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by pippy 14y ago
The main issue with his post is he has no idea what he's talking about. He mentions languages neither interpreter is written in and talks about 'buzzwords', while all the products I mentioned are real things.
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by pippy 14y ago
I'm not sure what you're talking about. Both Python, PHP and Varnish are (mostly) written in higher level languages. Also performance has a massive effect on how and what language a site is written in.
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I'm still bewildered why this isn't the default.
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by pippy 14y ago
Stupid question: is the because reddits backend is in python? I often hear that PHP + varnish is only limited by the size of the pipe. Can this scale on cloud platforms?
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by pippy 14y ago
Samsung ripped off Apples design, there's no excusing this: http://i.imgur.com/qN6n9.jpg http://i.imgur.com/FJkZE.png They're clearly in the wrong here. It's not about the fundamental form factor of the devices, it's about blatant plagi
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by pippy 14y ago
Capturing energy should only come till after solar PV's generates surplus electricity. If solar panels continue to become cheaper and more efficient it's likely no revolutionary capturing technology needs to be developed. There are plenty o
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by pippy 14y ago
I'd love to compare $billions in expenditure / angry letters from conservative nuns, for both NASA and the Department of Defense. Even better would add the estimated lives saved by NASA technologies and DoD bombs.
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by pippy 14y ago
Usability and filesize aren't correlated. Perhaps with some attention from Debian Xfce can fix some of it's usability issues.
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by pippy 14y ago
This problem has multiple solutions, as demonstrated by the HN comments. It's not asked to find a solution, instead to figure out your thought processes. You could come up with a comp sci solution (analogous to a data structure or algorithm
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by pippy 14y ago
The difficult thing is assessing your opinion whether it was downvoted because your opinion was fallacious or someone doesn't agree with it. It does cause some problems with content, most notably bandwagons and mundane comments out of fear.
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by pippy 14y ago
It would a dream if they adopted webkit for office. Outlook is keeping the email rendering in the 90's. However it's to Microsoft's benefit to keep their file formats rendering in obscure ways, as it makes it difficult for competitors to ed
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by pippy 14y ago
Hacker news talked about this problem recently http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3987660 . Unique hardware is always difficult to emulate, and that's why you cut corners. Cutting corers in this field has gotten us quite far http://www.s
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by pippy 14y ago
Microsoft [...] promises that the IP and product will remain in the hands of the participating companies. No thanks.
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by pippy 14y ago
I haven't got excited about a mockup since I saw the windows 8 concepts: http://www.theverge.com/2012/2/24/2822891/windows-desktop-ui...
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by pippy 14y ago
Not available for New Zealand yet :(
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by pippy 14y ago
I'm very proud of the ingenuity of New Zealands high court. So far the government, police and court systems have all bent over backwards to the Americans. It's nice to know at least one public service still serves the people.
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by pippy 14y ago
I was concentrating on their creation process and it's impact on innovation and the technology industry as a whole. Regarding your example, tablet devices Android and iPad have distinct methodologies, Android being open and developer orient
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by pippy 14y ago
This demonstrates everything that is wrong with Microsoft. They identified a problem, they couldn't get their products up to par with existing processes. So they go out of their way to copy their competitors. By following this methodology t
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by pippy 14y ago
So developers complain that PHP is not standardised, but when it is in a major version upgrade developers complain that it's becoming standardised?
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by pippy 14y ago
People are poor when a market doesn't employ capitalist methods. In a purely capitalist job market the hardest working, most productive people would get paid the best and have job security.
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by pippy 14y ago
The fact is Mac Pro's aren't as profitable as iPads or iPhones. If you were CEO you'd de-prioritise the line as well. They're not killing off the line altogether probably because it's a less risky market. iPads and iPhones are new, and tomo
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by pippy 14y ago
I get little hints of Apple losing it's finesse. The plugs are on either side of the new MacBooks, a detail that Apple previously didn't miss. And two Thunderbolts? Does anyone here actually have a thunderbolt device?
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by pippy 14y ago
The whole concept of DNT is just stupid. It's misleading users and won't work. By telling users you have better privacy simply because your browser adds a random header tag onto requests you're misleading them. Sites have no obligation to o
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by pippy 14y ago
This is bigger than what many might think. I'd still be using Linux now if I didn't have to edit xorg.conf just to change the screen resolution. (Yes I'm aware of the http://xkcd.com/963/ comic). The gap between programmer and user is Lin
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by pippy 14y ago
This is a fantastic list, though I have to nitpick on this one: >2. Do not have faith in institutions to educate you Except if you learn the fundamentals, instead of the specifics. Learn paradigms and methodologies, instead of individua
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by pippy 14y ago
I love it how one of the titles for iphone is simply 'Mega megapixels.'. "What does your phone have?" "Oh yeah, it's got Mega megapixels."
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by pippy 14y ago
Mediawiki is by far the most accurate representation. Wikipedia is on the top of most searches, and targets most demographics.
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by pippy 14y ago
Yes you're right. I was trying to frame ethics in its popular definition. I personally love and support open source projects, as they are better from a moral standpoint. Proprietary software isn't a really bad thing, comparing it to say m
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by pippy 14y ago
Both parties are at fault here. * The attendee for hiring a PR firm to create commotion * TED for not being transparent TED's decision, based on the elections or quality is superfluous. The fact is they weren't up front about it. If TED too
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by pippy 14y ago
Programmers have to eat, and free software needs a supporting paradigm to be sustainable. With Firefox it's the search engine, with Apache it's support, only smaller projects can be made from pure passion. Any large company porting software

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