zmimon

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by zmimon 18y ago
My beef about MySQL used to be technical but in the last 3 - 4 years that has evaporated, and now it is purely about the license. I cannot understand why anybody uses a database for which the only official client side drivers are GPL, rat
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by zmimon 18y ago
> Use a bigger font size. >... >The effect is: you're forced to write shorter methods. And that's a Good Thing. I find the opposite is true - I need to see more lines to appreciate exactly how goddamn awful that 200 line functio
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by zmimon 18y ago
Indeed, this is very much what I already do. For all non-functional aspects, IE6 is not catered for. For example, transparent pngs are assumed supported. If you visit in IE6 you will see lots of blocky icons and images for rounded corne
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by zmimon 18y ago
At this point, it matters not what happens to IE market share. It will not ever get lower than 20% and it will not ever get higher than 90% again. As long as it stays in that range we can know with surety that a) all web sites will still
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by zmimon 18y ago
For those terrified of actually answering the phone, and who dread the idea of having to check voice mail constantly (like me), there are outfits that will take your call and transcribe it to an email for you. eg: http://www.phonetag.com
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by zmimon 18y ago
> (using odd/even days) That sounds like an odd way to do it - do your customers typically purchase on the same day they first hit your web site? If not, they likely came back several times and might have been bemused or even frustrat
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by zmimon 18y ago
He doesn't define failure. It seems to mean any outcome other than making millions of dollars. I consider my startup a wild success if it just manages to break even while supporting a liveable income and giving me something useful and int
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by zmimon 18y ago
There's a lot happening with it ... I think it's main advantage is that it completely seamlessly integrates with java and inherits it's basic syntax from there, so anyone familiar with java or with existing stuff in java (and that's a lot
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by zmimon 18y ago
A pretty nice survey and well balanced post - nice! My only gripe - it missed out on my favorite - Groovy - which is my favorite because it combines the best features of most of the others.
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by zmimon 18y ago
I was pretty interested when I first saw SkyDrive as its capacity (25G) and features seemed actually useful - just what I need to keep a shared drive between a bunch of distributed computers. But mystifyingly, Microsoft do not offer any
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by zmimon 18y ago
I'm not sure you can generalise anything from the Agora ... it was always a bit unbelievable that a minnow sized vendor could outdo every other cell phone provider on the planet to become the second Android phone. My guess is that these "i
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by zmimon 18y ago
One point you (and a lot of people) are missing: Joel was the one who took the business risk of posting those ads. It may seem risk free in retrospect, but they didn't know that in advance. It could have pissed off all his software cust
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by zmimon 18y ago
It actually makes a lot of sense. JQuery is a pleasure to use for general UI manipulation, but (to my mind) it just doesn't have the consistency and quality of YUI when it comes to UI widgets / framework. And honestly, it will always be ha
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by zmimon 18y ago
His post reads like an advertisement for the E-Myth book ... ( http://www.e-myth.com/pub/htdocs/emr_ch1 )
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by zmimon 18y ago
There's something terribly horribly wrong with either your database setup or your queries. 100,000 entries is miniscule. Do you have indexes on the join columns in your queries? (But do use Postgres, it's better than MySQL for most cases!
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by zmimon 18y ago
First: this is a really interesting thread and I have a lot of respect for your experience. But is it really better to statically allocate resources to threads? You may have 8 cores on a box and 1 of them burning and 7 of them cruising.
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by zmimon 18y ago
> There's a lot of advancement in the world of browsers, and Microsoft's not a part of it! Umm.... the benchmarks I've seen of IE8 show substantial (order of magnitude) improvements in javascript speed. They are still behind, but we sh
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by zmimon 18y ago
As others have said, stop fighting the language and embrace it. For the Java haters, here's a Java one-liner that is not much longer (though I'll admit, uglier) than all the rest: result = join(new ArrayList<String>(){{ addAll(list
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by zmimon 18y ago
Although it may work well once I'm signed up, personally I am about 10 times more reluctant to sign up for a monthly subscription in the first place. I don't like that the price might change for month to month and I don't like that if som
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by zmimon 18y ago
This seems like a bit of a fantasy to me. The notion that a significant use of java in enterprises is to churn out large numbers of small CRUD applications on brand new database schemas (which is really the only place such huge productivit
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by zmimon 18y ago
Well, I think you completely missed my point, since I didn't anywhere say that PHP can't scale in the sense you are talking about.
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by zmimon 18y ago
> PHP is really fast when you use it as a straight templating system, but once you start writing real applications in it, writing your own high-level PHP inside PHP, it is the slowest thing around. This is what I find most people undere
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by zmimon 18y ago
Well, speaking of obsessions, I'm puzzled as to why people are so obsessed with the idea that Yahoo and Google can not co-exist. Why does it have to be "google won", "yahoo lost" and because yahoo yahoo did not "win" they have "failed"? Y
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by zmimon 18y ago
Since you mention eclipse I would say "proceed with caution". There are two issues: a) Eclipse itself is less usable and less stable. I have colleagues who are unable to debug, experience crashes etc. which I never see on Linux / Windows.
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by zmimon 18y ago
Why does an article entitled "Why We Don't Take Credit Cards" not explain why the person concerned does not take credit cards? What is it that makes it so hard for people to come up with a headline that vaguely resembles what they have writ
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by zmimon 18y ago
> If you think that Africans have a genetic or cultural disposition towards corruption, then that is your opinion, and I'm not going to try to change it. I disagree completely What else do you call it when a large proportion of a societ
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by zmimon 18y ago
> If Solaris on SPARC can be made price/performance superior to Linux on Intel, then that's what they should do. No - this is where I think the worlds collide. You're basically saying they should commoditize their own hardware to the p
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by zmimon 18y ago
I can't believe such an uninformed and dangerous post is sitting in public, implicitly endorsed by 37signals. From the URL it looks like may be getting pulled out of an svn repo or some other internal resource. Nonetheless, they need to ge
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by zmimon 18y ago
If I was running Sun I'd seriously look at splitting the company in two. The software side is shackled by the fact that they need to move in a direction that is going to erode revenue from the hardware side. As long as they are in the sam
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by zmimon 18y ago
Nice to see a good explanation (if a little painstaking) of this. "Ad hominem" is fast becoming the new Godwin ... Having said that, I hope that people don't think this gives everyone license to abuse each other. Regardless of whether it

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