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811.
by pestaa 14y ago
There's no better schooling than shipping working code.
812.
by pestaa 14y ago
I mean I wouldn't hire people for serious projects from a surprise packet.
813.
by pestaa 14y ago
Nice to have a full-blown client-side equivalent of schema definitions and validation rules, but for most of my forms, I just add it quickly and dirty. Sometimes it feels bad, but most web toolkits treat JavaScript as a second-class citizen
814.
by pestaa 14y ago
I personally know of a great out of the ordinary freelancing site that is in the works -- can't disclose any specifics though. But the thing is, it will have a niche audience. It is not where the big money is. On the other hand, I'd hire pr
815.
by pestaa 14y ago
Probably there are better ways to express a query in JSON compared to how MongoDB does it, but I'd take a step back and ask whether a nested map is the best approach to think about it.
816.
by pestaa 14y ago
TL;DR: JSON sucks for representing queries.
817.
by pestaa 14y ago
I love this comment for following its own advice. "Cut from the bottom," it is still very readable and gets the point across.
818.
by pestaa 14y ago
Wow, if online cheaters were not difficult enough to catch already! Without client-side verification (such as PunkBuster) it sounds "even more" impossible to distinguish between really good players and cheaters. I wonder if such libraries a
819.
by pestaa 14y ago
Good luck and keep us posted! ;)
820.
by pestaa 14y ago
Threading is one way to parallelize software. Scalability requirements are finite, therefore required hardware is, too.
821.
by pestaa 14y ago
You seriously underestimate the infrastructure, availability and security implications of `counting money electronically'. Give me $1M and I wouldn't blink at $30K expense.
822.
by pestaa 14y ago
> PHP scales well. Any backend will scale if it runs in parallel and you throw enough hardware at it. Perhaps a more important question would be whether PHP scales codebase-wise in larger projects.
823.
by pestaa 14y ago
I'm in Europe. No, not satisfied by either of them.
824.
by pestaa 14y ago
No need to apologize at all. Combined with your inner grumbling old man there are still not enough hackers bashing the stupid faulty practices PHP encourages. Edit: "encourage" as in (a) not discouraging and (b) making them easier to use fo
825.
by pestaa 14y ago
Not if additional examiners don't work in parallel, but sequentially, adding more layers to the process.
826.
by pestaa 14y ago
The second being 'cross your fingers'...?
827.
by pestaa 14y ago
This drives me nuts. On the surface there is very little difference between `just functional' and `production ready'. And it's a hard sell if the client is not aware of the benefits.
828.
by pestaa 14y ago
I don't recall all the details, but it was Windows 95 times. This embedded system utility basically zipped the root directory and rendered the computer unable to boot. I could have saved my parents a headache if I had been aware of the cons
829.
by pestaa 14y ago
My point was that there are scenarios where data can be lost and a quick ok/cancel dialog with a short summary is not enough. Even when we know what we're doing a reminder of consequences is sometimes helpful to look at.
830.
by pestaa 14y ago
Exactly. This `netfuck' code is well documented, though. I'm not even sure which questions I'd want to ask first about the author's relationship with programming.
831.
by pestaa 14y ago
> If I initiate a format on a drive volume I don't need a lecture on what a format does and what the risks are, I know them already, I just need a confirmation step. When I was 12, I compressed drive C:\ in the hope more free space wi
832.
by pestaa 14y ago
Apart from accessibility issues, I don't think emoticons work well in this context. At least they would make me stare more at the dialog and not less. Although verbs like Save along with icons like a floppy disk might increase familiarity,
833.
by pestaa 14y ago
Yes, the original format is manga, and I have a few volumes -- the overlap is remarkable. As if Madhouse studios took the pictures, enhanced them, gave them a flow and breathed life into them with excellent voice acting and music. The manga
834.
by pestaa 14y ago
These better interfaces are called API clients. The business angle being interesting is something I'd disagree with. Look at what happened to "better interfaces to Twitter."
835.
by pestaa 14y ago
If it matters, I stood completely by my statements. It is not always easy to evaluate whether my tone is appropriate or not, which is why I followed the path of the least resistance.
836.
by pestaa 14y ago
Yes, it's a simple product and my review was probably too in-depth, although if there's any one place to submit it I thought HN would be it. Perhaps stating the obvious is not counter-productive if the product in question is not well though
837.
by pestaa 14y ago
This seems to emphasize the wrong features. > No need to remember email addresses. In the last couple of years, I had to copy-paste a few addresses to send an email and that was the worst case. > No important announcement is miss
838.
by pestaa 14y ago
In a way I too feel Firefox being slower compared to light Webkit browsers, but you must be writing a resource intensive animation if a modern laptop fails to render it fluently. Perhaps not only in terms of pixels and assets, but full page
839.
by pestaa 14y ago
This is a wild guess, but a pair of radio buttons on a registration form is a good start.
840.
by pestaa 14y ago
What benefits ZFS brings on a single drive laptop? I was informed it is mainly designed for high traffic file servers with redundancy and so forth.

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