patcito

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by patcito 17y ago
but cellphones may get half of the message only, as it is limited to 140 chars.
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by patcito 17y ago
This process is only slow if your DB is already huge. CouchDB forces you to think your query a bit more before building your DB. To be fair though, try to add an index to a huge SQL database, it will take long too, and sql indexes are neede
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by patcito 17y ago
> So, you have an article with an id of 5. What if you want to look up the articles by author 9? You're just unable. Yes you can, at least in CouchDB, just create a view that emits the author id and you're done.
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by patcito 17y ago
As programmer, something that might help more than a cover letter or a résumé is open source code you wrote.
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by patcito 17y ago
I've been using Firefox 3.5 and it's fast and hasn't crashed at all unlike Opera which crashed every once in a while here on Ubuntu Karmic.
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by patcito 17y ago
> Successful proprietary software -- the ones you use, the ones you love, the ones you have heard of -- are the exception. Projects like this are the rule. FTFY. In other words, most software suck and fail, open source or not, welcome t
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by patcito 17y ago
> I don't get it. Why is the GNU Project developing their own C# implementation but is seemingly anti-Mono? Did you read the article? Having a free C# implementation is important because it allows people to run their C# program on free
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by patcito 17y ago
Because C is so old that all those patents have already expired?
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by patcito 17y ago
Only if the sites are hosted in Iran.
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by patcito 17y ago
Doesn't that make Fry kind of a hypocrite? http://www.gnu.org/fry/
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by patcito 17y ago
You can use that now http://webchat.freenode.net/
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by patcito 17y ago
Same here http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=665661
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by patcito 17y ago
You can use that instead http://webchat.freenode.net/
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by patcito 17y ago
http://webchat.freenode.net/ lightweight, minimalist, opensource, fast, ad free, I love it already.
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by patcito 17y ago
They say they are trying to respect the NPAPI spec, so it should work with any browser that works with NPAPI that is to say firefox, webkit, opera etc except IE I guess (not sure).
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by patcito 17y ago
Most web browsers already have spell checking.
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by patcito 17y ago
Yahoo first search engine was google embedded into yahoo. Before that, yahoo was just a searchable directory of websites. Later yahoo switched to their own search engine ouverture.
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by patcito 17y ago
> Straight out of the engineering department at blueTunes, try our next generation uploader (patent pending) seriously??
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by patcito 17y ago
Wikipedia is one of the main source of data for Wolfram Alpha, so killing Wikipedia would make Wolfram suck if not die.
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by patcito 17y ago
That's only for the client though, not for the server.
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by patcito 17y ago
MySpace had 20-30x the number of users that Facebook did not so long ago.
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by patcito 17y ago
> Google only gets away from by using some very clever image recognition algorithms. Not sure about that, they check the site the picture is hosted on.
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by patcito 17y ago
> You obviously knew that would happen and you went on doing it anyway, so you fit into the category of people I'm talking about here. Or maybe he just doesn't care what people think on this matter.
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by patcito 17y ago
"Third, WebKit gets the prize for our favorite JS engine (not surprising with all the Cocoa love being shown)" Why? WebKit doesn't have much to do with cocoa.
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by patcito 17y ago
But will it have good support for w3c standards and a fast JS vm?
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by patcito 17y ago
Thanks.
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by patcito 17y ago
So where is the source?