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811.
by nir 17y ago
In very high volumes, tiny performance gains might help each server handle a few more requests - but in that case, you're better off just adding another server rather than changing all the prints to echos or whatever ;) It is important to h
812.
by nir 17y ago
Even if all the tips were valid, the performance gain is tiny in comparison to simply installing an opcode cache (APC/Zend/etc). And even after installing the opcode cache, performance for many web apps doesn't improve much as the bottlenec
813.
by nir 17y ago
Good for them. They are concentrating on doing their job (hopefully ;)) instead of chasing fads they don't really understand anyway, twittering about their breakfast or whatever. Media (CNN, NYT..) could actually take a hint from that.
814.
by nir 17y ago
Are you familiar with Earthships? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earthship There's a lot of interesting work done there on sustainable buildings, and I think there are ideas there that can be applied in non-earthship buildings as well.
815.
by nir 17y ago
Reposted, since now it's actually working ;) Hacked this together with FeedVolley ( http://feedvolley.com ), a RSS->HTML tool.
816.
Current tweets, photos & videos from Iran, updating every few minutes(feedvolley.com)
2 points by nir 17y ago|1 comments
817.
by nir 17y ago
The page only shows the last 30 odd messages... There are a lot more than 30 messages in total :)
818.
Twitter etc messages from Iran, collected on one page.(feedvolley.com)
5 points by nir 17y ago|3 comments
819.
Ask HN: Web2py vs Django?
4 points by nir 17y ago|2 comments
820.
by nir 17y ago
Stanford's "Entrepreneurial Thought Leaders" podcast might interest you. The quality's uneven, my favorite is Steve Blank's (customer development) talk. Mitch Kapor and Shai Agassi were pretty interesting as well.
821.
by nir 17y ago
IIRC cutting off SMS was one of the first things the government did. SMS was even disabled a day before the elections with the formal explanation of preventing last minute campaigning. The article seems a bit hyper. " As the regime shut dow
822.
by nir 17y ago
"Hi, I'm the editor of a website and you run the most profitable tech company in the world - so let me now tell you what you should do with your main product line"
823.
by nir 17y ago
In the Hebrew version, every other article contains spelling mistakes and glaring errors - and that's before the simply poor, Techcrunch-like level of reporting standards. Due to financial issues and internal power struggles, Haaretz lost m
824.
by nir 17y ago
The authors didn't really write the whole newspaper, just some magazine-style reports and some of regular features - weather report, TV critic, letters to the editor (by another poet) etc. News, sports etc items were still there, written by
825.
by nir 17y ago
I don't know if any of this was translated to English, the Hebrew articles are here: http://www.haaretz.co.il/hasite/spages/1091226.html It was done as part of "Book Week", which is celebrated every year around this time in Israel. They g
826.
by nir 17y ago
Many (most?) of them are optional, you can compile PHP with/without certain extensions. Design wise, it seems insane - kind of like the iPhone's non-removable battery. Turns out it doesn't hurt either one's popularity though...
827.
by nir 17y ago
So what? If you think goto is harmful, don't use it. If you think PHP in general is harmful, don't use that either. Maybe help build something comparable to Wordpress or Drupal in your favorite language so other people can use it instead of
828.
by nir 17y ago
The more conclusive your tone, the less valuable is your argument. Many great programmers are excellent communicators.
829.
by nir 17y ago
Built this for myself and found it pretty useful, so thought I'd release it. This is probably not too attractive to iPhone/Blackberry users, but maybe the rest of us would find some use for it.. Uses Textmarks ( http://textmarks.com ) to ha
830.
by nir 17y ago
I wrote a short Ruby script that does a similar operation with Subversion - it's somewhat Rails specific in that it takes the username/password from RoR config files, but that can be easily modified. The code is (ironically) here: http://g
831.
by nir 17y ago
Might interest you: http://collabfinder.com/
832.
by nir 17y ago
This submission is more Gossip Girl than Hacker News.
833.
by nir 17y ago
I thought it was actually pretty insightful. Instead of stakeholders crafting requirements and coders trying to meet them, the process involves the developer in the product design stage, using their input on what's easy/hard together with t
834.
by nir 17y ago
Hi James. No worries, thanks for replying here :) The gem in question was curb ( http://curb.rubyforge.org/ ) - I suppose it might a particularly tricky one, due to libcurl dependencies. (I'll email you with more details) I understand the i
835.
by nir 17y ago
A lot of what people call "magic" in Rails are just conventions (as in "convention over configuration"). Rails expects to find certain things in certain places named in a certain way and works with them automatically, which might seem like
836.
by nir 17y ago
I tried using Heroku for a (very) small project which I already had working in Ruby, and using Google App Engine (even though it meant rewriting the code in Python). The reasons were: 1. Heroku didn't support a certain Ruby gem I needed for
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Behind The Business Plan Of Pirates Inc.(npr.org)
1 points by nir 17y ago|0 comments
838.
by nir 17y ago
Seems that "%s will buy Twitter for $%d00m!" stories have already generated more collective revenue (for news sites etc) than Twitter itself ever had.
839.
by nir 17y ago
Did you consider Textmarks? http://www.textmarks.com/
840.
by nir 17y ago
I don't completely agree it's the same thing but I do like this example :)

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