markmm

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by markmm 7y ago
Rust is a terrible language. It has an identity crisis. Thinks it's a high level but also system level language. You cant be both. The unix philosophy always wins. Do one thing well. C is the perfect system lang and Java/C#/L
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by markmm 7y ago
I found watching this at 1.5x speed was good as James ums a lot.
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by markmm 7y ago
This is like Nokia sticking to keyboard in their phones. Worst decision ever made. Their interface will be out of date 5 mins after its made with no way of updating
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by markmm 7y ago
Using a terminal on a mobile is a horrible experience. Smart phone UI's are the antithesis of CLI
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by markmm 7y ago
Git written in Ruby, it's a no from me.
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by markmm 7y ago
*nix pipes are part of POSIX and the OS/Shell implements them, if the app takes input and produces output it can be a component of a pipeline. In short, the Curl developers couldn't remove pipes without crippling the app.
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by markmm 14y ago
He wouldn't have released it, he will be spinning in his grave right now. They need to ditch Cook and get someone with a pair of balls.
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by markmm 14y ago
I bet they wish he could come back, Maps/Siri/lack of innovation on new products.
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by markmm 14y ago
Jobs was a good business man and decent presenter, to compare him to John Lennon is utterly inappropriate.
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by markmm 14y ago
How about worrying about both equally, if you still don't get it see Diaspora, great idea and lots of buzz, but implementation was shit and it was DOA.
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by markmm 14y ago
This is something newbies repeat to justify their choice of a piss poor implementation. Sure with 10 users hitting your Rails app it might perform the same as Nginx with a custom C handler talking to a database written in C, but increase th
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by markmm 14y ago
I can turn around a project in a few months easily, and all my _running_ software will be C or C++. The secret is leverage and code generation (Where I will use a scripting language)
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by markmm 14y ago
Wow!! your comment encapsulates the thinking of every wannabe startup loser that ends up smoking crack on some beach in San Francisco" Will making it faster increase the chances of more people using it? Also this attitude of building shit p
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by markmm 14y ago
Why are they moving from Ruby if it's just "string manipulation and database access"? The problem is folks, as soon as you get a large number of users every compromise you made by using a toy language or database is magnified 1000 times. Go
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by markmm 14y ago
My experience is a software always takes much longer than expected, if your startup will fail if you run a few months over then you may as well go and place all your money on black at the casino. You need to get into a position were you can
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by markmm 14y ago
1 server running Nginx with modules + Postgresql == 100 servers running Ruby/Node/Some scripting shit slow language talking to some NoSql crap.
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by markmm 14y ago
I would spend a little extra time upfront and save many many expensive rewrites latter on. Use C from the start, you won't need to rewrite just scale with hardware. This argument that using Ruby (or any language that makes programming easy
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by markmm 14y ago
$36 for a twitter clone with < 1% of the users, where do I sign up!!
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by markmm 14y ago
Can somebody help me, I only have 1% of battery left, I was using IOS6 maps to get to my local mall but I am now in what looks like Antarctica? Im very cold and car hasn't got much gas left, I hope s
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by markmm 14y ago
It annoys me that folks with a poverty of imagination are creating clones of existing apps that have already solved the problem. Another Twitter but open or Facebook with proper privacy..etc. Fail!.
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by markmm 14y ago
One of the main reasons I hear people advocating MongoDB is it's ease of horizontal scaling, via replication and auto sharding. I wonder how many projects have such large data sets that they really require sharding of their data? I understa
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by markmm 14y ago
/dev/null is the most scalable system though, just fire up a node and it's there.
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by markmm 14y ago
"tortious interference." sounds like a disease a radio gets.... stolen from The Insider
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by markmm 14y ago
How is this different from linked in, other than they have millions of users? Seems like another Facebook for XXXXX type idea.
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by markmm 14y ago
Wait a few weeks, for his followup article entitled "Why I came back to Python....two words...mature libraries"
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by markmm 14y ago
has the width changed? or just the height? If it's just eh height most apps will work as the view will just stretch.
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by markmm 14y ago
Lucky she's married to you then eh? Sorry couldn't resist
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by markmm 14y ago
I am not asking it to have anything, the article is insulating that GO is the new go to language, it is not because it doesn't have mature and comprehensive libraries. When I make a decision to use a particular language I don't wan't to ha
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by markmm 14y ago
It depends, if your app is just a dumb UI that calls out to services then all the logic etc should be in the server, the UI code should just be displaying and a bit of caching. Once you have built it in one framework it will be much faster
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by markmm 14y ago
It might be nice for a quick script or standalone program, but most decent size software projects need plenty of mature libraries to be of much use. Python and C have decades head start here.

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