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by tx 19y ago
Paul's essay sounds like a case against commercial OOP-"languages for the masses" like Java/C# more than it's against OOP. Ruby, JavaScript and Python are perfect examples of powerful languages he seems to have no issues with. I can't stan
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by tx 19y ago
I wonder why I have such limited formatting options in the "Reply" form (the one I'm writing this in right now). I can't even break my own lines. For instance if I want to make a few points/suggestions while replying to someone, I can't sta
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Reply form: terrible formatting.
1 points by tx 19y ago|4 comments
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by tx 19y ago
I spent some time navigating around and I have a few suggestions: - You make me scroll too much, why not put ratings/voting on the right, instead of having them "downstairs"? - I'll say this again: you need a designer. - Too much data at on
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by tx 19y ago
Cool idea and I like your lightweight pages. I would still consider spending some little money (less than $1K) to hire a designer, though.
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by tx 19y ago
Look at the comments too. They're even more interesting than the original post.
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Why are we so polarized about Java?(toomuchcode.blogspot.com)
2 points by tx 19y ago|2 comments
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by tx 19y ago
Justin.TV is surely great engineering project to work on. There are tons of cool technical challenges and elegant solutions (creatively laying out video frames onto RTP to deal with high packet loss, for instance). Must be alot of fun to be
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by tx 19y ago
Weird question. How much value is he going to bring in? How critical this guy is for your organization? Do you expect us to decide for you? :-) Okey. Give him 43.75% and a written guarantee of a personal parking spot (a-la Mr. Lumberg in "
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by tx 19y ago
How effective is AdSense? Having read recently about people buying google ads and having issues with their money "wasted" (I'm quoting) on AdSense placement (ads showing up on other people's websites, where people are not clicking on them a
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Any studies showing the effectiveness of AdSense?
2 points by tx 19y ago|3 comments
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by tx 19y ago
"every time I approach a hacker about starting a project and bring up the subject of my contributions to the business end and also me being a source of ideas and creativity, they are instantly turned away, and essentially treat me as someo
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by tx 19y ago
I find it really counterproductive whenever people bring the following arguments to the table (during discussions): "I don't use it" or "Facebook does not use it". So? What does that prove? Who taught you gentleman, to use such useless argu
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by tx 19y ago
Lets not forget about quality of unit tests. I've seen people writing completely idiotic tests that really do not prevent them from anything (like calling methods and making sure they do not throw exceptions). Such "unit testing" is your ti
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by tx 19y ago
In web space most of software has already been engineered and put up online for you to grab for free: just plug in your database, stick your own queries and skin it with your own CSS.
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by tx 19y ago
Good luck. I freaking hate TicketMaster. Aren't they supposed to be a legalized gang of mobsters?
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by tx 19y ago
No difference? That's pretty impressive. I wish I was able to look at your process. Either your engineers are extremely smart and anal about their practicies or your domain is very simplistic (ta-da lists). At my previous start up we had u
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by tx 19y ago
I'm currently with RoR and while I love Ruby language I feel that RoR, while being super-productive for basic things, forces me to dig deep into its own (not very readable) source code to figure out non-trivial things that are not mentio
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by tx 19y ago
Without automatic testing dynamic languages are not very productive because they do not catch type mismatch errors during compilation time (there isn't one). With statically typed languages you get a lot of tiny issues taken care of once
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by tx 19y ago
FaceBook guys really know some top-notch PR folks. I have never seen a web site API being launched with so much drama. A platform? Can I build an application on this platform that runs on it's own domain name and takes over 100% of browser
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by tx 19y ago
Everybody says that (that FF is the fastest on google sites) but on my two machines FireFox takes forever to fully load gmail's inbox page for some reason. The page itself shows up almost instantly, but status images for "quick contacts" pa
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by tx 19y ago
Joe, why do you want "desktop to die" so desperately? I have really tried to get your point, but all I see is a marketing pitch: "pace of innovation... it will be years... higher efficiency..." Come on, this is not a business school restr
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by tx 19y ago
Look, this discussion is getting silly. I can give you a list of 100 applications that will never go online. And you can give me your list of 100 applications that should be online. And both of us will be absolutely right. But slogans li
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by tx 19y ago
No kidding. :) Is this thread about working or talking? Surely it's hard to collaborate with people using desktop applications without an internet connection. The point I was trying to make is that "death of desktop" is a myth. A new buzzwo
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by tx 19y ago
Jesus... these guys (37 signals) are so pumped up on the fact that web apps (their area of expertise) is the only thing this phone will be able to do... Safari? SDK? Wooo... If I want to roll out my own address book version for an iPhone,
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by tx 19y ago
------ Work ------ Eclipse, Visual Studio, Photoshop, WordPad, FireFox ------ Fun ------- Picasa, Excel, Quicken, RAW Shooter Essentials, Bibble. The only "online application" I use is gmail :) So much for "everything is moving to the We
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by tx 19y ago
+1. Thank you for the link. Currently I use my rare visits to the Apple store to test our pages on Safari :-) Besides, it is truly a speedy browser, especially when connection is good. Their page, however, along with their benchmarks is ve
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by tx 19y ago
According to Miguel Microsoft people have been quite helpful. For instance they are providing some help with improving Mono compiler performance and quality of code generation: http://tirania.org/blog/archive/2007/May-17.html
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by tx 19y ago
And, just to disagree with author, I'd recommend comparing Google's Picasa to itself. That would be a fair comparison, because it is virtually the same application, with same set of features, done with online/offline UI's... slowly merging
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by tx 19y ago
It's 2007 and smart people stopped separating "desktop" and "online" applications a long time ago, because it is pointless: the best approach to solving any problem is always picking the proper balance of server/desktop horsepower/capabilit

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