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by romaniv 15y ago
Awesome. I remember arguing for it on the mailing lists and I'm extremely happy they did this. With echo tag you can have a very simple and powerful templating system written in the language itself. (I usually just use two methods, Temaplte
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by romaniv 15y ago
Nevertheless it's an enormous step toward unifying desktop apps and web apps. Is this a good goal, though? Web used to follow a certain model that worked well and allowed people to develop websites easily. It grew. Then people wanted a mo
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by romaniv 15y ago
1. HTML5 and JS become another presentation layer for .NET apps. Anyone else fails to see the benefit of this in terms of architecture quality? The claim is that anyone who knows HTML and JS will be able to develop UI. But the reality is
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by romaniv 15y ago
Ideally (from a consumer's standpoint), a currency should be relatively stable. I should be able to either buy things with it, or just keep it for the time when I need to buy something. I don't think deflation in itself is a problem, but
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by romaniv 15y ago
Chomsky is just appealing to our own biases. We don't want to be statistical approximation machines Do we? Intellectual cynicism that makes people to publicly reduce humans and humanity to something mechanical and predictable is probably
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by romaniv 15y ago
Interesting techniques, but some of these styles don't work on IE8, and some are way too hackish. I really feel that there should be a way do a CSS dropdown without using stuff like "text-indent:-9999px;".
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by romaniv 15y ago
What's you background? What kind of math did you learn by looking at mathematical symbols rather than natural language explanations? I have hard time envisioning how such a leaning process would work. There are several pretty obvious proble
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by romaniv 16y ago
There is a solution to the described problems that has been around for several centuries, but vent out of vogue with the emergence of modern online media. Any good magazine is an example of this solution. A good magazine works because it c
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by romaniv 16y ago
As someone said, this was done for Wii several years ago. I think the idea is more practical for iPad, since you can rotate the screen instead of moving around. I would probably be more likely to use this if the position tracking was done v
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by romaniv 16y ago
I'm not sure why registrar would not be considered a part of DNS.
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by romaniv 16y ago
From what I understand, they aren't located in Libya. Would you find it amazing if a war some middle-eastern country shut down Gmail? I think the moral of the story here is that an important system like DNS should be distributed (real distr
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by romaniv 16y ago
I don't think it's fair to say that they (ICANN) are doing what I've described above. ICANN's policy: - Create close to one new TLD a year. - Either make it converge to the same logical"namespace" (what's the difference between .biz and .co
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by romaniv 16y ago
You just gave me an interesting (but somewhat unrelated) idea. You can "sign" a timestamp by appending a hash of that timestamp with some sercre value. This way, whenever the user submits your form, you can reliably determine when it was re
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by romaniv 16y ago
I see these prices as a clear sign that the current DNS system needs to be replaced. It's ridiculous. They are driven up by "scarcity," but there isn't any real deficit. Names are just letters and numbers, and there is infinite number of co
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by romaniv 16y ago
Sounds like Java development, all right. I think the problem lies with the idea that learning an uber-framework is a one-time cost. "Just learn it, you will be more productive aftwerward", they say. But that never happens. In reality, you k
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by romaniv 16y ago
You can do a lot of the things you describe here with VPS (Virtual Private Servers). You get root access, you don't manage hardware, you often receive some virtualization benefits (images, snapshots). Does that count as "Cloud Computing"?
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by romaniv 16y ago
Adventure games continue to be released by indie companies. Some of those are pretty good. For example, Gemini Rue was released just a few days ago. A Tale of Two Kingdoms came out couple of years ago. Both were polished and quite innovativ
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by romaniv 16y ago
FWIW, I have written over 1 million lines of BASIC for over 100 customers, most of it still it production, and all of it doing important work producing goods, services, and jobs in so many uncool industries we couldn't live without. No of
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by romaniv 16y ago
Everything requires effort to use. Question is, how much. The effort to learn and use some technology should be comparable with the complexity of the problem it solves.
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by romaniv 16y ago
i can't help but feel that this kind of hatred is only derived from a lack of understanding of css. The problem of element layout is a relatively simple one. It should not require some kind of in-depth "understanding" and extensive resear
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by romaniv 16y ago
Do we really need all these articles that urge people to never, ever rewrite anything? (Classic example being Joel's article, which also uses Netscape as an example: http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/fog0000000069.html .) Managers an
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by romaniv 16y ago
I would start thinking about decentralization from the software end, because it's much simpler to change. My #1 item would be decentralized alternative to DNS. Once you decentralize names, the state of a particular physical server stops to
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by romaniv 16y ago
There are people who specialize on drawing things, and there are people who specialize on API-level programming. However, I'm a firm believer that a developer who creates programs to be used by humans has to have designer mentality as well.
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by romaniv 16y ago
I don't _need_ 1GBps connection or even 100Mbps connection, but I do want to be able to get at least 3Mbps for a reasonable price. Last time I checked, it was $35/month + $240 installation fee. The way I see it, this area has no real compet
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by romaniv 16y ago
Hashbangs are a workaround. A good _solution_ would be something that doesn't require running JavaScript and doesn't mess with URL/document models most of the Web is based on. For example, browsers could implement partial caching. Here is
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by romaniv 16y ago
Why does everyone assume that bloatware profits get passed down to the consumers? And how much money vendors get for this anyway? It might very well be a matter of several dollars per PC.