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by saikat 16y ago
There are few ways in which this is not exciting. Hopefully this means even more momentum for an open source project that already has a ton of it.
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by saikat 16y ago
I spent a lot of time looking at different frameworks, but in the end, it's pretty hard to judge them without diving in and actually making an app in it. So I have some knowledge of the Cappuccino competitors from my initial research, but
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by saikat 16y ago
Heh - I should clarify. Gomockingbird.com definitely didn't get made in a week, but I did make a working prototype in a week. At Apple, I did all OpenGL stuff (worked on Keynote), and Harvard was all C/C++.
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by saikat 16y ago
Objective-C knowledge helps, but if you have little programming knowledge and need to learn either Javascript or Objective-C, I think Cappuccino makes it really easy for you to rapidly get a non-trivial web application working because they'
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by saikat 16y ago
I'm so incredibly happy for these guys. Deciding to use Cappuccino has been one of the best technical decisions I've ever made. It's an incredibly fun and impressive framework. But what really made using Cappuccino so rewarding was inter
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by saikat 16y ago
Don't be too worried. I'm pretty sure they are still going to work on Cappuccino, and the community is still very active and helpful.
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by saikat 16y ago
UTF8 seems to be the default encoding. I think he had just forgotten to update the docs for .write: http://github.com/ry/node/commit/7fc794a8ec55bd9d137c4888404...
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by saikat 16y ago
Guam has more cables going into it than all of Australia or Africa.
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by saikat 16y ago
The question I was answering was not "What are some sexist remarks you have heard" but "Could you give us some examples of condescending remarks that have been made but which weren't intended to offend?" It's great if these kinds of commen
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by saikat 16y ago
One example - at a "nerd" event a couple weeks ago, one of the speakers said something to the effect of "it's really great to see all of you and your girlfriends at this event." Usually it's small assumptions like this. Another thing I've
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by saikat 16y ago
Looks promising. Has anyone done benchmarks on Canvas performance in Firefox 4?
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Aleph: A new event-driven web server for Clojure(groups.google.com)
86 points by saikat 16y ago|19 comments
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by saikat 16y ago
Even worse is when you know before you start that you are probably going to spend 2 days chasing dead ends because you don't know the problem space yet and need to try a bunch of different things. Battling procrastination in this situation
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by saikat 16y ago
Maybe or maybe not - my point is just that this is one way you get tools with good interfaces, and it is less likely that you will take this path when you are a large company.
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by saikat 16y ago
On your point #2 - it is true that enterprise software tends to be complex, but this problem is compounded by the fact that enterprises are unwilling to approach building/buying solutions to complex problems with a conquer and divide approa
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Beacon Push: Websockets and Comet in the cloud(beaconpush.com)
3 points by saikat 16y ago|0 comments
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by saikat 16y ago
280North at least develops all their technology in-house (and it's only 3 hackers). I bet most of their costs are living expenses for the founders.
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by saikat 16y ago
Yeah, according to the metric used by this article, I've been bootstrapping my startup for under $1k over the past 8 months. And I don't find what I'm doing to be all that incredible.
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by saikat 16y ago
It's a neighborhood in San Francisco - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tenderloin,_San_Francisco .
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by saikat 16y ago
Neil Fraser made a comment about his approach and why it introduces complications here - http://www.web2media.net/laktek/2010/05/25/real-time-collabo... . I'm glad he clarified =).
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by saikat 16y ago
For another middleware solution that's been around for more than a year, is modeled after Rack and WSGI, and follows the JSGI specification (which I believe is part of the CommonJS spec), be sure to check out tlrobinson's Jack - http://git
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by saikat 16y ago
Not sure if anyone else saw this clip on the Rachel Maddow show, but it was interesting. Seems like the last time something this massive happened (in much shallower water), the same techniques were tried (and failed) and finally, relief we
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by saikat 16y ago
Like many others, I'm also in the early stages of love with redis. It works for so many cases, and is so simple to setup that I see myself just dropping it in everywhere. But my favorite feature of Redis when I was starting out was probab
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by saikat 16y ago
We're working on a couple of features right now - collaboration is currently on my plate. You can check out what we're working on at forums.gomockingbird.com . I also made a couple of tech blog posts about the stuff I'm learning while imp
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by saikat 16y ago
Not to its target audience, no =).
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by saikat 16y ago
That's great, but you are aiming very broadly. The vast majority of people won't know or care what was your aim and what was the side-effect. You are responding to censorship by Comedy Central caused by a subset of Muslims by doing someth
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by saikat 16y ago
So why decide to insult one giant group of people who didn't threaten anyone (all the Muslims that didn't send out death threats) instead of another (all the Christians that didn't send out death threats)?
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by saikat 16y ago
To be fair, there is also no legal protection for "protecting free speech" in a general sense. The first amendment only prevents the GOVERNMENT from limiting your free speech. Companies limit free speech all the time (think NDA), and they
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by saikat 16y ago
The problem here is that the "escalation" is not against the people threatening lives. It's a blind escalation in the dumbest sense - just making the antagonistic act affect more people instead of the few guilty people more acutely.
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by saikat 16y ago
Though without the s, tartups.com has some pretty bad connotations.

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