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by mtts 17y ago
The button element has some issues with what it submits as its value, which might not be a problem if you're using it as a substitute for a single submit button in a form, as in this case, but it's still worth noting.
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by mtts 17y ago
Meh. Travel is overrated. The chances of you actually learning anything of substance by running around from one exotic country to another are very slim indeed. Staying in another country for a substantial amount of time, on the other hand,
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by mtts 17y ago
Agreed. I find the fairly common appropriation of communist iconography to look "cool" quite offensive. And stupid. Especially in this case: these guys are Hungarians and should really know better.
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by mtts 17y ago
The guy quotes "Data integrity is 100% paramount, trumping all other concerns, such as performance and scalability." as somewhat of a disadvantage of SQL databases. Then he goes on to mention that e-commerce orders are examples of things wh
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by mtts 17y ago
I think his main improvement to Twitter is not debatable at all - being able to host your own and determining who can join and who can't - is key for microblogging like this to really take off. Twitter has shown the world that microblogging
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by mtts 18y ago
What won me over to TextMate was the syntax mechanism: it's specifically geared towards situations where you're mixing more than one language in a single file (common in web development). Does this editor have that (couldn't figure it out f
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by mtts 18y ago
I'm not sure who this author is, but it seems to me he's overlooking the enormous benefit that when a strict xml parser barfs on a file, it's immediately and unequivocally clear which party in a multi party business process is causing a pro
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by mtts 18y ago
Maybe not complicity, but fairly useless, yes. Reporting is also gatekeeping. Reading #mumbai on Twitter you learn nothing beyond what the ticker on CNN tells you ("Terrorist attacks in Mumbai. Situation confusing").
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by mtts 18y ago
Yeah, but natural strawberry flavor, you know, the flavor of strawberries contains a lot of these chemicals as well.
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by mtts 18y ago
Good point. Apparently the UK has a situation similar to the US where debt rates are enormous. But you're right in that most of the world is rather more frugal than the US.
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by mtts 18y ago
Since the financial system is indeed global, world wide is correct. Sure, it's only in the US, the UK and Spain that a housing bubble has burst (AFAIK, still, that's more world wide than the US alone), but financial institutions are in trou
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by mtts 18y ago
I think the point is not that no session state at all should be stored client side, but that most session state should not be.
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by mtts 18y ago
You shouldn't have changed the wording, because you were right: the free market contains the seeds of its own destruction: in a free market manufacturers are free to form a cartel and deny others the chance to enter into their market. Which
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by mtts 18y ago
You shouldn't have changed the wording, because you were right: the free market contains the seeds of its own destruction: in a free market manufacturers are free to form a cartel and deny others the chance to enter into their market. Which
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by mtts 18y ago
Look, there's merit to this article, but if it's really necessary to post it to the front page of Hacker News, I'm sure SICP deserves mention as well.
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by mtts 18y ago
Good suggestion. However, research the ones that are left before you spend a day travelling to one of them, as chances are it'll be pretty but very, very small (thinking of Doesburg and Bronkhorst, for example).
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by mtts 18y ago
Tournai, Belgium. The inner town is almost entirely medieval (and on the Unesco list). Somewhat less spectacular but still fine is nearby Kortrijk.
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by mtts 18y ago
If it were true, Guido at least would be happy (how much more "blub" can you get than "programming for everyone"?) Unfortunately, it isn't true at all. As it stands, no one but hardcore web app enthousiasts use Google Apps. That hardly make
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by mtts 18y ago
An embarrassment that solves no problem, not even the problem of agreeing on how to represent data? Surely you jest. In the real world, well, my world anyway, the problem of how to transfer bits of data around in a file format wildly differ
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by mtts 18y ago
In France they give the thing away with mobile phone subscriptions. What they do is build dazzling displays for it in mobile phone stores, positioning it as the lastest in cool gadgetry. And I must admit it really looks slick, in a "I didn'
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Quantity Always Trumps Quality(codinghorror.com)
53 points by mtts 18y ago|23 comments
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by mtts 18y ago
I personally don't see a desktop OS being "game changing" at this point anymore. We've pretty much figured out what we're going to be using desktop and laptop computers for by now. But you're right in so far that Microsoft's all-important "
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by mtts 18y ago
The jump from OS 9 to OS X did not happen when Apple nearly went under. It happened after sales had picked up again with the release of the iMac and similar hardware. Of course Apple at the time was nowhere near as profitable as it is today
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by mtts 18y ago
It's responses like these that at the very least do very little to disprove the author's point. Of course YC is not a cult and PG is not a cult leader, but some people here do seem to treat them as such. Some of the questions asked here (li
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Why facts won't demolish the conspiracy theories(spiked-online.com)
1 points by mtts 18y ago|1 comments
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by mtts 18y ago
He's not. Read the example again. He's pointing to code that: - uses the implicit $_ variable - twice - and modifies what it points to The regex is just for dramatic effect.
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by mtts 18y ago
So there's a bunch of Perl lovers kneejerkingly responding to this post that the author doesn't "get" it. Now I myself love Perl and code in it for a living and I think the author does in fact "get" it, it's just that he thinks Perl is a pr
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by mtts 18y ago
Please provide some of those reasons then. I'm curious. There's a lot of them and they're wealthier than most of us will ever be, but the worst generation?
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by mtts 18y ago
Good point. However, even if times get tough for Google, the basic principle (a large number of advertisers that trust them are worth more than a smaller number of referrals) still stands. For Google to start screwing their advertisers, tim
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by mtts 18y ago
"Think Google will not do it? The last time I read their terms and conditions, there is nowhere that it says they cant do this. They will make oral statements saying things like “If we did that we would lose the trust of our advertisers and

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