thecombjelly

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by thecombjelly 14y ago
What works for one company may not be acceptable or optimal to other companies. I think the biggest insight is that you should measure these things and see what approach earns you the most money, taking chargebacks into account.
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by thecombjelly 14y ago
> why not just append the security code It may be an extra layer of protection related to getting the credit card number via seeing or taking a picture of the front of the card, having it on the back helps improve security from that asp
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by thecombjelly 14y ago
I think the open web-applied to smartphones-will be what the entire smartphone market eventually arrives at. Mozilla is playing the long game and doing a lot of extra work and will go through a lot of issues that they wouldn't if they made
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by thecombjelly 14y ago
That is true to a degree but you really can not generalize very well at all in java. You will also be hard pressed to find java code written functionally enough that you can just run a unit test and know it is working correctly. Usually you
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by thecombjelly 14y ago
I love lisp. I use/used it to build my web service product[1] and anything else I can. =how do I do X?= java: something similar to X is already done in Y. add abstract class and redo X and write Y. +200 LOC lisp: something similar to X is a
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by thecombjelly 14y ago
Whether you wear headphones or not is a matter of how much risk you want to take. Just like riding a motorcycle is more risk than driving a car. Wearing headphones is more risky, but like anything in life, you have to decide if the benefits
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by thecombjelly 15y ago
I don't really understand why so many people think that the results on DDG are worse than Google. Maybe I just don't search for things that other people do, or I search differently, but for me, I usually prefer the DDG results. Most of it h
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by thecombjelly 15y ago
I've certainly noticed a difference in speed. I've been using DDG solid for around a couple years now and the only thing I ever really lament is the speed, so I'm very glad you guys are working on it. And it is definitely getting better. An
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by thecombjelly 15y ago
Great work DDG and yegg! I love DDG and have been using it for well over a year. The quality is just so good that anytime I get on computer set to search Google by default, I only get through a few searches before I'm compelled to head over
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by thecombjelly 15y ago
The best reason for me is the quality. Between the disambiguation feature and the lack of spam and crappy sites, DDG is really good at finding what you want it to.
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by thecombjelly 15y ago
For version 8, I think it is a stretch to say that it will support 'closures'. [0] The closures that are proposed are more like a bolted on psuedo solution, basically syntactic sugar that makes the language more complex. You can only use th
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by thecombjelly 15y ago
I hail from Michigan and I still know quite a few automotive engineers. Mostly at small suppliers though.
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by thecombjelly 15y ago
I have a EeePC 900A and the driver for wireless is by far the best I've experienced on Linux.
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by thecombjelly 15y ago
Interesting. I have Arch Linux running on a Asus Eee pc and I was always happy that it was connected and ready to go as soon as I woke it up from sleep (including WiFi). I can access the internet within a second of waking it up. I'm using N
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by thecombjelly 15y ago
Grooveshark is already available with HTML. They use flash behind the scenes to play back the audio, but that's it. Pandora will most likely be very similar.
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by thecombjelly 15y ago
The AUR can definitely be tricky, but in my experience it is usually better than configuring and compiling packages without it. Usually you can figure out what is going wrong just by googling the error or looking at the PKGBUILD. In fact, t
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by thecombjelly 16y ago
I think it actually depends on the language that you use. When I used languages based off C, that didn't lend as well to rapid prototyping, that didn't have a good repl; I would do a lot of design work on paper. I usually ended up over engi
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by thecombjelly 16y ago
It is not performance or hosting concerns. Java performs good enough and you can host it on things like EC2. The problem is that web startups tend to want to develop things quickly and be able to pivot quickly and easily. Java is not best a
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by thecombjelly 16y ago
I really value long term quality of my code and I highly value simplicity and pretty looking code. In these regards Scheme is a much better choice. There may be some libs that are in CL but not Scheme, but I actually have found nearly every
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by thecombjelly 16y ago
The study exposed 20 ash trees to various radiation sources for a period of three months Sure seems like the evidence is a long ways from being able to make statements like: Radiation from Wi-Fi networks is harmful to trees and All dec
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by thecombjelly 16y ago
I use Chicken Scheme with the Awful web framework. I also use the the Chicken Eggs: html-tags (sexp based HTML generation) and html-utils, along with many other supporting modules.
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by thecombjelly 16y ago
But many times, making something look better gives people a better understanding and more confidence, therefore you get more money.
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by thecombjelly 16y ago
> Instead of doing proper A/B testing I disagree. It is not easy, if not impossible, to go from ugly to beautiful, with A/B tests. A/B tests can make judgments on things, but they aren't going to make it much more beautiful. Making it m
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by thecombjelly 16y ago
How have you lost? I write my HTML in a very similar way to the linked article, and I don't think I lose at all. In fact, I much prefer it. It is more consistent. All of my code is now (in my case) Scheme. This makes it easier to change thi
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by thecombjelly 16y ago
Yes I have tried Debian. Debian is not near as bleeding edge and may not have as good of driver support. It is also quite often slower. If you really want the best performance, a distro like Arch is really the only easy way to get it. Arch
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by thecombjelly 16y ago
I run Arch on my $175 eee PC and it works far better than any of the other distros that I've tried. It also helps A LOT to run a very light weight window manager. I've found the StumpWM (as a bonus written in Lisp) is a great fit, although
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by thecombjelly 16y ago
At least for me, pg's essays do a much better job at advocating working for a startup, or starting a company. The tone employed by this seems to be less rational and more sensational.
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by thecombjelly 16y ago
I think hierarchies are one of the most common ways to organize data and most systems in this world are organized hierarchically. Governments, socioeconomic systems, taxonomies, literature, organized religion, and nature, are all often orga
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by thecombjelly 16y ago
Chicken Scheme: csc app.scm ./app Not really a problem with interpreted languages, it's just that it may not be as common in some worlds.
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by thecombjelly 16y ago
Actually a GTD language means that the Happiness/Bread-and-Butter language is not powerful enough. If your Happiness/Bread-and-Butter language is powerful enough, and you really do use it whenever you can, then you should know how to either

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