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by kolektiv 16y ago
Well, they don't scale indefinitely, and you do run in to Brewers Theorem at some point. While you're right in saying that if you have enough cash and horsepower to throw at SQL databases you can get a very long way, there is some point whe
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by kolektiv 16y ago
I'll echo the other positives - very interesting and enjoyable read, looking forward to the next parts. If there was enough for a book at any point, I can think of several friends that would also enjoy it.
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by kolektiv 16y ago
A little off topic, but if you're looking for iPad touch control of things like MIDI devices, hardware is already out there to do that. Projects like touchOSC are providing the graphical instances, as well as others like S1MIDITrigger. This
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by kolektiv 16y ago
Background worker and job pricing are probably more interesting to me academically speaking. At the moment, have people been able to test those? I didn't think so, and I would think they will be more variable in their data usage. Do you kno
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by kolektiv 16y ago
iPhone app "piracy" is perhaps a little different from run of the mill software copyright infringement. It's one of the only places around where even for consumers, there's no way of trying before you buy. I can imagine that there is a sign
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by kolektiv 16y ago
It's hubris to recognize it outside of your own head! Although that's rather a culturally biased observation I admit.
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by kolektiv 16y ago
I had to laugh, the same thing struck me as I read it. I'm sure she is very good, but in my own experience impostor syndrome merely increases with time. I came out of university thinking I was good. Now, I feel worse every year. In objectiv
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by kolektiv 16y ago
I rarely comment on these threads, but I had a quick look at yours and I like it a lot. It's fresh, nicely designed (although some of it could be a little "tighter" perhaps although I'd struggle to quantify that). I also think it fulfills a
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by kolektiv 16y ago
I feel a similar way. My other half is a teacher, and every time I've looked at the software systems she uses (in the UK) I'm appalled. I've identified a few software tools which would make teachers lives much better and easier, based on pr
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by kolektiv 16y ago
Ah, my apologies, I looked for it but didn't find it. I note that the previous submission seems to have exact same URL, something which I thought was prevented by the submission process. A bug perhaps? Sorry, nevertheless.
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by kolektiv 16y ago
If I wanted to be cynical and/or pretentious, I might draw a parallel between the infant-like nature of Hello Kitty products, the Freudian childhood wish that might indicate, and the fact that her asking you to buy something rather than buy
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The Long Beard's Revenge(sheddingbikes.com)
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by kolektiv 16y ago
To clarify, if you're flirting with someone, yes they may flirt back and perhaps "make a pass" at you. In this case however, she was not flirting with this guy. Just because someone is flirting with other people, does not make them open to
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by kolektiv 16y ago
Good grief I'd be hammered. Admittedly, not my area of expertise, but still. Bad for the ego. Which in turn is good for the drinking, so... Bartender, line some shots up...
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by kolektiv 16y ago
Going for a kiss when someone has made no sign that they're in to you? When there are no signals that this is perhaps fine? No that's not cool! Brought the passes on herself? No. You can flirt with someone, if they don't reciprocate, it's n
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by kolektiv 16y ago
But the point here is surely "flirting with other boys", not the one who then assaulted her. Can you flirt? Sure. Can you wear what you like, safe in the knowledge that people still have no right to assault you? Yes, you should be able to.
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by kolektiv 16y ago
I'll probably give away karma by saying so, but where is the interest in this article? I'm not saying that groupon is not an interesting model, but this article is basically a press release, stuffed with some utterly baseless claims like "h
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by kolektiv 16y ago
If politicians no longer feel comfortable stating opinions or plans which would be unacceptable to the electorate and/or their own voters, I for one don't feel that's entirely bad. I'm pretty much in favour of politicians being open about t
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by kolektiv 16y ago
One of those times when I hugely miss languages with pattern matching/guards. fact(1) = 1 fact(n) = n * fact(n-1) Seems much more readable to me.
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by kolektiv 16y ago
But in an odd kind of way, people do have a right to be annoyed. It's a little bit circuitous, but... People trade their data, pseudo-willingly, for a perceived service (which they like). They know that Facebook et al make money from this.
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by kolektiv 16y ago
That's the kind of thinking which is likely to counteract the point of this app.
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by kolektiv 16y ago
Sorry, I am just going to reply to myself with a slightly contrarian viewpoint - as the article points out, low skilled jobs are being outsourced. This might make it more likely that it's graduate jobs being replaced with offshore/outsourci
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by kolektiv 16y ago
I know very well from trying to hire decent comp-sci graduates in the UK that it's very difficult right now. They're either very poor candidates, or they're being snapped up on very high salaries. If you're a good comp-sci graduate right
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by kolektiv 16y ago
Which is quite astounding. These aren't novice programmers fresh from a comp-sci course and in to the big bad world. Making this kind of mistake (which is a mistake on not one, but many grounds) is extraordinary. It's as if the ideas of ide
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by kolektiv 16y ago
Or possibly, he enjoys what he does, enjoys being his own boss, likes the challenges that the types of software he works on present, and values those things higher than going and shaving seconds off for some airline. If he is, his genius is
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by kolektiv 16y ago
Yes, that's quite easy if the definition of personal life is "Sweet Jesus, sleep!" More seriously, that's the kind of thing which does creep in to companies. They have a culture already. It's a long hours culture. You may or may not think t
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by kolektiv 16y ago
I wanted to echo the last part of this one. I've interviewed a lot of people and I see people "exaggerating" or outright lying about their skill levels and abilities more often than I would expect. It seems, anecdotally, to be increasing as
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by kolektiv 16y ago
"It's not an easy problem taking the best of each, figuring out what the long-term convergence plan is." That's an understatement. The complexity of merging two fairly distinct VMs while trying to maintain feature parity with both separat
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by kolektiv 16y ago
Positive social feedback is useful, but I think that I would take issue with the definition of social here. Social means genuinely social, not a paid reproduction of social. I would think that people who would genuinely enjoy this service m
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by kolektiv 16y ago
Good lord don't do it again then! More seriously, yes Iceland does still have enough money and borrowing capability to keep the infrastructure going. They're not all on the streets.

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