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by ratsbane 17y ago
Nicely done. When I first clicked on it I though it was a java applet but then, on looking at the source, I see you're using the Yahoo User Interface library. Where is the source of your ETF data?
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by ratsbane 17y ago
This goes back a ways. In the late '80s, when I was in college, I saw a story in the local newspaper about the city school system. They were totally jammed up trying to make schedules for the school bus routes. I'm thinking they might ha
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by ratsbane 17y ago
If you want to display a heat map of incidents/sales/etc where you have an address then something like this is essential. In the US, for example, the Census Bureau's Tiger/Line database is free and maps all the way to street addresses. Th
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by ratsbane 17y ago
We're getting ready to launch a site now with Ubuntu Server 9.04, Apache2, mod_perl, and perl 5.10. We considered RoR, PHP, and a couple of Python frameworks, any one of which would have been reasonable, but I'm reasonably satisfied with t
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by ratsbane 17y ago
From https://sni.velox.ch/ : Opera 8.0 and later (the TLS 1.1 protocol must be enabled) Internet Explorer 7 or later (under Windows Vista and later only, not under Windows XP) Firefox 2.0 or later Curl 7.18.1 or later (when compi
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by ratsbane 17y ago
Thanks for posting this. I wasn't aware that Apache 2.2.12 supported SNI out of the box. SNI is kind of a big deal. It means that you can have multiple virtual hosts running HTTPS on the same IP address. mod_proxy_balancer is also a very
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by ratsbane 17y ago
PG could configure the news.ycombinator.com server to return a 301 to any request which has a HOST header that's not news.ycombinator.com - either that or hardcode the domain name in links. I'm sure that Volida's motives are honest as he st
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by ratsbane 17y ago
They've certainly lived up to a very small percentage of their potential.
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by ratsbane 17y ago
Does anyone else think it's odd that Microsoft's 404 page now redirects to Bing, using the path members as search terms? And if they were going to do that, why didn't they filter obvious stop words like "mspx" http://www.microsoft.com/fra
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by ratsbane 17y ago
Some people post Facebook, Twitter messages, etc. about how miserable they are about being laid off and needing a job - other people post messages about how they're using time off to read a new book about design patterns or Erlang or whatev
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by ratsbane 17y ago
I appreciate your meaning; certainly, there are enough weak essays about bad programmers, but this one has more substance than some I've read. The idea behind any essay about bad programming has merit. I read the points in essay like this
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by ratsbane 17y ago
Two people have called me in the last few minutes to ask if I'm having internet problems - on in Nashville on AT&T and the other in Memphis - not sure what carrier. My Comcast connection just went down for about five minutes while I was
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by ratsbane 17y ago
Agreed. Every time Kayak paddles into my consciousness I end up with a sense that those people are just doing something right. Does anyone understand what the Left-Right slider does? My first guess - left-handedness versus right-handednes
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by ratsbane 17y ago
If it's in php it should be reasonably easy to port to linux or *nix. Have you looked at using ImageMagick instead of .Net? To resize a pic you can `convert original.jpg -resize 640x480 new.png` for example. To make it faster use a php i
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by ratsbane 17y ago
To summarize, if your business is in a positive-feedback loop make sure it's one that's going up and not down: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Positive_feedback
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by ratsbane 17y ago
I use sendmail, mysql, and handful of perl programs. We considered using some outside service a year or two ago but we were doing some targeted campaigns based upon purchase histories, geographic region, etc. and the trouble to pull out li
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by ratsbane 17y ago
I like the original article by DeMarco which Atwood discusses. DeMarco makes a good point that normal engineering methodology doesn't work with software. Anyone who has tried to code up something based upon an 80-page spec document writte
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by ratsbane 17y ago
I'm fascinated by all aspects of aviation, as a pilot (private, low-time) and a software designer. Aviation has a lot in common with software design. Computer systems would be much better if we made them with the same attention to priorit
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by ratsbane 17y ago
Here's a breakdown based on referrals from YC to a short essay I wrote about a month ago comparing Bing Travel and Kayak. There were 2382 uniques from YC over two days to that page: 45.5% Windows 37.6% Mac 15.1% Linux Comparing
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by ratsbane 17y ago
Everyone's talking about graph databases lately. Who hasn't designed some relational data structure and then refined it a bit and tweaked it a bit and ended up with some sort of adjacency-list monstrosity and the realization that the relat
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by ratsbane 17y ago
That was terrible. Incredible that Microsoft actually paid for that.
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by ratsbane 17y ago
He used the InnoDB storage engine in MySQL instead of the default MyISAM. InnoDB is a lot more fault-tolerant than MyISAM but it is a lot slower, especially in COUNT operations. That's one of the more interesting attributes of MySQL: plu
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Design: How close is too close? Bing Travel vs. Kayak(douglassims.org)
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by ratsbane 17y ago
Thanks. Actually I just saw that on Slashdot. I think you just created a sticky neologism too: http://www.google.com/search?q=fakeponym I like it.
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by ratsbane 17y ago
B.I.N.G.: But It's Not Google. That choice of name is either very clever or very not clever and I'm not sure which.
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by ratsbane 17y ago
My usual development environment for is a Macbook Pro with six terminal windows open. The first one (Command-1 shortcut key) is a connection to the database, the second (command-2) is Vim with program code, the third (command-3) is library
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by ratsbane 17y ago
I strongly agree with PJ's comment. Plugins like Flash, Silverlight, and Active-X complicate the process and lower the quality of the web experience. - Users must install and maintain an additional piece. - Less likely to work in all envir
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by ratsbane 17y ago
Brooks' article greatly simplifies CEO personality traits as compared to different types of roles they must fill (growing a small company, turning around a failing business, etc.) just as the original article Brooks cited ( http://papers.ss
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by ratsbane 17y ago
At that age I think it's more about teaching them to identify themselves as scientists. I'm sure they didn't understand a lot of what was going on but they were aware they were participating in something cool with wires and digital readout
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by ratsbane 18y ago
No, you miss my point in two distinct ways. $20k per server is middle of the road for a MS SQL in a big enterprise. It's on the low side for Oracle. It happens all the time; I've seen it (and argued against it.) The other point, though,

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