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by mrshoe 17y ago
This is precisely why the desktop OS market represents a huge opportunity right now. If not an opportunity for startups then for significant innovation by the existing players. Our usage has changed so much that the standard patterns implem
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by mrshoe 17y ago
I have worked on major console games and written games in both C and C++. I also maintain an open source raytracer which I've implemented in C, C++, D, and python. So yes, I speak from experience. Eve online is a great example of a game for
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by mrshoe 17y ago
C++ violates the Zen of Python's axiom that "explicit is better than implicit" all over the place. C does not; it is very explicit. I would write as much as possible in Python and use C for the performance critical stuff (which, for a game,
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I think that's just a link bait title which the author only addresses briefly. The rest of the article is actually quite valuable.
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Hopefully they can overcome whatever knocked the PayPal crew off this idea originally: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PayPal#Beginnings Maybe the ubiquity of iPhones was the missing ingredient?
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Interesting that Bill Gates said, "Microsoft is rewriting all its' application offerings to use an advanced HTML interface and no longer the current windows based system," in 1998. Why are we still not there, 11 years later? Coincidentally,
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by mrshoe 17y ago
If I'm reading the docs correctly, you'd have to make a server-side HTTP request from your synchronous app to nginx for each message you want to push to each client . I'm pretty sure that will be prohibitively slow. It would be much nicer
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Let's Build The Real Web OS(shoptalkapp.com)
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I will be happy to see the clutter of all the "Lite" apps disappear from the App Store. With the race-to-the-bottom economy of the App Store, though, I have to wonder if Free will be the new $.99 and every app will have a screen that says,
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by mrshoe 17y ago
"Disjoint" is probably more accurate.
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When Mercedes releases a new E-Class, Honda doesn't start shaking in its boots about declines in Civic sales. Gruber is right; the markets for Windows and Mac OS are becoming more and more orthogonal.
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by mrshoe 17y ago
I must say that this article kind of turns me off to iPhone development. They made a huge marketing push for that app. Somehow they got press coverage all over the web. They ran a laptop giveaway for people who retweeted the launch. Their
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> Releasing means showing it to the world. It does if you're Apple, but it doesn't if you're me. You tell me how I can get the entire world to check out my little startup ( http://shoptalkapp.com ;) ) and then I'll take your advice a
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by mrshoe 17y ago
I say this with all sincerity: It must have been hard work for him to learn how to not come across as an arrogant douchebag like he used to. Kudos to a nerd who learned how to hack his personality and become a positive PR force instead of a
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Exactly. Hence the "pre" in prefork. A "forking" web server (one fork per request) would be incredibly inefficient, whereas prefork is only... slightly inefficient. :-)
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by mrshoe 17y ago
Sure, now that HN has decided that enough time has elapsed to allow me to reply. :-) Actually, antonovka did an excellent job explaining it above. The most important aspect is that threads are "lighter weight" than processes. They use less
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by mrshoe 17y ago
Where were all you people in this thread the other day when I seemed to be the only one who understood the other side of this debate?!? :-P I'm also very curious about the 16 workers per box model. Frankly, that github would ditch haproxy i
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by mrshoe 17y ago
It's quite a bit different from group chat in Gtalk. The biggest difference is that the rooms are persistent and any time you log in you can scroll back to catch up on missed conversations. With Gtalk (or any IM service) group chats are usu
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by mrshoe 17y ago
As all of us chatters and instant messengers grow up and enter the "real world", we are realizing that those forms of communication and collaboration can be really useful at work. Unfortunately, the usual reaction is to get everyone in your
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Gold Plating Hamburger Patties(shoptalkapp.com)
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This is a great article and it covers almost all the bases. The only thing I'd add is a discussion of UI refactoring . Over time, creeping featurism tends to take over. Your users will request every possible feature and your marketing depa
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by mrshoe 17y ago
Oh, you were referring to the syscalls/portability tradeoff. In that case it's still not really a counter example, because Apache made the same decision in its early versions (Unix only). And that's a reasonable decision to make given the t
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That's not really a counter example. nginx does indeed fork off child processes, but it uses async I/O in each child process. It doesn't use the traditional pre-fork process-per-connection model that Apache's pre-fork MPM uses or that Unico
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by mrshoe 17y ago
There's a good reason most Ruby and Python projects don't rely heavily on system calls: portability. If you care at all about portability, it's just easier to not hit the system calls directly, otherwise you'll have to detect host OS and ma
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by mrshoe 17y ago
You don't have to run an email newsletter to make money in this business, either. Check out this very cool (and successful) piece of Mac software by HN user jhammer: http://ethreesoftware.com/directmail/index.php It does pretty much every
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Maybe there are some HN readers who are part of small teams trying to build profitable businesses from scratch and they need to figure out how to wear 10 different hats and get 100 hours of work done every 24 hours and still have time to sl
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To-do lists can work for some people, but here's why they're dangerous: 1) The urgency-importance matrix theory ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:MerrillCoveyMatrix.png ). Given the 2x2 matrix of (important, unimportant) x (urgent, not ur
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The most important lesson to learn here is that all code, including tests, is a means to an end. A lot of people geek out about new programming languages, object oriented design, automated testing, TDD, XP, and various other methodologies d
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I would even sum up his advice as, "Do exactly the opposite of what these other smart people like Mitch Kapor have been telling you to do today." Of course, as you mentioned, he arrived just in time for his talk, so he didn't even know that
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by mrshoe 17y ago
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