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by sjs 15y ago
Sorry for replying to myself. I want to mention that not everyone needs the Sistine Chapel, that is there's a lot of room for all skill levels. The guy closer to the other end of the spectrum who knows just enough PHP to hack something toge
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by sjs 15y ago
Programming is a creative endeavour. All these accomplished and renowned 9-5 programmers must hang out at the end of the rainbow with all the accomplished 9-5 painters, musicians, etc. I'm not saying there aren't any - some people really ju
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by sjs 15y ago
This is the first time I've seen it done but I haven't read a lot of assembly code or anything. > but it never occurred to me that it would be useful for assembly language too. (And in fact I'm not sure that it is :) Why not?
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by sjs 15y ago
Probably not, that's certainly a fair point. But in that case why go into it at all? Just say it's magic "faster" juice (and don't post it to HN). One thing I'm curious about as a developer is how this is different than the type inference t
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by sjs 15y ago
> Other languages, like JavaScript, are weakly typed, which means that the programmer doesn’t have to worry about such piffling minutiae; you can just write some code and let the compiler do the heavy lifting. JavaScript isn't weakly ty
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by sjs 15y ago
I didn't use Spaces before Lion. It's still not perfect but I like it better now with Mission Control. The full screen behaviour is annoying. What if I want to go full screen on a secondary display? Huge oversight and who knows when they'll
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by sjs 15y ago
If you're good enough nobody will take as much care in creating a copy as the you did the original.
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by sjs 15y ago
It's on the first or second page of icons in a Google image search for "copy icon" with size set to icon. http://www.google.ca/search?q=copy+icon#um=1&hl=en&t...
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by sjs 15y ago
For many people, including hosting admins, MySQL was the path of least resistance. MySQL required less maintenance than Postgres back in the day. It's pretty much exactly the same situation as with PHP. The tool created by mere mortals is u
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by sjs 15y ago
Yes cumbersome would have been a better word than difficult. Once open it's pretty straightforward to navigate, though I really wish you could type the name of any menu item and jump to it like you can on OS X. If there's no alt shortcut on
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by sjs 15y ago
When I use Windows I feel like everything is inside a damn context menu that's difficult to access with the keyboard. (imo of course) OS X beats Linux for keyboard shortcuts because they are more consistent. My ranking is: 1. OS X, 2. Linux
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by sjs 15y ago
Indeed. So awful you will never want to use it and will just use the keyboard instead ;-)
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by sjs 15y ago
An article from 2003 - that doesn't mention Readability, Flattr, and other new takes on micropayments - is your final word on why micropayments are doomed to fail? Sometimes it's useful to revisit an idea and look at it with an open mind. T
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by sjs 15y ago
I'm interested in Ext JS / Sencha and YUI but haven't tried them yet. Briefly tried Dojo, it looks like a very solid framework that is really powerful if you spend a bit of time to learn how it works and fits together.
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by sjs 15y ago
> Because it didn't make any sense considering the technical constraints and the physical design. Smartphones before the iPhone had much smaller screens, usually resistive (requiring a stylus to operate properly) and had keyboards, whi
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by sjs 15y ago
Many great ideas are obvious in hindsight. If it was so obvious why had nobody done it? Would you say, "Oh Amazon? Whatever they're not doing anything new. They're just selling shit except their store is on the web. Big deal, that's not inn
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by sjs 15y ago
All I know is that locking and unlocking a phone used to be a problem for some people, and they no longer have a problem with Apple's solution. I don't care what you call it, my mom can actually use this version of locking and unlocking her
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by sjs 15y ago
sciurus did say modern which XP is most definitely not.
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Ouch. That's good to know. Through sheer luck till now I've mostly done network transfers using smb + rsync on my notebook.
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by sjs 15y ago
Yeah, it is a dick move. At the same time if it moves the whole industry forward then it's good for us as well. Mixed feelings. Do you remember how we unlocked phones before the iPhone? On Nokia phones it was Menu, * which was great but my
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by sjs 15y ago
Oh interesting! I'll have to take a look. Right now I use TeraCopy.
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by sjs 15y ago
People who are serious about this stuff just use TeraCopy on Windows anyway. Who wants to copy terabytes or even gigabytes of data and not verify it? People who build systems, in general and excluding the ZFS authors, really need to start w
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by sjs 15y ago
Excellent point. I use a browser extension to show up and down votes on Reddit and I really miss that info here on HN. Not that we get to see comment scores anymore but I still miss it even on my own comments.
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by sjs 15y ago
Almost makes me want to apply at Google. I have a[n up to] 25 mbps line, Shaw is rolling out 50 mbps but upstream isn't really improving so big deal. Downstream is not my bottleneck for most things but online backups and such are painful. I
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by sjs 15y ago
Why not? They pioneered all the techniques they use for using web apps like native apps on iOS, such as adding them to the home screen. I don't think there's any evidence that supports your argument whatsoever. If people want to run web app
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by sjs 15y ago
A common pattern is a superclass with "abstract" methods that subclasses then implement. So the `sendCommand(cmd)` function is implemented in HPDriver and CanonDriver and higher level methods in PrinterDriver can use that piece even though
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by sjs 15y ago
Someone needs to turn on caching. In the meantime I'll share a doesn't-own-a-tablet-but-has-a-work-iPad guy's quest to get a $99 TouchPad on Friday night. I arrived home from work and saw the firesale news on the twitternetz. I immediately
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by sjs 15y ago
> I just don't want to [...] buy a license [...] Would you pay the $100/year AppHub fee to publish apps for WP7 if you ended up liking it? This sort of argument just reminds of all those who whine about having to buy a Mac to do iOS de
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... and the doors open. If the dogs don't leave can you really blame whoever left them? Nothing can get rid of the remaining webOS dev dogs at this point. Too bad. I had a lot of hope for webOS but that has been reduced to barely a shred. S
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by sjs 15y ago
Your stance is a kind of funny. When people complain about certain web dev tasks being difficult on Windows we say, "Yeesh, just run Linux already! You can even use a VM." And if you ask me that's precisely the response MS should give to re

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