johnm

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by johnm 18y ago
Easier to create problems than in PHP? Naw, just different.
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by johnm 18y ago
Yeah, a lot of the torch lamps these days are using CF bulbs since they are more efficient and don't have the big fire dangers. :-(
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by johnm 18y ago
What does being a CS major (or not) have to do with creating a web site? That's a false dichotomy. More importantly, given that you're a marketing+economics person and want to be an entrepreneur, you should want to learn how to build at le
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by johnm 18y ago
Well, to play devil's advocate (since I gave the same advice :-)... No, those sites still cost you in terms of your time both directly and in terms of opportunity cost. Particularly in startups, one must always be asking: WITMVTICBDRN. :-)
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by johnm 18y ago
Bah! Of course you an start up a web startup anywhere. The issues comes with whether or not you need any of the advantages that come with being in/near one of the hubs that typically require in-person access such as 'smart money' investor
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by johnm 18y ago
A halogen torch lamp with variable output. Nice indirect light and no flickering.
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by johnm 19y ago
Ouchy. Basically, it looks like you're taking a very narrow view of REST and conflating lots of it with historical RPC-ish thinking. Re: There are other verbs that need to be applied over a network. Please name one that's actually needed.
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by johnm 19y ago
<insert snide comment on IDEs vs. Emacs/vi /> More seriously, another problem with the SOAP approach is that a lot of the toolchain'ish malarky around it hides reality from the developers and so they tend to create even worse abomin
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by johnm 19y ago
JSON is the "new hotness" for a lot of people but the default is still XML. Also, note that depending on what format the underlying data is in, using JSON can actually be worse for performance than POX (escaping, etc.).
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by johnm 19y ago
Naw. The de facto paylod for RESTful services are XML. Though, yes, that is called the POX (Plain Ol' XML) on REST. REST is the only thing that has been actually proven to work at internet scale. SOAP is just the latest version of CORBA, f
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by johnm 19y ago
Bah! The only thing that e.g. WSDL brings is that the "contract" for the service can be baked into the legal contract between partnering organizations. For big paranoid companies where people need a lot of CYA, that can be a big point. Goo
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by johnm 19y ago
Also, because the "mainstream" press is mostly focused on SOAP because the vendors buying ad space in their magazines, etc. can sell SOAP solutions. There's very little on the REST side that's being sold (but, for good and bad, people are f
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by johnm 19y ago
(A) Presentation Zen both the book (that came out recently) and the blog: http://www.presentationzen.com/ and Beyond Bullet Points, http://beyondbulletpoints.com/ the book and online seminars. Yes, both of them are primarily focused on
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Acid tripping, Disneyland, and Special Relativity(weblog.raganwald.com)
7 points by johnm 19y ago|0 comments
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by johnm 19y ago
Are you kidding or referring to a specific such language? I.e., PHP is arguably the most popular such language on the server and it's also the most insecure.
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by johnm 19y ago
Same here. Yes. I use the booq backpack. Great fit and it will stand up whether or not you have the laptop in it.
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by johnm 19y ago
Have you tried the new VMWare or Parallels on your Apple?
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by johnm 19y ago
Be careful about being penny-wise and pound-foolish. Lots of time gets sunk into getting and keeping all of the features (that you'll end up wanting) running on Linux boxes. I did Thinkpads for as long as they've been around and fought that
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by johnm 19y ago
"All of the above and more". IMHO, it's much more critical a question as to how one deals with the pressures that come up over time. I.e., do one's anxieties drive dysfunctional behavior -- is the stress used as an excuse to assuage one's
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by johnm 19y ago
I'll be there -- curious to see whether it's worth it or not. :-)
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by johnm 20y ago
That's why these kinds of discussions are difficult. Not just the usual "it depends" but multiple levels of "it depends". As you say, if you're job mix is keeping a pipe saturated then raw latency is probably not your critical problem. Tho
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by johnm 20y ago
:-) If you're doing Java, Azul Systems does 192 cores in 5U.
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by johnm 20y ago
If you need Myrinet for your clusters then you already know why. :-? The main reason for Myrinet, IMHO, is the low latency -- otherwise, it's not worth the money. 8GB RAM seems to be the sweet spot at the moment, price-wise. Similarly, the
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by johnm 20y ago
In terms of vendors, also check out SiliconMechanics. They're touting the new 2-in-1U chassis from Supermicro that does up to 16 x86 cores in 1U. :-) If you're in the Bay Area, ASA Computers is very competitive. They're in the south bay and
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by johnm 20y ago
What do you mean by "clusters"? High-end, low-latency compute clusters (using e.g., Myrinet) or just a rack of machines? Are you doing lots of calculation or lots of data or both? If you have lots of data, what's your storage model? If y
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by johnm 20y ago
Yes. What's the question? :-)
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by johnm 20y ago
May 7, 2007 in San Francisco (just before JavaOne (good or bad :-)) Also note that it's being run more or less as an Open Space conference.
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Sun's StartupCamp 2(startupcamp.org)
1 points by johnm 20y ago|1 comments
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by johnm 20y ago
Two good resources: PresentationZen blog ( http://www.presentationzen.com/ ) and Beyond Bullet Points book ( http://www.beyondbullets.com/ ).
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by johnm 20y ago
http://iolanguage.com/

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