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by yawn 18y ago
How about we just move on?
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by yawn 18y ago
Not being inside the Ruby community, I felt like I missed a lot. Was it really a dis?
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by yawn 18y ago
"The author compares using a language and web framework he knows to one he does not know and never tried." What doesn't he know? He's written at least one website in Lisp using SBCL+Hunchentoot.
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by yawn 18y ago
This statement was made before any handsets have come to market. How many carriers do they have? I'll believe it when I see it.
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by yawn 18y ago
It's pretty obvious that he's new to mobile development. The first thing to understand is that the carriers completely control the playing field. It's incredibly frustrating trying to write an app across multiple devices let alone multipl
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by yawn 18y ago
The problem is mindshare. No one knows what they are. I remember a site called "handango" (I just checked and they are still there) that handled this, but most people have no idea of where to go for their content. Apple's answer is iTune
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by yawn 18y ago
"What is supposed to make it good? If they have thousands of applications on there, it might become impractical?" I think their experience with iTunes will help out here. The interface from the phone is of course different, but people have
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by yawn 18y ago
There's this book too: http://commonsware.com/Android/index.html
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by yawn 18y ago
Ironically, webfaction is currently down right now--I can't access my sites.
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by yawn 18y ago
" But why do we conceal death from kids? Probably because small children are particularly horrified by it." One of the hardest things for me answer was the question "Dad, am I going to die?". Even though it is incredibly hard to tell them
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by yawn 18y ago
That guy can sure hold a grudge. "I was only able to stop these idiots from commenting on my blog by stopping everyone from commenting on my blog, which is regrettable, but it's worth the sacrifice, because some of these people really were
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by yawn 19y ago
At least 30 people (the ones who voted) didn't like your article. A lot of your articles have shown up on Reddit, in part due to your strong branding of yourself. Maybe some people are tired of seeing them. Who knows? Apparently it is e
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by yawn 19y ago
Maybe people just didn't like the article.
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by yawn 19y ago
Speaking of back-end stuff, what is the backend of Hacker News? What are you using for persistence? Do you have any sort of model layer? Any recommendations/anecdotes?
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by yawn 19y ago
How does Arc make exploratory programming easier than Scheme, Common Lisp, Python, etc?
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by yawn 19y ago
"To put it in perspective, if you found a bug in your bank's website and told them about it, how long would it take for them to fix it?" To put it in perspective, this is a very simple, small application with a relative handful of users tha