silon

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by silon 15y ago
I'm only running Windows on my VMware machine.
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by silon 15y ago
Along with browser page history. I really get annoyed if I reload while site/network has a problem and can't go back to previous version.
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by silon 15y ago
Note also that code of average architectural quality will require about 1 maintenance day per year per 80 LoC just by virtue (vice?) of existing. (Paul Graham: a full-time maintenance engineer can own 20,000 lines of code.) This is true in
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by silon 15y ago
They must understand that user can (and should be able to) change (just the) font size, if not their designs are often useless.
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by silon 15y ago
Ratio display needs to be fixed: 99k -> 71k is not usefully presented as 1.4x, but better as ~30%
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by silon 15y ago
>But you can forbid it to access other memory areas for security Not in C/++ in any standard definition of "thread".
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by silon 15y ago
Zoom text only (showstopper, IMO).
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by silon 15y ago
For me, I could learn git no problem, write wrapper scripts for some things, etc... But I'm not explaining it's idiosyncrasies to other people on my team.
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by silon 15y ago
Git is not wrong by itself, there's just an impedance mismatch between it's model and a usable interface model. For most purposes, the index should completely hidden.
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by silon 15y ago
LOL. Yesterday, I restarted firefox because it ate 13GB of virtual memory and started to get really unusable.
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by silon 15y ago
Ceylon looks to be much better C-like language than Go. Go simply has too divergent syntax.
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by silon 15y ago
This needs a framework to write distributed / sync based offline applications.
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by silon 15y ago
Perhaps it's time to upgrade my HTC Hero (rooted, of course)
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by silon 15y ago
Must download location bar add-on.
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by silon 15y ago
I found that Apache jmeter works well for me. Easier to use than Grinder, but much more useful than the MS tool.
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by silon 15y ago
Slower query using indexes is better than randomly using table scans depending on statistics, ... At least for interactive apps, NoSQL wins.
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by silon 15y ago
I wish there was an SQL option to cause a fatal error if it needs to do a table scan. This would be very useful on test systems, at least. NoSQL forces discipline which is a good thing, preventing "late" performance optimization when in pro
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by silon 15y ago
I mostly stopped too. I still read the mailing list occasionally, but haven't bothered to download any snapshots.
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by silon 15y ago
-1 to Automatic semicolon insertion (seriously).
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by silon 15y ago
Complete with non working backspace, just like in Linux early days.
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by silon 15y ago
In subversion, it's best to rebase the branch after you have merged it back. Just like git rebase, you lost history.