litewulf

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by litewulf 18y ago
Thats like asking if what if DSL is slow compared to FIOS or something when everyone else is on dial up. Sure, I guess you can always find someone smarter. But really, Einstein had a particular "smartness" and existed at a certain point in
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by litewulf 18y ago
Would I be using Mac OS X if it were as popular as Windows? ...
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by litewulf 18y ago
Not starving in the street: AKA full time job.
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by litewulf 18y ago
Is that 600 megs or 600 gigs? Because 600 megs is ~60 photos for me...
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by litewulf 18y ago
Well, often times, browser choice is out of your control. Anyway, my view is that this kind of attacks the problem from the wrong end. (Ideally people would have up to date software because it just happened for them.) I think telling people
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by litewulf 18y ago
I mean, what if there's a sqrt or something like that in the model. Imaginary numbers are fun to pay off, but no fun to receive :) Also: perhaps the model was built up using empirical data and they just never really had a chance to update t
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by litewulf 18y ago
If you're desperate(I once was), they're great ways to build your portfolio... but once you have something to your name, run and don't look back. (But keep your loyal customers. They're usually cool once they realize that you don't suck.)
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by litewulf 18y ago
Unfortunately, 25% of the users of my site use IE of some kind, and about half that is IE6. These are people who will either ignore me if I ask them to get a new browser or will never come back. Look guys, there are reasons that people don'
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by litewulf 18y ago
Can you imagine searching for "John" on Facebook without pagination? I think of pagination as an incentive to make search better, because people rarely click to page two...
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by litewulf 18y ago
This is why people have things called character and stuff. ;) (Not a personal slam. I just wish sometimes people would call out Apple on being sleazy before their "but its so prettyyyyy" rationalization kicks in. Because otherwise Apple wil
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by litewulf 18y ago
A concrete example of why its not always terrible to have logs data sitting around.
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by litewulf 18y ago
Scaling is painful and requires a good deal of upfront work. I can't guarantee that anyone will use stuff that I make, so I'd rather improve performance when I actually need to. Its addictive also to spend all your time thinking about sca
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by litewulf 18y ago
Caching is hard though, and its best to use profiling to decide what to cache. Especially if you have any sort of user-specific content, you need to resort to fragment caching which is sometimes tricky.
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by litewulf 18y ago
The day your website starts generating more traffic than one server can handle you need to do something very quickly to make sure it all stays up. So I think its often reasonable to pay the exorbitant prices as a stopgap before you can st
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by litewulf 18y ago
Google for Business gets semi-special treatment in the fact that Google actually has real info on their customers whereas a random Google account is sometimes difficult to truly authenticate for.
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by litewulf 18y ago
Ironically, when Windows changes anything, people are up in arms. I remember people being up in arms about the XP control panel redesign. And the Vista control panel redesign. And with Windows 7, people are saying "it's about time!" UI is a
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by litewulf 18y ago
How would screening the app store have solved any of his problems? (In fact, what problems does the average user have from an unscreened app store?)
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by litewulf 18y ago
Hm. Why'd they misspell advice as "hack"? That's just bizarre!
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by litewulf 18y ago
1. Look at problem 2. Think really hard 3. Write down solution (Worked for Feynman!)
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by litewulf 18y ago
I think some of this rampant over-staffing is more cultural than the product of a funny economic buildup. If you've been to other Asian countries, you'll see people doing ridiculous jobs (sidenote: many people in Taiwan have someone else wa
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by litewulf 18y ago
I know nothing about abuse protection, but I think they don't want to do this because it would reveal how the abuse detector worked. Imagine if everytime you changed your website, you'd get an email from Google saying "I liked this change"
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by litewulf 18y ago
Also: if anyone else runs into problems, let me know. No guarantees that I can fix anything, or even be able to answer your questions/talk about what triggered the account problems though. And also: sorry. I know it sucks. People at Google
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by litewulf 18y ago
They need to spend more money on it first ;)
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by litewulf 18y ago
Look at the Xbox. They pretty much said "hey, we'd like to make video games", and a few years later are a major major player in the market (before the Wii, it looked as if the game was just Microsoft and Sony, and Sega and Nintendo were loo
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by litewulf 18y ago
Sorry I must have explained things poorly. There are lots of little blurbs "X happened, would you like to go look?". Sometimes that go look is a backwards motion and sometimes its forward. "X happened, « would you like to go back" looks rea
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by litewulf 18y ago
Look at it this way, I've read every page on the internet (how do you think the crawler works?) If you complain about it online, I'll be there ;) In seriousness: I don't know. I try to be helpful about these sorts of things as a sort of pay
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by litewulf 18y ago
I picked colemak for this reason. (Which is made ironic because I use emacs and so it doesn't really matter because the keybinds are different anyway.) Its worth checking it out. Hard to tell if a new layout is any better or worse.
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by litewulf 18y ago
Gmail Manager is your friend ;)
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by litewulf 18y ago
Really needs to link to debugbar and setting up a JS debugger. Its pretty easy to guess what its going to render as in IE (...broken!), but its pretty hard to figure out how to get it render right .
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by litewulf 18y ago
I used to use Linux mailspools, or whatever, but I really don't know nowadays what's cool. I just use both the Vista email client and Gmail. When one of them fails, I'll just upgrade/try another one. Data preservation is hard.

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