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by nimbix 17y ago
It's the stage 5 programmers that scare me the most. They're the ones who want to rewrite everything from scratch because the current codebase doesn't contain enough patterns and it wasn't built using "proper" methodologies.
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The way I understand it the phrase "abstraction layer" is usually used to refer to the layer between your SQL and the database and is supposed to allow you to run the same SQL using multiple database engines (at least in theory). While the
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by nimbix 17y ago
I totally agree. DB abstraction libraries buy you very little in terms of database portability. I use them in my projects, but only because their object-oriented APIs are nicer to work with than plain pgsql_ /mysql_ /etc functions. I worked
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by nimbix 17y ago
Also, I believe Magnolia did do daily backups. They just weren't that good at it.
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by nimbix 17y ago
If free is the future, why does Chris Anderson's book titled "Free" still cost $26.99? Considering the whole book is about making money by giving things away, I'm surprised he hasn't figured it out how to do this with his own book. Also, I
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by nimbix 17y ago
Here's a nice electronic music guide with loots of samples for anyone interested in hearing the differences between the many sub genres. http://techno.org/electronic-music-guide/
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by nimbix 17y ago
This has been done dozens of times already, usually with better results. For the example I tried (a table listing events) it's only picking up the site's "register" and "add to favorites" links and there seems to be no way of telling it to
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by nimbix 17y ago
It's possible to set search_path to include multiple schemas, so a cross schema join would be easy as long as tables have different names.
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Amazing content-aware image resizing(faculty.idc.ac.il)
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by nimbix 17y ago
Wasn't RDFa created exactly for cases like this, so you could attach any kind of meaning to any block/element in your document? The NSFW tag (and MildlyNSFW and SFW and SARCASM and...) could then be something that's supported by, say, input
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by nimbix 17y ago
This reminds me of a textbook from college where the author tried to explain the concept of hegemony by writing 20 pages of unintelligible language, and failed to explain anything at all. Wikipedia, on the other hand, manages to explain the
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by nimbix 17y ago
Yikes, that's a lot of bad advice for one article. 3 out of 4 methods it recommends for preventing SQL injection should be avoided and it doesn't even mention prepared statements at all.
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by nimbix 17y ago
Did they just add that now? I don't remember seeing the hand cursor over text fields a couple of hours ago.
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While consistency is a good thing, it comes at a relatively high price in this case. Many blocks could be rendered just fine using only HTML and I'd be a much happier user if I could copy text from the search results.
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Each image tag also has its source data embedded in its alt attribute.
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by nimbix 17y ago
UPDATE: threw together a simple mock-up of what WoframAlpha inside Wikipedia might look like: http://bit.ly/3PHMD The content and position of a WolframAlpha block would be selected by article authors. Considering how much space it eats up
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by nimbix 17y ago
I don't see WA as a Wikipedia killer. It's more like a working version of Wikipedia articles: read about a concept on Wikipedia, then try it out in practice using WA. I think they complement each other very nicely!
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by nimbix 17y ago
It's a Monty Python reference.
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by nimbix 17y ago
From thousands of articles saying it's a Google killer. And I guess I'm not the only one who got that idea, because Google search for "wolfram alpha search engine" returns over 600.000 hits. Also, it looks just like a search engine.
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by nimbix 17y ago
After playing with WA for a while it seems to me that it is not so much a better search engine as it is a better encyclopedia. Many search results read like condensed Wikipedia articles.
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by nimbix 17y ago
There are 5999 spaces between words. But that still leaves him 1 character short.
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by nimbix 17y ago
Rapidly shoveling food in your mouth is a great way of gaining weight because you don't notice the point when you stop being hungry. Instead, you only stop when your stomach screams it can't take any more food. When I was trying to lose wei
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by nimbix 17y ago
What we have here is a wonderful example of filter failure. See this link: http://web2expo.blip.tv/file/1277460/ It's a video of Clay Shirky's web2expo keynote titled "It's Not Information Overload. It's Filter Failure." Here's what's hap
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by nimbix 17y ago
The article made me think that they use a one-dimensional star count (could be because of that image), so my reply was formed around that idea. I have to admit I never checked what kind of rating Yelp actually uses.
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by nimbix 17y ago
I like Amazon's 5 star rating system because it also tells you how many people gave the product which rating. There's a big difference if 20 people gave a product 3 stars or if 10 gave it 5 stars and 10 gave it 1 star. Amazon's system makes
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Those services were different because they were meant to provide an alternative URL for your website, not someone else's. Also, they required you to go through a signup process and I remember some of them displaying ads. And of course, th
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It's about length. If you limit yourself to numbers you only get 10 possible characters instead of 36 if you use letters or 62 if you make them case sensitive.
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by nimbix 17y ago
Yikes. Whoever created kontain.com did not know what they were doing. Not only does it break some basic browser functionality, like opening a link in new tab, but because it is all flash it is also painfully slow. It takes 9 seconds to disp
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by nimbix 17y ago
I'm on the other side: I can't stand apps made with flash. I believe that Youtube's player is the only good thing ever created using flash. Everything else is just cheesy all-flash websites and apps which break basic functionality of the
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by nimbix 17y ago
It's the same here in Slovenia. I didn't need to report anything personally because everything is done by the companies for you. They just sent me a letter at the end saying that I'm getting 50 EUR back.

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