tjogin

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by tjogin 17y ago
I don't understand why he's calling any of that "magic". There's nothing magic about it, not even a little bit. He doesn't comprehend how the libraries he is using actually works internally, and that is all there is to it. Is this what pass
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by tjogin 17y ago
Absolutely, it feels like you're just working with hashes and arrays, as opposed to SQL-tables masquerading as such.
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by tjogin 17y ago
I don't think the primary drive or hype behind NoSQL is performance . I think it is that SQL has become some sort of norm for data persistance, when in many cases a SQL database isn't necessary, or even optimal.
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by tjogin 17y ago
Yeah, I was kind of puzzled too. Cheap furniture is of lower quality than expensive furniture is... you don't say? I don't really get what the problem is. It's not an all or nothing deal — you can buy some items from Ikea and the rest of yo
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by tjogin 17y ago
Well, with a contrived example, you can prove anything. I wouldn't say Apple's App Store interferes with your right to free speech.
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by tjogin 17y ago
I absolutely agree. But I'd like to add that if you use a more rapid development platform than Java (be it Rails, Django or whatever) you have more time to polish it, iron out the kinks, put a little bit extra effort into the user interfa
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by tjogin 17y ago
What makes this so much more complicated is the fact that the App Store is the only (legit) way to get apps on your device. If there had been other ways to promote and sell apps besides the App Store, then it would have been wrong of Apple
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by tjogin 17y ago
Sure, but if they do that, who are they doing a favor? It's certainly not their customers. I'm kind of surprised that they let the "App Store spammer" get away with it for so long. I mean, they could have righteously stopped him at 100 if y
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by tjogin 17y ago
AT&T has treated the iPhone special before, IMHO it's very likely this was due to contractual obligations with AT&T. The key difference with Blackberry is that there is no central Blackberry App Store — regardless of what AT&T t
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by tjogin 17y ago
Does it absolutely have to be a country to be relevant? The EU share the same currency. I don't know for sure, but I can't quite think of a reason why economies absolutely have to be countries.
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by tjogin 17y ago
Unfortunately, that won't work as well in this particular case. See, the regular consumer loves the iPhone and has absolutely no idea about the difficulties facing third party developers (it's questionable if they'd care even if they knew
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by tjogin 17y ago
IMHO, if the brand you work at wants you to take responsibility for the actions of any and all other people and other departments at the brand, they should pay you accordingly. But they don't ever do that, do they? However you look at it,
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by tjogin 17y ago
You're right. The cases that are brought up in this article aren't baseless, as you say, it's just that the real reasons are camouflaged as other more generic reasons. But there have been other cases where the "reasons" given have been c
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by tjogin 17y ago
Yeah, how's that working out for them?
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by tjogin 17y ago
I think it has more to do with how displeased they are with whatever they are using already.
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by tjogin 17y ago
What makes Zed so special that he should "get something out of" his freely released software — while the developers of all the other parts of the system that are required for everything to work, don't? A list of all the developers whose f
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by tjogin 17y ago
Generally speaking, people don't like ironic douchebags any better than they like regular douchebags.
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by tjogin 17y ago
If you willingly make a douchebag "persona" for yourself, don't complain when people call you a douchebag.
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by tjogin 17y ago
It's not about different standards, it's about different approach. You can't just make software, give it away, and expect money to rain down on you from everywhere it is used — it doesn't work like that. If you want money from your software
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by tjogin 17y ago
It's not going to get bad publicity if it works well on the hardware it's supposed to work well on. The OS is meant for netbooks remember?
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by tjogin 17y ago
Having an OS work on lots of machines is not really a requirement of a good OS. While they needn't go the Apple route with all-proprietary machines, they neither need to go the Microsoft route and have it run on everything. Maybe a middle o
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by tjogin 17y ago
There is no lock-in with Google, and that makes all the difference. Switching to a different provider of search, email, website statistics, ads, browser, etc, is not only possible — it is effortless. Google haven't made alliances with oth
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by tjogin 17y ago
I'm not even convinced they will buy it at all. The purchase has a bunch of conditions on it, such as PirateBay already being a completely legit site by the time they take over it (which is, what, three weeks from now?). I bet the purchas
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by tjogin 17y ago
Two things: 1. Keep in mind that the article is a response to another article comparing the two communities. The article author did not beg the comparison. Only defended DHH and Rails in a previously made comparison of the two. 2. The art
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by tjogin 17y ago
It spells disaster, for sure. But basing a rigid policy with no regard for circumstances on a decidedly non-bogus metric like body weight will lead to similar problems.
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by tjogin 17y ago
I didn't think of that, quite honestly. You're quite right. On the other hand, don't you agree that the actual problem in cases like that is rigid policy making with no regard for circumstances, rather than BMI itself?
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by tjogin 17y ago
The article is correct in that a very muscular and physically fit person can achieve a high BMI score, erroneously suggesting they are overweight. But on the other hand, is there any risk at all that said very muscular and physically
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by tjogin 17y ago
It's called "building a community". And that is very much central to their business. It seems they are doing quite well at it, too.
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by tjogin 17y ago
Wouldn't it be kind of weird if Google's optimization tips were primarily meant for the relatively scarce few websites that operate on the scale at which their tips are even meaningful, whilst not even dropping a single hint to that fact, a
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by tjogin 17y ago
Their tips on how to optimize HTML pages are similarly silly. They suggest removing all end tags, as well as start and end tags that aren't strictly necessary according to the HTML standard, such as the 'html', 'head' and 'body' tags. S

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