jokull

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   by jokull 17y ago

   Steve's second response tells us that he's well aware of what they're doing. The platform is going to be heavily guarded. If you make something for the iPhone or iPad you're going to have to hire fan-boys or developers who are very, very wi
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   by jokull 17y ago

   That's exactly what I thought. $data is okay if the context is very obvious but enumerating is confusing, unmaintainable.
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   by jokull 17y ago

   Does Ericsson still use Erlang and to what degree? EDIT: "Erlang is currently used in several Ericsson telecom infrastructure products." ( http://www.ericsson.com/article/open_source_20100211163350 )
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   by jokull 17y ago

   Thanks to rbranson and dialtone. Very useful comments.
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   by jokull 17y ago

   Awesome excuse to get a good chair EDIT: One of these http://www.sedus.de/se/en/products/officeseating/index.php
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   by jokull 17y ago

   And if you're not you could read his essay collections - "A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again" the title essay of which is now available on the internet and is a terrific introduction to the late great American author ( http://www.am
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   by jokull 17y ago

   My problem with PostgreSQL is that you're half expected to tweak it to your needs. Ideally I would have to record and replay real life activity against the database for each adjustment. It's too much work to do properly. An expert could pro
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   by jokull 17y ago

   True. kraftwerk is a deployment tool (Python WSGI only) and Fabric is more general although it leans towards deployment automation.
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   by jokull 17y ago

   Yes kraftwerk came after Silver Lining and even uses some of its code.
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    by jokull 17y ago

    kraftwerk is the evolved way to do this. http://www.kraftwerk-wsgi.com/ I am the author. Check it out and tell me what you think!
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    by jokull 17y ago

    If you're running an open product, Github by itself has huge advantages I'm beginning to realize. It's a known ecosystem that lowers barriers for everyone.
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    by jokull 17y ago

    I worked for Coca-Cola on the container floor in my teens. It's insane how much small point pressure a plastic bottle can take. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=49ScJUCqj98 We had fun throwing 2L bottles on the floor. If they struck the flo
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    by jokull 17y ago

    Reykjavík Iceland is getting cheaper and very english-friendly.
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    by jokull 17y ago

    I don't have friends with HN accounts :(
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    by jokull 17y ago

    I'd dive into EC2 if you're going to be experimenting. For my purposes it's great to be billed only for your exact usage. Transfers to and from S3 are fast and cheap too.
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    by jokull 17y ago

    Don't underestimate how ITERATIVE the design process is. Do something then tweak it, then do it again then tweak it. Don't think that everything is ruined and hopeless just because you can't get your ideas down right away. Iterate!
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    by jokull 17y ago

    Placeholder is great. Found this for Django: http://github.com/rhec/django-html5/blob/master/html5/forms/... (however it looks shallow; I already spot that EmailField doesn't subclass the old EmailField which as server side validation). W
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    Why easy deployment is great(solberg.is)

    5 points by jokull 17y ago|1 comments
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    by jokull 17y ago

    Hit Command+Alt+I for the web inspector. Quite nice. However there are some added features in this (resolution, outlining, form state manipulation).
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    Show HN: Kraftwerk - Python WSGI deployment tool(kraftwerk-wsgi.com)

    2 points by jokull 17y ago|0 comments
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    by jokull 17y ago

    Great essays with a great tone.
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    by jokull 17y ago

    Hyperbole
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    HN suggestion: Allow hiding username when commenting

    5 points by jokull 17y ago|2 comments
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    by jokull 17y ago

    This has just been posted on HN http://msgpack.sourceforge.net/ Make sure you benchmark simple JSON. It might be enough.
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    by jokull 17y ago

    To OSX users I highly recommend a note taking application called Notational Velocity. If you have a simplenote account you may use it to centrally store (optionally encrypted) the notes database in the cloud. Interface is spot on. Very keyb
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    by jokull 17y ago

    You don't have to do everything. If you try to you will be overwhelmed and unless you're a genius it will become demotivating if you think you have to learn all of it. Do you want to work on large or small jobs? For large jobs you will need
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    by jokull 17y ago

    I'm interested in testing deployments locally with some virtualization. Currently I've been looking at doing this with a Python library against VirtualBox. Would I perhaps be better off doing this with a free variant of VMWare? (currently l
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    by jokull 17y ago

    I'm not actually 15 years old. I'm 24 this week. I'm from Iceland and my english is not cleansed with bleach. I don't work in IT which is why I was asking for the hacker's explanation of VMware. Thinks for the kid advice though. I'm having
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    by jokull 17y ago

    I've heard of them and I have a vague idea of what their product does (as indicated by my asking of how it compares to VirtualBox). In any case how would one answer that kind of question? "Because I'm 15 years old", "Because I'm not as cool
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    by jokull 17y ago

    Thought it was some virtualization but wasn't sure how it differentiated from VirtualBox for example. Jackass.