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by tx 19y ago
This does not make any sense: Mr. Kudlov, who wrote this article for NRO is replying to non-existing arguments. Gates did not favor non-free economies, therefore there is absolutely NO REASON to mention Cuba and North Korea. Moreover, Gat
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by tx 19y ago
This, frankly, is the best part. When you type in Word or delete a message from Entourage, the response is smart and snappy. This is ridiculous. In 2007, a software running on machinery capable of doing the job of 10 year old supercompute
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by tx 19y ago
I found source code of IronPython very easy to understand and modify. Check it out, it's written in clean C#.
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Bill Gates Calls for "Revision of Capitalism"(online.wsj.com)
20 points by tx 19y ago|47 comments
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by tx 19y ago
What is the problem you are trying to solve? What are your potential customers forced to do now? The front page is all over the map: it mixes close friends, family, "a special one" with budgets and emails from "the team". What is it you'r
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by tx 19y ago
Agreed. It also reminds me of current ASP.NET where you can manipulate DOM (as long as it's marked with runat=server) as well, only with ASP.NET you also get super-powers of .NET runtime. To me it sounds like a bunch of browser/JavaScript d
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by tx 19y ago
Doesn't mean it's true. In Austin we have AT&T (DSL) vs TimeWarner (Cable) and both of them have voiced their desire to become "evil corporations" following Comcast. And why is that a mistake? We're looking at the monopoly that starts m
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by tx 19y ago
Hate? Wooo, that's a strong word :) I appreciated author's post, if anything, I was pissed by Matt's suppressing comments, especially since he's not too shy giving advice himself, which I also find useful on a regular basis.
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Windows 7, the Vista Successor, to be Released Next Year?(apcmag.com)
1 points by tx 19y ago|0 comments
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by tx 19y ago
Del.icio.us is exactly the kind I referred to when I said "web-based to-do lists". Those are companies that discovered a market need for something technically trivial and filled the niche. While this does sound attractive and "let's all get
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by tx 19y ago
Don't you give people advice on your blog as well? Since when YC-accpetance counts as "creds"? None of us is Bill Gates here, chill out. The blog post does indeed sound childish. It assumes that "beta" (what a stupid beaten up word that los
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by tx 19y ago
The question remains in the air: how do I perform more complex queries without SQL? The proposed distributed hash table won't do it. The article mentioned eBay's scaling PDF offering a link at the bottom. I followed the link read every page
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by tx 19y ago
My favorites are all open source projects, not VC-backed startups who are busy "building something. getting it to the market. fast" I guess greed and innovation don't match very well.
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by tx 19y ago
When we started nearly two years ago, we had to quickly drop Windows and simultaneously learn Linux/bash, vim, Ruby, Rails, Apache, SVN plus million other things in a hostile and unknown land of old :-))) No, I have not heard of Merb back t
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by tx 19y ago
Huh... that's harsh, and is coming from more knowledgeable Rails hacker than I am, I wasn't aware of this mess with :union and :group in AR, while I don't mind Rails' habit of passing around hashes of options. The point I agree with him the
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by tx 19y ago
Damn... Where am I supposed to read reviews on Web 2.0 startups from now on?
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by tx 19y ago
http://www.thebestpageintheuniverse.net/c.cgi?u=macs_cant
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by tx 19y ago
The issue is not DTrace. The issue is corporate agenda and control. So far Apple hasn't become "evil" yet, the way Microsoft has been, but I am not willing to bet it's going to stay this way for long, especially after their market share inc
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by tx 19y ago
http://www.neuric.com These guys are in Austin and they're building some cool AI technology. I have seen the demo and it was very, very impressive (their AI has emotions, so it can be pissed at you, etc). I suppose I cannot disclose much
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by tx 19y ago
This is one of the reasons why when my time to ditch Windows has come, I opted for Linux on a ThinkPad instead of OS X on MacBook Pro.
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The Algorithm: Idiom of Modern Science(cs.princeton.edu)
5 points by tx 19y ago|2 comments
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by tx 19y ago
Ubuntu 6.06 LTS 64-bit. It is beyond me why so many people use non-LTS release of Ubuntu on their production servers .
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by tx 19y ago
You got it wrong: LCDs, due to their incredible sharpness, created a need for antialiased fonts. Predating CRTs with their universal slight blurriness didn't need it, it was kind of "built into the hardware".
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by tx 19y ago
After years of Visual Studio I forced myself to learn vim and it wasn't so hard. By "learned" I mean crossing a line where my productivity is on par or better than Visual Studio used to be. Emacs, however, is nowhere as easy. I am trying to
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by tx 19y ago
D is a great "systems language", but Walter is marketing it wrong: he should have catered to influential and growing community of C/Linux devs, as opposed to dying breed of corporate drones who do C++/Windows. I have been one of those drone
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by tx 19y ago
Whoever wrote PhpBB was not living in the Valley, where all message boards are "poised for rapid growth" and backed by VC money, even primitive weekend projects like Twitter. Web 2.0 news that I see lately have started to drop me into "unco
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by tx 19y ago
The dude compared the performance of a couple of array-related functions in various run time libraries for 4 languages, with all those functions (probably) written in C. Although I still consider this exercise useful.
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by tx 19y ago
Welcome to the stone age! Metered Internet is what I had in 1997 in Russia. So much for predicted death of desktop applications and "keeping everything in the clowd" computing model, that so many tech journalists are predicting for everybod
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by tx 19y ago
Ever heard of custom burned RSS feeds and an alarm clock?
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by tx 19y ago
Most of the "features" of the language is what I call "constraints". Old Kernigan's "Why Pascal is not my favorite language" in large part stlil applies today - the damn thing simply wasn't designed to be practical, and I was paid money for

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