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by rit 18y ago
Interestingly enough though... FoxConn says in the email replies that they DONT SUPPORT Linux. However, they have code specifically written for it. Strange, even if it isn't deliberate sabotage.
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by rit 18y ago
The last statement, "As software and hardware engineers, if our defaults put users in an unsafe situation, where their credit and savings are placed at risk, then we’ve failed them, and we’ve acted unethically." is excellent. Unfortunately,
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by rit 18y ago
Call me crazy... is there any relevance to the sex of the author?
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by rit 18y ago
I actually meant relaunching Vista with a new brand (I mean, in many cases each release of OS X - esp the last ~2 releases is essentially aservice pack - updated kernel, some UI tweaks and some extra hangon apps and it works great giving it
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by rit 18y ago
Tie this however with the ads I saw in the NY Subway yesterday, advertising features of Vista and taglined with: "Microsoft Vista - Now with Service Pack 1!" Unfortunately, here's how I see it: - People who are smart enough to know WTF a Se
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by rit 18y ago
There's a reason they're avoiding the giants. They can knock out the little guys who can't mount much of a defense, and then use it as a precedent to go after bigger fish who can give them hard cold cash. Amazon would pony up the big guns
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by rit 18y ago
It's a tough situation; I was in a similar circumstance including parents salaries disqualifying me for financial aid (my father passed away a month before I started college, but the lookback period for financial aid is 3 years of income.
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by rit 18y ago
There is some ... flawed arguments here. Specifically the article extorts that you should always use mysql_pconnect because "unique connections simply don't scale". This will provide performance improvements in certain situations, but once
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by rit 18y ago
Oh, and stuff like Lego Mindstorms might also be just the thing to make it happen. One of the coolest experiences I had as a kid was when I was about 8 or 9 (it was 1987, because I recall everyone was also playing Faerie Tale Adventure: ht
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by rit 18y ago
This may be worth considering, as far as not forcing it upon them. I learned to code as a kid not from my parents teaching me, but from my dad buying a Vic20 and then a Commodore 64 (I ended up learning on the 64, but a few years later when
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by rit 18y ago
Security has it's place. There are certainly gobs of value to having a security focused platform, that benefits even those who view it as a bunch of "masturbating monkeys". But in Linus' defense, it's not like the Linux platform has ever b
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by rit 18y ago
Well, in particular he states two things that are worth noting: 1) You have to hand code all your interfaces. The SDK uses Interface Builder, which lets you 'draw' your UI similar to building a normal Mac app. 2) He's using a Javascript i
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by rit 18y ago
It also uses Python for it's scripting if I recall correctly, which is pretty cool. Especially as the guys who end up learning this don't end up learning a set of skills only useful for Blender.
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by rit 18y ago
I'll really try to take that whole rant with a grain of salt. Yes, I realize I'm locked into "apple's DRM" - if I buy from the iTunes store. I buy from Amazon MP3, or I rip CDs (those are the 3 ways to get music on my iPhone, right? ;)) to
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by rit 18y ago
The other point of course is that if you learn PHP, you've only learned a tool to build websites. Python is a pretty multipurpose tool that happens to have the ability to build web applications. (And Ruby as well)
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by rit 18y ago
It's incredibly easy to learn & use - what I've always liked about it is that I spend very little time thinking about how to accomplish a task in Python. In addition, Python has solid support for object oriented programming which I can'
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by rit 18y ago
As a general rule, if you have a choice, I would recommend learning Python (Pylons or Django, I prefer Pylons for it's looser coupling) or Ruby + Rails. While PHP is used all over the place, if you want to keep your sanity you're better off
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by rit 18y ago
Coupled with the fact that the page is HTTP and the server doesn't seem to support HTTPS!
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by rit 18y ago
http://highscalability.com/ has some fantastic articles. The best tool to learn how to use is memcached - it has clients in most major languages (And even some obscure ones) and when used properly can remove a lot of the typical problems
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by rit 18y ago
I thought Al Gore was working on global warming.
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by rit 18y ago
I don't know about Rails (It's DB library is ActiveRecord, if I recall names correctly) but SQLAlchemy which is Python's big ORM, has support in it for sharding and similar partitioning, etc. When we built sketchcast.com sharding was on the