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by irahul 15y ago
> Of all the points you raise, this is probably the least relevant in business terms. He wasn't listing business reasons per se - He was listing reasons why he isn't considering Heroku. And that's a very valid reason - work with people
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by irahul 15y ago
> Don't forget- the last time your computer performed a floating point op, you benefited from the existence of IEEE (IEEE 754) >The last time you used a network adapter, you benefited from the IEEE (IEEE 802.3 & 802.11), All IEE
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by irahul 15y ago
> It sounds like you're in a 'bugfix' position, You might work differently, but that's not bugfix mode. Everything is an issue in an issue tracker is a development model followed by many projects. I don't think OP is in bugfix mode. &#6
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by irahul 15y ago
I don't understand your comment about Perl 6. Where does Perl 6 come into picture while talking about Perl 5?
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by irahul 15y ago
> Pity you were so ugly > [1] Personal preference I am not looking for a fight :) Your wordings don't align with the disclaimer. That's like saying "you are an idiot, but hey, it's a personal perspective - I am not looking for a fig
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by irahul 15y ago
> Go back and read what is said until you thoroughly understand the message I read the article - thank you very much - and I am not enticed by snake oil. If that works for you, keep applying it. > The title says "a Million-Dollar Bu
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by irahul 15y ago
I don't know how much TDD matters here. I read 2 articles, and it looks like he doesn't really know how to write a sudoku solver. Unless he was going to invest some time in learning constraint propagation and backtracking , writing or no
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by irahul 15y ago
"Make a million dollar business in 2 days" doesn't make any sense at all, in any context - it's immaterial whether you are a businessman or an entrepreneur. I read the article, and there is some good, but generic and basic advice there. It
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by irahul 15y ago
PS is just a piece of the puzzle. In fact, if I were to automate things on Windows, I would pick perl/python/ruby(on linux, I use shell scripts only for jobs which are less than 50 lines). The major question is does the objects which are to
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by irahul 15y ago
It looks like he built an outlook extension. I don't know of any applications in the same cadre on Linux for which users pay. Oracle and RHEL itself are two examples where users pay for the software; I can't recall any other significant exa
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by irahul 15y ago
I have never used Windows servers, and I am curious how do you do things which are obvious on Linux on a windows server? 1. Can SQL server deployment be automated? I remember reading somewhere it is mostly GUI administration, though things
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by irahul 15y ago
> This is the problem with getting tech news only from HN. Most of us have worked one or more tech jobs, and HN isn't the source for the assumption that nobody uses Windows as servers. That nobody is far fetched - of course .net shops
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by irahul 15y ago
> Microsoft's server product(along with its related tools and products) is massively successful. The Internet darlings may not run Windows Server, but many, many companies do. Yes, and Linux as a server is massively successful. And the
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by irahul 15y ago
That link is an instance of people being marginalize for playing Magic. That's not him mentioned in the article - the guy mentioned in the article is a world champion, and works at/owns some sort of investment firm. He isn't a software cons
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by irahul 15y ago
> Isn't that the point of searching: find a specific thing in a whole bag of other things? Web search isn't as simple as you make out to be. It's not a 'select * from blah where field like %like%'. Searching is about finding relevant in
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by irahul 15y ago
> but the average person is going to be charmed by the gimmick of it > Again, normal people are unaware. Knowing about prepending a '+' to a query term doesn't make anyone 'exceptional', and not knowing about it doesn't make anyone
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by irahul 15y ago
> Why are they doing this? Because it serves a majority of users. When I search for "ubuntu sound garbled random", I need an answer to my query - I don't care about 'garbled', 'gibberish', 'distorted'. Or 'random' or 'after some time'.
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by irahul 15y ago
That's news to me. Language follows speakers, especially influential speakers, and the list of speakers using that for human antecedents includes Shakespeare and Mark Twain, so I guess it's all right now, even if it were an error at some
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by irahul 15y ago
Why? It's been a real bummer for me to find that out (the hard way). Knowing about the limit is hurting you, or you have really faced this constraint in a project? As mentioned elsewhere, node has buffers which are allocated outside of v8
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by irahul 15y ago
A minor re-formatting. > Welcome to Web 2.0, where people who think they're programmers try to interact with people who are programmers. The results are often ... depressing. I was confused by your initial framing of the sentence, t
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by irahul 15y ago
Most likely he did. Did you? If you did click and skim the page at 1000000000 words/sec, those `$` over there are for USD, and not part of templating system.
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The sense of entitlement is sickening.
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by irahul 15y ago
I am an avid vimmer, but I sometimes use Emacs. I have capslock mapped to ESC, and it works well in emacs. I am pretty comfortable with C-{some_key}. It's the M-C-{some_key} that are a pain. ESC-C-{some_key} is what I use and since I have m
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by irahul 15y ago
You always have the option to use classic gnome with Ubuntu. That's what I use. I am not particularly thrilled with the idea of taking a netbook interface and slapping it on regular users. I tried it, didn't like it,switched back to classic
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by irahul 15y ago
The text editing shortcuts are straight from readline http://cnswww.cns.cwru.edu/php/chet/readline/rltop.html emacs bindings, which bash and many other programs use. readline supports both vi and emacs bindings. I am a dyed in the wool vi
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by irahul 15y ago
A quick look at the article shows it's binding history search. It's already bind to ctrl-r - you can do a ctrl-r, type a few letters of the long commands, and keep doing a ctrl-r till you find the right match. Apart from additional bind you
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by irahul 15y ago
> Right, I'd be so thrilled to provide feedback because companies have the courtesy to do the same to the candidates they pass on. They don't, because anything they say is a lawsuit waiting to happen. > Fuck them and the horse they
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by irahul 15y ago
> I am truly, truly horrified that this a language option in perl, although I'm not surprised. How about this in C(and thousand others): #define if while I am pretty sure I can find something to horrify you in almost any language.
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by irahul 15y ago
Welcome to Ruby - Ruby has procs, blocks, lambdas, methods which are similar yet different. Blocks aren't objects - when they are converted to objects, they become procs. Procs are like blocks and lambdas are like methods, but you can't cal
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by irahul 15y ago
Yes. I added that to tests and README. Except that I have fib = +lambda {|n| return n if n <= 1; fib[n-1] + fib[n-1] } My fibonacci is 0, 1, 1, 2, 3.. and yours is 1, 1, 2, 3... but doesn't make a difference as far as example g

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