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by sc68cal 15y ago
Firstly - I wouldn't put it past him to do something like that if he thought that would maximize his investment. The market doesn't view a debt of +10% of earnings to be that big of a deal however, has priced that risk accordingly, and Buff
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by sc68cal 15y ago
There is nothing like hard numbers. Thanks!
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You're missing the meaning. You should be using libraries and other small tools, to assemble more complex and powerful tools. Not reinventing the wheel. That is the way of Unix.
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The simplest and biggest space saver that minification does is remove excess whitespace and newlines. Compression schemes do the exact same thing, as well as compress all the other characters used in the source. Yes, the browser will have t
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by sc68cal 15y ago
JavaScript is an assembly language. Uh, no. Not at all. Not even close. This is a ridiculous premise, and can't possibly be taken as a supporting argument for ANYTHING. Also - Has the author not heard of compression? Especially since Goog
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by sc68cal 15y ago
This is why partnering is key. I partnered up with a geneticist who understands his subject matter, while I can focus on my subject matter. The end result was a grant funded by NIH.
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by sc68cal 15y ago
Yes - this is exactly the advice that BWK gives. Rule #2 specifically. Keep it simple. Build it in stages. Let someone else do the hard part. Sourced from: http://rixstep.com/2/2/20080125,00.shtml
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by sc68cal 15y ago
A cynical person might say that the design was intentional, to vacuum up a few extra subscription fees. Especially when the actual login button is shoved all the way at the bottom of the screen and significantly smaller (due to a lack of a
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The End is Nigh: Justin Timberlake Acquires Ownership Stake in MySpace(slatest.slate.com)
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by sc68cal 15y ago
I agree. Your comment made me think, what would I do if I was the CEO of RIM? To be honest, it caused a sense of great dread, having to try and turn a company with that kind of inertia around, without screwing the pooch. Especially if $3 Bi
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by sc68cal 15y ago
I wonder though, if the fact that they have so much money (and thus so much to lose) is part of the reason why RIM has lost their direction? Surely that has to have some sort of cultural impact?
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More importantly, no emotion. The letter to RIM used personal pronouns and conveyed a sense of exasperation or frustration, while the response by RIM is incredibly dry and distant.
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by sc68cal 15y ago
the Grisu family acts as the default rendering algorithms in both the V8 and Mozilla Javascript engines (replacing David Gay's 17-year-old dtoa code) Hmm. I think maybe a weekend hack is in order. Perhaps dtoa in Python can be replaced in
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by sc68cal 15y ago
You must have missed out on last weeks posts about PHP internals devs saying no to practically every enhancement. Including enhancements with patches ready.
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by sc68cal 15y ago
The author states in the opening paragraph that he has slowly been migrating off Eclipse, to Netbeans, now to Coda!!? Seriously, what was he using Eclipse and Netbeans for if Coda is a migration path. Stating the obvious: He clearly wasn't
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by sc68cal 15y ago
Filtering is the key step in organizing your mailbox. I subscribe to LKML, FreeBSD-Current, Full-Disclosure, among others and would have drowned under the deluge without procmail.
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by sc68cal 15y ago
Someone did. http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2640756 Self plug: I cleaned up his original repo and put the patch against the official PHP git repo. https://github.com/sc68cal/php-src
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by sc68cal 15y ago
Wow. That was far more informative than the Engadget summary. Maybe you can take Dante Cesa's job?
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by sc68cal 15y ago
I've been breaking myself of that habit: I try and use the flush command so I don't have to keep doing the superuser creation step. https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/dev/ref/django-admin/?from...
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by sc68cal 15y ago
Wow - they only had one location handling sending out alerts?? Message and alert functionality in an application is one of the biggest low-hanging fruits for moving to a more distributed architecture. To the point where it's almost a textbo
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This isn't reddit.
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by sc68cal 15y ago
Lion being 64-bit only is a distinct possibility. Apple has shown a willingness to cut off legacy hardware without batting an eyelash. Snow Leopard was Intel-only, signaling the end of support for PPC hardware.
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by sc68cal 15y ago
Agreed. If we want to nitpick further regarding the GIL - Python boosters could state that the GIL is just a implementation detail of cPython that is not a problem in other implementations, like Jython or IronPython.
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by sc68cal 15y ago
Who are pt-ziegen and blord? They appear to have come out of the woodwork to give you effusive praise.
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I don't see any discussion about why you dislike the language. Please elaborate.
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Probably trying to make themselves look more organic by linking to your blog, for SEO purposes.
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That's lame. Take your downvotes and learn from them. Are you really that shallow?
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sigh Not another "Download this shell script over insecure HTTP and pipe it to sh" gimmick. Really? While http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2661209 is directly above this item on the front page? Have we learned nothing?
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by sc68cal 15y ago
Amen brother. Schneier has a great post on this whole fiasco. The Threat of Cyberwar Has Been Grossly Exaggerated: http://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2010/07/the_threat_of_...
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by sc68cal 15y ago
As a history lover, I'm sorry. I can't let this pass. There is absolutely no way that a framework that translates programming classes and properties in one language into SQL queries, compares with the amount of human suffering that war enca

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