luffy

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by luffy 15y ago
Once someone gets their site set up, what is the plan for actually getting eyeballs on it? If you can figure that out then you are on to something. I see that you are using social networking with Twitter/FB, etc, but that is a chicken/egg p
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by luffy 15y ago
Does HTML5 have an element that is similar to an scrollable editable grid, with column headers that don't scroll? I know a lot of people hate that UI idiom, but it's very common and as long as people like to use Excel, this idiom isn't goi
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by luffy 15y ago
Not much really, especially if you limit the XAML to basic layouts. If you do everything in C#, it's not too much different from something like, say, WinForms. Which is why people like it.
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by luffy 15y ago
But what would that CSS end up looking like? There will be a lot of proprietary extensions (at least their should be) and a lot of quixotic classes and element id's that you'd probably have to work around. I envision something like Office
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by luffy 15y ago
No, Windows phones predate iOS and Android. Android really isn't that much different than Windows Mobile 6.5, aside from touch screen interaction and a superior web browser. (WM 6.5 has better email/messaging, actually).
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by luffy 15y ago
The developer issue is the thorniest issue with choosing the .NET ecosystem. It's easier to find a .NET developer than a Ruby/Python/what have you, but it's harder to find a good .NET developer. What I like to do is advertise for Python an
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by luffy 15y ago
It's best to look at it like most of Microsoft version 1 products - it's going to be painful to use. But it has tons of potential - more so than any product in recent memory. And it's actually pretty reasonably priced, even if you aren't
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by luffy 15y ago
I just tried this out. Did a search for "golf clubs" in my location. Craiggers gives me 6 results. Craigslist gave me 273. Also, I still think the craigslist ui is actually better (I've never had a problem with it). To me, categories work
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by luffy 15y ago
I often wonder if there is there any volume at all in businesses that sell to startups. The startup market as a whole has to be pretty small. The startup market that will actually buy something has to be smaller still (I'd reckon a lot of
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by luffy 15y ago
The site looks great. I assume you are working on this - but do you have screen shots of your admin interface or a list of available images? (You are probably well aware of this, but creating EC2-Windows images on a micro instance is ridi
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by luffy 16y ago
Well there are no real details or specifics of any kind in this article. So that right off prevents me from making any type of analysis of the merits of what this guy is actually doing. Then there is the speculation as to the mental state o
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by luffy 16y ago
This article is so chock full of speculation and all around horrible advice it's hard to pick just one thing to criticize. If this guy's crap has worked in the past, its probably worked because he actually facts of the case in his favor, n
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by luffy 16y ago
Not sure about that. The Web Platform installer has introduced a lot of pain to what used to be fairly simple proceedings. It probably my least favorite application to use. I set up an Windows 2008 R2 instance on EC2 the other day that di
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by luffy 16y ago
For kicks, I deployed the same app on Ubuntu 10.04 and Windows 2008 R2 micro instances on AWS. I chose the plain Windows instance - with no software ( ie, IIS & .NET) pre installed. No database is used in this app. I had the mono/Ubu
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by luffy 16y ago
RoR is definitely more of a full web stack than ASP.NET MVC, which to me feels like a micro framework layered over top of whatever in the the world ASP.NET is. Personally, I like ASP.NET MVC's micro fx feel though. You hinted at Ruby not
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by luffy 16y ago
They can't afford to do otherwise. Accepting community contributions will increase the MS surface area for copyright/patent infringements. The F# team is mostly a research outfit - they aren't going to vet patches.
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by luffy 16y ago
The newer projects on the MS backed OuterCurve.org (formerly Codeplex.org) all use either an Apache or BSD license. I suspect two reasons for MS accepting the Apache, BSD, and MIT licenses: 1) the terms of those license are not very onerous
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by luffy 16y ago
Does Google actually have a claim under the Tucker Act? Some quick searching limits claimants to those who have an actual contract. http://topics.law.cornell.edu/wex/tucker_act EDIT: Note that in general sovereign immunity would preclud
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The Future of F#(player.microsoftpdc.com)
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by luffy 16y ago
Looks like C# is borrowing even more from the F# playbook. Though from the looks of it, I still like the F# implementation better. Next in C#: workflows ( aka F# monads ). I really wish they had dabbled more in dynamic programmic. I'd ha
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by luffy 16y ago
If you don't have Silverlight installed or have no desire to install it, I hate to say it, but: this keynote probably isn't in your wheelhouse. That not withstanding, the quality of Silverlight streaming video is actually quite good.
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by luffy 16y ago
This is a great list and a must read for anyone doing WP7 development. In my opinion, you will always be better off using the bare minimum amount of XAML. XAML is completely unnecessary and is a huge barrier to adoption of WPF/SL. You've b
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by luffy 16y ago
Regarding scraping: I have a hard time figuring out what the difference is between having a human read a web page with sports scores on it, and then entering those scores in to your application vs. having a scraper grab those scores automat
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by luffy 16y ago
I have a site using Flask on GAE, and it works pretty well. Here's a reference to get started. http://www.franciscosouza.net/2010/08/flying-with-flask-in-g...
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by luffy 16y ago
framework: Flask database: Postgresql server: UWSGI + Cherokee Flask is a very nice framework, and the documentation is awesome. I've tried a lot of Python frameworks out before deciding on Flask. It's a paralyzing decision - there is jus
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by luffy 16y ago
I'm currently working on several applications for WP7. The development experience for WP7 is a million-billion times better than it was for past Windows Mobile operating systems. - The emulator is snappy and you don't need to mess around w
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by luffy 16y ago
Any discussion of video calling needs to be attended by DFW's classic commentary on it, from Infinite Jest: http://kottke.org/10/06/david-foster-wallace-on-iphone-4s-fa... tl;dr: phones are great because I can be naked and I don't have t
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by luffy 16y ago
The Intellifactory guys really know their F#. But this seems too much like WebForms and MSAjax for my tastes. After a while autogenerated javascript and HTML becomes very problematic, to say the least. If I want javascript, I'll just write
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by luffy 16y ago
First off, I love F#. I use it extensively for offline data processing, managing our build process (via FAKE), and general purpose Windows scripting. I've also dabbled in DSL creation, and if you follow any of examples it really is prett
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by luffy 16y ago
Leveraged Buyout (LBO) city, baby! Prediction: a firm like KKR or Carlyle buys GoDaddy and borrows a bunch of money (> $10B ?) on the cheap, and then uses GoDaddy's revenue to service the debt.

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