Downvote me if it makes you feel better, but it still doesn't work.
Well, I was interested enough to download and run the OSX version. Fails with some library issue, even tried off the disk image which the help says can be done. I'm sure it's great but not exactly a good first…
Well, it's more like the pro is that there is no profit motive to keep her there. The staff would be delighted to get rid of her to a bigger facility elsewhere. I live a kilometre north of a large hospital in Sydney,…
I saw a presentation a while back which indicated there was a bit of erlang creeping into the mix behind the scenes, too.
Like, say, Facebook?
Thanks. I want to know the answer, but not so much that I'm willing to spend the several hours necessary to familiarise myself with a large foreign code base. I was hoping someone here could give a quick top-level…
It would get too large quickly. Check this out for a good explanation of why you want to keep cookie sizes as small as possible: http://yuiblog.com/blog/2007/03/01/performance-research-part...
Yeah, that's what you'd do as the user makes a vote. But how would you load the page in the first place? The front page is different for each user, as they've likely voted up and down numerous links on it. You could…
Seems to mainly be about Reddit. Didn't seem to answer the #1 question I had in my mind - how do they cache votes for logged-in users? Do they, say, cache a generic front page and then apply the user's prior voting…
I see no point to this at all, but seems some people like it. When I listen to music I'm appreciating the creative output of the artist; there's no need for it to be dolled up by animated web pages and visualisers and…
ClickAgents! I remember them! I still have an uncashed cheque from them from 1999 or something. Somehow my personal website managed to make USD$40 or something. It would have cost me $30 to cash in Australia so I just…
They try their best to make you feel like a real asshole for walking away, though, especially if they took you for a test drive and everything. I think a lot of people just don't have the "jerk DNA" to do that. They…
But people don't just buy houses, they buy lifestyles and locations in which they live. The actual physical house might be better but who cares? Your average NYC dweller probably wouldn't even live in Jackson if the…
Oh, I didn't mean that. I just meant that "how much stuff you can buy" is perhaps not the only possible measurement of quality of life. And I've long thought PPP to be almost irrelevant in developed countries. Every…
Lausanne!? That's practically in France! edit: well it is!
I guess that depends on what you mean by "standard of living". I can give you a triple gold plated guarantee, though, that the Germans would not consider living in Jackson in your $129k house next to Wal-Mart a "high…
Hm, the problem with PPP is that it's very unclear what it's measuring. Someone with a wal-mart nearby has a higher "PPP" than someone without it. Definitely Americans have access to a lot of cheap crap; it would not…
Raw powerpoint: http://www.cs.indiana.edu/~jwmills/EAC.ppt
This article made me want to go and re-read this one: "Confessions of a Car Salesman" http://www.edmunds.com/advice/buying/articles/42962/article....
I'm not condoning this company's actions but since it is almost certainly a completely automated process, how does this differ from, say, gmail reading kids' conversations to display ads? Should gmail be restricted from…
Exactly what I was thinking - I bet 95% of their customers never even hear about this and furthermore, the activity is probably in their 30-page EULA so the parents agreed to it. This kind of thing reminds me of that…
I guess I just don't like integrated mega-software like "team studio". Give me some nice, loose tools that work together well. Git is all the collaboration tool I need. And, for what it's worth, the open source…
Seeing a few startups' websites fall over says precisely nothing. They could have been on $20 VPSs for all we know - a twenty dollar VPS being something that is possible with OSS. Or maybe not well tuned - since the…
And how does your reckoning change when the big day comes that you have to buy another server? And another? And then another 20? And you've locked yourself into the MS stack? That $2k/box starts adding up real quick.
Windows can also execute all the Java and Ruby stuff that you see in nix platforms.* Really? Hit any Ruby mailing list and every second post is a Windows user complaining that something doesn't work. Not just obscure…
Downvote me if it makes you feel better, but it still doesn't work.
Well, I was interested enough to download and run the OSX version. Fails with some library issue, even tried off the disk image which the help says can be done. I'm sure it's great but not exactly a good first…
Well, it's more like the pro is that there is no profit motive to keep her there. The staff would be delighted to get rid of her to a bigger facility elsewhere. I live a kilometre north of a large hospital in Sydney,…
I saw a presentation a while back which indicated there was a bit of erlang creeping into the mix behind the scenes, too.
Like, say, Facebook?
Thanks. I want to know the answer, but not so much that I'm willing to spend the several hours necessary to familiarise myself with a large foreign code base. I was hoping someone here could give a quick top-level…
It would get too large quickly. Check this out for a good explanation of why you want to keep cookie sizes as small as possible: http://yuiblog.com/blog/2007/03/01/performance-research-part...
Yeah, that's what you'd do as the user makes a vote. But how would you load the page in the first place? The front page is different for each user, as they've likely voted up and down numerous links on it. You could…
Seems to mainly be about Reddit. Didn't seem to answer the #1 question I had in my mind - how do they cache votes for logged-in users? Do they, say, cache a generic front page and then apply the user's prior voting…
I see no point to this at all, but seems some people like it. When I listen to music I'm appreciating the creative output of the artist; there's no need for it to be dolled up by animated web pages and visualisers and…
ClickAgents! I remember them! I still have an uncashed cheque from them from 1999 or something. Somehow my personal website managed to make USD$40 or something. It would have cost me $30 to cash in Australia so I just…
They try their best to make you feel like a real asshole for walking away, though, especially if they took you for a test drive and everything. I think a lot of people just don't have the "jerk DNA" to do that. They…
But people don't just buy houses, they buy lifestyles and locations in which they live. The actual physical house might be better but who cares? Your average NYC dweller probably wouldn't even live in Jackson if the…
Oh, I didn't mean that. I just meant that "how much stuff you can buy" is perhaps not the only possible measurement of quality of life. And I've long thought PPP to be almost irrelevant in developed countries. Every…
Lausanne!? That's practically in France! edit: well it is!
I guess that depends on what you mean by "standard of living". I can give you a triple gold plated guarantee, though, that the Germans would not consider living in Jackson in your $129k house next to Wal-Mart a "high…
Hm, the problem with PPP is that it's very unclear what it's measuring. Someone with a wal-mart nearby has a higher "PPP" than someone without it. Definitely Americans have access to a lot of cheap crap; it would not…
Raw powerpoint: http://www.cs.indiana.edu/~jwmills/EAC.ppt
This article made me want to go and re-read this one: "Confessions of a Car Salesman" http://www.edmunds.com/advice/buying/articles/42962/article....
I'm not condoning this company's actions but since it is almost certainly a completely automated process, how does this differ from, say, gmail reading kids' conversations to display ads? Should gmail be restricted from…
Exactly what I was thinking - I bet 95% of their customers never even hear about this and furthermore, the activity is probably in their 30-page EULA so the parents agreed to it. This kind of thing reminds me of that…
I guess I just don't like integrated mega-software like "team studio". Give me some nice, loose tools that work together well. Git is all the collaboration tool I need. And, for what it's worth, the open source…
Seeing a few startups' websites fall over says precisely nothing. They could have been on $20 VPSs for all we know - a twenty dollar VPS being something that is possible with OSS. Or maybe not well tuned - since the…
And how does your reckoning change when the big day comes that you have to buy another server? And another? And then another 20? And you've locked yourself into the MS stack? That $2k/box starts adding up real quick.
Windows can also execute all the Java and Ruby stuff that you see in nix platforms.* Really? Hit any Ruby mailing list and every second post is a Windows user complaining that something doesn't work. Not just obscure…