budwin

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by budwin 12y ago
Building Yo is not a hard problem.
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Moon Illusion(en.wikipedia.org)
1 points by budwin 12y ago|0 comments
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Why is 80 characters the 'standard' limit for code width?(programmers.stackexchange.com)
61 points by budwin 12y ago|44 comments
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by budwin 13y ago
What a wonderful idea. Just FYI, I went to share this on facebook, and the thumbnail was white on white. You might want to put a few metadata tags in there.
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by budwin 15y ago
Just as an FYI, disconnect causes a number of login problems on a few of said sites rendering them unusable.
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by budwin 15y ago
let's please just celebrate our differences rather than tear each other down. This is a real insult to anyone who doesn't consider themselves introverted...
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by budwin 15y ago
This is a great talent acquisition play.
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by budwin 15y ago
> "One of the MBAs gets in the way, makes a decision he has no place making, and hands one of HP's competitors a major competitive advantage." This is kind of mean spirited. Why hate on the MBAs?
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by budwin 16y ago
I've used Node.js to power a little "social doodling" pet project I made: http://letsdrawit.com and I find it a useful way to think about concurrency because there are certain types of race conditions you don't have to consider (for examp
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Ask HN: Why do people consider Ruby better than Perl or vice versa?
12 points by budwin 16y ago|28 comments
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by budwin 16y ago
"- It is compiled into machine code (no interpreter, unlike Python)." anyone have any kind of measure on how bytecode compares to machine code these days? (most "interpreted" languages have a hidden compile step these days). I understand
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by budwin 16y ago
I really feel what they said about the community and core developers: Reading the correspondence on the following bug really turned me off to the project. http://code.djangoproject.com/ticket/5172 . Specifically: "Please do not reopen a ti
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by budwin 16y ago
Maybe I missed something, but is this really how Firefox's location services work? By phoning google with the MAC address? I understood google was logging them, but didn't know they were _using_ them...
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by budwin 16y ago
happy to see disjoint sets in there
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by budwin 16y ago
This is Facebook's "instant personalization" feature that just launched. You can disable it in the privacy settings/applications. (it's opt out).
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by budwin 17y ago
The Mozilla blog is the mouthpiece of the Mozilla foundation right? Unless I totally missed something, didn't the author on behalf of their organization, offended both of their largest platforms owners?
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by budwin 17y ago
Definitely unprofessional for both companies involved :-/. Zoho could have taken the high ground here, but instead just sank to the same kind petty name calling.
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by budwin 17y ago
it's almost as if google is waiting to launch stuff until _right after_ a new feature comes out on bing
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by budwin 17y ago
if you want it, totally build it!
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by budwin 17y ago
they had paper schedules?
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by budwin 17y ago
video chat will _not_ be the next killer app. Sorry.
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by budwin 17y ago
different tools for different tasks. as far as setup time goes, sqlite wins by a long shot.
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by budwin 17y ago
I wouldn't feel comfortable using something like markdown until I had a firm grasp of how it works and the kind of html it writes. And at that point, I guess I might as well write good ole html... Unless browsers _universally_ supported a
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by budwin 17y ago
This is an old idea. Saw it years ago here: http://jakarta.apache.org/ecs/index.html
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by budwin 17y ago
I'm not sure exactly why there's so much controversy here. The customers of your website should always come first, and if they use IE6, support IE6. Making them upgrade is a surefire way to alienate them or encourage them to go somewhere e
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by budwin 18y ago
i detect bias :)