karterk

43 ms·

391.
by karterk 14y ago
The only way Google+ will dominate facebook is when facebook will do something to really piss off it's users. No, not really. Remember what happened to MySpace? Sometimes people just move on to the next thing. Yes, the network effect is
392.
by karterk 14y ago
Thanks - I have emailed you.
393.
by karterk 14y ago
Yes, it's the closest to my current needs. But it's unlikely I will be able to use it currently as it's still pretty nascent and I don't feel comfortable just yet. Anyhow - I am looking to run some benchmarks on it next week.
394.
by karterk 14y ago
Tangential to the discussion, but I am currently working on a system that will handle some 100 million semi-structured rows. Despite all the buzz about "big data", hadoop and nosql etc. etc. there is literally no system that can give me a w
395.
The Maven(timberglund.com)
1 points by karterk 14y ago|0 comments
396.
by karterk 14y ago
I am in the middle of evaluating HyperDex. It's still early stages, but it's very promising when you want to slice and dice your data on multiple dimensions. Having said that, I had trouble stopping and/or restarting the cluster in a clean
397.
How LinkedIn Gets TWENTY Times More Money Per User Than Facebook(businessinsider.com)
5 points by karterk 14y ago|1 comments
398.
by karterk 14y ago
It's interesting to note that while Twitter has moved away from client side rendering of HTML templates (and is a strong advocate of sending HTML directly down the wire[1]), LinkedIn mobile app seems to be rendering the template on the clie
399.
Twitter hands your data to the highest bidder, but not to you(theglobeandmail.com)
3 points by karterk 14y ago|0 comments
400.
by karterk 14y ago
Why did the Node people insist on building a new ecosystem from scratch? People don't sit and plan about creating ecosystems. Things happen. It's not like the Erlang or the Java community are not building anything (Akka is very impressive
401.
by karterk 14y ago
Node seems to evoke strong responses from people. As someone who has a couple of side projects running on Node in production, and also as someone who considers himself fairly language/platform agnostic - I will say this: For a lot of people
402.
by karterk 14y ago
In the book called "Dip" by Seth Godin - he talks about the plateau where most people quit when learning something new. Initially, the excitement of trying something new get people started. Once that wears off, you hit the plateau. To reall
403.
by karterk 14y ago
The OP probably meant short-lived with reference to CPU bound requests.
404.
Fancy ML techniques don’t matter(isomorphismes.tumblr.com)
8 points by karterk 14y ago|1 comments
405.
by karterk 14y ago
From my experience, using libraries on top of ZMQ is not the same as using Erlang directly. Yes, you get the same semantics but it never quite feels right, and sometimes will end up reinventing the wheel to end up writing the glue code that
406.
by karterk 14y ago
That's correct. In addition, you use the processes themselves to encapsulate logic. So the communication channel AND the logical parts that works with them are essentially the same.
407.
by karterk 14y ago
Unless you are talking about mobile devices, there are so many other things one needs to look into before trying to tune the CSS for getting better performance. Stuff like gzipping, caching and CDN will all contribute to page load performan
408.
by karterk 14y ago
Things change very fast in startups. As your problem space emerges, you will be changing technology also to fit that picture. Strict specialists are rarely good in that kind of environment.
409.
by karterk 14y ago
If all you want is classical inheritance, there are so many libraries that are available which mimic that.
410.
by karterk 15y ago
You're looking only at a part of the whole picture. Dart's vision is to offer a complete framework and hence you should not judge it only based on the language and syntax.
411.
by karterk 15y ago
Your to-do list sucks ass as it doesn't actually meet your real life needs. Maybe it does to him . He was just sharing his experience, not preaching everyone to do what he does.
412.
by karterk 15y ago
I always have my gmail logged-in in a separate browser and I don't use that for any other browsing.
413.
by karterk 15y ago
Am I the only one who finds the phrase on the homepage " Hang with co-workers and teams " a little odd?
414.
by karterk 15y ago
I really think you should consider using a shorter identifier than function . def ? Or take the dart approach.
415.
by karterk 15y ago
To be fair, the OP did not exactly say that it took 1 year to learn it. I personally took less than a few days. Every framework has a learning curve.
416.
by karterk 15y ago
You may see some very nice libraries/tools coming out around node.js, like jade, coffeescript, and stylus. These are all nice and good, and they do increase your productivity, but, only on the client side. I disagree. Firstly, CoffeScript
417.
by karterk 15y ago
My take on pre-processors like LESS, SASS etc. is this: To truly appreciate and benefit from them, you should first start facing problems in scaling and managing plain CSS. I would argue that the same goes for CoffeScript. For simple apps,
418.
by karterk 15y ago
Totally agree. The reason is this: one will at some point have to debug and wade through all the generated JS and CSS code, and unless already familiar with HTML, JS and CSS, this is going to be difficult.
419.
by karterk 15y ago
After reading so many negative things about nodejs, I'm completely surprised to report that it is actually pretty damn cool. Most of these negative things were (are being?) written by people who target Node's shortcomings without giving d
420.
Community and Diversity(brendaneich.com)
11 points by karterk 15y ago|0 comments

More ›