mattmcknight

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by mattmcknight 18y ago
That would all change were it to gain in usage.
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by mattmcknight 18y ago
I find these sort of things more useful in theory than in practice. I used to think that the architecture described in this article was a good goal. I have since seen systems built with the many layers of indirection (and pass through serv
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by mattmcknight 18y ago
My random query for "tears of a clown" worked well. How tied is this to the internet? There might be a market in the Enterprise search world if you are managing the index.
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by mattmcknight 18y ago
and I will click on them every time I see them. at least twice. i think that money is better off in google's pockets.
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by mattmcknight 18y ago
How can we stop it?
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by mattmcknight 18y ago
"This was a huge shock, and it turned out that an unusual teacher was the culprit. She was a natural kindergarten and first grade teacher who was also a natural mathematician. She figured out just what to do with 6 year olds and was able to
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by mattmcknight 18y ago
Amusingly, this policy blocks several US Dept of Defense public facing websites.
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by mattmcknight 18y ago
"most developers aren't hedge-fund traders, auto mechanics, laywers, hotel managers, etc. yet somehow people manage to build specialized software for those fields. " But imagine how much better the software will be when the developers know
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by mattmcknight 18y ago
It's a nice feature for browsing Wikipedia aimlessly. I'd be more interested in an article about this: "We’ve got a super-fast in-house graph storage system that makes it possible to do interesting stuff with graphs quickly, notably figure
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by mattmcknight 18y ago
Over-complicated is also a tough guideline to follow, because how do you when you have "too much" complexity?
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by mattmcknight 18y ago
And would the answer then be, join the billing the team for while, learn their processes, and then build a system to make your job better and provide value to the project sponsor.
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by mattmcknight 18y ago
Again, I don't think he or I are criticizing what you're talking about when we would say business requirements are BS. Steve probably agrees with you. His target audience is the people attempting to learn what is, unfortunately, standard in
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by mattmcknight 18y ago
"You get with them and "live their lives" and suffer with them, understanding what they must accomplish, how they must do it, and what's stopping them now. " This is a great idea, and the real way to address the problem Steve suggests: Beco
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by mattmcknight 18y ago
Porcine
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by mattmcknight 18y ago
That's what I was about to say... Still the answer might be 3: one slice of a server, one desktop, one portable.
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by mattmcknight 18y ago
In the real google killer, the results search for you. (It will be much like Soviet Russia, in that regard.)
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by mattmcknight 18y ago
I like using the builder approach in Ruby. x.html { x.head x.body { for i in 1..5 { x.div(:id => i) { "yo" ... but my designer likes the templating stuff better. With a good IDE, it does become pretty
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by mattmcknight 18y ago
Feeds with summaries or whole articles.