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by mrshoe 17y ago
Who said Moore's law was dead?
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by mrshoe 17y ago
Since one of the comments he's talking about refers to "coding dynamic web pages entirely in SQL," I feel obliged to link to a project my friends and I put together a few years ago: http://sqlonrails.org That's still up there as one of my
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by mrshoe 17y ago
That sounds like a sensible explanation. Please don't see my comment as an invitation to post a scathing review of my startup. ;-)
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by mrshoe 17y ago
I think this remains to be seen. Since we don't know what the Next Big Thing will be, we can't say that Google will be unable to see it. Right now Google is a search company. If history is any indicator, they will behave just like their pre
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by mrshoe 17y ago
All press is good press? I do wonder why TechCrunch's startup reviews are almost always glowing. What kind of pressure is there on these media outlets to write positive articles? Is there any incentive to not rip into companies like Busines
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by mrshoe 17y ago
Don't forget PyCon next year ( http://us.pycon.org/ )!
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by mrshoe 17y ago
Very cool! It must have been fun to watch that all play out first hand. I was in High School still, unfortunately. I was definitely a PointCast user, though. Although it didn't turn out to be revolutionary, I certainly found it useful.
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by mrshoe 17y ago
Many of us probably don't remember these early days of the web, but a lot of companies were founded (and acquired) because they were going to be part of the impending "push technology" revolution. PointCast is just the poster child for th
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by mrshoe 17y ago
It's hard for me to believe that push technology is going to revolutionize the internet. Why? Because it didn't happen last time (or the time before that). From http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PointCast_(dotcom) : The PointCast Network
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by mrshoe 17y ago
I thought that the Web 2.0 revolution brought about a huge wave of user-generated content . A Web 2.0 app doesn't necessarily have to create content or aggregate content. It just needs to make it easy for users to create the content and sh
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by mrshoe 17y ago
This man is a saint. For years I've wished more people understood these principles. Instead, I get drivers who are angry at me for leaving a big space in front of my car. If only I pulled up right behind the car in front of me, they'd be 60
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by mrshoe 17y ago
I've interviewed with Google, Apple, and Microsoft. It always strikes me that the questions they ask you during interviews are not at all representative of what you need to be able to do on the job. That's why these course materials are in
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by mrshoe 17y ago
The current economic situation has left quite a few talented, experienced hackers in the job market. Those of us who are hiring can really benefit from harvesting this talent pool. From the outside looking in, it seems like Facebook is alre
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by mrshoe 17y ago
Google link for those of us who don't subscribe: http://www.google.com/url?q=http://online.wsj.com/article/SB...
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This is new media marketing at its finest. How do you ensure that your newly discovered species makes it on the next Planet Earth? Name it after David Attenborough. :-P Even scientists are reading Seth Godin's blog these days.
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by mrshoe 17y ago
Plain insane, indeed. I have no idea how they even pull that off. I feel sorry for their families. I really hope Apple hires and trains about another 200 of these reviewers.
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by mrshoe 17y ago
I don't understand how an in-depth article like this can not include a mention of RabbitMQ. Did I miss it somehow?
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by mrshoe 17y ago
I'm not going to claim to know how long Apple should be allowed to "ponder" the Google Voice app, as they said they are doing in their answers to the FCC's questions. Six or eight weeks seems like plenty of time to decide. However, there i
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by mrshoe 17y ago
Taking lazy registration one step further and going with no registration at all is a cool concept, as well. If you can center all of your functionality around email (or something else that already provides auth), it's possible. When App Eng
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by mrshoe 17y ago
Commonly cited use cases include: 1. Break out of nested loops. 2. Jump to cleanup code at the end of a function instead of an early return. I never use goto, but I think the usual knee jerk reaction to it is sometimes unwarran
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by mrshoe 17y ago
s/languages/software/g
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by mrshoe 17y ago
While I agree with the premise of this comment, I'm not sure it necessarily applies to this specific situation. Web frameworks do their best to provide useful, general abstractions for writing web applications. Sometimes you need different
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by mrshoe 17y ago
Exactly right. This is not an argument to not use Django. I think a lot of us have come to the same conclusion as this author: the abstractions frameworks provide are often too high level. Very quickly the needs of your project cannot be se
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by mrshoe 17y ago
I'm going to slightly disagree with other comments here and say that LOC is a meaningful metric. It might not be the best, as OP suggests, but it's worth something. Having written a lot of Python it is now frustrating to write C++, mostly b
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by mrshoe 17y ago
My college roommate's dad worked with microfinance companies in India. Every month, a representative from the company would go from town to town collecting monthly payments from the borrowers. Sometimes the borrower would claim that they co
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by mrshoe 17y ago
Startup idea: present the user with 8 adjectives and ask them to pick the one which best describes their mood, then give them an optimal article to read as they start their day. We'd all be more successful if we could capitalize on our good
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by mrshoe 17y ago
I'd read that before, but I think I needed it today. Maybe someone should set up a cron job to submit that talk to HN every 3 months.
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by mrshoe 17y ago
Makes it look easy. Python is poetry in $EDITOR.
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I'm not a huge fan of the iPhone's closed nature, but I think most of what you said above could be considered arguments in favor of it. For example: yell at the hardware manufacturer instead of the software developer; yell at the app develo
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by mrshoe 17y ago
I sync my music with a Perl script that looks at my xmms2 playlist and copies the music in there to the phone. For some reason I don't think this is exactly what Gruber had in mind when he said, "The goal should be to make a phone that is

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