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by webjprgm 14y ago
E.g. node.js + socket.io. The event-driven concurrency model makes it easier to write servers without worrying about race conditions and thread locks while also having less overhead from a heavy thread implementation. For some applications
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by webjprgm 14y ago
I think this just helps make it even more painfully obvious that email is the single point of failure for the vast majority of web site authentication security. This takes out a step, but it doesn't change what is already possible for an a
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by webjprgm 14y ago
> Can't really decide between parallels and fusion though In case you haven't seen it, MacObserver did a comparison of Parallels to Fusion to VirtualBox recently (on the Mac): http://www.macobserver.com/tmo/article/benchmarking-paralle
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by webjprgm 14y ago
Is there a discussion with details on the issue? Parallels and VMWare release new versions all the time for compatibility issues, they just fix them before the update comes so their new version is ready. Should VirtualBox just fix the bug
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by webjprgm 14y ago
Would it work if the 3rd-party devs were the customers? I.e. anyone using XYZ's app gets in for free because XYZ company pays the usage fees (out of it's ad revenue). That would avoid app.net trying to shut down services that customers lik
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by webjprgm 14y ago
Is the obvious fix to make the programming port available only from the inside of the room? That's where the screws for physical bolt locks go. And you can still have a DC power port on the outside in case of a powered-down door, just no p
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by webjprgm 14y ago
Doesn't flood fill defeat the point of coloring books? The kids will never learn the hand-eye coordination necessary for drawing within the lines.
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by webjprgm 14y ago
Almost every rental agreement I've ever signed disallows sub-letting. They also have rules about having people come to stay (as roommates, rather than as sublessee.) no sympathy whatsoever. Now why did the landlord decide to list rooms him
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by webjprgm 14y ago
Do guys use Pintrest? Because this is the kind of thing I'd like to pin. :-)
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by webjprgm 14y ago
This seems totally wrong to me. Of course the probability of surrounding squares being all safe is higher in the corner simply because there are fewer surrounding squares ! To make it more fair, calculate the probability that 3+ adjacen
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by webjprgm 14y ago
Yay! I hate telemarketing calls. There are 3 I tend to get. 2 of them are from places that I clearly did give my number too, one of which is a non-profit I've asked to stop calling me and the other is a car company that keeps trying to ge
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by webjprgm 14y ago
I originally avoided Ruby, back at the beginning of Rails's popularity, simply because Matz admitted it was slow and he had no intention of making it faster. It has improved now of course, but I still have something lurking in the back of
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by webjprgm 14y ago
I still wonder how they did that. The classic problem with reference counting is correctly releasing cycles, which ARC handles by allowing "weak" references. How does MacRuby know when to insert a weak reference as opposed to the usual "s
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by webjprgm 14y ago
I wonder how this compares to monetizing iOS apps with in-app purchases of game currency and/or items (or even Rovio's "Mighty Eagle"). There seems to be some market in games that would be called casual games (in my understanding, all iOS
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by webjprgm 14y ago
Very good points about why web apps have quality issues. Some of those issues are not necessarily inherent limitations of the technology. We don't have to use Javascript, that's just what the standard currently is. Flash was a possible an
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by webjprgm 14y ago
Google really does need a way for figuring out the context of my question, so that it can do the specialization part. If they had a better social presence, then they could recognize my interests and habits as part of that context. So knowi
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by webjprgm 14y ago
This reasoning sounds a little lacking, but it's probably a disconnect from my understanding of "mobile" and "cloud" vs. the commenter's intended meaning. Clearly we need different form factors. We have smart phone size and tablet size.
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by webjprgm 14y ago
I just ignored this line. It seems unsubstantiated at best. It's probably there just for some sloppy sensational journalism without any thought for accuracy. The rest of the article was mildly interesting even if they are Forbes and even i
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by webjprgm 14y ago
I agree. Plus I don't trust (unlike some other commenters) reviews on Amazon, so I Google for several reviews and trust the consensus of all sources. Google search is very much alive. I think Google search will die instantly if anyone eve
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by webjprgm 14y ago
For a web app to provide the same functionality as a native mobile app the same content must be downloaded. A mobile app downloads compiled executable and all assets in a bundle upfront, then it's permanently stored. A web app downloads U
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by webjprgm 14y ago
I didn't really understand how hard it is to run a VPS until I started doing it. It seems so easy when you look at it. Also, I run my own web stack on my dev machine anyway. I went VPS because: 1. I'm more familiar with configuring my own
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by webjprgm 14y ago
Maybe a JS-based MUD adventure game that shows background images for each room. It looks really cool, I kinda hope I do find a good use for it.
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by webjprgm 15y ago
At a previous company I had a project manager who's technical background was putting up Wordpress sites. He tried really hard, but he still made mistakes in #1-3. The company's COO, however (small company, so he was just one level above m
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by webjprgm 15y ago
Any advice for a guy with a risk-adverse wife and not enough money in the bank to go the startup route, but who does secretly want to get fired? Also, the company I work at is quite nice, it's just the job I'm doing isn't what I love. But
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by webjprgm 15y ago
Was this already in progress or made in response to meteor (and firebase)? I'm sure a lot of us could rip the real-time/live updating/auto-synchronizing (pick your term) engine out of our current web apps and package it up in a tiny framewo
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by webjprgm 15y ago
You know those journalist pages where they report what's happening at an event with immediate updates? It's called "live updating". Why don't we use that term? TV news stations say "LIVE" when it's current events happening now. "Real tim
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by webjprgm 15y ago
I don't like GPL. GPL is a religion about how all the software in the world should be free. That's not my religion. Open source is totally different, like the MPL. I am very thankful for all open source projects, but I'm not sure any of
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by webjprgm 15y ago
I'm sure there's some element of not wanting to pay money in the original comment, but the commenter clearly stated that one viable option is to make the pricing explicit. I agree (almost) completely. When the pricing is obfuscated you can'
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by webjprgm 15y ago
I dislike GPL because it makes business decisions (licensing concerns) get in the way of any and all programming. Sometimes I make a lib that I want to use for myself, proprietary but not profit making. Sometimes I later want to use that l
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by webjprgm 15y ago
I'd love the idea, except that I don't want to recharge my watch like a cell phone. I'm used to my watch lasting years without changing the battery. But if I can program my own custom watch face with a button that turns off the Bluetooth,

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