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   by rudiger 15y ago

   http://37signals.com/svn http://net.tutsplus.com/
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   by rudiger 15y ago

   There may be issues with the above solution, but scratching off tickets isn't one of them. Do you know how inefficient the process of counting votes can be now ? You might think that it is impractical, or that it "doesn't scale", but they
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   by rudiger 15y ago

   There's a lot of good stuff in the comments.
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   by rudiger 15y ago

   This doesn't refute the original point. It may even reinforce it! Her father and mother imparted some excellent genes, raised their daughters, and taught them in a way no school can. Judit Polgár and her sister were possibly born geniuses.
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   by rudiger 15y ago

   Straw man.
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   by rudiger 16y ago

   Interesting. I've never seen large-scale database deployments use SSDs (neither for the transaction log, nor for the data); I've only seen battery-backup and write-back caches on hard disk drives used.
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   by rudiger 16y ago

   It's worth reading, in my opinion.
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   by rudiger 16y ago

   Pursuing Facebook is more lucrative than anything else they could be doing right now. They have a great chance at netting hundreds of millions of dollars. What startup investment has an expected value anywhere near that? (answer: None.)
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   by rudiger 16y ago

   They have two very good (not odd) reasons: millions of dollars, and justice.
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    by rudiger 16y ago

    Mr. Dorsey must have received or at least heard about text messages (SMS) before 2006. Is it really possible that he had no idea what it was?
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    by rudiger 16y ago

    I see "Follow your interests" as transitioning the Twitter brand from its early egalitarian model to the aspirational model of conventional media. Friends, industry experts, and favorite celebrities are all people who we aspire to be or be
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    by rudiger 16y ago

    The link you posted doesn't make any sense. It says Larry Page owns 115,000 shares, and Sergey Brin isn't even listed. They own tens of millions of shares of Google. I suspect the difference is owing to dual-class shares, and the 81% vs. 1%
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    by rudiger 16y ago

    The major shareholders of Google remain inside Google, especially when you consider voting shares.
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    by rudiger 16y ago

    I deleted my comment (that Wall Street firms were threatening to take Google's stock price hostage until Mr. Page acknowledges, and therefore justifies, the existence of their analysts) to avoid hijacking this discussion. However, if you re
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    by rudiger 16y ago

    Why should Larry Page (a billionaire many times over) have to answer the questions of some loser $100K analysts? I commend Google for not estimating their earnings, offering "guidance", or any of the other bullshit that these analysts need
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    by rudiger 16y ago

    I agree with most of your points, except... Use gedit as your text editor. It's the default GUI text editor in the Ubuntu operating system, and works well enough for programming, and is significantly easier than Emacs for someone just start
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    by rudiger 16y ago

    At the time, it probably was.
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    by rudiger 16y ago

    I remember this from before StackOverflow existed, but nice to see it there.
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    by rudiger 16y ago

    Indeed. When you consider the alternatives at the time, Java and VBScript, JavaScript doesn't look so bad...
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    by rudiger 16y ago

    Over thirty years later and so little has changed... I think Alan Kay had a quote about there being no significant new inventions in computing since 1980.
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    by rudiger 16y ago

    It may seem like "pretty simple functionality", but... Active Merchant "raison d'être" was Shopify's requirements for a simple and unified API to access dozens of different payment gateways with very different internal APIs. Abstracting t
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    by rudiger 16y ago

    I agree with you, but the characterization in your second paragraph of hunter-gatherers and farmers might be construed as two static ideologies battling for supremacy (which isn't true). Indeed, as you say, the transition from nomadic to ag
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    by rudiger 16y ago

    Automatically annotating JavaScript code for JSDoc would really helpful.
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    by rudiger 16y ago

    You can consider trying what we did: Wrap Active Merchant in a lightweight web service which exposes a RESTful API that Java (or any language) can talk to.
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    by rudiger 16y ago

    I prefer SCSS to SASS, but I like braces. I also find being a superset of regular CSS to be a plus (even though it's not something I've actually used in practice).
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    by rudiger 16y ago

    The new, main syntax of Sass is now "SCSS", and is a superset of CSS3’s syntax, so every valid CSS3 stylesheet is valid SCSS as well.
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    by rudiger 16y ago

    Skipping the SSD because it's "too pricey" and going for the fastest CPU, most RAM, and best GPU is just stupid.
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    by rudiger 16y ago

    I thought maybe Angry Birds was more; tough to say though.
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    by rudiger 16y ago

    Which apps have made that much in the app store? Minecraft has made somewhere around 30 million U.S. dollars, with incredible growth (7 million U.S. dollars in the past month ) and they'll probably sell millions more. And since they do the
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    by rudiger 16y ago

    NSBlog - http://www.mikeash.com/pyblog/ Also highly recommend their The Complete Friday Q&A ; it's a book compiled from their Friday articles that covers advanced topics in Mac OS X and iOS programming.