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by jvc26 14y ago
Its a neat idea but seems to struggle - misidentifying PHP as BASH, and struggling with Haskell, Go, Clojure, and told me Bash was PERL. I pulled some test code from the What's That Programming Language site which appeared on HN a few weeks
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Germany in trouble with EC over lack of ISP, telecom data retention(arstechnica.com)
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One year on, the value of Microsoft's Skype purchase remains mysterious(arstechnica.com)
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by jvc26 14y ago
There are other services - like http://pinboard.in which serve the same purpose.
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by jvc26 14y ago
Not that everyone uses VLC - I thought the intention was something a little more flexible.
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by jvc26 14y ago
Sounds like you've got a faulty handset - my first reaction to non-functional GPS would be to take the phone back?
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by jvc26 14y ago
I assume he means 3rd party/independent lawyers (i.e. not yourself).
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Oracle v. Google: no patent infringement found(arstechnica.com)
3 points by jvc26 14y ago|0 comments
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Could an Oracle Win Against Google Blow Up the Cloud?(wired.com)
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LightSquared files for bankruptcy, insists network project will continue(arstechnica.com)
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by jvc26 14y ago
That is indeed it - thanks a lot!
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by jvc26 14y ago
Guess its a weird question but does anyone know what the make of propelling pencil is in the photo of their drafting process? I'd be keen to lay my hands on one!
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Ruby Patterns from GitHub's Codebase | Holman(speakerdeck.com)
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OS X plain text password flaw has been around for 3 months and counting(arstechnica.com)
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IOS app success is a lottery: 60% (or more) of developers don't break even(arstechnica.com)
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IOS Dropbox app kerfuffle ends, but highlights confusion about guidelines(arstechnica.com)
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by jvc26 14y ago
Slightly bemused by the licensing agreement: > Any contribution to the project are seen as copyright assigned to Hampton Catlin. Your contribution warrants that you have the right to assign copyright on your work. This is to ensure that
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Oracle claims new MySQL Cluster does 1 billion queries per minute—in NoSQL(arstechnica.com)
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by jvc26 15y ago
A very sound reason! Agree re taking on multiple new techs at once - just makes the dev process more complex and time consuming!
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by jvc26 15y ago
Looks a fun product - I was wondering what the reason was for putting the source in svn on your servers rather than somewhere like Github?
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by jvc26 15y ago
'... most doctors seem arrogant, uncaring, and incompetent' - it's unfortunate if this is your take-home from meeting doctors, but I have to say that is a serious overstatement.
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by jvc26 15y ago
Just an FYI, all your results are in percentages, where the total is never given throughout the article. 'about 30' participants is a throwaway gesture - if one wants to actually gauge the quality of the stats, you need an accurate total, a
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A cautionary tale for the Drupal community(john.albin.net)
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by jvc26 15y ago
Cheers for the heads up - great plugin. Hadn't heard of Vundle before, but its handling of plugin installation, update and removal is really slick!
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by jvc26 15y ago
Great piece of work! Thanks! Have added it to my Pathogen plugins already - wonder where we'd be without Pathogen?
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by jvc26 15y ago
I agree - I'd rather people wrote their opinion, in a respectful manner of the counterpoint view, but without a need to apologise first for disagreeing! Discussions always demand alternative views, and apologising for entering the discussio
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by jvc26 15y ago
Whilst it doesn't tell you about the stack it's running on, the site code is open source: https://github.com/4clojure/4clojure
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by jvc26 15y ago
heh - I can't say I realised ed was still under active development - but the joke man page made me chuckle.
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A Worthy Competitor For The World's Dumbest Idea: Bank Capital Regulations(forbes.com)
1 points by jvc26 15y ago|0 comments
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by jvc26 15y ago
I'd imagine on the whole due to cost. Heroku, for example, is a great stack, but costs a significant amount if you aren't flush with cash. This can be run on a small ec2 instance for a fraction of the cost, whilst it does have greater admin

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