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by rit 16y ago
Er, wow. I don't get the impression he has any idea what's going on. The title is incredibly misleading, especially given that this is a ~2 month old post. As of this writing, 1.4.x is the stable branch, with 1.5.x as the unstable. I sho
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by rit 16y ago
Their site says for status: "Your reader will ship soon"
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by rit 16y ago
Forgive me if I'm repeating things people already know, I figure someone will find this useful - One could of course ask... Python and Java on what platforms? Python at this point is a language specification - it has a multitude of runtim
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by rit 16y ago
I do consulting work for a friend who has a surprisingly common problem: He needs to do card processing but only certain times out of the year. He goes to conventions and sells merchandise, etc and wants to be able to take credit cards but
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by rit 16y ago
The Sony Vaio Z series is a freaking awesome device. A friend got one recently and it's making me rethink getting another mac for my next laptop: http://www.sonystyle.com/webapp/wcs/stores/servlet/CategoryD... Core i7, 8 gigs of ram, I t
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by rit 16y ago
To be careful giving medical advice, and not sounding like I'm a holisitc nutjob. This is completely a personal experience and YMMV... I have Hashimoto's Throiditis as well. I've spent ~15 years struggling with Synthroid - constant sensit
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by rit 16y ago
"Sez"? Really? I'd hope for a more intelligent default level of discourse at HN. And no, this isn't the article headline.
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by rit 16y ago
Correct me if i'm wrong but I see no reference to drugs (which includes caffeine, red bull, etc) in any of this. I can't help but think these cases scream of things like Benzedrine overdose.
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by rit 16y ago
And those of us who understand OOP are forced to suffer because nobody else does...
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by rit 16y ago
Interesting. Still of course a world of difference from "publicly searchable".
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by rit 16y ago
We live in a world where programmers think of Java's Object model when they think of OOP. Which is a crippled version of C++'s Object Model. About which Alan Kay said: 'Actually I made up the term "object-oriented", and I can tell you I did
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by rit 16y ago
The issue here is classically updates have been private. In most cases people are USED to the fact that their updates are private. Many of them have no idea that suddenly their shit is public. I'll bet the old default search on this servic
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by rit 16y ago
Ugh. This reminds me of a week or so go when I referred to a hypothetical object "responding to a message" and my coworkers looked at me like I was insane. They thought I meant an MQ type message, and were completely unfamiliar with the co
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by rit 16y ago
Not to be smarmy: but that's worked out SO well over the last oh, year or so. The grave old men in suits I mean. You know, the ones who weren't actually able to stay in business and the ones who didn't go under were acquired by another ba
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by rit 16y ago
It used to be that your posts were set to private. So of course everyone still assumes that when they post about their rectal surgery it's a private matter only their friends can see. This is why changing your privacy policies and defaults
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by rit 16y ago
To be fair - this benchmark is from 6 months ago. There have been a lot of improvements in Mongo since then. I also question his statement of "Slower than DB" - I have been in production w/ MongoDB since August '09 and it was a huge perfor
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by rit 16y ago
I'm not sure why exactly we "need" an alternative to Facebook. But why not leverage what's already out there. I recently killed my Facebook account out of frustration from seeing their social widget all over the place. But the main reason
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by rit 16y ago
I just saw the new HTML docs for the first time using Chrome on Linux and it blew my mind. It needs a bit of polish still it seems on some of the font anti-aliasing but overall it's amazing. Lightweight, easy to scroll, fast and oh - look.
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by rit 16y ago
Just keep in mind something that I've observed over time. It's anecdotal and Your Mileage May Vary (disclaimers, etc etc) but I take it as a reasonable parable when phrased as such... I don't know if the thought/plan/idea has crossed your
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by rit 16y ago
I'm sorry - It was TOTALLY my fault that I started my career during the Dot Com days and worked through two bubbles. My fault that I worked for people who couldn't keep their companies above water despite working 70 hour weeks for them.
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by rit 16y ago
Yup - it was pervasive when I first used it. It was an amazing way to tie in people from diff. online communities with whom I'd otherwise have much less interaction. At one point I recall them moving ICQ To the Oscar (early AIM) protocol b
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by rit 16y ago
Ditto. I created an account because people kept sharing family photos, etc. with me. For the most part I've set my profile private. However, when my sister started scanning pictures of our childhood and posting them tagged as me, public f
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by rit 16y ago
By way of disclaimer... I recently switched off of iPhone in favor of Android - primarily because AT&T's network sucked and not really as any statement against Apple (I refused to continue paying monthly for a phone which had no recepti
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by rit 16y ago
Actually, my coworkers who are Java programmers complained of the opposite - they felt the Scala books didn't link in Java enough and assumed experience in things like Ruby and the like. I found Venkat's book to be a good solid, terse start
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by rit 16y ago
I still have one but I never actually log in - got the 6 digit even (#924218). I didn't realize it was an active, viable service still. At least at a level of independent value that makes it worth selling off.
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by rit 16y ago
To sum up for those too lazy to click: This just contains bug fixes from 1.4.1 [10Gen] recommend[s] all users of 1.4.0 and 1.4.1 upgrade to 1.4.2. Changes: - $ positional operator and $set replication issue [0] - invalid
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MongoDB 1.4.2 (stable) Released(groups.google.com)
5 points by rit 16y ago|2 comments
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by rit 16y ago
There's a whole bunch of other characters you can call prefixed with the Tilde (~) as well. My favorite is often ~^Z (That's tilde+Control-Z), which puts the SSH session in the background and drops you back to the host machine. You can hi
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by rit 16y ago
Certainly not in the classification of Tourettes it isn't. And it's rather insulting to those of us who do have it to make an excuse like that. Having lived with it for 30 years I wouldn't classify it as something to cast about lightly as s
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by rit 16y ago
As amusing as this kind of stuff is in a Schadenfreude kind of way, can't we relegate it to ValleyWag where it belongs?

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