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by mnutt 15y ago
If you're eventually going to hit the upper limit of a single machine, have you really gained that much? Eventually you'll have to figure out a way to coordinate between processes, because some will be running on other nodes.
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by mnutt 15y ago
Javascript doesn't really conflate arrays and hashes in the way PHP does. It uses the same bracket syntax for both, but you either instantiate an array or a hash. I don't think that allowing you to iterate over a hash as if it were an arra
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by mnutt 15y ago
Agreed that it's nearly impossible to generally parse web pages now, though if you're screen scraping it's still pretty easy (if not easier than before) to pull out data. Before you had to parse the DOM; now you can often get structured da
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by mnutt 15y ago
I think he's saying that it makes scraping harder. But today JS frameworks like jQuery give us the means to do anything we want javascript-related, in any browser that half-supports javascript. By deprecating IE7 they're just saying they'r
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by mnutt 15y ago
Yeah, it's unfortunate that when your clean but inefficient code falls over, the engineering department takes all of the blame. But when your efficient but unclean code doesn't allow you to iterate as quickly, it's harder to place blame.
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by mnutt 15y ago
Hasn't Firefox 1.5 lacked security updates since it was discontinued ~4 years ago? Why not Chrome or something?
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by mnutt 15y ago
Do assets in public/ break in 3.1? Sure, it's encouraged, but I'm pretty sure if you tell your web server to point to public/ it will serve your static assets from there. As far as I know you can upgrade your existing rails app from 3.0 to
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by mnutt 15y ago
You're right. The lunch places are getting better, but that doesn't really support the idea that it's more than just bankers these days.
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by mnutt 15y ago
It wasn't a rewrite. The point of TDD-assisted refactoring isn't to not change anything ever, it's to change things in a controlled way and prevent regressions. It was actually pretty interesting to watch carlhuda and the rails team take r
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by mnutt 15y ago
You could also pixel-track the email, and only allow in the first IP address. However, that falls over with people who have Display Images turned off AND don't click through to the website before they forward it. But if you HAD to do this
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by mnutt 15y ago
Thanks, I knew what the image was, just not why it appeared as the thumbnail.
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by mnutt 15y ago
I think it's this guy? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swami_Ramdev
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by mnutt 15y ago
Then if it takes off, Microsoft will be locked into a competitor's platform. If someone's using Windows + iCloud, what's to keep them from switching to the (presumably better, more integrated) Mac + iCloud?
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by mnutt 15y ago
While not integrated into the OS, Homebrew is an excellent package manager on OS X.
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by mnutt 15y ago
I imagine the reason they were not known for restaurants and nightlife is that it was mostly offices and traders left at the end of the business day. As more people start living there, we're slowly getting more restaurants and bars.
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by mnutt 15y ago
I posted the link into Yammer, which tries to find the most significant image for the thumbnail. I couldn't figure out where that image came from.
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by mnutt 15y ago
It's a bit different to have Google begin competing with you, unless you've built your product on Google's APIs. If you're competing with your provider, you're probably not on an even playing field. They can use internal APIs or just compl
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by mnutt 15y ago
Foreman is especially fantastic for development environments. In past projects our different services and daemons have always either been started ad-hoc, or by some awful bash script. This lets new team members get up and running really qu
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by mnutt 15y ago
Combining the IR LEDs with throwies ( http://graffitiresearchlab.com/projects/led-throwies/ ) would be ideal.
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by mnutt 15y ago
Actually, we haven't determined that there is any malice whatsoever. In fact, you seem to have created an account just to perpetuate that falsehood.
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by mnutt 15y ago
I'd be careful saying "this is like an hour fix" and then attributing it to malice, unless you work there. It's like saying the "unknown or expired link" message you get on HN is "like an hour fix...if pg wanted to" and thus pg hates us. T
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by mnutt 15y ago
Check out this, from the EFF: http://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2010/01/help-eff-research-web-b... It's possible to identify a user based on only browser characteristics with a pretty high success rate. While in the white paper they mainly ta
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by mnutt 15y ago
Rereading that article, I had forgotten about this part: "because synchronizing files is just not a killer application. I'm sorry. It seems like it should be. But it's not."
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by mnutt 15y ago
I've found Polymaps (polymaps.org) to also be great for making realtime geo-dashboards. Combined with CloudMade for map tiles, you can customize the look and feel very easily.
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by mnutt 15y ago
Even if you can't perfectly execute on your idea, the fact that you've built something yourself probably means that a) you care enough about the idea that you want to see it built one way or another, and b) you've thought through how the
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by mnutt 15y ago
Another route that some companies go is the dual-license model: you release your product as GPL, and if other companies want to use your code and not GPL it they can pay you for a license. That way you have both an open source community an
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by mnutt 15y ago
I tried out statsd + graphite and it's flexible, but it requires a ton of dependencies (python, django, apache, cairo, sqlite, and node.js) and needs a lot of configuration across a bunch of apps to get up and running. It might not be too
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by mnutt 15y ago
Apple has a patent on momentum-based touch scrolling that looks like it covers this: http://reviews.cnet.com/8301-19512_7-20015237-233.html
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by mnutt 15y ago
And that's exactly what xAuth is. It just drops the pretense that oAuth inside a developer-controlled webview is trusted, authenticates directly using email/password, and then stores a token like oAuth.
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by mnutt 15y ago
This would require a server-side component, as the browser has cross-domain limitations and couldn't generate arbitrary network traffic anyway. You could tunnel through websockets, however.

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