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by pork 12y ago
Note: this Kiva is not the San Francisco brand of medical cannabis chocolate confections.
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by pork 13y ago
Don't post garbage on Hacker News.
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by pork 13y ago
Very interesting! I've often thought that Javascript could actually be a pretty language with some syntactic sugar. It'd be even more interesting if you could run it client-side without preprocessing an sjs file into js first, sor
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by pork 13y ago
Hmmm. Perhaps it's time to lay off the bong a bit?
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by pork 13y ago
No -- Facebook's PHP code is translated to C++ by HipHop and compiled into a monolithic binary, and Cassandra has largely been deprecated in favor of HBase.
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by pork 13y ago
Same on Chrome/Linux. Looks like you're using push/popState slightly incorrectly. To the parent: if you long-click the back button, you can jump to an arbitrary point in your history.
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by pork 13y ago
Yes, npm installs to a node_modules/ subdirectory. GP is off the mark. It's possible that people mistakenly use sudo with npm because the syntax is reminiscent of apt. This is absolutely not necessary.
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by pork 13y ago
Sigh...this is a PR release. Flagged.
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by pork 14y ago
> "Both founders (Andy and Jessica) studied computer science before starting the company, and they wrote most of the initial code until product launch." > - Ok, I will be dealing with a lot technical debt. This made me laugh, becau
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by pork 14y ago
No. Both the "safe" and "unsafe" versions are asynchronous. The safe version waits for a response from the server before invoking a callback. The unsafe version does not, but that doesn't make it synchronous -- the operation is still potent
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by pork 14y ago
I think there's a vast sea between "people who don't know how to use email" and "computer literate", and it's disingenuous to make that a false dichotomy. There's a large population of people within biopharma, manufacturing, tech, and finan
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by pork 14y ago
What an unfortunate comment/comparison by you. http://updates.jalopnik.com/post/34669789863/more-than-a-doz...
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by pork 14y ago
Does this remind anyone else of Limbo, the monochrome video game?
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by pork 14y ago
I'm sorry, do you mean "paycut" or is this some sort of idiom I'm not familiar with? What does hair have to do with it?
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by pork 14y ago
He was too Mormon?
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by pork 14y ago
What you can surmise from that is that they've both probably taken some acid in their lifetimes. If Jobs were alive and younger, he too would probably have been at Burning Man, place of many a revelation to the technologically inclined.
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by pork 14y ago
OT, but that is one hell of a hierarchical URL
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by pork 14y ago
Meh, this could have been funnier. Startup names can border on the absurd, and it's good to lighten up a little. If people can get all worked up about "ipad", then some free association on "BufferBox" and "Everyday.me" before launch might b
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by pork 14y ago
In support of your point, I remember a time not so long ago when phones ringing in movie theaters were not unheard of. That hasn't happened to me in recent memory, and I go to the movies a lot.
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by pork 14y ago
As someone else commented, your title is a bit misleading. Perhaps try the same analysis for the bottom or a random subset of 300 apps and see what comes out. Dataporn can be nice, but you should be a little more rigorous with your statemen
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by pork 14y ago
Don't forget the nicer UI at litlet.com
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by pork 14y ago
The bravado comes from an ego and pride in ones self worth, not from Jobs' keynotes.
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by pork 14y ago
I was referring to your mention of "permanently backed up", i.e., stale demographic information, whose value decreases predictably with time. While FB is in business, you're spot on.
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by pork 14y ago
The thing about permanently backed up demographic info though: it changes. My age, for example, changes every year. My location changes every few years. My interests change. Hell, even gender changes.
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by pork 14y ago
> (I understand it also can be "fully durable" but it is not by default due to speed concerns) Just a little addendum: MongoDB has been "durable by default" since v1.7 I believe (current: 2.0.6).
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Free stream of live San Francisco police radio set to ambient music(somafm.com)
5 points by pork 14y ago|1 comments
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by pork 14y ago
Facebook doesn't have R&D anywhere, not even in the US
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by pork 14y ago
What exactly are you offering here -- a scraping and archival service? I'm presuming you're claiming "real-time" because Facebook page insights are already real-time [1], and you periodically scrape and archive that data [2]? [1] http://te
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by pork 14y ago
you might consider going back to slashdot. i didn't miss his point at all, try reading my comment again, but this time, try to read the statement "but Javascript isn't assembly" a little less literally.
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by pork 14y ago
Except Javascript isn't assembly, no matter how much the author would like to think so. It's a reasonably well featured, multi-paradigm high-level language.

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