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by mtts 18y ago
He addesses this very point in his post: "As all organizations mature they tend to add PROCESS. These processes exist to insulate the companies from the mistakes that occur after a company gets to a certain size and can no longer trust its
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by mtts 18y ago
Of course in order to do this the guy will need to move to Malta or some other jurisdiction where online gambling is legal, but other than that you're spot on.
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by mtts 18y ago
I think you're being too optimistic about the number of non technical people that will use this service. For them to do so would require them to understand what blogging is, why they would want to keep a blog and how simply mailing your pos
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by mtts 18y ago
That is pretty much the only thing I can see scribd being useful for, but, as I said elsewhere in this thread, Google's cache is now making those available in HTML as well, so it's not a unique selling point for Scribd.
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by mtts 18y ago
The swearing is a bit too much, I agree, but I think his point is that scribd is a completely useless service that can't be improved because its basic premise ("sharing documents on the internet") is wrong.
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by mtts 18y ago
Even if you don't have a PDF reader, there's still Google's chache that will display PDF and Word files in HTML just fine. Scribd is completely and utterly useless. In two years time we will laugh about the little startup that thought it co
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by mtts 18y ago
Where I work, we separate layout and content quite religiously because they're done by different people. A mess of table based HTML may make things easier for the layout guy, but it makes it more difficult for the content people to work wit
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Going Dark (a response to Jeff Atwood)(tech.rommelhok.com)
8 points by mtts 18y ago|2 comments
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by mtts 18y ago
I do. Not because it makes me feel special to have a lot of it (I don't have but a handful of it) but because it serves as a measure of how you're contributing to this community. A downvote should be a warning that you've wasted this commun
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by mtts 18y ago
Re: Nobody uses Silverlight: some tv channels (Italian RAI, Dutch NOS) do for streaming TV over the web. Don't know why, though.
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by mtts 18y ago
Though it's somewhat longer than this, "A Modest Proposal", I assume, would meet with a similar response from you, no? For what it's worth, I thought it was reasonably funny.
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by mtts 18y ago
First of all, the corn / ethanol thing. That gets thrown about a lot, but it's not true. Only about 2% of the world's crop yield is used for biofuel production. So that by itself can't explain the current food crisis (which is real, but onl
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by mtts 18y ago
The point is that food is not video games. Food is a necessity for survival, unlike video games, and one that isn't best produced by the free market. If farmers are not subsidized, you get things like the current food crisis: big companies
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by mtts 18y ago
I disagree with you, of course, but finding a fellow cycling fan here on HN is cool. And I do agree with you that HN shouldn't cover the Giro. That's taking it too far (but I do think an occasional piece on a major geo-political issue is no
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by mtts 18y ago
Actually, regulation and subsidies can be good for food production. They give farmers a fighting chance against big food corporations, which helps the food supply because while a small farm may not be profitable without government subsidi
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by mtts 18y ago
Because hackers might also care about the world around them, that's why.
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Writing a framework [3]: The Model View Controller paradigm and object orientation(tech.rommelhok.com)
1 points by mtts 18y ago|0 comments
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by mtts 18y ago
Of course it can handle your needs. It's no match, however, for the community around Textmate that provides all sorts of bundles and snippets that may come in handy (and most of which you will never ever use). For example, if a new web appl
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by mtts 18y ago
It depends. If you pay in dollars, Textmate is fairly expensive, yes. If you don't, its about 25 glasses of beer in a pub. No big deal. For that money you get the text editor with the largest community of developers on the Mac platform whic
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Writing a framework: abstracting out data storage functions(tech.rommelhok.com)
2 points by mtts 18y ago|0 comments
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by mtts 18y ago
There is no connection. The fact that they're using RoR to build what is really a very, very simple web site suggests their problem is not knowing which tools to use, which is a problem you can not solve by throwing more hardware at it. Tal
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by mtts 18y ago
Using Ruby on Rails is an issue, I would think. You do not need a framework for storing and sending out 140 byte messages but if you do use one, its overhead will actively hurt performance. The fact that they chose to use RoR anyway hints
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by mtts 18y ago
XML isn't used for its readability, it's used because it's a good standard format for exchanging data between different pieces of software. I work in the web shop business and for us standardization on XML is a god send: We no longer do hav
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by mtts 18y ago
Oh come on. This is POP we're talking about, not a full fledged SOAP client. Writing your own POP client is easier and takes less time than scavenging the internet for someone else's, looking through it to see if it doesn't have bugs and te
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by mtts 18y ago
There's probably something prebuilt already (dunno) but writing your own POP client isn't very difficult. Figure out how to set up a socket connection and issue some commands (look these up, but from memory all there is to POP is LOGIN, PAS
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by mtts 18y ago
Fairly obvious, I guess. It's always surprised me as well why no one has made Twitter into a protocol of sorts with a web app that you can host yourself instead of a centralized service. (the reason I haven't done that myself is that I have
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by mtts 18y ago
Interesting example indeed. I'd say they are a perfect illustration of a feature that, in the words of the article author, "[tries] to abstract out some behavior that is not that hard to deal with anyway".
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by mtts 18y ago
A MySQL model actually makes more sense. Thanks for clearing that up.
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by mtts 18y ago
You and, well, maybe everyone here and, uhm, maybe everybody at reddit and slashdot and then, well, nobody else.
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by mtts 18y ago
Exactly, or, to put it another way: right now synchronization is yet another way to share files either with someone else or with yourself, and there's already hundreds of methods for doing that, and once everyone starts using web applicatio

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