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Re:Forget Cygwin or VMware, run coLinux on Monday February 18, 2008 @08:07PM (#118567)

Why should I forget VMware or any other virtualization product? They also give you 95% of native performance and a full-screen X on top of that.

With 2GB RAM becoming the norm and stand-by mode having replaced power on/off cycles, I have no issues running two systems side-by-side on my laptop at all times.

Re:Dear Programmers, Please Learn to Read Before You Speak: In Defense... on Wednesday January 30, 2008 @02:14PM (#106987)

If I remember correctly, Ruby doesn't have Unicode support either. Shit, some languages don't even have built-in strings.

Re:Apple crippled DTrace on MacOS X on Sunday January 20, 2008 @09:56PM (#101418)

I am not sure what "spirit of open source", that the blog post refers to means, but what Apple did isn't looking nice from any angle.

Re:Why I Use (Object) Pascal on Friday January 18, 2008 @02:58AM (#100223)

Hold on, I thought in Delphi you still have to separate constants, typedefs, variables and code into different blocks, no?

I Love Bloggers

Posted by zeka on Friday January 18, 2008 @02:41AM
from the uncov.com dept.

http://www.uncov.com/2008/1/17/i-love-bloggers

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Re:IE 8 Passes Acid2 Test on Wednesday December 19, 2007 @07:21PM (#91335)

Now they must realize how important it is to force-upgrade everybody to IE8 via Windows Update mechanism.

Re:Ask YC: Good/small open source projects to work on? on Tuesday December 18, 2007 @01:14AM (#90636)

Pick a language that you love. That will probably happen to be something not very mainstream. All not-very-mainstream languages suffer from the lack of good, quality libraries to one degree or another.

Fix it. Since you mentioned OCaml, I assume you like it. I suggest you look at Python libraries (very mature bunch) and port something you like over to OCaml.

Re:My YC idea: User-created-language on Tuesday October 09, 2007 @05:59PM (#65516)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_character

Re:Idea Week. Post ideas you don't plan on implementing. on Tuesday October 09, 2007 @11:22AM (#65279)

Permanent relief from the password hell. And it should NOT be a "keyring solution".

Ask YC: your google adwords experience?

Posted by zeka on Monday October 08, 2007 @11:18AM
from the self-post dept.

I have started to advertise my site on adwords and so far the experience has been quite frustrating. The ads are not showing, after 4 days I still see zero impressions for all imaginable key words and their diagnostic tool does not really help, just says: "This keyword does not trigger any of your ads".I have increased my budget to ridiculous $5CPC and gigantic monthly budget but nothing seem...

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Re:Virtualmin - YC startup in Venturebeat on Wednesday July 18, 2007 @12:12AM (#34944)

VA is the most promising startup of all YC companies I've heard of, if you ask me. Under-hyped and over-delivering.

Re:Code Critique as an Interview Tool on Tuesday July 17, 2007 @11:07PM (#34936)

National Instruments (Austin, TX) used to do that alot and it worked great. They start with some code critique and then slowly, starting with "how would you re-write this from scratch?" they get you to write some, following by popular "optimize for speed/memory" and so on.

I just recently had somewhat similar idea: to reverse tables and ask them to interview me. Not the typical "how do you like it here?" kind, but I want to ask people to ask me technical questions and see what they can come up with.