lhorn

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by lhorn 18y ago
On a related note, I would be interested to hear what parts of your company's product you have opened. Funny you asked. I happened to work for a startup that got acquired by a big&evil corporation that specifically prohibited our engi
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by lhorn 18y ago
Yeah. Every time when someone tries to make a case for memchached they bring in Facebook and LiveJournal. Well guess what: you aren't Facebook. You don't serve 21,000 requests per second. And you never will. Go and look at the size of your
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by lhorn 18y ago
I am arguing against this line: "People often write in higher level languages because they want lots of bad code fast." Even if this is true, it's true only in enterprise software environment where code quality has never been terribly impor
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Ask YC: open source your code
6 points by lhorn 18y ago|10 comments
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by lhorn 18y ago
You said "not really" and then agreed with me. Moreover, you only confirmed my theory that when people say "open source" it usually means commercial companies milking OSS developers, or releasing their code "contributions" for products tha
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by lhorn 18y ago
So? Despite being useful, what's so interesting about CRUD programming for the enterprise? I've been there, I've had my share of dealing with coworkers that openly admit that they haven't touched a single book since graduation 10 years ago
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by lhorn 18y ago
That's because our system somehow rewards real estate speculators, mortgage brokers, middle management, lawyers and healthcare professionals way more than it rewards engineers. I don't really know why this is happening, but I am sure you al
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by lhorn 18y ago
I am not sure why are you bringing enterprise software into the discussion. Despite being the most popular form of employment for "programmers" it has always been the absolutely lowest form of life in a software ecosystem and, therefore, sh
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by lhorn 18y ago
... which is very "nice" on their part, especially after milking the OSS community for 90% of the code for their OS.
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Apple Denies Linux Access To Its Movie Trailers(linux-blog.org)
4 points by lhorn 18y ago|7 comments
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Very cool Wii commercial on YouTube(youtube.com)
4 points by lhorn 18y ago|0 comments
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by lhorn 18y ago
I think a better (and cheaper) way to do this would be to create a custom CSS file and assign it to ycombinator.com in Safari.
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by lhorn 18y ago
I considered (and agreed with myself) Thinkpad T500 which is in the mail. :-)
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by lhorn 18y ago
I guess it heavily depends on a market segment, but for "family computer software" it is true: lots of PC users playing with free/evaluation versions but for when it comes to premium subscriptions and premium features - most of them evapora
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by lhorn 18y ago
Hm... I get exact same stripes about twice a month, usually when it gets really hot, most commonly when watching a movie via Hulu or iTunes. But it always goes away if I turn it off/on. I never bothered going to an Apple store because I cou
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by lhorn 18y ago
You're lucky: I also do desktop software but we can't afford to ignore the growing number of Mac users. While they still represent only about 8% of all computer purchases, they account for nearly half of "customers who pay for software" and
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by lhorn 18y ago
Makes perfect sense: they've clearly separated traditions and habits from religion. The tradition of getting married in church is no different from a habit of screaming "jesus motherfucking christ!" when faced with a scary chance of seeing
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by lhorn 18y ago
prospero, I have been looking for C++ replacement for desktop programs non-stop for at least 5 years and found nothing . Rubies, lisps and pythons are great in a little dark corner of server-side development where everything is under your
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by lhorn 18y ago
Internet is no longer what it was, because it has entered the mainstream.
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by lhorn 18y ago
63 points for these "news"? A public rant about a competitor is "news" here? And how ethical is it to blog about such things? I've never seen a CEO of a company publicly bitching about how badly competitors treat him. Jesus I know for sure
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by lhorn 18y ago
63 points for these "news"? A public rant about a competitor is "news" here? And how ethical is it to blog about such things? I've never seen a CEO of a company publicly bitching about how badly competitors treat him. Jesus I know for sure
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by lhorn 18y ago
You just saved me 30 minutes of googling for these answers. Thanks a bunch.
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by lhorn 18y ago
Agreed. He's suggesting that most people haven't realized the possibilities of it yet. I am observing the opposite: the mainstream public (looking at my non-techie friends) have been fully exposured to it, had enough of it, and is slowly ge
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by lhorn 18y ago
UI on JVM suggestion? Again? There are very good reasons why this combination hasn't been particularly popular. C++ with a few libs like MFC or WTL continues to rule on Windows being slowly replaced by .NET stack, Obj-C keeps rocking on OSX
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by lhorn 18y ago
Intel wifi cards (4965 and 3945) don't work anymore? http://www.ubuntu.com/getubuntu/releasenotes/810#System%20lo... I hate to sound negative, but this makes no freaking sense. Those two Intel cards have been pretty much the only safe cho
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by lhorn 18y ago
The problem isn't getting your files in the right place, the problem lies in how inter-connected and "integrated" everything is on Windows. There are many examples: "Internet Settings", for instance, from the control panel, while they seem
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by lhorn 18y ago
Ironically, his writing is mostly about an easy kind of Windows development. Web apps behind IIS? Not that hard, really. Try building an installable desktop software for Windows. That's where real fun begins. It is quite common for teams
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by lhorn 18y ago
Well... the cheapest notebook from Dell is actually much closer to $400. It has exactly 512MB of RAM. And it does not run Windows, it runs Ubuntu. They better care about that.
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by lhorn 18y ago
The review hasn't addressed the most important question: will it run smoothly on 512MB of RAM, the maximum I'm willing to give it under VirtualBox. Currently I often run two instances of XP with about 300MB RAM each and they're quite fast.
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by lhorn 18y ago
Well... there are hundreds of cities where people live fairly close to a reactor, with the same lethal outcome in case of failure. They live there 24/7 and you're opposed to an idea of spending at most tens of hours a year right next to one

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