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by nir 16y ago
> Then again, this is an open source project and if you think that the documentation is lacking, then by all means try and improve it Sure, but when it comes to a making a choice between technologies, most people would pick the one tha
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by nir 16y ago
It was a sad day when _why left programming. I always thought he was one of the most creative people currently working in any medium, and we were lucky to have him choose code to express his ideas. Does anyone have any idea what he's been d
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by nir 16y ago
(Not OP, but I do work with Django every day for the past couple of months): 1. Django docs, while great compared to many other projects, are still quite lacking, especially in examples. 3. It's probably true, compared to the quantity of PH
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by nir 16y ago
It's not really a lack of dev talent in NYC, rather a surplus of founders. There are many committed and hardworking founders in NYC, but there's also an NYC phenomenon of the startup-as-country-club, where people with spare cash/time go int
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by nir 16y ago
Certain time, certain place. Check bus stats in Israel between 1993-2006 - I guarantee you will find significantly more passengers died of bombings than accidents. In any case, the stats are meaningless, as they have nothing to do with huma
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by nir 16y ago
That's interesting, I'm curious to hear more about it. Which country is that?
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by nir 16y ago
You are extrapolating from your own experience on situations which are very different. My argument has two points: 1. I don't consider the current situation in the US "terror". I'm talking about different times and places. If you were board
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by nir 16y ago
Again, depending on where you are.
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by nir 16y ago
That's an easy advice to give when you're not really facing terrorism, but an extremely difficult one to follow when there's non-negligible chance your children's school bus will be bombed.
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by nir 16y ago
"Betaworks, he said, will focus on five to 10 companies a year. The company has taken on some investors, most recently raising $20 million. The New York Times Company invested in that round of financing."
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by nir 16y ago
Yeah, also fits Wal Mart, Microsoft, McDonalds, Goldman Sachs...
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by nir 16y ago
Google "Rasmus Lerdorf". Look at some of his presentations & posts (which btw are impressively ego-free, compared to the usual output of web mini-celebs which achieved a lot less). He's far from being stupid or lazy, but like any good d
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by nir 16y ago
(I don't mean to be argumentative, I think it's a question many developers wrestle with) When I wrote "he", I meant the fictional guy saying "I'm a PHP coder". Obviously it would be better and more true to say something like "software devel
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by nir 16y ago
How would you suggest he present himself? (Not sure about devs coming with cereal boxes just yet, btw... The want ads I see still ask for "PHP Coder" and offer six figure salaries for good ones)
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by nir 16y ago
>Being talented in programming is simply not a binary situation, which JWZ shows quite well: he might be really good at some things Basically this is saying that JWZ, or any other programmer, is as good as the APIs he memorized and ha
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by nir 16y ago
The experience he describes of reading the NYT on the iPad is just like reading it online, they way most NYT readers consume it now. For that matter, it's like reading the paper NYT in a room that has a TV on. Yet, reading is still alive. S
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by nir 16y ago
It's not the Real World, it's just a certain part of it. Not a small part, but not all of it either. There are a lot of places that offer a chance to do far more satisfying work. (BTW I'm not sure I'd recommend academe for someone with his
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by nir 17y ago
http://therealurl.net runs on on GAE and handled >1m reqs/day a few times with no problem. Billing is turned on, but limited to $1/day - Google only charge for the resources you use and you can assign X cents for bandwidth, Y for CPU
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by nir 17y ago
Heroku's great, but in money/performance ratio it's not really comparable to GAE. The free Heroku package doesn't get you very far as far as scaling goes (though if you're willing to pay it's a great alternative to hosting your own Ruby sit
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by nir 17y ago
I'd wager more than %0.1 of the people would like to be able to get stuff from the player to the computer rather than only the other way around, for example, and more than %0.1 just find iTunes a pretty lame and hard to use product, regardl
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Thomas Barnett draws a new map for peace(ted.com)
2 points by nir 17y ago|0 comments
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Marketcetera - Open Source Trading Platform(marketcetera.com)
32 points by nir 17y ago|4 comments
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by nir 17y ago
The ability to quickly package your Chickenfoot scripts into Firefox extensions also holds a lot of value Definitely! I'm really interested in that feature - could you link to some docs of it? Couldn't find much on the site
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by nir 17y ago
Sort of like GreaseMonkey, but in addition to pure JS adds a nice API for simple access to most common operations. Pretty neat.
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Chickenfoot for Firefox: Rewrite the Web(groups.csail.mit.edu)
56 points by nir 17y ago|18 comments
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by nir 17y ago
Next time you're at a nice restaurant (or Starbucks) ask your server what their real passion is. Not starving or suffering, but many people still do take low paying work while trying to start a career in writing/acting/etc.
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Bing censors sexual & LGBT content in Arab nations(opennet.net)
26 points by nir 17y ago|14 comments
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by nir 17y ago
I'd say ignore the evil/not issue and just assume that Google, like any company, ultimately serve their own interests. If you plan to compete with them on search/ads/maps/gmail/etc, you might not want to be too vulnerable. If it's on a less
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A Combat Zone iPhone? Soldiers Have an App for That(wired.com)
1 points by nir 17y ago|0 comments
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by nir 17y ago
"It looks like twitter + images/screenshots, more or less" Perhaps another way to use forrst is as something like ffffound.com for code & web design - I browse it mostly in "Everyone's Posts" view, just to see interesting/inspiring st

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