j2d2

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   by j2d2 18y ago

   Thanks. The firewall at my current employer blocks scribd.
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   by j2d2 18y ago

   goodreads.com is doing something similar. it's worth checking them out.
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   by j2d2 18y ago

   Even this scheme is quite clever from a self-marketing pov. He's got people with popular blogs giving his book away, which will get his name around. I wonder what the incentive is for bloggers to mention his book. The url tracks the src aft
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   by j2d2 18y ago

   I thought this also wasn't hard by using horizontal partitioning..? Which, I think, would have to map back into the application too.
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   by j2d2 18y ago

   Are the twitter guys explaining their solutions to problems anywhere? I recall DHH saying scale is not an RoR issue, but twitter appears to have scaling issues on RoR.
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   by j2d2 18y ago

   I also can't help but feel like developing for the iphone is like developing for a soon-to-be-obsolete technology. I don't know when we should expect to see android phones, but I'm drawn to the openness of it and see an opportunity to becom
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   by j2d2 18y ago

   I'm fairly sure the twisted framework for python was also developed here... If not created, then it certainly has major players at ITA.
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   by j2d2 18y ago

   I can speak about development practices in the financial community if you're interested. We generally use java and perl for everything. Very little of it is web-based but it might be good insight into an environment where the main priority
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   by j2d2 18y ago

   It's certainly useful to know how things got to where they are, but it's not always necessary. Even in history circles people debate how important history is if the lessons can be handed down via knowledge of good-practices. If you want to
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    Ask YC: blaming the browser or supporting an argument

    1 points by j2d2 18y ago|0 comments
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    by j2d2 18y ago

    Seriously... The Great Depression doesn't seem all that bad compared to what history says if this is worse...
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    by j2d2 18y ago

    Can you elaborate?
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    by j2d2 18y ago

    Don't apologize for your curiosities. This is the first of many times people will knock you down. Brush the dirt off and keep going if you don't see a lesson in what people tell you.
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    by j2d2 18y ago

    Interesting. Thanks for the correction.
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    by j2d2 18y ago

    This reminds me of the KDE vs. Gnome debate which led Linus to say this: http://mail.gnome.org/archives/usability/2005-December/msg00...
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    by j2d2 18y ago

    Eli was my programming languages professor. It's neat to see these two worlds collide.
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    by j2d2 18y ago

    Considering OSX was originally built from FreeBSD, I suspect it wouldn't be that difficult to merge some of their work into OSX.
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    by j2d2 18y ago

    I'm curious how Erlang would do for distributed versioning.
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    by j2d2 18y ago

    You can select with a mouse too. In my opinion, if you're using Emacs OR Vim you've already won. Apples and oranges, sure, but still fruit where notepad is kinda like a big mac.
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    by j2d2 18y ago

    You're responding to a vim/emacs comparison so I'll be the first to say you dont need to use the mouse in emacs just as you don't need it in vim. Hit ctrl-space to start a select. Move the cursor until your text is highlighted (you can skip
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    by j2d2 18y ago

    Current location support says I'm somewhere in manhattan, west brooklyn or east jersey when I'm in midtown. I don't think it's accurate enough to be useful.
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    by j2d2 18y ago

    I find the acceptance of failure quite interesting. I'm curious if people are more likely to abandon a venture because they want to handle failure properly and positively.
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    by j2d2 18y ago

    Please post a link when this article is finished.
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    by j2d2 18y ago

    The full-disclosure community used to believe in this philosophy but for different reasons. They were trying to disclose the bug as a form of motivation with little regard to what else the company was working on. I suspect this message is n
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    by j2d2 18y ago

    I back the api idea. If anything, this helps you seperate logic in the app which will probably allow growing a dev team more efficiently. More importantly, though, is if customers actually do extend your app via an API you be empowering cre
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    by j2d2 18y ago

    It'd be neat to somehow highlight really unpopular views while still being able to filter things out that are simply trash. YC doesn't have much of a problem with this right now, but it could help suppress the noise from the random waves of
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    by j2d2 18y ago

    I don't follow... Programming my interactions with a website is not mutually exclusive with using a website for services.
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    by j2d2 18y ago

    Can you elaborate on the things it simply gets wrong?
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    by j2d2 18y ago

    I enjoy the handling of downmodded items though. Where reddit hides it and thus makes unpopular views (especially really unpopular views) hidden, YC simply grays them out.
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    by j2d2 18y ago

    I was under the impression scheme is still minimalist and that plt/scheme is as your describe. The story is nice, but I think it's incorrectly applied.