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by irrelative 19y ago
Call me skeptical, but the author seems to do a pretty good job describing the features with existing features in Unix.
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by irrelative 19y ago
That's the goal -- glad you got it :-) We hope to add several additional absurd coding solutions in the future -- already have a couple in the works.
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Take the shame out of html table layouts(codeirony.com)
2 points by irrelative 19y ago|0 comments
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by irrelative 19y ago
Lyrics really break my concentration too. I like electronica for that reason -- it doesn't have vocals and it's got a nice motivating beat. Try Aphex Twin for some really good stuff.
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by irrelative 19y ago
I certainly wouldn't blame this on anyone but twitter. Twitter has probably the highest popularity/uptime ratio in the web 2.0 industry. The site is routinely down during regular hours -- it was just a matter of time until they went down d
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by irrelative 19y ago
i'll take the bait :-) why not just public domain it?
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by irrelative 19y ago
That's a great point. I bet there are 100 people in the "get sort of rich, slowly" category for every 1 internet millionaire.
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by irrelative 19y ago
i think they might even use it for the inbox with the update to "version 2." i've noticed emails appear almost immediately in gmail lately.
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by irrelative 19y ago
Having worked there, I can confirm that 12345 is a valid zip code -- it's technically the zip code for the GE plant in Schenectady. It was at one point, large enough to warrant its own zip code...
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by irrelative 19y ago
Man, I really hate pop science. What will those crazy scientists do next!
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by irrelative 19y ago
Wow, I thought it was just me! Bonus points: linux, osx and windows versions. *err, looks like the linux version isn't out yet. still, the 8.6 version is quite good.
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by irrelative 19y ago
They forgot the all important: "Getting it to work in IE"
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by irrelative 19y ago
In my experience, Ubuntu server has been very similar to my Debian server work (I love apt package management). I'm currently using Dapper on the server since it's going to be maintained for a very long time. Ubuntu has a more predictable
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by irrelative 19y ago
Actually? I sort of think that facebook's impressiveness is in its ability to scale the features so nicely. I don't think there are any features on facebook that couldn't be made by your average ycombinator news reader (they might be slo
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by irrelative 19y ago
Because it is probably the easiest site to test out that I've encountered. I've never demoed a site and had it be so easy to get up and running. It should be a model in user interface. The reason it's interesting here is that it was partia
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by irrelative 19y ago
Agreed. Anytime someone starts talking about toxins to explain complex processes it starts to smell like pseudoscience. It's like a microbiologist using the word "germs"
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by irrelative 19y ago
I don't think it's stupid -- I think it's the basis of every subway system in the world. There are, however, lots of issues that would make this a very difficult project. First thing, and I think the largest issue, is that it's an "all or
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by irrelative 19y ago
I'd say make trailers optional too. I personally don't care for them -- I generally only see movies that I've read about online or heard about from friends. A lot of people do like trailers though -- maybe set the start time of the movie t
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How far can you go after the gas light has come on in your car?(tankonempty.com)
3 points by irrelative 19y ago|7 comments
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by irrelative 19y ago
This essay seems to resonate with another Paul Graham theme -- to avoid prestige while choosing a job. His point then is that you are never compensated for prestige, so you might as well stay away from it. It looks to me like the education
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The Shrinking Python Web Framework World(blog.ianbicking.org)
15 points by irrelative 19y ago|0 comments
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by irrelative 19y ago
I was with the author on that until that line. This group, better than any other I've found on the internet, surely understands how little the actual idea of facebook is worth. Why didn't Zuckerberg's friends make the site themselves? M
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by irrelative 19y ago
Good -- now you just need to keep it from growing once it reaches a certain optimal zone :-)
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by irrelative 19y ago
reddit and digg, et al have often been called democratizing sites -- it seems like the tragedy of democracy in general also applies to these sites. Initially, the smartest people understand how different and better the system is than what's
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by irrelative 19y ago
I second that. Once you've launched, your product is usually fairly stable (in terms of domain, big features, etc) and the tests are worth it for confidence in smaller changes/maintenance. Before then, your code base changes so often that
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by irrelative 19y ago
I'm currently working on a largish project using webpy (well, large for one person). In terms of getting started an barriers to entry, it's very easy to use and getting results is a breeze. That being said, the documentation is a very la