by inklesspen 20y ago|1 comments
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    by inklesspen 20y ago

    AJAX-based upvoting: I click on the up arrow for a comment, and the page totally refreshes, and I'm at the top of the page. Then I have to scroll back down and find where I left off. Annoying. Link to the news.ycom page in the RSS feed, rat
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    by inklesspen 20y ago

    Someone's already mentioned Y Combinator. But YC isn't the only place you could go for funding. There are angel investors and VC groups all over the map. What you have to do is put together something that convinces these people that not inv
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    by inklesspen 20y ago

    Isn't Google building the Gmail of PowerPoint? I've heard rumblings of "Google Present" for some time now. Let's hope these guys don't go the way of Kiko; they sound like they have some pretty good ideas.
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    by inklesspen 20y ago

    Ycom-dotted? Anyone have a mirror?
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    by inklesspen 20y ago

    Oh man. Knuth. This is only the second webcomic I've ever seen that even mentioned Knuth. (The first was http://www.xkcd.com/c163.html). Clearly more geeks need to write comics.