kogir

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by kogir 19y ago
I've learned a lot over the 2.5 years since starting Loopt and I feel that same way about much of my old code. I've found that rewrites can be a huge waste of time unless some key criteria are met: 1) The code is broken. If it's broken, a
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by kogir 19y ago
For outgoing mail, I use the IIS SMTP service. For incoming postfix + courier is great, but people are making noise about exchange (ugh).
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by kogir 20y ago
So, it might be my browser, but whenever someone uses a British pound or a Euro currency symbol in a comment, it shows up as two ascii characters rather than the desired unicode character. You might wish to: 1) verify your database and code
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by kogir 20y ago
Why not just co-locate a box of your own? What I did: Assemble random crap box from parts (Athlon 2100+, 512 MB RAM, 80GB HDD) This was free for me, and should be cheap or free for you. It was also two years ago, so you can probably fin
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by kogir 20y ago
On further thought I think you're right. The need for joins can be alleviated with pointers, and sorting and grouping can be done in the application. The tricky part would be the synchronization and transactional aspects, and if the system
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by kogir 20y ago
Perhaps this makes me just a programmer, and not a 'hacker', but I for one can write SQL queries and design a good DB schema in far less time than I could create something similar in RAM myself.
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by kogir 20y ago
Every time I have to type a '$' in front of a variable name I have BASIC flashbacks from my prepubescent years. That did me in. Really.
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by kogir 20y ago
Not at all, let me tell you ;) And if you care about the business, you won't take a $300k salary either.
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by kogir 20y ago
C++, C#, ASP.NET 2.0, MS SQL 2005, IIS 6 on Windows C++, PHP, Ruby, MySQL, Memcache, Apache on Linux I try to pick the best tool for the job and run with it.
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by kogir 20y ago
The first thing that comes to mind is cost. You're already paying for the apartment. If you can avoid it, why pay for office space as well?
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by kogir 20y ago
It seems you forgot the most important part: your service :) The UI presents your service, and the scaled out servers power your service, but without the service, all you have are some pretty pictures and a bunch of hardware. Also, scaling
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by kogir 20y ago
This is far from new, but it is a problem. Ironically, the old school SOAP 1.1 way of doing things (with a header and a post) is immune from this. Also, correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't JSON and the script tag way of calling things exp