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541.
by xal 17y ago
The linked parallel qsort example is really pretty. Channels are a wonderful concept. I'm already missing them in other programming languages. So elegant.
542.
by xal 17y ago
You borrow so much from the Ruby community you should add opinionated design to the list. Adding a second syntax to OOC would really detract from the language a lot.
543.
by xal 17y ago
Sure, that requires Jobs. However, Apple has a pretty clear direction that Jobs established and If all that Apple does from now on is to keep the direction calibrated and keep the pace that he set then Apple will do very very well in the lo
544.
by xal 17y ago
I think there is way to much attention on the compiler. It's neat but not that big of a deal. The key here is that they released their widget library. Tons of great stuff with very high code quality. This also includes the document editor
545.
by xal 17y ago
This is a wonderful visualization. Product Sales on the Shopify platform ( ~ 5000 e-commerce stores) for the past two years: http://img.skitch.com/20091103-rmsiithcy81qbfs6u3ee195n1s.pn... Really interesting to see how great Christmas per
546.
by xal 17y ago
I wrote DJ. This looks amazing for high volume sites. At Shopify DJ is barely able to keep up these days. My biggest regret with DJ is actually that I added numerical priorities instead of choosing the same tag based approach that Resque im
547.
by xal 17y ago
because many people drive their car for less then a quarter of that.
548.
by xal 17y ago
It's really quite straight forward: Buy a Mac if you want OSX. It's great to spend money on something that you enjoy!
549.
by xal 17y ago
Everyone who is interested in the evolution of low level C based languages owes it to himself to track the OOC project. It looks nothing short of spectacular. http://ooc-lang.org/
550.
by xal 17y ago
Did anyone try any d3d games on it? Maybe the latest valve shooter or something like it?
551.
by xal 17y ago
Just curious, is this sarcastic or do you really believe that this is an idea that hasn't occurred to them?
552.
by xal 17y ago
It's a trade in Germany. I left school after 10th grade and started my apprenticeship in programming. The net effect is that at 29 i've now been a professional programmer for 12 years. More importantly, I also developed all my programming h
553.
by xal 17y ago
Estimates have it that there are about 50k people being paid to write Ruby on Rails right now, chances are that it's way higher because it starts to be the language of choice in outsource India because of the high conceptional similarity be
554.
by xal 17y ago
This is a really great quote. There is a lot of truth in it and the effect of a company build on the principle is breathtaking. Facebook moves at lightning speed considering their size. It seems that they somehow found a way that let's them
555.
by xal 17y ago
It will be a hipster fashion article more then anything else I think.
556.
by xal 17y ago
It's funny. All these abstractions build on top of each other to provide fault tolerant failover at google scale and we are coming full circle back to the file system metaphor. Finally :-)
557.
by xal 17y ago
IMHO that's the exact description of a good CEO in a startup environment.
558.
by xal 17y ago
That's the kind of stuff you can do once you reach break even point. If you concentrate on such things early on you work on the wrong stuff.
559.
by xal 17y ago
I would have paid more for it then the ask. I had it preordered though. Maybe I can gift a copy... I hope they make it an iPhone game. If they would have released it for the iPhone originally it would probably be the most sold game on the s
560.
by xal 17y ago
why oh why would that be needed? It seems to me that in a venn diagram of applications that need FK constraints and applications that use SQLite there should be almost no overlap.
561.
by xal 17y ago
Are they still active during the checkout? If they do that with credit card data then Visa is entitled to sue them for violating under PCI DSS at 500k per day of offense.
562.
by xal 17y ago
Mysql has great replication support which everyone who does webapps requires. Postgres has bolted on solutions which all don't work well for different reasons. It's really good at all the things that webapps don't tend to use when they get
563.
by xal 17y ago
I usually look for any signs of not being a left brained drone. E.g. nice typography, mention of creative hobbies, maybe a picture of you doing something fun, open source work etc. I generally don't care about anything you have done 6 month
564.
by xal 17y ago
That's some amazing work. Adobe must have dedicated the A-Team to that task.
565.
by xal 17y ago
Same thing happened to me. It looks very well put together but it won't get anyone excited as long as they try to get everyone to fall asleep on the homepage.
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Why the 80-20 Rule is Wrong (blog.davidwurtz.com)
47 points by xal 17y ago|22 comments
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Building a Data Intensive Web Application with Hadoop(cloudera.com)
13 points by xal 17y ago|0 comments
568.
by xal 17y ago
To be perfectly honest, Canada has is a worst case scenario for providing broadband to everyone. With that in mind, they are actually doing a pretty amazing job. I got 16mbit internet downtown and even my cottage on an island in the middle
569.
by xal 17y ago
Maybe, but don't forget that there is also rubyonrails.com that you have to add on top (both are valid). Also, rails.com is not as much a destination page as django.com. Most rails programmers rely on books to learn it and use API docs that
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by xal 17y ago
It's a very safe deployment environment because you can always switch to dedicated metal for the high performance parts. Shopify runs like this.

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