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by xal 17y ago
Competent, sure. However you can learn a spoken language much faster then people imagine. You could have conversations in french by christmas next year with some basic courses, a good software, some tenacity and a 2 week vacation.
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by xal 17y ago
There are a ton of things you can do with our code that isn't actively marketing to our exact customer base. According to numbers we got recently more then 30% of all deployed commercial rails apps use ActiveMerchant which probably means te
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by xal 17y ago
The point is that it's impossible to tell what is Evil and what is Good. It entirely depends on your point of reference. We release about 40% of Shopify's code base as open source. There are numerous knockoffs both closed source and open so
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by xal 17y ago
Stuff like this is why we slap MIT_LICENSE on everything we release so we never hear about licensing again. It's just a silly situation that arises from a silly change to the license.
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by xal 17y ago
Did you have any success with suggesting Chrome Frame?
516.
by xal 17y ago
it's arguably a hack. Of the social engineering kind.
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by xal 17y ago
indeed. Decal was such an amazing technical achievement in those days. Really years ahead of it's time.
518.
by xal 17y ago
wow, thank you so much guys.
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by xal 17y ago
Uhhh. this is the first time i see anything about Indinero but it looks like they lifted our web design almost verbatim: check out the original: http://www.shopify.com/tour/ and theirs: https://indinero.com/tour . All other pages are si
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by xal 17y ago
I'll repost here what I wrote for Tim's blog: When putting together the contest we really wanted to make it a contest for anyone, anywhere in the world. Throughout the planning I spent more hours on the phone with lawyers than I’d care to a
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by xal 17y ago
That's 3 times faster then my Hyatt here.
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Build a Business, win $100,000(fourhourworkweek.com)
46 points by xal 17y ago|19 comments
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by xal 17y ago
Blast from the past. Flipcode used to be my favorite site on the web. Note that this article is more then a decade old.
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by xal 17y ago
I actually think this is the way to go. Think about it: Chrome just emulates the rest of it's own environment here. Web sites are updated all the time without update dialogs, why should the browser be different?
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by xal 17y ago
The article mentions that Haystack has been open sourced but that doesn't seem to be the case yet.
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by xal 17y ago
Yea that's a good point. You really don't want to have someone else access your clarity installation. This takes URL parameters and runs them on the command line. Probably the most insecure thing invented by man. Hide it will.
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Clarity - an open source web interface to grep and tail (blog.leetsoft.com)
51 points by xal 17y ago|7 comments
528.
by xal 17y ago
I often lament the fact that the .plan format isn't credited more often as the original blogging format. Finger and .plan was very common before 2000, especially in the game industry and lots of hackers build their own aggregators for it.
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by xal 17y ago
It has also been merged into node. This thing is starting to be a case study for optimized C network servers.
530.
by xal 17y ago
Great use of WA. Slightly easier to parse: http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=indian+population+/+(us... The graph is especially interesting.
531.
by xal 17y ago
That's where identity really belongs. Please don't make me make accounts for sites in 2010! (OpenID works well enough as technical plumbing but it's not the correct layer of abstraction).
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Futures, the little known feature that would fix evented programming(en.wikipedia.org)
4 points by xal 17y ago|0 comments
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by xal 17y ago
While not in the example that you replied to, it's assumed that you need the return value and want to do something with it. Think database query.
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by xal 17y ago
Re-read my example. All 3 db queries are run in parallel however the code does not continue if you access one of the values until the value is available. In a typical web application you usually get 3-5 things from the db, then you start re
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by xal 17y ago
It's really awkward to write evened code without a good implementation of futures ( or go's channels ). The problem is that you end up nesting a lot. Look at the example for the posix rename here: http://nodejs.org/api.html#_posix_module
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by xal 17y ago
No. Someone may produce this as prior art and demand a royalty free licence for another product at some other time. It's much easier to simply send C&D.
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by xal 17y ago
have a look at dropbox. It's not an either/or decision. You can have both.
538.
by xal 17y ago
nice, in other words: turn company A into competitor B. That usually works great.
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by xal 17y ago
I'd go back to the drawing board with the pricing plan. Usage based metering is really good for bottom of the barrel pricing ( electricity at home, amazon aws for servers ). For everything else people want predictability and therefore month
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by xal 17y ago
Yea that's probably an artifact of a C code. The correct way to handle this in go ( i think, i'm a beginner like everyone else ) is to pass around a request struct that contains an error channel and have the main connection handling gorutin

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