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by jm4 18y ago
What's non-standard about JRuby? There's a language specification and there are various implementations. The only "standard" is the specification.
902.
by jm4 18y ago
What the hell does this have to do with anything, least of all hackers? You could some up this whole blog entry with "Sarah Palin has an accent". Who cares? It's readily apparent to anyone who hears her speak. Do we really need blog entries
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by jm4 18y ago
That application is one of the dumbest ways I can think of to spend programming time. Pull my finger? How about if that developer pulls his head out of his ass? I'm sure I'll get modded down for this. Whatever. I am by no means an Apple zea
904.
by jm4 18y ago
Microsoft has Virtual PC images for this: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=21E...
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by jm4 18y ago
Real men don't need frameworks or high level languages. Real men write 1's and 0's. This article is absurd. Maybe some frameworks do suck. Maybe some frameworks are not the correct solution to certain problems. The whole point of frameworks
906.
by jm4 18y ago
Are you crazy? How has it not worked out for Microsoft? As of 2000 it was estimated that Microsoft had produced 10,000 millionaires. Sure, they've produced tons of crappy software too, but as long as we're measuring success in terms of mone
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by jm4 18y ago
sigh What's the deal with your headline? How about if you show a little class and not use profanity next time? The headline in the original article is "No end in sight for Calfornia’s budget woes". Why would you change it to "Go help Cali
908.
by jm4 18y ago
The problem with moving to a different database when you've used the database specific functions in PHP is that you have to use completely different functions for the new database. Moving from MySQL to PostgreSQL isn't so bad because those
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by jm4 18y ago
Are you kidding me? It does happen occasionally. I'm guessing you haven't been a developer for very long if you've never run into this. The fact that abstraction libraries and ORMs exist in the first place suggests that it's a real problem.
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by jm4 18y ago
You will regret that decision when you have to move your app to a different database. The only reason that PDO, ADO, etc. stuff exists is because the built-in database functions are platform-specific and totally inconsistent with one anothe
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by jm4 18y ago
This is totally off topic... Is it really necessary to mod someone down to -8? Sure, the comment deserved to be modded down, but isn't -1 or -2 enough? At that point the font changes to light gray and you can barely see it anyway. It seems
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by jm4 18y ago
I can't find it at the moment, but I remember reading somewhere that Franz's support team goes way above and beyond what other vendors are willing to do. Supposedly, their developers work very closely with you, if necessary, in order to get
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by jm4 18y ago
What's interesting about this? There's a big, bold note in the documentation that says the result of this usage of a statement modifier is undefined, and that's exactly what happened. I guess it's nice that the blog author is giving everyon
914.
by jm4 18y ago
Prefacing a one-liner like this with "I don't know Rails..." is just begging to be downmodded, but damn... -3? This is a rough crowd. I only have cursory experience with Rails and Catalyst, but the first thing I noticed is that Rails is muc
915.
by jm4 18y ago
What I don't understand is why Yahoo would want anything to do with a CEO who was pushed out of AOL. That company has been so mismanaged for so long I couldn't possibly fathom what it takes to get fired from there. They went from being on t
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by jm4 18y ago
Now that I use the new one I'm wondering what the long wait was for. The search stuff is ok, but I don't really see anything else besides that and the new look. It's much slower than the old one. =/ I hope they plan to roll out more because
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by jm4 18y ago
Come on... If you're going to post something completely unrelated to HN can you at least use a descriptive title?
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by jm4 18y ago
What the hell does this have to do with HN? I noticed that you only registered a few days ago and every one of your submissions links to thenextweb.org. What's the deal?
919.
by jm4 18y ago
Is that how much the US dollar is worth these days? It's worse than I thought...
920.
by jm4 18y ago
All these posts showing bad search results on Cuil are getting ridiculous. We all get it. Cuil sucks. Big time. The results are, at best, of dubious quality. The pictures don't match. The launch was a complete and utter failure. How long ar
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by jm4 18y ago
This is click bait. As one of the commenters on the original article points out, all this means is that Apple may use a _chipset_ that's not manufactured by Intel but will continue to use Intel CPUs. This is hardly worth reporting.
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by jm4 18y ago
Rhino is very cool, but the documentation is horribly lacking. There are a couple tutorials on the Mozilla site. I believe this is the better one. It's enough to get you started, but anything even remotely complex is going to require lots o
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by jm4 18y ago
I agree completely. What self respecting hacker doesn't like the occasional UFO diversion? I just suspect that in this case I was lured in by a Reddit troll.
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by jm4 18y ago
Interesting. I saw an article- I think on HN- about the most expensive cities in the world and many of these were on that list as well.
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by jm4 18y ago
I'm not sure where to start... There was a point I wanted to make and then I spotted this: "A healthy skepticism about extraterrestrial space travelers leads people to disregard U.F.O. sightings without a moment’s thought. But in the United
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by jm4 18y ago
The conclusion that DRM could be good is based on the assumption that a DRM'd textbook would be priced at $25 compared to $209.95. The same article that draws this conclusion says the current price for a DRM'd e-book version is $109.99. It'
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by jm4 18y ago
What else is new? They've been saying this for years and nothing they've done has significantly changed their position. It should also come as no surprise that this article doesn't give a shred of a detail as to how this is going to happen.
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by jm4 18y ago
Of course they're not blameless. They're just another crappy vendor that, at best, puts a half effort into supporting Linux. Even cursory research probably would have revealed this before the guy purchased the hardware. The first clue that
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by jm4 18y ago
This is a very informative thread for anyone having ACPI problems with a Foxconn board, but it's a stretch to say they've gone out of their way to deliberately sabotage their own product in order to inconvenience the tiny percentage of thei
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by jm4 18y ago
The Wikipedia entry for the Wonderlic test has some interesting information as well: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wonderlic_Test There's also a "fan-made" sample test online: http://www.efplfp.stealingisgood.com/wpt.html While somewhat

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