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by route66 14y ago
As I understand the discussion (underneath the commit log, josevalim gives a comment), it's not about re-inventing a job queue but to offer an API for queues where you can hook in what you want. That way other services can use a queue (send
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by route66 15y ago
I do not understand your need to call him an self-centered pretentious asshole. I think these kind of needless qualifications only reflect back on you and add nothing whatsoever to the discussion. If the very mentioning of RMS put you so mu
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by route66 15y ago
Given the spread of mobile browsing in the wider sense it's unreasonable to assume that the majority of users surf through a vpn. So which alternative do you provide to the users of a js-only site? My point is, that this should be a concern
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by route66 15y ago
> it is important to note that public WiFi is never safe unless you are using a VPN I would like to use the article and this statement to beat very hard the nitwits who advocate javascript-only websites. Some here are dismissing js-alte
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by route66 15y ago
This is more or less the way SAML [1] works, at least in one of it's protocols. The authentication server redirects (after successful login) to the initiating service and supplies an assertion-token, often with limited validity. With that a
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by route66 15y ago
I would expect that dons is talking about a 1M codebase which already consists out of manageable pieces. It's only, that the pieces have to work together, talk to each other, know about each other (but not too much). Sometimes software solv
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by route66 15y ago
User identification with the short comments usually found on HN might be difficult. The challenge still stands if I'm not mistaken: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1199592
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by route66 15y ago
Besides that, while I'm not sure it's still a valid concern: When I switched from Windows to Linux in the mid 90's it was a transition from a box with an illegal copy of MASM and a not-really-working copy of a C++ compiler to a box with a p
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by route66 15y ago
Erik Naggum had a flamy comment on that topic: http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.lisp/msg/e5af8ef3f8... The study you mention brings me to another point: In some cases the discussion here on HN revolves about believe systems, paper
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by route66 15y ago
I would say that most users of these kind of applications do not even dream of the consequences of the combination of the data the make available. It needs geek mentality and more algorithmic thinking then you would expect to realize this.
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by route66 15y ago
> but making the open source project pay-to-play flies in the face of the spirit of FLOSS Ah, maybe I just do not agree with that spirit. The SBCL compiler fared well with Nikodemus Siivola's crowdfunding: http://random-state.net/log/3
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by route66 15y ago
> Of course he would never do that. Why? Maybe he was paid by the linux foundation during that time? Other sources of income? The gratuit "of course" is not clear to me. Maybe I'm misunderstanding what you try to say, but: " rails.app o
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by route66 15y ago
Hmmm ... Romanticism at work? As far as I can remember open source always has been a sponsored or subsidized undertaking as far as it concerns meaningful or central projects. Without it, the linux kernel would be only teaching material on F
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by route66 15y ago
http://norvig.com/design-patterns/ illustrates the role of design patterns in dynamic languages: some are less important, others stay. But you could come up with that for yourself by comparing the need for a visitor pattern in, say, Java
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by route66 15y ago
That hotlinking came up only later in the discussion. It definitely started with some of their pages having the same structure as some 37signal pages to great dismay of the community.
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by route66 15y ago
Careful though with tests that literally execute every line of code: You tie your test to your implementation. That makes even the slightest refactoring difficult. Better to have unit tests that only care about the functional interface.
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by route66 15y ago
Fred's official standpoint is here (the slug already says it): http://www.usv.com/2010/02/software-patents-are-the-problem-... Of course it is not clear if he lives up to that stance in all cases ( http://www.usv.com/investments/ ) , but
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by route66 15y ago
Providing content by means of distribution is not adding value. It's only that: distribution. The creator is adding the value. Why should he not be rewarded? With your line of argument you are in line with the entertainment industry who eff
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by route66 15y ago
The site is down, the content is (at least for me) not available in google cache, so I suppose it's the same for others as well. And yet it's the top story on HN right now. When do we start giving tl;dr's for the headlines? [EDIT] managed t
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by route66 15y ago
I assume nothing. I'm only wondering about the tone sneaking in. That aside: I just notice: <programming language> is on the rise according to indeed.com trend stats. I follow the link "watch <programming language> jobs" I
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by route66 15y ago
The big three are Java, C# and C(++). But I do not need to go to indeed to know that. Indeed is used often to show that language a has more adoption than language b. a and b being languages in the non- or pre-commercial domain. I'm only arg
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by route66 15y ago
Add to that my non-native-speaker-ness ... I will watch my language better in the future. But actually "screw indeed" would have been wrong: there is nothing wrong with indeed: they just aggregate job openings.
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by route66 15y ago
A bit OT, but: checking popularity with indeed.com is a fishy thing. First there is a trend even for simple PHP-only shops to post ads with the phrase "Haskell, Lisp, Scala, Clojure knowledge is a pre" (Yes, the "beating the averages" effec
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by route66 15y ago
In a (possibly flawed) attempt to cheer you up: be aware that you basically say - failing is frowned upon in Germany - I do not want to run that risk - so I will not try to start a company Thereby effectively continuing the mantra "do nothi
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by route66 15y ago
If you wait for 9.2 you can say SELECT query_to_json('select x as b, x * 2 as c from generate_series(1,3) x',false); http://people.planetpostgresql.org/andrew/index.php?/archive... I can't find the link now, but the reverse (ins
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by route66 15y ago
Hmmm ... aren't these cogs called libraries? But the question was: can I afford to go through a tcp socket (and that's a long way, possibly even to another machine) or not. A language cannot cover this up.
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by route66 15y ago
Is it possible that a) not all code written is for web apps b) that said recent technology also only fits a niche for modern web apps? I think you view on what constitutes modern web apps or software in general is biased in favor of some ex
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by route66 15y ago
I might have misread the article, but does it talk about MVP's? To me it sounds more like Minimum Viable Developers which do the "why don't u just uze ..." whack-a-mole? It's not about "embracing the cloud" what ever that means, but about b
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by route66 15y ago
In your story "better cogs" sound like "more cowbell". It's still a fundamental decision which will not go away: do you solve a problem in process or do you communicate with anything external: Redis vs. HasMap. It's not comparable to levels
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The Bleak Future of NAND Flash Memory(lgrupp.web.officelive.com)
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