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Re:The Greatest Running Shoe Never Sold
on Sunday January 15, 2012 @11:34AM (#3467504)
Way to thick sole to be any good. That certainly doesn't good form running easy.
Re:Is That Pinterest? Nope, No It’s Not
on Saturday January 14, 2012 @05:09AM (#3463945)
Not true, they're playing hard to get. They're not open for everybody, although, sure, the limit isn't geographical
Re:Is That Pinterest? Nope, No It’s Not
on Saturday January 14, 2012 @04:58AM (#3463926)
If Pinterest wouldn't be so slow (like most US startups) to open up to the whole world. I signed up a few months ago and still haven't got my access.
This wouldn't solve the problem but for sure the effectiveness of these German guys "creations" would be reduced.
Re:Unity is the end of Ubuntu
on Friday October 21, 2011 @11:42AM (#3140254)
I think Unity is useless because these kind of inexperienced users almost don't exist anymore. Everybody got used to the "ugly" interface made of contextual menu and "hard" to adjust settings and those who didn't could live with sensible defaults that could always be overridden.
But with Unity it's like if they went out there to replace QWERTY keyboards with friendlier layouts without paying attention that none of the current users already got so used to the on-purpose-unfriendly layout you're actually slowing them down now.
Re:European startups have been feeling the cash crunch for a long time
on Thursday October 13, 2011 @06:25PM (#3109044)
There's no VC or even VC mentality, especially in Italy. Partly it's due to the fact that it's more difficult to make it in a market that is segmented by language barriers, whereas in US you have a critical mass of customers that speak the same language. On the other hand you'll have more competition in US: but that's probably because VC there throw money at anything that moves.
Re:Italian Wikipedia shut down
on Thursday October 06, 2011 @05:54PM (#3081817)
Agree, but maybe we should just outsource it to normal people: the kind of people that haven't got their tentacles around everything that happened in the last 50 years! Like these http://www.beppegrillo.it/movimento/ although the outsourcing idea isn't half bad as long as they're not all former bankers! :)
Re:Italian Wikipedia shut down
on Thursday October 06, 2011 @05:50PM (#3081801)
Only the President can send him home...
Re:Italian Wikipedia shut down
on Thursday October 06, 2011 @05:49PM (#3081799)
I'd like to see the Scandinavian countries dealing with the mafia... no, not the one you see in movies that cuts horses' heads, but the one that blows up motorways.
Re:Node.js has jumped the shark
on Tuesday October 04, 2011 @01:52PM (#3072012)
Another boring, silly "jumping the shark" post
Re:Node.js is Cancer
on Sunday October 02, 2011 @08:24AM (#3062683)
If I was Yahoo I'd think twice before adopting something like Node.js, but if you're a little guy that wants to scale on the cheap and is willing to take risks because the alternative simply won't work for what you're trying to do, then just use Node.js. Django, PHP, Rails with Apache in front of them aren't designed to handle thousands of persistent connections and it would be far more expensive to scale the traditional web-stacks to handle them.
As some Joyent guy was saying there's real resources behind Node.js, it isn't just a cool hack made by some promising Jedi but it needs to fit your use-case. If you're designing a real-time web app and you have a limited budget then go for it, I don't think there's anything better out there now (except for Tornado, Twisted, which is just a matter of taste) unless you're Yahoo, Google, etc...
Re:Bada Bing, Bada Boom: Culture inside Bing
on Saturday September 17, 2011 @09:12PM (#3009214)
Google instant is good for tablets/phones, not for desktop computers. Too bad they rolled it out to everybody I don't like it too much either, but can live with it.
Re:Break Google
on Friday September 16, 2011 @05:19AM (#3003756)
Looks like the syntax of Google's CTemplate someone posted today: http://code.google.com/p/google-ctemplate/
Re:Microsoft has Abandoned Silverlight and All Other Plugins
on Thursday September 15, 2011 @06:22AM (#2999605)
Funny, I've been working on a Sharepoint project the last two months. This could have been a 3 man-day PHP/MySQL job yet it required 1 Project Manager and 2 devs (one full-time, 1 part-time) 2 months of work! The reason it took so long is that we couldn't touch code (think paranoid Fortune 50 company).
And then they talk of TCO and miss profits: they throw money down the drain, what do they expect?
