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Re:Over-specialization is the curse of our profession on Tuesday November 06, 2012 @02:50AM (#4747584)
Front end developer should rather work on his designer skills rather than backend stuff. Not being able to design cool interface makes frontend dev boring to work with.
Re:Ask HN: Who is using Java or Java platform? on Friday November 02, 2012 @09:56AM (#4732589)
Google Web Toolkit and hundreds of various projects made in Google available on code.google.com.
Re:ProCog – a new transparent search engine on Wednesday October 31, 2012 @08:11AM (#4722406)
just like DDG, lack support for languages other than english, something you should start from when creating a search engine
Re:The Startup’s Guide to Budget Design on Wednesday October 31, 2012 @04:11AM (#4721720)
what about copying other website layouts and designs? it seems like everyone do that, unique design is something very rare

why pay for design if I can copy something(+small modifications)?

Re:Show HN : When Pinterest met Adwords, Viraliti was born on Monday October 22, 2012 @10:13AM (#4683210)
so from advertiser POV effective CPC will be above 1$ ?

that's very expensive

Re:Marie Curie Day on Tuesday October 16, 2012 @09:43AM (#4659798)
yet you did not fix your mistake in your article title, guess you have a lot of fun

imagine yourself having fun with your ignorance of some jewish scientist, it's exactly the same problem, even though more Poles died during WWII than jews

Re:Programmer Competency Matrix on Monday October 08, 2012 @12:22PM (#4627546)
so programming is your hobby, have some fun while researching and solving some problem using some random solution found on the internet which might work or not

professional coding is about something different

Re:Ask HN: How does one auto format code in CoffeeScript? on Tuesday September 18, 2012 @04:27AM (#4536995)
Is it possible to make coffeescript code auto formatting tool?

Does the lack of such tool make working with cs code harder? Specifically I mean maintaining and refactoring such code.

Re:Ask HN: Rails vs. Java? on Wednesday September 12, 2012 @11:59AM (#4511262)
Apache Cocoon, MVC framework designed for RAD
Re:Java's Cover (April 2001) on Tuesday September 11, 2012 @11:48AM (#4506071)
> So far, Java seems like a stinker to me. I've never written a Java program
Re:PostgreSQL 9.2 released on Monday September 10, 2012 @09:34AM (#4499655)
yet it will not cease comparsions of postgres to mysql
Re:Reddit's database has only two tables on Monday September 03, 2012 @02:51AM (#4469380)
Postgres has feature called index partitioning, it solves such problems. There is also table partitioning. Creating/merging such tables and indexes should be done by your app automatically if you expect it to grow.
Re:Reddit's database has only two tables on Monday September 03, 2012 @02:29AM (#4469325)
apparently they are doing it wrong
Re:Stack Exchange Machine Learning Contest on Wednesday August 22, 2012 @08:10AM (#4416929)
All those people, who helped in generating data for machine learning algos, now may feel fooled, like suckers.
Re:Ask HN: Why not Java? on Monday August 20, 2012 @10:01AM (#4407574)
You always can use JS/Python/whatever in your java application as a scripting language.

In such case like web crawler, the main issue with Java is the scalability or rather lack of it. You need to code it yourself, but that's not any different than other languages and platforms.

ok, sounds like a lot of boilerplate code to write, because "Its only dependency is on jQuery."
what if I don't use jQuery in my project?
Re:Oracle proposes Java GPU support on Thursday August 16, 2012 @04:59AM (#4390506)
games are not only about graphics, at least not all of them lol
AI, machine learning and a digital version of the universe.
Re:Meteor 0.3.9 adds search engine optimization on Friday August 10, 2012 @02:37AM (#4365184)
So after year of developing this product, they finally realized that each page should have an unique URL.

It's called lack of vision.

ps. ajax content does not rank in Google SERPs at all, it's a typical band aid solution, so websites made with meteor will have some serious issues with monetization and stuff

Re:Scaling node.js to 100k concurrent connections on Thursday August 09, 2012 @05:08AM (#4360238)
How does current set of responsibilities determine state of your knowledge?
Re:Scaling node.js to 100k concurrent connections on Thursday August 09, 2012 @04:17AM (#4360110)
"client-side javascript engineer" without any server-side experience.. is that even possible?
Re:Scaling node.js to 100k concurrent connections on Thursday August 09, 2012 @04:13AM (#4360098)
Looks like author is not aware of some cuncurrency problems, deadlocks etc. Backend/database might not scale to 100k concurrent connections so easily.
Re:PostgreSQL Rising on Friday July 20, 2012 @11:09AM (#4271116)
table inheritance is cool, but it's also incomplete, docs are pretty clear on that
Re:PostgreSQL Rising on Friday July 20, 2012 @10:56AM (#4271049)
- functional index

- index partitioning

some great features of postgres, which were not mentioned so far

Re:PHP is much better than what you think on Wednesday July 04, 2012 @09:06AM (#4199244)
PHP programs are indirectly affected by those issues anyway
Re:PHP is much better than what you think on Wednesday July 04, 2012 @08:54AM (#4199187)
Do PHP engineers even know what multithreading is?

ps. I don't mean crontab