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by tx 19y ago
AFAIK they're not isolated, i.e. running with the same privileges as the rest of XUL code, including Firefox UI itself. In the realm of a browser, I can imagine quite evil XUL extensions. I cannot tell anything about the level of isolation
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by tx 19y ago
Yea... another half-assed attempt of delivering news from techcrunch.
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by tx 19y ago
I will restrain myself from a long discussion on the subject, but encourage you to google your way around for various pros/cons regarding the concept. One of the most famous explanations for our need of physical destruction of goods was giv
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by tx 19y ago
Smartest thing he ever did. Borland never had R&D or marketing muscle to keep up with everyone else (Microsoft). Their C and C++ compilers were always buggy (sometimes adding an empty line would stop a compiler from crashing), their pro
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by tx 19y ago
Jesus... this is a very personal "back to college" article for me. Fuck Pascal - it is nothing but a parent of Java and C#, less powerful, even more verbose and restrictive with the same dumb and rigid OO-implementation. The language was de
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by tx 19y ago
Wars are very expensive and destructive. It's hard to become advanced when you keep destroying wealth. You have it backwards. Wars create wealth. That is, in part, why we keep having them.
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by tx 19y ago
Nice. I didn't know that in Ruby * prefix applies not only to parameter lists, but to any arbitrary expression turning it into a kind of in-line array.
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by tx 19y ago
All his points are bogus. It's a freaking laptop, how many USB ports does he need? While I can come up with tons of use cases, I honestly don't recall an actual visual image in m head of a laptop with 2+ USB devices connected at the same ti
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by tx 19y ago
Congrats!
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by tx 19y ago
All other Lisp-inspired languages, including Ruby, have added one important feature by introducing their biggest restriction: they went with more complex syntax abandoning Lisp's S-expressions. By doing so, they have created a substantial d
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by tx 19y ago
I feel like every person who writes a guide to installing ubuntu glosses over at least a few critical details. I'm rather sick of this shit. I feel like people who write those tutorials assume a basic computer literacy from their readers.
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by tx 19y ago
Your issues have nothing to do with Ubuntu. Just buy a Dell PC with Ubuntu pre-installed, just like you've been doing with Windows.
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by tx 19y ago
Looked at your code: looks very much like mine :-) I suppose it's a good thing since the mantra of opinionated Rails means just that: "stay on it". I saw your confusing comments for non-working Fueling validate(). Why don't you just check f
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by tx 19y ago
I do not believe the article mentioned internet, but enterprise search is a big problem to solve. It is estimated that only about 20% of useful corporate data is stored in appropriate formats, i.e. databases. The rest is spread across thous
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by tx 19y ago
What does he mean by Facebook having CIA backing?
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by tx 19y ago
I suspect his problem is geography. I haven't lived there, but I can imagine that in NYC when you deal with Rails shops you get to talk to sleazy "MBA types" as opposed to traditional startup hubs like SV and Boston, where you typically hav
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by tx 19y ago
Rasizm is recursive. By noticing rasizm in that text you became a rasist yourself. I just got rasist by commenting on it and downmodding you. The only way to get rid of it is for everybody to forget about its existence.
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by tx 19y ago
Any kind of "methodology" is aimed at improving the predictability of results expected from a group of average coders. Thus it's no surprise that "large client" appears in the first paragraph of his blog post. In reality, software engineer
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by tx 19y ago
From my personal (not very broad) experience and from talking to people who ran/developed free websites with accounts, a typical ratio of total accounts vs active accounts is 10:1, perhaps 10:3 if you are really good. On top of that (depend
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Pikluk on VentureBeat(venturebeat.com)
14 points by tx 19y ago|4 comments
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by tx 19y ago
Look more carefully: there are many stops along the way with people jumping out on "Laziness" station for instance or taking shortcuts.
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by tx 19y ago
Dude, you just lost a few points by using hotmail. Good luck with your search though.
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by tx 19y ago
Again: Why? Why do programmers think that "from anywhere" matters so much? Sure "from anywhere" has some value, but it comes at enormous expense: unbelievable reduction in functionality. Please take a look at my previous post - I think that
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by tx 19y ago
Wow, I am surprised I did not get downvoted into oblivion for my previous post. However, I am convinced that you're missing a point by a mile. Nobody has committed their photo collections to flickr, because it is insane: people generate g
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by tx 19y ago
Gimp as AJAX application? Jesus... not only this sentence makes no sense ("AJAX" is just one stupid function call), but the idea of running everything "online" is just silly. WHY would I want to screw myself in the butt by using "online ap
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by tx 19y ago
This kind of stuff isn't new. These guys use optical feedback to achieve similar effects: http://www.mine-control.com
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by tx 19y ago
"Hosting issues", although I am not entirely sure what are you referring to, become issues only when a certain level of complexity is reached. By the time you get there, you already implemented several appjets yourself.
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by tx 19y ago
This is the best proof of YC investing in people, not ideas. People behind AppJet must be very, very good.
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by tx 19y ago
I don't get it: Why would general purpose classifieds publishers (craigslist and ebay) be interested in sharing their revenues with some middle man like edgeio? I don't get their aggregation proposal: there is nothing to aggregate - those t
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by tx 19y ago
The last commenter on the original thread is absolutely right: Rails follows different "concurrency model", i.e. it needs multiple processes to run well, especially on multi-core CPUs. He needs to create a cluster of 4-6 mongrels on 2-core

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