Re:Ask HN: My side project. Is it useful?
on Wednesday September 14, 2011 @07:41AM (#2995804)
Good one! Like the idea. The UI needs some hard thinking but for a prototype it's very good. If you had a vision to actually make this happen and include all other transport options I think you wouldn't have too much trouble finding someone to throw money your way.
Re:Joel Spolsky Launches Trello - Organize Anything Together
on Wednesday September 14, 2011 @06:00AM (#2995559)
Going for Basecamp's jugular :)
Re:MongoDB 2.0 Released
on Monday September 12, 2011 @12:56PM (#2987969)
A bump like that should be for backward incompatible changes but it actually looks like a makeover to appeal more to serious biz customers that would have trouble getting on to a 1.0 technology.
Re:Facebook First Half Revenue Hits $1.6 Billion
on Thursday September 08, 2011 @05:19AM (#2973193)
Why would you?
Well, for the same reason people already do it on vkontakte.ru:
- it's easy
- if you go fullscreen it doesn't matter where you're streaming from
- it lets you discover stuff you might like (what's your friend watching, etc...)
Re:Google to Android Developers: 'Do Not Develop in the Open'
on Thursday September 08, 2011 @05:16AM (#2973190)
C'mon Google, let us develop with Go or Python, I hate Java with the passion!
Re:Facebook First Half Revenue Hits $1.6 Billion
on Wednesday September 07, 2011 @05:43PM (#2971609)
Facebook could cannibalize all of these markets you mention: nothing prevents them from turning it into a marketplace of new/used stuff and a platform to watch movies on or sell songs. Have a look at the (pirate friendly) Russian vkontakte.ru: whole american TV series and movies can be watched there.
Re:Coffee & Power: Buy and Sell Small Jobs
on Wednesday September 07, 2011 @05:32PM (#2971548)
I think it will work regardless, most of the gigs will just be done remotely.
Re:Coffee & Power: Buy and Sell Small Jobs
on Wednesday September 07, 2011 @05:23PM (#2971509)
Ugly name! But good idea trying to eat fiverr's lunch.
Re:Why I'm (Finally) Switching to CoffeeScript
on Tuesday September 06, 2011 @09:45AM (#2965557)
So well, then you write something in CoffeeScript, "compile" it to Javascript and run it in Node.js? Ugly dev cycle, maybe worth hooking to Eclipse.
Re:Why I'm (Finally) Switching to CoffeeScript
on Tuesday September 06, 2011 @06:25AM (#2964976)
And how will Node interpret it?
Re:Why I'm (Finally) Switching to CoffeeScript
on Tuesday September 06, 2011 @05:20AM (#2964802)
No I think you are confused. That is Node.js syntax. Ok now show me how you open a file on the filesystem in CoffeeScript then.
Re:Why I'm (Finally) Switching to CoffeeScript
on Tuesday September 06, 2011 @04:08AM (#2964641)
OT question. How healthy is the Twisted ecosystem these days? Besides it being stable and been around for years, how does the post-divmod horizon looking? Is the whole stack still being maintained?
Re:Why I'm (Finally) Switching to CoffeeScript
on Tuesday September 06, 2011 @04:03AM (#2964632)
Well but this isn't written in CoffeeScript. This is what I was saying: CoffeeScript can work alongside Node.js but can't access the filesystem. It might be good in its own right for DOM scripting and such but it doesn't open any more doors than Javascript.
Re:Why I'm (Finally) Switching to CoffeeScript
on Monday September 05, 2011 @03:34PM (#2963143)
So how do you write a basic web server in CoffeeScript?
Re:Why I'm (Finally) Switching to CoffeeScript
on Monday September 05, 2011 @01:59PM (#2962903)
CoffeeScript is interesting, but to be more so it shouldn't be limited to browser scripting. Until it doesn't become more general purpose i'll just stick to Python or Node.js
Re:Linus Torvalds writes pretty awesome commit messages
on Sunday September 04, 2011 @04:44PM (#2960295)
How long before he will rewrite and window and widgets library?
Re:Python Tools for Visual Studio
on Wednesday August 31, 2011 @09:15AM (#2945380)
I use Python on Windows for Django developement. Since I'm need to use other Win based software for work I use it also as my dev station. Can't complain, Windows does the job and Python doesn't care. One of the advantages of Python being x-platform. I find that most people that use Linux for dev, then emulate Windows for something, so I just stick to Win. This might change in Oct when Ubuntu 11.10 comes out, but probably now. Win has served me always very well.