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by gvnonor 13y ago
Nice book, covers all the fundamentals well. Thanks to the authors for this gesture. Now a digression, while Meteor hasn't hit 1.0 yet, I still wish it had some form of MVVM support baked in instead of the simple/dumb templating w
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by gvnonor 13y ago
DabbleDB was a very forward thinking product, pity it was shutdown. Could you share an estimate of the number of man-hours it took to build it?
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by gvnonor 14y ago
I was hoping that it wouldn't kill grub but unfortunately it's just like before. My kubuntu partition lies idly as I haven't bothered re-installing grub yet.
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by gvnonor 14y ago
Windows 8 only makes sense on tablet/laptop hybrids. I think you'll feel differently about the usability of the system once you get to try it out on newer devices that are coming out. Here's an interesting article about one such device htt
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by gvnonor 14y ago
WinRT development is actually quite pleasant. You can put together a decent app in very little time using just html and javascript. Deciding what to do with the large screen real estate is challenging though. There's no chrome and the entir
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by gvnonor 14y ago
In case ammmir decides takes you up on your offer, I'd advise him to ensure that a contract is in place before committing to do any work.
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by gvnonor 14y ago
Never say never. If someone had told me that i'd be able to buy a high-end(processor and brand) tablet for $200, I would've laughed in their face.
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by gvnonor 14y ago
Depends on the person. For most people, having a 10" screen will suffice, because they use the computer mostly to browse the internet and only occasionally need the full capabilities of a desktop OS, like when they need to write a word docu
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by gvnonor 14y ago
Android is open source, but that isn't reason enough to rip off someone else's UI. Atleast Microsoft's innovating and not just copying stuff wholesale(which admittedly it used to do a lot in the past). Regarding opportunity, the MS store wi
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by gvnonor 14y ago
I think they just wanted to get some excitement going, and it looks like they've met that goal.
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by gvnonor 15y ago
The editor is a former communist and the editorials reflect his pro-CPM views, but on the whole, the articles are mostly neutral and reported in a matter of fact way.
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by gvnonor 15y ago
The truth is that most of Indian dailies are not fit for reading any science related news or even news for that matter. With the exception of "The Hindu", which is the only daily I find professional, without bias to any ideology/org
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by gvnonor 15y ago
With Smalltalk you can have your cake and eat it too! Its refactoring and IDE support is better than those of other dynamic languages and only slightly lagging behind statically typed languages(due to its relative obscurity, its ecosystem i
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by gvnonor 15y ago
I think you meant effect.
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by gvnonor 15y ago
Are you being sarcastic?
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by gvnonor 15y ago
From a couple of presentations I watched and reading online, nodejs advertises that it makes writing web servers easy. Do everyday programmers actually need node or is it meant to be a niche language?
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The Ascendance of App Inventor(radar.oreilly.com)
3 points by gvnonor 15y ago|0 comments
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Why I Like Mercurial More Than Git(jhw.dreamwidth.org)
4 points by gvnonor 15y ago|1 comments
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FLOSS Weekly: Interview With Racket Scheme Architect Matthew Flatt(twit.tv)
1 points by gvnonor 15y ago|0 comments
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by gvnonor 15y ago
Or one could simply use a ready made blog-platform like Wordpress which supports a majority of the features listed and maybe modify it a little > Allow signup/signin Check. > Allow public sharing of journals/non public Private and p
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by gvnonor 15y ago
Well, in most cases they want a real good reason to switch and the software must market itself as a replacement. Case in point Firefox and Chrome gained a lot IE6 users by 1.Having multiple tabs which is the killer feature 2.Marketing thems
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by gvnonor 15y ago
Your points are valid, but I think the percentage of inexperienced Windows users far outnumbers the users with 'expertise'. Those type of people 1. Do appreciate applications that "just work" and are willing to spend time choosing the righ
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1000 Year old Design Patterns: Talk By Ulf Wiger(infoq.com)
4 points by gvnonor 15y ago|0 comments
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by gvnonor 15y ago
> I don't think this is true of anyone, even Warren Buffett or Bill Gates. I meant that as a figure of speech of course :) > It's really difficult to let someone get away with stealing from you. The Winkelvoss twins may feel they've
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by gvnonor 15y ago
Exactly. They have a Harvard education, more riches than they could spend in a lifetime and still all they want to do with their lives is act like money-grubbing losers.
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by gvnonor 15y ago
Learning to use a text editor(or atleast trying) is easier than learning to touch type but anyway people kept touting the power of Emacs and how extensible it was and I decided to give it a shot. On trying Emacs, I loved features such as be
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by gvnonor 15y ago
The single best thing I did to become proficient using Emacs was to switch my CapsLock key to Ctrl. Learning to touch type comes a close second.
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by gvnonor 15y ago
I think the question is why would they want to try Erlang. There isn't any compelling reason for them to, when most of what they(and most web developers) do is write CRUD apps.
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by gvnonor 15y ago
Small nitpick..I think you meant alley instead of ally.
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by gvnonor 15y ago
Being in the zone is more acute and recognizable when one plays an outdoor sport for a moderate period of time. I used to play tennis competitively and I could clearly tell when I was in the zone. It would be amazing, I would feel like I co

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