nimbix

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by nimbix 17y ago
Your comment reminds me of the #2 fact from the book "Facts and fallacies of software engineering" which states that the best programmers are up to 28 times better than the worst programmers but nobody, including themselves, is aware of tha
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by nimbix 17y ago
Seedcamp sounds sort of similar. They're based in UK, but are funding startups from all over Europe. http://www.seedcamp.com/
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by nimbix 17y ago
I'm perfectly happy with Courier New. Most editors on windows use it by default and I never felt the need to change it.
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by nimbix 17y ago
This week in summary: people posting about people posting about people posting about being offended. My stack is overflowing.
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by nimbix 17y ago
Tried it in vmware earlier. I couldn't find a simple way to turn off font smoothing, only a 4 step wizard which kept repeatedly showing me text samples and asking which one looked best. Smoothed text makes me nauseous for some reason and I
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by nimbix 17y ago
Fake Snake (a different way of saying "python simulator" :)
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by nimbix 17y ago
I'm working on an experimental semantic web browser for Android called Mosembro. The point of the project is to show that semantic meta data can be used to make some tasks much less painful to perform while using a mobile web browser. Proje
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by nimbix 17y ago
You might also like Artificial Owl: http://www.artificialowl.net/ It has everything from shipwrecks to abandoned nuclear power plants.
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by nimbix 17y ago
I'd say the presentation itself didn't do much damage to Ruby, but the pissing match between the bloggers sure did. Thanks to them there's no way I'm going anywhere near Ruby anytime soon.
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by nimbix 17y ago
We do it over the weekend. Or at night. Or both. It's not fun, but we can handle it once every year and a half. I considered using Slony replication the last time we were upgrading to copy data between the databases, but I figured it doesn'
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by nimbix 17y ago
Too bad that the article completely skips these important new features: - Windowing Functions - Common Table Expressions & Recursive Joins - Default & Variadic parameters for functions - Column Permissions - Per-database
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by nimbix 17y ago
My experience with several 10-20GB databases shows that if you have autovacuum enabled you don't need to run vacuum full very often. We only do it once every couple of months and we're not seeing any significant table bloat, even though we'
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Crowdsourcing the semantic web(lexandera.com)
20 points by nimbix 18y ago|4 comments
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by nimbix 18y ago
Remembering words is different than remembering digits; mainly because remembering digits is actually remembering words that represent them ("five", for example). Therefore remembering digits would actually require you to remember 100 words
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by nimbix 18y ago
I'm also a satisfied user of this extension. I find it particularly interesting as an example of how crowdsourcing can work not only for posting news, tagging photos, etc, but also for contributing simple code snippets which find the "next
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Reinventing the wheel: the fluent interface design pattern(lexandera.com)
4 points by nimbix 18y ago|6 comments
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by nimbix 18y ago
Then again you might just see more hits because breaking out causes your page to reload.
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by nimbix 18y ago
Ah, yes... the recession. I keep hearing about it, but I'm just not feeling it.
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How Google's hypothetical web drive could be used for more than just storing spreadsheets(lexandera.com)
4 points by nimbix 18y ago|0 comments
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by nimbix 18y ago
You're right, those files would be useful. But the point of the examples is that all sorts of actions can be attached to semantically marked up data. Those actions could just as easily export data to a vcal file, or do something less obviou
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Mosebro: mobile semantic browser for Android(lexandera.com)
1 points by nimbix 18y ago|2 comments