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by tx 19y ago
Nice... but how would that work if you need to scale out?
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by tx 19y ago
Poor Microsoft. They had almost 10 years of near complete browser dominance. They could have built anything they wanted into IE. And they didn't. They kept it's JavaScript crippled and they kept CSS broken. Very stupid, if you ask me. They
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by tx 19y ago
What is spam? A funny way to look at it would be this: Spam is something (usually ads) that shows up where you normally would expect to see your information, messages from your friends. Annoying? Sure! Which is (to me) is not that much d
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by tx 19y ago
Dude, don't bash Miguel. He's bad ass: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miguel_de_Icaza He's one of the original GNOME guys.
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by tx 19y ago
I have been seeing more and more articles and blog posts about Mono lately but I fail to realize the importance of it. I wish I was rude enough to just email to Miguel and ask him why has he dedicated so much time of his life working on it,
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Please explain: why Mono?
6 points by tx 19y ago|13 comments
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by tx 19y ago
Exactly my thinking... Well, windows is not cool anymore anyways.. :-)
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by tx 19y ago
I disagree. People who write about patents in software industry often fall into habit of calling everything a software. While in reality software is just a language to describe a computational formula (algorithm). I can easily see someone t
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by tx 19y ago
Too bad Joel stopped blogging about software... Looking at this last XX posts I don't see anything about software. Joel is getting old... :-)
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by tx 19y ago
It all sounds nice but my datacenter charges me $110 a month per U1 rack slot, making that famed "array of cheap disposable boxes" no so cheap in comparison to one beefy server with more cores, more drives, more RAM. I use software RAID 1 f
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by tx 19y ago
How can you compare NYT with Digg or Reddit? NYT produce content, while Digg&Reddit produce nothing, just trying to make money on what NYT does. One can possibly compare NYT with a bunch of bloggers, they are also content producers, but n
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by tx 19y ago
People tried this approach many times: mimicking the real world, even in 3D, while trying to organize information better on the computer. The problem is that in real world things get messy. That is why we started using computers to begin wi
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by tx 19y ago
I wonder what's the percentage of code that 37signals produces that goes into Rails itself, and how does it compare to their actual applications. I bet it's something like 9 to 1. Don't get me wrong, I love Rails and thank you, 37signals,
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by tx 19y ago
So... he's basically saying that "there is no Rails Inc" because of two reasons: 1. If he does go full time Rails, it's not going to be the "best". 2. If he does it, it will be "unfair" to competitors. In my opinion it's a bunch of BS. Beca
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by tx 19y ago
I can't get rid of a feeling that Web 2.0 is a little bit about cheating rather than innovating. Seriously, everything interesting and truly remarkable was built in "Web 1.0" days: online search, online directions, blogs (yes, they are a lo
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by tx 19y ago
I really do not want to start a war here, especially because I am not a big fan of C++. Quite the opposite. But I can answer some of your questions in case you genuinely want to hear what I have to say :-) On expressiveness: I meant thing
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by tx 19y ago
I confess: I could never really quite "get" Java. I always felt like it was pushed down everybody's throat by Sun on a wave of everybody's obsession with hating Microsoft. Write once, run everywhere! actually always meant run NOT on Wind
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by tx 19y ago
Whenever your friends and family start trying to avoid the subject of your startup in conversations, it's time to quit.
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by tx 19y ago
Interesting... I did exactly the opposite: after we started working on our startup I realized that I'll just burn myself to death by coding my ass off and not seeing anything outside of my monitors. Besides, you really do start thinkin
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by tx 19y ago
No offense, but did you carefully read what Jay said? C and C++ is essentially same language, extended with OO+templates. And you can implement virtual method call in C as well. I would even argue that C++ is faster than C because latest
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by tx 19y ago
C++ slower than C? Isn't that the same thing? Most of the time when I hear "C++ is slow" it usually means someone ran into slow STL+compiler combination. And according to my knowledge GCC is the worst performing compiler out there when it c
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by tx 19y ago
Now we are talking. If I were you, I'd try to look at the bigger picture: do all your pages exhibit this behavior? I bet only few of them do. If ActiveRecord object creation time is your bottleneck, your rhtml on those pages must be very-
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by tx 19y ago
How can you so blindly proclaim something like this? In a world of systems programming I got used to people posting stack traces with milliseconds attached to each function call, complaining about something specific . A good example would
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by tx 19y ago
I disagree with your findings. Sure it's cheap, but hosting companies tend to oversell this virtual boxes to people and performance is not the same, especially when it comes to disk I/O (any kind of I/O) and handling sudden CPU usage spik
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by tx 19y ago
He is talking about a problem which is simply not there. Spam is not a big problem, (keep track of who you're giving your address to), but most importantly spam is not unique to email: give them (spammers) a channel to reach you and they wi
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by tx 19y ago
I would exclude Austin from the list. Sure here are lots of startups, but Austin's startup scene is dominated by either dumb&boring B2B Java-shops, or hardware/embedded startups dreaming of being "next Tivo". Neither of these two types of c
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by tx 19y ago
Get yourself a decent no-name 1U box ($900-$1500), stick it into a friendly colocation service near you. $120-200/mo your mileage may vary. This should be enough to test the waters.
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by tx 19y ago
Aren't they, already? I hear that effectiveness of ads placed outside of search results context (google themselves) is pretty low.
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by tx 19y ago
Don't you all think that we are seeing (softly speaking) too many companies whith 100% ad-sponsored business plans? Let's not forget that advertizement market consists of (surprise!) dollars that someone (users, maybe?) need to spend on s
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by tx 19y ago
Hm... but do you really "own" a domain name? My understanding that legally all domain names are public property and you can only "lease it" for a period of time. However, if you can prove that a certain domain name is the name of your busin

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