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by smokinn 17y ago
No, it isn't. People in our industry commonly use the word scalability to denote metrics such as response time but that's just plain wrong. You can have a website that takes 3 minutes to load yet still be scalable. As long as it takes 3 min
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by smokinn 17y ago
Windows only though. I don't have windows. I'll try that once plugin support works in Linux. Thanks.
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by smokinn 17y ago
Ok, so according to that he wasn't an insider since he didn't own over 10%, only 6,2%. Thanks.
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by smokinn 17y ago
Thanks but that only works on Firefox and I generally prefer to use Chrome since it's so much faster. (The difference is even more striking in Linux than it is in Windows.)
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by smokinn 17y ago
Can someone explain how this isn't insider trading? I don't really know what the rules are but after reading that article this is what I understood: Cuban gets an email and has a private conversation with Mamma.com CEO where get gets told t
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by smokinn 17y ago
I suppose. But abstraction layers give you so much more than that. A good counter-example for why you should use one is simply prepared queries. Doing stuff like: mysql_query("SELECT something FROM table WHERE that='" . mysql_real_escape($v
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by smokinn 17y ago
I certainly wouldn't bet on that. Did you read the UI research the Office team published with the release of the 2007 version? The amount of work they put in determining what their clients needed and how they used the software and what woul
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by smokinn 17y ago
Projects like Google Native Client ( http://code.google.com/p/nativeclient/ ) makes me think that. If you can execute X86 code and leverage hardware acceleration through a browser that would probably be worth telling people to download Ch
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by smokinn 17y ago
Google Wave is a protocol. What you see screenshots of is a web app built with the Google Web Toolkit.
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by smokinn 17y ago
Yeah, I couldn't understand that either. He goes on saying "database abstraction layers" are bad but then, at the end says he uses a "library" that abstracts away database issues such as persistent connections, replication awareness and loa
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by smokinn 17y ago
Especially since it's global across Google Reader. I couldn't care less that some random person in Florida that uses reader liked an article that ended up in my rss feed. I wish I could turn it off.
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by smokinn 17y ago
No I won't. I've been refusing to follow any links to TC for a while now and other than the occasional tinyurl'd link on twitter I've managed to avoid that cesspool entirely. If news.yc would stop voting up every article they write to the f
553.
by smokinn 17y ago
The most common quote I see is: "640k should be enough for anybody. - Bill Gates" and it bugs me every time. Thanks to the grandparent for setting the record straight.
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by smokinn 17y ago
The report itself is here: http://www.priv.gc.ca/cf-dc/2009/2009_008_0716_e.cfm
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Privacy Commissioner Finds Facebook Violating Canadian Privacy Law(michaelgeist.ca)
1 points by smokinn 17y ago|1 comments
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by smokinn 17y ago
I've discussed this with some friends in the past. I think the tragedy that befell Software Engineering was that most companies had no Engineering track for a career. To advance your career you generally had to get yourself promoted into a
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by smokinn 17y ago
I only have anecdotal evidence to back this up but I think dogs and cats are generally as well behaved as their owners force them to. I'm not one to be lax on discipline either and I've never had much of a problem with anyone's pets, even o
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by smokinn 17y ago
And he spent a good chunk of his career as an evangelist for a Microsoft shop. (Not Microsoft itself but a "Microsoft partner")
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by smokinn 17y ago
I agree. The site design is truly stunning. I especially like the choice of colours. It's hard to subdue such bright colours but it was pulled off very well.
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by smokinn 17y ago
There seems to be a small bug in the navigation. I clicked on Code and on that page all the navigation links have /old/ in them and 404 if you try to follow them. The rest of the pages seem fine, it's just the code page that breaks the navi
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by smokinn 17y ago
It really depends though. If you're using mysql with myisam tables you can easily come up with a sequence of events that lead to N+1 records being much faster due to table locking issues, especially when joins start getting involved. In tha
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by smokinn 17y ago
I don't know who I was following around but it was fun just clicking under your cell selection =)
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by smokinn 17y ago
That example was particularly egregious. PHP uses copy-on-write so the temp variable held a pointer to the 500k of data they mentioned, not a copy. Had they concatenated a small string to the end then PHP wouldn't copied the data and used
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by smokinn 17y ago
Summary: The web according to TechCrunch (apparently Twitter, TMZ and Perez Hilton's blog) went down. Everything being talked about on the web (which is full represented by twitter's "trending topics") was Michael Jackson. This is garbage.
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Do Programmers Optimize... Life?(cforcoding.com)
5 points by smokinn 17y ago|0 comments
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by smokinn 17y ago
RPG/LE
567.
by smokinn 17y ago
While it's true that there are a lot of versions, there aren't 9 boxes side by side on a shelf in a store. I think home, pro and server is all that should be in a best buy or equivalent. More specialized but very real and useful cases such
568.
by smokinn 17y ago
So instead of bundling the software together to match common use cases, put the burden on the shopper to know what every single part of windows does and whether they need it? That would be fine for geeks but the vast majority of the populat
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by smokinn 17y ago
I have more or less that exact problem. I get "8-9 hours" of sleep every night but I tend to wake up several times. I'm pretty much always tired no matter what I do before bed. I've tried tea, milk, no computer, reading, exercise, no dice.
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by smokinn 17y ago
But a barcode scanner can't connect to the internet. It's pretty obvious that at some point someone's going to write an app so that you can snap a barcode and compare with prices online. Your barcode scanner may be faster but that's much mo

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