nameuserc

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by nameuserc 14y ago
Is it a coincidence they had to link the term "responsive design" to a Wikipedia entry? Is it not self-evident what "responsive design" means?
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by nameuserc 14y ago
Maybe Johnny doesn't want to "stream". Maybe Johnny just wants video that play backs immediately/without delay, and smoothly. And Johnny thinks that's what "streaming" means. Maybe Johnny thinks that "downloading" means he has to wait. D
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by nameuserc 14y ago
I am 100% in agreement. I would never make users jump through hoops like that. Or assume that Redis would be their choice of database. That's a choice for the user. But Lord knows I spend an inordinate amount of time jumping through hoop
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by nameuserc 14y ago
Definitely. I just wish they would make some changes so that we can use the "70's style command line" more with Firefox. In other words, options and arguments we can pass to Firefox (the xulrunner app) via the Linux/BSD/OSX/Windows comman
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by nameuserc 14y ago
kernel: a central, essential part of something paraphrasing the dictionary definition the meaning is similar in both contexts you mention. indeed if we asked someone who did not know what an "os kernel" was, they might think of the meaning
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by nameuserc 14y ago
And your response is akin to someone being concerned about the words of a person from the 1700's reading about cell phones and asking what all the fuss is about, and maybe even stating he does not need one. Why would you care about that? H
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by nameuserc 14y ago
This strategy of collecting email addresses without delivering anything first never seems to die down. The reason is simple: it works. Many people will hand over their email address with no guarantee of anything in return. A shockingly la
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by nameuserc 14y ago
Show me an honest company with a solid service or product and I will be more than willing to support them financially. At the end of the day I think people who work for companies like that feel better about what they're doing than [famous l
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by nameuserc 14y ago
Using Node.js to make "non-blocking http requests" using callbacks and having to reorder stuff after it arrives? Sounds like he had fun playing with Node.js and writing code. But did I read this wrong or is he making several hundred individ
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by nameuserc 14y ago
Ah! Thanks. So if I say "responsive" in relation to a computer, are people now going to think I'm talking about webpage layout? To me, "responsive" means the amount of time between when I issue a command and when the computer has complete
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by nameuserc 14y ago
I save ESC2J to a file and my "cls" is simply another file consisting of cat file1 in my PATH. Only because sometimes printf or some other way to print ESC's might not be available. The idea of starting up X11 so I can start the super-size
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by nameuserc 14y ago
Developers want to pretend you[1] do not exist. "All users are idiots." Maybe the problem is with developers[2], not users. 1. The user who can learn to use vi and AWK. 2. In many cases it is they the developers who can't figure out how t
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by nameuserc 14y ago
Non-interactive is far better than interactive. Faster, more efficient, more secure, less error-prone, less repeated effort. It's less work! But there is an army of UI designers fighting against common sense. I'm sure we'll hear from som
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by nameuserc 14y ago
So if I do this: wget http://example.com/file.flv ; sleep 5; mplayer -cache 8092 file.flv am I "streaming"? In answering that question, does it matter what I do, or only what the guys at example.com are doing? What if my system is diskle
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by nameuserc 14y ago
Assuming what you say were true (i.e., that I "have a problem" with 37Signals), do you "have a problem" with me "having a problem" with that? Do you also sell something people do not need? And does it make you uncomfortable when people who
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by nameuserc 14y ago
It has been said on HN that Xerox got some pre-IPO Apple stock options so it's all good. Yeah right. By all accounts Steve Jobs was a weasel. Of course, all those accounts could be wrong.
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by nameuserc 14y ago
But I'd bet those blue-collar folks would not mind being written about like "startups" get written about. A little hype could do them a lot of good. What makes a company "newsworthy" is a good PR firm!
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by nameuserc 14y ago
Forget what I say. It's just me. "5,000 companies sign up every week." But "keep all project discussions, emails, and stuff in one place" just doesn't draw me in. I don't have a problem with "keeping all project stuff in one place". 3
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by nameuserc 14y ago
Of course there are people working at TC who are not douchebags. Just like there are probably people working at Pool who are not douchebags. But these are not the founders the company nor those who are responsible for setting the standard
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by nameuserc 14y ago
This is a fair point. Journalists are just using available public information. 37Signals' numbers are not public. "Talk is cheap" as they say. I don't disagree with what he is saying in the quotes - that people focus too much on raising m
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by nameuserc 14y ago
Unfortunately this is true. I'm not sure all that many people know where the founder came from, i.e., the type of stuff he was doing before TechCrunch, and the company he worked for - a company responsible for a very large portion of some