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by mtts 18y ago
This may be just the TechCrunch blurb, but if they really want to be the WordPress of social networks, using Rails will be a problem for them. Part of the success of WP is that it uses PHP and MySQL, two technologies that are ubiquitous, an
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by mtts 18y ago
Jakob Nielsen says you're wrong: http://www.useit.com/alertbox/banner-blindness.html And my own very advanced N=1 research on myself says that too.
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by mtts 18y ago
The general perception seems to be that "SAP is expensive, difficult to implement and often doesn't work". At least, that's what a SAP sales person said in a speech he gave at an event for SAP implementation partners.
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by mtts 19y ago
What's missing from this rant is evidence. The author comes accross one incompetent programmer from Argentina and then goes off to state that Asians and Argentin[i?]ans have the wrong mindset to be a developer? It may be true that $20 an ho
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by mtts 19y ago
You'd think that, but about three years ago the Dutch minister of education (Maria van der Hoeven) suggested ID should be taught in schools as well. I was flabbergasted.
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by mtts 19y ago
The bad thing about doers is that they're scarce. And not just in the business world either. Talkers are everywhere and it annoys the * out of me. (btw - while it's true that you can spot doers and talkers from miles away, I know one guy -
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by mtts 19y ago
Amazing how short the memory of science journalists can be. This is old news. As you'll find out if you do a quick google: http://www.google.com/search?q=humanity%20near%20extinction A lot of the results are older than, well, last week. I
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by mtts 19y ago
Not that I'm an expert on the celebrity chef restaurant business or anything, but I can name one example where this is at least partly true: Ferran Adria's El Bulli (voted best restaurant in the world a few years ago) actually operates at a
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by mtts 19y ago
With due respect, but I don't think storing an MD5-ed password in a user cookie is a smart thing to do. It's probably safer to store a session id or somesuch.
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by mtts 19y ago
I've looked at it on occasion as well, and while it's not exactly a work of art, it's not exactly terrible either, especially for an open source blogging product. If you really want terrible code, take a look at Pivot. That's awful . WP is
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by mtts 19y ago
The fact that he's running it on IIS through FastCGI seemed to me to be a bigger problem than the fact that he's running WP as well. Not because I don't think IIS is a capable web server, but because Wordpress seems to me to be primarily or
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by mtts 19y ago
For some reason lyrics don't bother me that much. It's probably part of the same mechanism that makes it impossible for me to remember lyrics, whether they're in my native language or English. To my ears the human voice is just another inst
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by mtts 19y ago
In really stressful situations, old hardcore or punk (that I know really well so I won't actively listen to it) helps me get things done. But usually it's just post rock or techno or something else that's kind of boring and instrumental.
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by mtts 19y ago
Possibly. But less ambitious: it's actually not a bad way (I think - I don't know enough about JQuery to have an idea about the performance of this) to do client side filtering of data presented in tables. His technique, at least, is more r
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by mtts 19y ago
Power corrupts and absolute power corrupts absolutely and all that. Sure,Google isn't all that corrupt right now, but they're certainly becoming powerful.
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by mtts 19y ago
Well, you already did and people seem to agree with you but really, the article isn't that bad. It's not particularly well written but I certainly see no harm in an article that points out the obvious - Google, with getting their hands on
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by mtts 19y ago
I'm not even all that old (32) and even I recall at least two previous cycles where "philosophy was fashionable again" and newspapers wrote about it after which philosophy was pretty much ignored for a few years. And I'm willing to bet that
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by mtts 19y ago
Very cleverly done. Unfortunately the output is terrible - both unusable in your code and unusable to learn from.
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by mtts 19y ago
That's not really what this is about, however. Knowing who Enrico Fermi, Alan Turing or Paul Erdős is, indicates you know your math. Knowing who Pushkin is, on the other hand, serves as a tribal marking that signals that you're one of a gro
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by mtts 19y ago
Agreed. Adults who list Harry Potter as their favorite book (which is not the same as admitting Harry Potter is a fun read) by doing so fairly explicitly state that the universe of a children's book, however well written it is, is pretty mu
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by mtts 19y ago
Commendable as this is: it's of course a lot easier for employees you think highly of than employees you dislike or with whom things simply didn't work out: "I'm letting go Bob. Bob is an ok coder, but it didn't really work out with him. Bo
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by mtts 19y ago
It's not just RAM, but it's not political either. It's battery life, I should think. Remember this is a phone we're talking about and if that phone has to be recharged every six hours because some application constantly wants to poll the i
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by mtts 19y ago
With a steamer you're still working with water so some aromatics will probably get lost. A better alternative to microwaving would be stir-frying as you coat your vegetables in oil so no aromatics would leak out.
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by mtts 19y ago
Except that the first major obstacle turned out not to be another serious war (that started, sort of, in 2001) but the dot com bust Nevertheless, it's a fun read.
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by mtts 19y ago
Somewhat off topic (this is certainly not cooking in ten minutes or less) but the English chef Heston Blumenthal is something of a cooking hacker whose work some of you might find interesting. There's a whole bunch of his writings here: ht
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by mtts 19y ago
Cooking eggs can take 10 minutes (start from cold water, then at 10 minutes the yolk is semi-solid), but to do it properly you need 20 minutes to half an hour at least. At 62 - 68 degrees centrigrade, that is. If the temperature gets any
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by mtts 19y ago
Quick and fairly good: some Turkish or Italian bread with a stew made of canned tomatoes, canned tuna and lima beans (also canned). Add some fresh basil and maybe some grated cheese. Five minutes tops.
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by mtts 19y ago
Pasta in general can be done quite nicely in the time it takes to cook the pasta (which should never be more than ten minutes). As the pasta cooks, chop up some vegetables and fry it. Maybe with some cream or some minced meat or something e
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by mtts 19y ago
Like you, I have an aversion to microwaves but recently I found a use for them (thanks to culinary hacker Heston Blumenthal): use them to "cook" vegetables of which the aromatics dissolve in water, like fennel, asparagus and broccoli. What
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by mtts 19y ago
Except that in a democracy, what a government controlled search engine does with your data is more transparent than what a publicly held company (Google, say) does with it. Of course the EU itself is very far from being a democracy (unlike

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