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   by kennu 16y ago

   The interesting thing is how easily you can 'slide' into a full rewrite, when your old code is aging legacy and everybody wants to get rid of it. I've participated and seen it happen many times. It has never worked particularly well. In my
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   by kennu 16y ago

   Interesting article, although it doesn't mention Ruby on Rails, which I believe has a fairly successful model for solving the described issues in schema management.
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   by kennu 16y ago

   It sets a global cookie for .go.com: Set-Cookie: SWID=6AF8F108-71B2-4874-ACB7-29718B8D7C91; path=/; expires=Wed, 05-Jan-2031 19:33:42 GMT; domain=.go.com;
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   by kennu 16y ago

   Strange, I kind of feel the opposite way about Twitter. I can paste any website's URL to Google Reader to subscribe to that site's RSS feed. What kind of a standard way is there to find out the Twitter feed of a random website or blog I hap
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   by kennu 16y ago

   Any experiences with Bjoern's Django compatibility?
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   by kennu 16y ago

   That's right, you tie up an Apache process/thread to proxy each connection, so pretty soon you run out of them. And the whole point of Node.js is to run I/O asynchronously without tieing up a thread for it. A better alternative would be to
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   by kennu 16y ago

   Node.js is nice for evented I/O, but does it solve any of the other problems Erlang is good at, such as distributed parallel processing? How do you scale a Node.js-based service horizontally over many servers?
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   by kennu 16y ago

   There are also some heavy downsides in Xcode/Obj-C development, such as hunting down memory leaks and crashes, and having a relatively slow upgrade path for new versions, without a guarantee that everybody will upgrade. I agree that there a
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   by kennu 16y ago

   I think bringing schemas to JSON is a dangerous road, because they have made XML-based interfaces difficult to expand. Unless there's a real problem to be solved, they just add overhead with having to distribute new schema versions to clien
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    by kennu 16y ago

    I didn't see any mention of getopt in the readme, so I figured the author was perhaps just unaware of it. I don't consider getopt particularly painful myself, especially since you can use it on Unix-like plaforms out-of-the-box. I hope the
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    by kennu 16y ago

    Basically same as GNU getopt which has existed 25 years? Please use standard libraries for things like this.
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    by kennu 16y ago

    Direct mapping to most (dynamic) programming languages' datatypes, such as arrays, dictionaries, numbers and strings. Once you get used to working with a combination like JSON and Python, you really don't want to go back to the complexity a
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    by kennu 16y ago

    MS is still advocating task centric UIs? I've hated crap that since they started filling Win7 with vague, ambiguous buttons like "Setup a new network", "Connect to a network", "Connect to the Internet", "Connect to a workplace"... You have
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    by kennu 16y ago

    I wish they would also discontinue Mac OS X Server and just add all the management UI's into Mac OS X. As an optional install if necessary.
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    by kennu 16y ago

    I find it hard to support a closed communications system like Skype that makes it impossible for third parties to develop client applications. I also don't trust the encryption since it's all closed.
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    by kennu 16y ago

    This argument seems silly when the world is already full of code like "self.view.frame" and almost any class uses @properties, which are very natural to access with dot notation. Of course it's important to realize what dot notation actuall
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    by kennu 16y ago

    I agree, Redmine is nice and simple yet handles a lot of project management stuff if needed.
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    by kennu 16y ago

    +1 for Minecraft! Problem is, once you start building something there, you just can't stop until it's ready.
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    by kennu 16y ago

    It seems to be currently unavailable at http://www.amazon.com/dp/B003P2QCE8/ Not seeing in my Kindle 3's store search either.
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    by kennu 16y ago

    I think I know how the OP feels. I have a similar history with computers and I get bored maybe once a year. But in my case, some new and interesting problem always appears before long, benefiting from the use of new and interesting technolo
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    by kennu 16y ago

    Should be we worried what happens after year 2019?
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    by kennu 16y ago

    I have a strong intent on remaining a coder/tech guy for the rest of my life. Why? Because the only thing I've gotten a real kick out of, for the past 15 years, is learning new technologies and applying them to projects. I get bored after a
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    by kennu 16y ago

    Finally, a (hopefully) frozen API for 0.2.x! I hope Ubuntu 10.10 Maverick gets a stable 0.2.x version of Node.
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    by kennu 16y ago

    Nokia's problem is that the smartphones lack coherent overall design. They are just a bunch of random features glued together. What is needed is not a "Steve Jobs" but a guy who can design a smartphone with a good, overall usability experie
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    by kennu 16y ago

    Symbian is a horrible platform to develop applications on. I developed some C++ apps maybe 5 years ago, before iPhone and Android existed. The API design just sucked, and especially the dev tools. Development was slow and painful. And every
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    by kennu 16y ago

    Not a very useful comparison at this time, since iOS 4 is about to change the email, multitasking etc. very soon.
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    by kennu 16y ago

    Anybody care to explain the values in that chart? It says there are 332,395 level 2 domains under .net and 2,705,157 under .com. Perhaps the chart is quite old? E.g. http://www.domaintools.com/internet-statistics/ gives different values:
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    by kennu 16y ago

    How about: do_tree([Value | Children], Fun) -> [Fun(Value) | [do_tree(Child, Fun) || Child <- Children]]; do_tree([], _Fun) -> []. sum_tree(NumTree) -> lists:foldl(fun(Elem, AccIn) -> Elem+AccIn end, 0,
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    by kennu 16y ago

    Sounds cool, but how does it access the files? Does it support SFTP to edit files on a server?
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    by kennu 16y ago

    I would choose what I want to do first (web, enterprise systems, mobile apps, etc) and then learn a language that is actually useful for that.. And of course the best language changes every 5 years, at least for web. The biggest part is lea