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by mibbit 15y ago
> There has been tremendous progress in both frameworks and languages over the last decade. If you can't see that then, well, I don't really know what else to say, other than to perhaps get off your lawn. If that's true, can programmers
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by mibbit 15y ago
List 10 distinct careers where programming is a fundamental skill.
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by mibbit 15y ago
Perhaps if more programmers were working on a solution to cancer, instead of a social webapp to allow people to share photos of their dogs... Not to mention the number of programmers who waste their time creating new languages and framework
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by mibbit 15y ago
BASIC worked just fine as a first language for most people who grew up in the 80s. But as I said earlier in the thread. We shouldn't teach them programming, or specific languages. We should teach them general problem solving.
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by mibbit 15y ago
Agree. Kids need to learn logical thought processes and problem solving. They don't need to know how to 'program'. How do we even know 'programming' will be a relevant skill in 30 years time? Buy every kid of 3 a tub of Lego bricks (Not a '
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by mibbit 15y ago
hint: You don't need 48gb ram to run a social bookmarking site.
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by mibbit 15y ago
In the example, the current hosting is $24k/yr. If that can be slashed to $2.4k/yr, you've saved $21.6k a year in hosting. For $21.6k/yr I'd say it's worth a week or two re-architecting. Yes, it's a different game if you're profitable and $
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by mibbit 15y ago
Well, my own data point is Mibbit. And I can tell you I certainly don't spend that much on hosting. Still, easy to criticize without knowing the full facts...
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by mibbit 15y ago
...then don't use magento. What I said was that for the functionality pinboard provides, and the number of users using it, the hosting costs are extremely high. If the hosting costs are high because of inefficient software, or bad architect
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by mibbit 15y ago
That's an amazing amount of money to be spending on hosting. Should be spending nearer $200/mo total for hosting a service like this with that number of users IMHO.
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by mibbit 15y ago
tl;dr; = It's an array with a few utility methods, but can also hold 'infinite' things like "all the positive even numbers". Not terribly useful imho and certainly doesn't live up to the hyped intro.
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by mibbit 15y ago
XHR was introduced many years after js was extremely popular. Also XHR doesn't add anything technically. The same thing can be achieved with dynamically adding <script> tags, or using an iframe, or a number of other methods. The int
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by mibbit 15y ago
Imagine a world where instead of writing books, authors spent forever needlessly inventing new languages to write them in.
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by mibbit 15y ago
BS. Syntax is exactly like fashionable clothes. It's irrelevant to how warm your clothes are. The number of developer years wasted coming up with yet another programming language or syntax is staggering. It's a solved problem. Pick an exist
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by mibbit 15y ago
I think the problem was they couldn't find enough people who wanted to use it for free, to bother trying to charge some of them with a premium package.
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by mibbit 15y ago
> Conde Nast buys reddit, and people predict a train wreck. Has it not been a train wreck in terms of profitability? Or is Reddit making a few hundred million in profit nowadays?
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by mibbit 15y ago
The question is, does growing a loss making company make sense? Or should you solve the monetization issue first. Reddit doesn't need more money, it needs to be brave, slap up some real advertising, and start generating real revenue. A webs
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by mibbit 15y ago
From the other posted article it looks like it will make it easier for them to start selling it off... "The move comes after Conde talked to several investors about selling off a chunk of the company as part of the spinout;"
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by mibbit 15y ago
> Also, anyone think 200mil is a bit cheap for reddit? Are they profitable yet after 6 years? I'd say 200mil is ridiculously expensive. But then we live in an age where a location based photo sharing app for dogs is probably worth a few
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by mibbit 15y ago
"drag stickers to upvote" sounds like it would very very quickly get boring. Also IMHO infinite scrollbars make for a terrible confusing and broken user experience. Nice design apart from that though.
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by mibbit 15y ago
OK football was a bad choice. A better one would be learning about history. Some people enjoy learning history. Some don't.
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by mibbit 15y ago
Travel is something some people enjoy. Like playing football. Sure it's a skill, but it's one that not everyone will be good at, or enjoy. Just to provide a counterpoint... If you don't enjoy, or want to travel, don't. Find something you
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by mibbit 15y ago
It sounds like filling out TPS reports to me I'm afraid. Some authors probably have tons of concurrent drafts of a novel they're writing. But I'll bet most have a single draft. I'm afraid (to a fault), I am primarily a lone developer so thi
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by mibbit 15y ago
And there's a hell of a lot of bad developers out there.
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by mibbit 15y ago
As I say, I've worked in a team where branching was tried. It was a hinderance and slowed down development. I've never seen the point of branching for my own personal use. Others may have different experiences, especially if they work on la
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by mibbit 15y ago
A good developer can work with crappy tools and make great things.
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by mibbit 15y ago
Your last point is a good one, but it's sort of like arguing over gentoo/ubuntu/centOS. At the end of the day who really cares - none of them are windows, so they're all good enough.
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by mibbit 15y ago
Some people love working with branches. I don't. It's down to how you work, who you're working with, and the processes you have in place. My personal motto is just "don't break the build". It seems messy to me to create a ton of branches wi
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by mibbit 15y ago
The auto-update process should be far more secure than SSL certificates. They'll have keys in the current Chrome which it'll use to check any updates are legitimate before they get unpacked/installed.
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by mibbit 15y ago
Has IE switched to auto updating or anything? I love the fact that Google can push changes out to Chrome users immediately. That's a massive win for everyone.

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