ntoshev

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   by ntoshev 18y ago

   Average quality of Python and PHP code differs drastically, so there must be something about the language.
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   by ntoshev 18y ago

   Threaded comments scale the conversation better. Linear stay more focused.
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   by ntoshev 18y ago

   How so? The problem with micropayments is not that the absolute numbers are low (in many currencies the numbers are always pretty high).
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   by ntoshev 18y ago

   Intermediate code will obfuscate code's intent. Why require from the optimizer to reverse-engineer what you meant from a description at a different (lower) level of abstraction?
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   by ntoshev 18y ago

   This is the facade pattern :) If you need it, this means you are overengineering. Applying it is even more overengineering.
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   by ntoshev 18y ago

   If you care only about total cost of ownership and/or ecology, my intuition is you'd be better off buyng any small second hand car. The milage would be worse, but the up front cost would be much smaller. Also you'd be extending the lifetime
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   by ntoshev 18y ago

   Aerodynamics? The buyers are supposed to care about mileage more than how it looks. Also it has a distinct look, I suppose Prius buyers like to be recognized as someone who cares about the environment.
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   by ntoshev 18y ago

   Where do you get these numbers from?
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   by ntoshev 18y ago

   I believe the Russian ISPs are highly interconnected, so Russian users get more bandwidth and less latency when they use local sites vs international.
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    by ntoshev 18y ago

    I'd be curious to know what you think about this alternative architecture: http://mailinator.blogspot.com/2008/08/benchmarking-talkinat... Paul Tyma claims handling 40000 chat messages per second on a quad core desktop system with it.
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    by ntoshev 18y ago

    It is meant for page layout, only it's not that good at it.
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    by ntoshev 18y ago

    Can you elaborate on the accessibility issues and page bloat, because the link doesn't. It lists "Increase traffic" and "Happier staff" among the benefits. Do you think pg would be happier if he followed some guidelines for web design? ;)
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    by ntoshev 18y ago

    So it's a matter of personal preference after all. pg doesn't have another person for graphical design of the site.
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    by ntoshev 18y ago

    Not sure if energy is important part of the equation. Protection from diseases and weather doesn't seem to require energy, it's about chemistry and structure.
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    by ntoshev 18y ago

    Thanks for the insight. It's interesting why the external work supplied to the plants still costs less than growing plants that can do these things itself. I suppose chemistry and mechanization in agriculture are just much more efficient th
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    by ntoshev 18y ago

    Writing about something is a way to understand it better. Why people write about things they fully comprehend is beyond me ;)
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    by ntoshev 18y ago

    Of course, most edits are editing, not new content, and these 1400 people are mostly editors, not authors: http://www.aaronsw.com/weblog/whowriteswikipedia
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    by ntoshev 18y ago

    Not sure if it's more expensive, even if you ignore the free quota. Amazon charges you $0.10 per instance-hour, not cpu-hour like Google (so you only pay while you consume CPU). Also, you should probably compare the storage price not to S3/
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    by ntoshev 18y ago

    Wii innovated and became better in an area that happened to matter more: player interaction with the console. I don't think it was obvious in foresight that this was so important.
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    by ntoshev 18y ago

    a lot more companies succeed from not listening to pg's advice than vice versa Got any hard data to support your claims?
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    by ntoshev 18y ago

    There is something strange about the notion that programmer's ability declines with age. I am a bit over 30 now and I've only become better, as long as I'm motivated (it was easier to stay motivated when I was younger). It seems to me tha
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    by ntoshev 18y ago

    Fake following doesn't seem like such a good idea. Better make it hardcoded design: never allow you to see if the people you are following are following you back.
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    by ntoshev 18y ago

    Consider implementing it only for the iPhone browser.
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    by ntoshev 18y ago

    Are any of you guys practicing mutual upvoting with friends here, on Hacker News? I suppose it happens naturally to some extent. These voting patterns and the amount to which they happen naturally should be statistically visible for pg if h
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    by ntoshev 18y ago

    The RTFMan responses are one of the worst things in Linux culture. Man pages are an exhaustive reference about what you can do with commands, that's true. But they are not written in a helpful way: you pretty much have to read it all every
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    by ntoshev 18y ago

    They pro-rate based on days of usage, it's not hourly billing like EC2.
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    by ntoshev 18y ago

    Meebo works well in the iPhone browser.
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    by ntoshev 18y ago

    I agree, Google can be replaced just as "easily".
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    by ntoshev 18y ago

    Ordering by volume * price is in fact ordering by sales volume measured in dollars, and is bound to maximize that. It makes sense economically for the app store, not just the developers. It's not about gaming the system but about having the
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    by ntoshev 18y ago

    I wonder how good their data are, after they got Google paid clicks spectacularly wrong early this year.