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by wh-uws 14y ago
I like it though (despite it being "amateurish speculation"). Allow me to add my own. I would love to see them purchase a carrier though. Imagine it. How much better would things get if Apple owned the towers and spectrum too. They've got m
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by wh-uws 14y ago
Whats interesting about this though is your average person doesn't have that perspective. These companies (most companies not just tech companies or just facebook) are largely black boxes to them. They aren't thinking about how there are lo
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Github: United States Code(github.com)
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Chrome is the most popular browser in the world, says StatCounter (theverge.com)
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by wh-uws 14y ago
Love this quote from the book from the about/why section Programming languages are more human-friendly. Early computer languages were optimized for early computers. With today's processors, languages can have far more built-in features th
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by wh-uws 14y ago
Ah missed that
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by wh-uws 14y ago
But be mindful though you always have to look very carefully at benchmarks. I don't think these are speed tests. Just number of connections that can be handled
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by wh-uws 14y ago
Katz is on the Rails core team, not the ruby one.
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Stop Telling Students to Study for Exams (chronicle.com)
2 points by wh-uws 14y ago|0 comments
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Excellent Analysis and Comparison of Postgre's Hstore and Mongo DB (wiki.hsr.ch)
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by wh-uws 15y ago
Doesn't everytime you update anything with the cms require a write? (asking purely out of ignorance to learn not to be snarky) Not to mention everytime a user of the site updates content
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by wh-uws 15y ago
I would be using it if it didn't insist on MongoDB. I just dont trust data I care about to it
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Why it's OK to leave a tech job at 5 p.m.(edition.cnn.com)
12 points by wh-uws 15y ago|4 comments
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by wh-uws 15y ago
Its saying dont use that particular password. Any attacker of this script would know what it was inspired by and attempt that password in a dictionary. Rendering it about as useless as 123456789 in this instance
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by wh-uws 15y ago
I have waited for this for so long. I'm glad someone finally took it up and and more importantly that its on a site as popular as dropbox. (this way hopefully the thinking will gain some traction) Every time I'm forced to have a password wi
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From Stanford to Startup: Instagram Co-Founders Kevin Systrom and Mike Krieger (ecorner.stanford.edu)
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by wh-uws 15y ago
I was a little worried when I first thought about it but the more I think about it they will sink or swim based on how well they can build their businesses. Just like anyone of us. Obviously they'll have a leg up on attaining funding for th
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by wh-uws 15y ago
I can attest to this. I was a total noob when I saw that video and didn't get it. Spent several years in the murky php waters because I could just drop that code in the html I did know and go. Now that I have more experience its more more c
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by wh-uws 15y ago
Thanks alot im getting ready to redo an old wordpress multiuser site in rails and I was having trouble learning how to configure it
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by wh-uws 15y ago
What about on a virtual private server like at linode? Then one doesn't necessarily have to shell out for a Mac to run osx. I would be much more interested in that.
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by wh-uws 15y ago
As a lifelong resident of the south and a current resident of (Austin) Texas I can tell you. No You have to be very careful driving through the smaller towns. The cops have absolutely nothing else to do and the jursidictions make a lot of
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The Relationship Between Firebug and Mozilla Developer Tools(blog.mozilla.com)
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by wh-uws 15y ago
I have to take issue with this statement. It didn't just "dissolve" bad things happened (what happened the Martin King and Malcolm X is well known but also look into the fate of the Black Panthers) to all of the leaders and the movement flo
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by wh-uws 15y ago
All of your compensation is in stock and worth the stock price. 1) It looks good to investors: you've got to believe in it if your worth is in the stock, for instance most of Bill Gates net worth is in Microsoft stock and it would look bad
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Controlling Your Game Engine Over WebSocket (altdevblogaday.com)
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by wh-uws 15y ago
Depends on where you are and what you signed. Different states have different laws with regard to this kind of stuff. Make sure to read the ownership clause.
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by wh-uws 15y ago
I'll say here, what I said to a friend who sent me this: I say music industry folks should get together and do it. Let me tell you why. On our in end and for our part us in the tech industry we're like its just the MPAA, the RIAA, and the m
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by wh-uws 15y ago
Can you elaborate on the storage abstraction and the repository setup? Just curious about what advantages there are to make you sacrifice the performance of the cgit binaries. Mostly out of ignorance on the subject.
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by wh-uws 15y ago
These guys are kind of working in this: http://www.famigo.com/ Their approach is targeted at kids though, I'd love to see someone tackle the general purpose approach. Sounds like a great project for someone with a lot of free time. I reme
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by wh-uws 15y ago
...which can be disabled with the Compatibility Reporter add-on This is the issue. Most people don't know this. I was (1) an avid firefox user from the alpha stage and even I didn't know about the compatibility reporter with out some seri

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