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by schiptsov 15y ago
What powerful drugs they're using to produce such great distortion of reality? ^_^ JS could be called something like In-Browser Java (and it is heading to be the same bloated failure) or something. But assembly.. ^_^ Reality distortion is v
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by schiptsov 15y ago
I think this site could be brought by Cosmopolitan some day. ^_^ Top stories are exactly fit for it.
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by schiptsov 15y ago
Social media marketing is quite simple. ^_^ If you trying to put advertisement sections in, say, FB to promote your product - you will fail (FB will just earn your money) but if your product is so good, that several members of some thematic
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by schiptsov 15y ago
37Signals doesn't use their blog for marketing - really? PR and pseudo-education IS marketing. It is like forex.com "teaching" you some basics of trading. 37signals is actually very simple thing and very common formula - 3 or 4 really s
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by schiptsov 15y ago
You doing what? Yes, there are many this or that, but in general, Open Source model works just because it is community driven. That means if your project or some critical part of it (scheduler or implementation of TCP) is really important t
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by schiptsov 15y ago
I have seen crashed ESX servers with unreadable error messages while no information or support except PR and forums full of new users trying to convince themselves they did right choice. (post-purchase rationalizations).
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by schiptsov 15y ago
I won - http://matt.io/technobabble/hivemind_devops_alert:_nginx_doe...
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by schiptsov 15y ago
Do not forget what is your target CPU and what it can do and what cannot. Think why Unladen Swallow project went nowhere? ^_^
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by schiptsov 15y ago
Why use proprietary (less tested, less stable) solutions while there is community-tested and community-supported ones? ^_^ People still stuck with a stereotype that most brilliant programmers work for corporations. This is, obviously, not t
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by schiptsov 15y ago
No, no, it is not a bubble and 5 billion dollars is just a several hours of printing.. ^_^
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by schiptsov 15y ago
Going to once again reinvent IRC? ^_^
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by schiptsov 15y ago
Yeah, most of amateurs think that they must have Eclipse^Wa typewriter to write a poetry. ^_^
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by schiptsov 15y ago
Ideas (algorithms and data structures) are what matters. Language is just a language, you can translate ideas (not code) between them if you're familiar with both languages and the field. ^_^
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by schiptsov 15y ago
Yeah, I was influenced by my previous comment. Original article didn't mention JVM. But there is a bigger view - if most of the modules are mere wrappers around plain C libraries it is very ineffective approach to try to use some complicate
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by schiptsov 15y ago
Let me guess - it is not nginx code which is slow but one from openssl? ^_^
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by schiptsov 15y ago
Perfect is the enemy of good enough. The huge goal of CPython (especially 3.x - those who still stuck on 2.x are, well, just stuck on 2.x) is that it is good enough, was designed to be good enough and simple. Need speed? Write extension i
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by schiptsov 15y ago
I love all those 'JVM roks!' or 'JVM is mature and stable!' stories. But I still unable to get it, why one user-level program (say, java.exe) must be better than any another user-level .exe? With its primitive and rudimentary integration wi
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by schiptsov 15y ago
I used to call it The Naive Psychology - people are trying to isolate some barely observable phenomena and then prove that it is correct (very scientific approach) forgetting that an isolated phenomena is mere creation of the mind. ^_^ Thes
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by schiptsov 15y ago
Yes, that is why it should be done by domestic startups and teams 'right on the site'. So, YC's model doesn't work here - they fund only US-based startups (because it is quite difficult to fetch a profit from aboard =) but this one must be
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by schiptsov 15y ago
Not just Enterprise software 2.0. but Localized Enterprise software. The idea to adapt, say, SAP for Russian or Indian or Chinese laws, regulations and actual document flow is totally broken. Hosted services also limited to US market. The
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by schiptsov 15y ago
Silverlight installation required? ^_^
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by schiptsov 15y ago
The much worse problem is DNS. For big networks that pushes always the same two IPs (even without round-robin) it is a disaster. There are lags of servers, lags of network, dropped packets, useless overhead with EDNS and different packet si
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by schiptsov 15y ago
There is a significant cultural difference in the matter of treating diseases between West and East. In the West people first use a drug (rather tons of them), then, if no progress was made, a medical assistance, then, changes in behavior a
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by schiptsov 15y ago
Remarkable, someone still pay money for copy-pasting from "Think And Grow Rich" and "How To Win Friends..". ^_^
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by schiptsov 15y ago
What is remarkable about Khan Academy is that it was done. It was a huge effort. And it was done from scratch, out of nothing. Not in order to promote some crapware like Silverlight or Flash, but with commitment to teach poor people. Collec
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by schiptsov 15y ago
I don't know what this way of expressing my ideas assumes. If you have something to say about these ideas - you're welcome.
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by schiptsov 15y ago
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Narcissism Coding and software engineering are not the same knowledge. Coding is just a small part of the big discipline. The difference between software engineer and a coder with even years of practice is the
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by schiptsov 15y ago
There is my demystification. ^_^ http://schiptsov.blogspot.com/2011/06/top-ten-oversimplifica...