nicpottier

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by nicpottier 17y ago
Yes, Maven sucks, but for large projects the dependency management is rather nice. Java as a language is terribly dependency crazy, and being able to add three lines to your pom and get a new library in along with all its dependencies is a
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by nicpottier 17y ago
Are you pitting XML against Protocol Buffers? Because they are completely different things. Being self describing is a big deal.. it makes interchange far far easier and obvious. As does being human readable, debugging a web API in a bro
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by nicpottier 17y ago
XML wasn't really ever made to be high performance though. It was made to be easy to read for humans and relatively easy to generate. At those two things it is awesome. If you are sticking binary data in XML and passing it over the wire
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by nicpottier 17y ago
I think it is a bit premature to call it a failure. I think there is far too much focus on the hardware going on. The fact is that OLPC is actually doing some pretty good work. Yes, the hardware is more expensive than they had hoped, but
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by nicpottier 17y ago
Will it work for voice? Definitely. Will it work for data, kinda. The nexus is on the 3G band that T-Mo uses (as does most of the rest of the world I believe) but not the one AT&T uses, so you'll be stuck on Edge (which sucks) if you w
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by nicpottier 17y ago
step1) write trivial app, put in app store for 99c step2) document process, get picked up by gizmodo step3) profit! (??) I guess it's a clever way to break through the noise.. but 99c? really?
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by nicpottier 17y ago
I kinda like it.. sure it is one more level of abstraction, and good editors will help with the tag balancing, but let's face it, (X|HT)ML syntax isn't exactly natural to write, and I say this despite having written it by hand for well over
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by nicpottier 17y ago
They are 'available' in the store: < http://www.cherrypal.com/openstore/product_info.php?products... ; Though I don't think I'd trust it. If they can actually afford to sell them for $99 it is actually kind of a neat product just from
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by nicpottier 17y ago
Ya, I think there are definitely cases where it becomes very burdensome to use a NoSQL setup. Certainly anything where you are wanting to do analysis in the DB doesn't work very well. In your particular case I guess you'd have to do two qu
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by nicpottier 17y ago
Can you give me an example of what you are thinking about? There's is no doubt SimpleDB especially can be a bit odd, it kind of forces you to create your own munged columns if you are doing queries across fields etc, but I've yet to run acr
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by nicpottier 17y ago
Although it is sometimes hard to make work in all cases, I've recently moved a big project from MySQL to a Amazon's SimpleDB and S3 and it has turned out awesome. You have to design the system from the ground up to deal with the 'eventual