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by stephen 16y ago
Thanks for the correction--I last used campfire pre-erlang and missed the switch: http://37signals.com/svn/posts/1728-nuts-bolts-campfire-love...
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by stephen 16y ago
Yes, true. I am admittedly showing my bias. Thanks for the reply.
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by stephen 16y ago
Funny--he started out "after another Campfire outage this week", I thought the post was going to be about the unreliability of Campfire, its platform (ruby, dash of C, AFAIK), and the uptime issues causing user-hostility amongst 37signal's
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by stephen 16y ago
Doing the same thing for the webapp is also useful--it serves as visual reminder to QA folk that the production box (white background) is /not/ someplace they should be running test scenarios (vs. the QA box with an orange/whatever backgrou
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by stephen 16y ago
Although I was initially skeptical about lombok's "let's hack the private compiler APIs", I must admit that their recent val hack is awesome: http://projectlombok.org/features/val.html I find it frustrating that these guys can hack in "va
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by stephen 16y ago
I think the reason is merely that compile-time metaprogramming hasn't been adopted in any mainstream programming language (yet). Boo can do cool things like that though: http://bamboo.github.com/2010/07/11/boo-meta-programming-fac...
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by stephen 16y ago
I hope this is eventually how web single-sign on works. The sooner OpenID goes away, and the browsers just take over, the better, IMO.
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by stephen 16y ago
"While his day job primarily involves Java code, Jon is a huge C# enthusiast." Nice. I wonder what he thinks of stab: http://code.google.com/p/stab-language/ So far, stab is a 1-man hobby project, but the guy seems incredibly prolific. Be
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by stephen 16y ago
Agreed. All interesting languages. Not a groovy fan, but groovy++ and compile-time AST transformations sounds like fun. Speaking of stab, an Eclipse plugin commit just hit svn: http://code.google.com/p/stab-language/source/detail?r=280
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by stephen 16y ago
I'd love to see Scala/GWT happen as well. Given it's much closer to Java (no new type system, etc.), I think it'd actually be easier to get stab/GWT integration: http://code.google.com/p/stab-language/ Though that'd also require someone c
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by stephen 16y ago
Several paragraphs in the article read like they were written by a 2nd grader: "Conversely, Adobe AIR and Silverlight allow Web-style applications to run on the desktop. Android, Adobe AIR, Google Chrome, Safari, and iPhone all use WebKit f
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by stephen 16y ago
A really simple version of this is on my "next hobby project" list. Seems like it should have been done before though. My impression is that a lot of bug tracking tools integrate with email (e.g. lighthouse, surely others), but usually it's
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by stephen 16y ago
I'm not an expert, but the application's memory usage being opaque to the kernel sounds vaguely like the problems Azul had scaling its Java runtime to large (>2GB) heaps. Azul recently open sourced some of their kernel patches: http://
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by stephen 16y ago
I like Scala, but I'm still surprised a simpler "better Java" alternative hasn't taken off like: http://code.google.com/p/stab-language/ (C# syntax compiled directly to the JVM) http://boo.codehaus.org/ (Python syntax, normally for .NET
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by stephen 16y ago
Agreed. I'm a Java developer than wishes for C#'s features. There is hope, these guys have the Scala library compiling to "jribble" pseudo-source than then will get parsed by the GWT compiler: http://scalagwt.gogoego.com/
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by stephen 16y ago
I'm on my 2nd GWT app. GWT's downside is that you're now making a rich client, and, IMHO, rich clients are a PITA compared to web 1.0/web 2.0 apps that just generate HTML on the server-side. A rich client generally means you aren't sending
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by stephen 16y ago
I think what you're looking for is the marque feature of 9.0: http://developer.postgresql.org/pgdocs/postgres/release-9-0....
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Dammit, MySQL(draconianoverlord.com)
141 points by stephen 16y ago|98 comments
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by stephen 16y ago
That has a 4K resolution, but it's 56"--that's only ~91 DPI.
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by stephen 16y ago
Instead of porting the whole CLR environment, I'd prefer just the C# syntax on the JVM, e.g.: http://code.google.com/p/stab-language/
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by stephen 16y ago
Agreed, the industry makes a killing, but you're still charging a percentage. How about a flat $0.25 per transaction? http://dwolla.org/dwollak/questions/16/Advantages
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by stephen 16y ago
Having the class/function name come first on the declaration line is different, but surprisingly consistent with variable declarations where names do traditionally come first. I expected Go to have a syntax more like this--different, but in
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by stephen 17y ago
Sugar is just as bad as HFCS, according to this video lecture that came across HN: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dBnniua6-oM It also asserts that pretty much any juice is not a good idea because you're losing the fiber that helps your bo
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by stephen 17y ago
Given the known bugs [1] that reflect your svn merging experience, it seems the majority of svn users, myself admittedly included, just never do reflective merging in svn or else there would be more of a fuss over it. As a good illustration
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by stephen 17y ago
Scala does basically the same thing with XML: http://www.scala-lang.org/node/131 ...although I doubt it does escaping by default. Should be simple enough to add while you're converting the scala.xml.NodeSeq (iirc) to text. For an API that
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by stephen 17y ago
Do you have any insights/opinions on why node.js beats Netty? It is something inherent in the JVM or is Netty's implementation flawed/not ideal for your scenario? (E.g. I'm a node.js newbie, but my understanding is that it doesn't have the
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Caller Side Structural Typing(draconianoverlord.com)
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by stephen 17y ago
Very cool. This looks like a real version of the Ruby fusefs I wrote to grok all of the s3organizer vs. s3sync vs. whatever schemes for differentiating files vs. directories in S3: http://github.com/stephenh/s3fsr Given I used Ruby's fuse
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by stephen 17y ago
I like your idea. But why not go after real content? Talk to Time Warner/Disney/somebody like that. Personally, I'd pay to let my kids watch a few minutes of on-demand cartoons every day in a walled garden. Can't believe Disney/etc. hasn't
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by stephen 17y ago
If your dream job is "thousand of jobs on hundreds of boxes", why not start hacking on something like Hadoop/Hive (or any one of the other new/popular distributed data stores) and, after proving yourself to the community, try to get a job f

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