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by sjs 15y ago
I like the data binding stuff but other than that I found XAML a huge pain. Lots of auto-generated stuff mixed in with stuff that I edit as well. It doesn't break but I'd rather have some separation between generated stuff and stuff that I
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by sjs 15y ago
"We’re getting to the point where everything’s a computer in a different form factor. So what, right? So what if it’s built with a computer inside it? It doesn’t matter. It’s, what is it? How do you use it? You know, how does the consumer a
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by sjs 15y ago
That's pretty funny. iirc you are a desktop Linux user, right? Do you use it because it's "taking over the market" or because it works well for you?
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by sjs 15y ago
Thanks a bunch for that tutorial! It demystified language implementation and taught me a little Haskell along the way. Oh and showed me the beauty of parser combinators. (I didn't run very far with it but here's my code if anyone is curious
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by sjs 15y ago
https://github.com/samsonjs/lake Just a half-baked implementation of a simple Scheme in C.
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by sjs 15y ago
Steve Jobs reading the Crazy Ones: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8rwsuXHA7RA
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by sjs 15y ago
Anyone care to follow this up with a brief article on the more expensive VPS providers? (such as A Small Orange) Are those of us on Linode, Rackspace Cloud, and Slicehost missing out at all?
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by sjs 15y ago
I bet 3rd parties will provide a solution if that's not possible out of the box.
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by sjs 15y ago
periodically-dumped-source software? Hopefully someone can come up with something catchy.
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by sjs 15y ago
I disagree, but it's subjective. I loved going from iPod + phone down to just an iPhone. When my 4S arrives I'm going to love getting rid of my point'n'shoot, and not feel like I have to have my DSLR to get decent photos. I have no video
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by sjs 15y ago
Design is much more than aesthetics. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dieter_Rams#Rams.27_ten_princip...
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by sjs 15y ago
You don't know where ck2 lives. I live in Victoria, BC and there are bikes on the road all the time here. A good portion of the roads have bike lanes and people are used to driving motor vehicles in tandem with bikes on the road. For all yo
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by sjs 15y ago
I have been using this Chrome extensions[1] which handles footnotes the same way on most sites (including Wikipedia and Daring Fireball, the only 2 I can recall off the top of my head). [1] http://openideas.ideon.co/2011/rehabilitate-disru
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by sjs 15y ago
I find your comment really amusing. Your whining and complaining about Marco's podcast doesn't exactly make you look like the paragon of humility, reason, and understanding. It's almost as if HN has become a soapbox for you to complain abou
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by sjs 15y ago
I hope that they will settle on the stock apps they are putting resources behind. I haven't used Linux on my workstation for a while now, but every time I look at Ubuntu it seems like they have new apps for core things like photos and such,
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by sjs 15y ago
If you've already decided on Chef then the Opscode platform provides great value. You get the best and most knowledgable Chef admins handling your Chef server for a few bucks per hour.
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by sjs 15y ago
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3115536
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by sjs 15y ago
Maybe he has the same keyboard and has seen a can of Diet Pepsi before. It's not hard to imagine that being true. I think that the 4S shot is too red/yellow compared to the Galaxy II. This sort of comparison is pretty subjective though. (as
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by sjs 15y ago
What a long winded, and hyperbolic, story of doom. Marco needs to get over his fears[1] and store the offline data in Documents. It is user generated and is absolutely not transient nor re-downloadable given that a core feature of Instapape
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by sjs 15y ago
Are there actual reports of unreliable SSDs that are not anecdotal? I have yet to see any evidence that they are worse than HDDs. That doesn't mean it isn't out there but I haven't seen any "reports" that are more than anecdotal FUD. In the
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by sjs 15y ago
Why must SSDs match the capacity of HDDs, but HDDs not have to match the latency and throughput of SSDs? Is it only because of the price premium SSDs carry? I don't really see the 2 technologies in competition at this point. Even if there w
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by sjs 15y ago
Sorry, I missed the up arrow and voted you down by mistake. I'd love to see such a review as well.
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by sjs 15y ago
I tried Slackware, Mandrake, and half a dozen other distros when I got into Linux around 2001. None of them resulted in a working system for me, and I had no luck figuring out how to fix any of them. (e.g. getting my sound card to work on M
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by sjs 15y ago
Got any useful benchmarks? Nobody is wondering which language to write their next "hello world" app in. Just for the record I'm not saying Dart is amazing and everyone should use it, all I'm saying is that we should evaluate it objectively.
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by sjs 15y ago
As me1000 (Randy Luecke) says Dart is not meant for hello world. If you run this through closure-compiler it's reduced to 2000 lines which is nothing next to Underscore, jQuery, Dojo, etc. We all know the benefits of offloading code to a we
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by sjs 15y ago
Good points, he did emphasize $/year and I still plan on buying an Apple TV (once I have a TV) so perhaps there is hope for it yet. I'd like it to succeed. Anecdotally my sister's husband bought one and also got his brother one last Christm
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by sjs 15y ago
If Solaris was ever successful on that scale the masses wouldn't recognize it was Unix either. The masses just don't care about geeky stuff like that, for better and for worse.
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by sjs 15y ago
In the last 20 years or so Steve Jobs often deflected praise from himself to the teams who worked on products. I have never seen him take any personal credit for any product he has introduced or discussed and always uses terms like "we", e.
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by sjs 15y ago
I think the streak refers to the number of consecutively successful films and not the dollar amount. Apple has released many successful iPods, iPads, Macs, and other products but there have been relative flops such as the Apple TV and the i
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by sjs 15y ago
People keep saying this and I don't really want get into a philosophical debate about it, but Steve Jobs has not been at the helm of Apple since January of this year and officially resigned in August. I'm not saying that RMS is spitting on

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