thenduks

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by thenduks 17y ago
Way too little. Way too late. I fail to see how this could be of interest to anyone, certainly not to anyone not already on the Microsoft stack.
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by thenduks 17y ago
> My mediocrity undoubtedly teed you off a little, but did it prevent you from finishing the essay ? Indeed, the author is correct, I finished the article (which, to be fair, had some interesting points) -- but will I return in the futu
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by thenduks 17y ago
Interesting read. As a developer design is definitely one of my pain-points. Fortunately, my current project is for developers! Lucky me :)
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by thenduks 17y ago
Recursive handwriting considered harmful; bring back recursive handwriting. Anyone? :)
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by thenduks 17y ago
Flex is absolutely Flash. It is simply a library/toolkit for Flash development.
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by thenduks 17y ago
So far so good over here :)
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by thenduks 17y ago
Good stuff. A word of advice, leave the Javascript to the other dude for a while until you're 'seasoned' a little. Ugly Javascript is really ugly :)
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by thenduks 17y ago
The (former?) troll was described as a 'rather likable fellow', not 'really a good person'. If the latter was the case I would agree with you :)
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by thenduks 17y ago
Just learn some markup and CSS stuff, there's always plenty of that to do and most programmers I know would rather be writing code. The nice part about this is that it's pretty easy to pick up, a month or so and you'll be able to at least l
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by thenduks 17y ago
I'm not even sure I follow the premise of this article, perhaps someone can enlighten me. Seems like it's all based on "I don't like Javascript, so we should replace it because no one wants to write it"... whoa hold on a second there profes
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by thenduks 17y ago
I see your point but unfortunately using Haskell doesn't magically also make your database (/etc other bottlenecks) 360x faster, so... Ruby it is :)
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by thenduks 17y ago
I love all this _why stuff on the front page (no sarcasm)! Thank you HN! _why was a truly prolific member of the Ruby community. Assuming he's actually 'gone', he'll be missed and his work appreciated for a long time to come.
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by thenduks 17y ago
MongoDB database files are memory mapped, it has something to do with that... Never looked into it closer, all my servers are running 64-bit distros.
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by thenduks 17y ago
Just fyi, his GitHub account is/was 'why' and not '_why'. Wiki's are still there: http://wiki.github.com/why/shoes , http://wiki.github.com/why/hpricot , etc.
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by thenduks 17y ago
I'm building a bug tracker with MongoDB at the moment. Nothing but good things to say. First incarnation I used CouchDB but found the whole 'must know your queries before-hand' stuff didn't really fit the project. MongoDB is blazing fast wi
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by thenduks 17y ago
You need a 64-bit OS to get >2GB db's with Mongo, just fyi.
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by thenduks 17y ago
Fair enough, I'm just saying that maybe the fact that he's a UI designer is what caused him to approach it in a way that most people don't. I've seen people who know less-than-nothing about interfaces (aka, your average person) get it witho
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by thenduks 17y ago
I generally decide on a framework project-by-project. I started off with Django because I was experienced with Python. The project went ok but I found, as most people seem to, that when the code started growing more organically (often calle
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by thenduks 17y ago
Generally we stick with caching, when that starts to give diminishing returns we add a web server. Database stuff is quite a bit harder, of course, we're been fortunate there so far :)
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by thenduks 17y ago
My point was that you can find the information online or in the manual if you don't get it , which this guy clearly does not. Some people have habits when it comes to devices like this that are hard to break. If you're one of those people,
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by thenduks 17y ago
"This issue should be tested in a usability lab with a reasonable cross section of the target market" That's the thing. It was. And it works for everyone I've ever met, including my wife and my parents who are the polar opposite of 'techn
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by thenduks 17y ago
To me it seemed like the author was just fumbly with his fingers. Triggering undo and such. This information can be found online or in the manual so if he would just rtfm it would be obvious how he caused the delete button to show up. Also,
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by thenduks 17y ago
There’s a reason I work where I do. As far as I’m concerned, the people I work with are doing the most innovative and amazing things on the planet. What a thrill it is to be a part of it. I generally don't take delusional people's opini
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by thenduks 17y ago
I will have to agree with the others here who say: move ! Personally I moved from a 'small city' (Kitchener-Waterloo, something like 200k in the vicinity) to Toronto and immediately noticed the difference in the tech community... and by th
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by thenduks 17y ago
I'm not sure... I've never had a windows display driver crash and simply restart ('showing aero basic for a few seconds'). Seems to me that this usually results in a blue screen. While I'm obviously not OK with X crashing and taking running
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by thenduks 17y ago
I must say, I'm completely fine with this sort of thing. Doesn't bother me even slightly. I can't image what Palm could use this information for that I would not be OK with (although I'm sure there are examples), but the fact that they ar
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by thenduks 17y ago
Errored for me on my first try (just a simple 500 in an alert box, that's it)... So I tried a different URL and it yelled at me about upgrading to get 'more reports per day' -- I haven't even got one yet! :/
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by thenduks 17y ago
Amen, good to hear this sort of thing coming from a fellow Apple user. Microsoft's 'ecosystem' is far more open than Apple's, so Apple is hardly becoming Microsoft -- they're becoming less and less like Microsoft. In terms of developer an
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by thenduks 17y ago
The flags don't help and simply based on the number of questions you have about the subject it's obvious that it's not clear cut how to handle the issue. Drop them.
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by thenduks 17y ago
whoosh The author of this... thing... conveniently ignores the fact that people looking to get work done don't care about supporting every printer under the sun. They want a non-shit OS that doesn't explode on them every time they plug in

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