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by jlgbecom 16y ago
I think the best advice I ever got from my parents about weddings is that you have to have really good food. Nobody hardly remembers anything else, even the bride's dress, but if you have incredible food, people will talk about it for a de
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by jlgbecom 16y ago
It's articles like these and the responses they engender that I'm very glad I grew up working class, and lived my 20's punk rock. I can appreciate the finer things in life, but I've also got the skills to survive a near-apocalypse. Getting
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by jlgbecom 16y ago
I've had similar experiences. Git has great potential, but the tools seem very immature, and basic things I took for granted with Subversion are huge pita's with Git. And it seems like all that needs to happen is a really solid toolkit to
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by jlgbecom 16y ago
Game developers hate Zynga for the same reason that real comedians hate Dane Cook: Uninspired, unoriginal (borderline theft), and a dilution of the craft. Sure, you could chalk it up to jealousy of success, but the reality is that there ar
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by jlgbecom 16y ago
Sort by Registered Users. You don't even need the Chinese language site (QZone). Habbo + MySpace + Bebo + Orkut + Friendster + Hi5 = 679 million. Assuming 50% cross-over (which is a very high estimate), that means 340 million unique users
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by jlgbecom 16y ago
Tons of working features, a more well-defined roadmap, (much) more experience, and it's way easier to install (LAMP vs Rails). Also, Appleseed is a full social platform, that allows you to build components and extend it. Diaspora is more
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by jlgbecom 16y ago
If it's such a useless metric, why is it always brought up as a clear example of Facebook's unmovable dominance?
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by jlgbecom 16y ago
Let's assume there's total overlap, meaning everyone who has a non-FB account also has a FB account. Now let's assume all of those smaller, but substantially sized, networks started inter-communicating. Who would stay on Facebook? Why wou
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by jlgbecom 16y ago
The combined size of social networks that aren't Facebook is over 1.5 billion people, probably more. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_social_networking_websi... Facebook has the most users in one place, but the dust is nowhere near se
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by jlgbecom 16y ago
Better ability to categorize friends and have targeted "feeds" would help mitigate this.
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by jlgbecom 16y ago
Appleseed is the farthest along: http://opensource.appleseedproject.org
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by jlgbecom 16y ago
Yeah, I think it's definitely different in the U.S. than Germany, regarding Facebook's hegemony. Hardly anybody uses anything else here.
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by jlgbecom 16y ago
How do you send file attach attachments?
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by jlgbecom 16y ago
I think a comparison to an oil rig is wishful thinking, to say the least. You have a basically clear and proven business model that's existed for 100 years, based on selling a tangible product that everybody inarguably needs. Facebook has
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by jlgbecom 16y ago
Also, can we stop to consider the fact that a company that is worth billions of dollars can only barely eke out a profit, despite having access to the personal lives of 500 million people? It's not like they lack the capability to be evil.
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by jlgbecom 16y ago
I think you're underestimating Facebook's social importance. Sure, your friends won't hate you, it won't be the end of the world, but there is a palpable sense of disconnect. And there are more people who rely on Facebook for social connec
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by jlgbecom 16y ago
Because you can leave Google. You may not want to, and they do a great job of having features nobody else has, but if they piss you off enough, there's plenty of email providers. Facebook, on the other hand, holds your social network hosta
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by jlgbecom 16y ago
Oh yeah, it's totally like being violently threatened and abused by terrorists. That's a perfectly reasonable analogy. Seriously, when you've been programming long enough, you really stop caring about programming languages. I could build
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by jlgbecom 16y ago
Yes, but in true PHP fashion they're just slightly ugly. :) namespace my\name; $c = new \my\name\MyClass;
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by jlgbecom 16y ago
I've noticed that it's in vogue to bash PHP, but frankly, with the current state of the language, along with its frameworks and libraries, there's no better time to work with PHP. I've noticed that, too, I think a lot of people who bash P
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by jlgbecom 16y ago
Unless you're being more specific than I think you are, PHP5 has basic support for method chaining, I use it all the time.
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by jlgbecom 16y ago
I've been using PHP professionally since it was called PHP/FI, and while it's a terribly designed language, I've longed stopped hating it. I know all of it's quirks, and I know all of it's work arounds, and the density of support it has ca
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by jlgbecom 16y ago
There is a ton of scholarly work on the effects of unequal funding on public education. Google Scholar is a good place to start: http://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=unequal+funding+educatio... A good "primer" book, although a bit old, bu
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by jlgbecom 16y ago
That's an interesting case, but it's far from representative of the system as a whole. The best you can do in that situation is use that information to criticize that specific school district, but you can't extrapolate that to a systemic c
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by jlgbecom 16y ago
I have yet to hear a better explanation for why public schools can't seem to get their act together. Unequal funding based on property taxes further penalizes the lower classes. The wealthiest go to posh private schools, the upper-middle
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by jlgbecom 16y ago
I like that there are perspectives that question the Silicon Valley approach to start-ups. Although of course there's definitely good to come out of it, there's also an extraordinary amount of ego and hype. Some might argue more than ther
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by jlgbecom 16y ago
RoR has a lot of advantages for rapid development and prototyping early on. I think over the course of the development cycle, the advantages even out with other frameworks. In other words, for the first 10% of your development, you'll get
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by jlgbecom 16y ago
I'm surprised this isn't bloody obvious. At one point AOL was worth $247 billion, and then an open internet steamrolled over it. The same thing will happen to Facebook with the open web. At least AOL had subscription revenue.
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by jlgbecom 16y ago
Open source is good at getting the small bugs, the syntax errors, the security holes with clear and direct fixes, etc. Open source is not good for making use of the "Many eyeballs" for architectural decisions. It's where the wisdom of crow
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by jlgbecom 16y ago
of their own creation or as a contributor, on their own time - even if it means taking on a reduced academic load. But that's why the apprenticeship model would work so well. I've always thought the way union electricians are trained (a

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