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271.
by points 16y ago
10 * 0.00001 is still pretty miniscule. Uproar from developers is meh . End users don't care. Apple can do what they want with the app store. If a few whiney devs decide to not play any more, there's an infinite supply of other devs who wi
272.
by points 16y ago
Even top comments are often just appealing to lowest common denominator, current fashion, etc Democracy, and 1 vote per person is just a flawed system. Thankfully there is a fair bit of dictatorship on HN which keeps things fairly sane.
273.
by points 16y ago
Reddit also likely makes a miniscule fraction of the revenue of Digg...
274.
by points 16y ago
Reddit is spending $10k a month or something silly on servers, and asking for donations to be able to keep going. I wouldn't hold Reddit up as a shining example of a success story just yet.
275.
by points 16y ago
Surely the whole idea is flawed. It's as useful as internet polls are. Once any site like digg/reddit/etc gets big enough to be worth gaming, it will be gamed.
276.
by points 16y ago
You know you're not supposed to have 8 adsense units on a page right? They allow 3.
277.
by points 16y ago
I'd say more that programming is dull work. You only get excited about it if you're a geek. To most sane normal people, it's factory work. Mindless monkeys churning out code, working on their own hunched over a computer until 3am. Women are
278.
by points 16y ago
For the 40m investment, I wonder how much profit they make. They seem to have a very large staff.
279.
by points 16y ago
You sound like you have a case of the 'mondays'.
280.
by points 16y ago
A related note is the reverse steering bike which is impossible to stay up on unless you 'relearn' how to ride a bike. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9gCnBBeV2ws&feature=relat... I think that proves things a bit better - we stay up on
281.
by points 16y ago
I love the fact that Google is using it's biggest property/asset to show off fun browser features. Pushing the boundaries of browsers, and the expectations people have of what they should be able to do on the web. FWIW, I really don't think
282.
by points 16y ago
>> "Pretty impressive, but for some reason they decided against using HTML5 canvas." I'm not quite sure why the 'div' hate and canvas love here... With the div approach, you can just modify the position of a div, and leave the rest
283.
by points 16y ago
Looks like I'm one of the privileged few! ;)
284.
by points 16y ago
Never mind that, does everyone else get the funky new streaming search results on google using Chrome? 1. Go to google.com 2. Start typing 3. It moves the search box while you're still typing 4. It starts streaming and updating re
285.
by points 16y ago
This fails to mention the other point about that logo. Once you have seen Lisa Simpson on her knees, to the right, satisfying a man on the left, you cannot 'unsee' it.
286.
by points 16y ago
>> "I'm the only programmer" >> "all of the founders (CEO/CFO/COO)" >> "no equity" WHAT? Quit. Now.
287.
by points 16y ago
Yeah that scene was pretty good. Linus comes across as a really good guy. Stallman (as usual) comes across (to me anyway) as slightly unhinged and bitter.
288.
by points 16y ago
If you don't have experience in setting up a server, wtf not? Learn it. It's kinda useful.
289.
by points 16y ago
Shocking to hear that someone has chosen a tool based on its merits rather than how fashionable it is...
290.
by points 16y ago
The iPad is a joke. I've yet to see a normal person owning one (But then I don't live in the valley either). It's a toy for people who have more money than they know what to do with.
291.
by points 16y ago
19 people upvoted this? Did you even check? It has 0 content. The 'meat' of the "article" is webby# curl -O http://nodejs.org/dist/node-v0.2.0.tar.gz webby# tar xvzf node-v0.2.0.tar.gz webby# cd node-v0.2.0 webby# ./configure we
292.
by points 16y ago
Yeah I just did. Mongrel2 looks overly complex. But then it is C...
293.
by points 16y ago
My mind is still boggling over how you make a simple HTTP request parser so complex sounding.
294.
by points 16y ago
Yeah that's not really comparable. HTTP requests come from millions of different browsers. Some with bugs, some with idiot creators, etc etc. My point was that an HTTP request parser is trivial to write correctly. What you do with the heade
295.
by points 16y ago
Because it's inefficient unnecessary overhead for static requests. The place to block application specific hacky looking requests isn't in the general HTTP request parser. It's in the 'application specific' stuff.
296.
by points 16y ago
It's more than that. I'm a believer that you learn far more from failure than from success. In an ideal world, I believe that people should fail a few times before their first success. Having success early teaches you very little.
297.
by points 16y ago
Here's why I dislike it. You shouldn't rely on the HTTP request parser to save you if you have security issues elsewhere. The HTTP parser is simple enough to not have any concerns in itself if written properly. You should fix the security i
298.
by points 16y ago
And in laymans terms?... Sorry but I'm even more confused now. What are we proving? "The result is most of the requests "look like" a desire to serve up viruses or spam." I have no idea what you mean by that. HTTP is a trivial grammar. Th
299.
by points 16y ago
Can you explain why 'validating it with grammar' is better than 'some adhoc parser'? IMHO a webserver is one of the things you want to be relaxed, laid back, and basically not care if the client gets things wrong. Just serve up what they lo
300.
by points 16y ago
I think it's fairly condescending to bother noting that she is female and make out it's somehow a big deal. Reminds me of Alan Partridge (Comedy show)... "A female drummer! Interesting. Close your eyes, could have been a man."

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