willarson

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by willarson 19y ago
EC2 could help avoid the cost of having dedicated servers to handle the potentially massive (and more likely extremely small) traffic from FaceBook. This wouldn't be too hard, just have one dedicated server and a box running a load balancer
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by willarson 19y ago
This doesn't have anything to do with Lisp. Depending on what they view as fulfilling, some people veer away from difficult problems regardless of the language they are writing in. Working in a "more fun" language like Lisp doesn't make you
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by willarson 19y ago
Web development requires small slices of dozens of skills. You need to be able to design web-pages (CSS, HTML, a personal design aesthetic). You need to be able to interface between your pages and your server (web frameworks ease the pain o
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by willarson 19y ago
Pretty disheartening story to read. One of the greatest frustrations with open source is that it, like all other human enterprises, eventually becomes a matter of politics. Reading the article it seems like the requirements of desktops and
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by willarson 19y ago
I am a slightly uncomfortable about all my data automatically being backed up over the internet, and also being accessible to me anywhere I go via the internet. This seems like a real potential security hole. Its great that they are focusin
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by willarson 19y ago
It seems like the biggest problem is that entered the financing company without a clear relationship defined, and that lack of definition seems like it created an abysmal working environment. I have to admit I am confused how the two develo
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by willarson 19y ago
I agree that seems kind of stiff, especially for a smaller company that is developing for the web. Getting Real is a quick (and free to read online) book by 37signals that helps focus on a very light development process http://getreal.37si
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by willarson 19y ago
Solving that test is indeed pretty simple, I think its O(n^2) give or take. Even if it was n^3 the value of n is so low it isn't restrictive. The benefit is that it is relatively uncommon (not being targeted), and it is more difficult than
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by willarson 19y ago
Personally I was waiting out for Enron-Healthcare. Oh wait. Maybe both systems can fail catastrophically. ;)
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by willarson 19y ago
Good point. I think even in America that most people are uncomfortable when they say the free market will lead to the best/optimal/most efficient solutions. Its just they are even more uncomfortable to say that a big government will. Then
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by willarson 19y ago
Interesting, and good, ideas. I think they could be defeated by a well designed spam bot, but most (if not all) currently used techniques could as well. I haven't used a screen reader, nor have I looked at their source code, but it did mak
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by willarson 19y ago
Although often not considered, the greatest flaw of captchas is they make some functionality unavailable for disabled web users (audio captcha for the deaf, standard distortion captchas for those with poor eyesight, flash captchas will also
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by willarson 19y ago
Allow me to introduce you to my corollary to Greenspun's Tenth Rule: "Any sufficiently complicated Scheme or Lisp program contains an ad hoc, informally-specified, bug-ridden, slow implementation of half of object orientation."
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by willarson 19y ago
Well, server optimization has been my primary hobby for the past month, and I'd like to make some clarifications about a few things the article says. Saying that Lighttpd supports "CGI scripts, Ruby on Rails, Pylons, TurboGears, Django, Qui
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by willarson 19y ago
The Muslims would be the ones religiously discriminating against Google. Allowing dogs at the workplace is a secular decision, viewing them as profane is a religious ones. This argument is without legal grounds. Restaurants serve food that
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by willarson 19y ago
First, just because most Muslims don't like being around dogs doesn't automatically indicate that there is a problem with Google's policy. People that don't like being around dogs will place a lower value upon working at Google. People who
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by willarson 19y ago
Your argument is based your intuitive view on the comparable reliability of dogs and people. It is your personal opinion that dogs are less predictable than people. Personally I find your opinion to be troubling, how can a much simpler crea
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by willarson 19y ago
Religious acceptance is a two-way street. Demanding that other religions accept your religious tenants is bigotry. As a world with diverse conflicting religions we have to remember that our relationship with a higher power (or lack thereof)
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by willarson 19y ago
Normally when you try to make a point using reduction to absurdity you jump straight to nuclear missiles: i.e. "How is this different from allowing people to bring nuclear missiles to work that they may point at you occasionally?" Unfortuna
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by willarson 19y ago
Well, thank you for keeping the comment neutral, I can go salvage my pride somewhere now. :)
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by willarson 19y ago
I think your statement implies that you don't know what function pointers are. :/
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by willarson 19y ago
Sounds like you have a fun opportunity lined up. I would personally try to broaden your message some. Kids get told what they should do all the time. I would tell them that one of life's true joys is to find something you love and to spend
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by willarson 19y ago
Some interesting ideas here. Most of them I tried to implement in my blog when I redesigned it recently, but I had never considered having an optional third panel that disappears once the screen size decreases past a certain point. Persona
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by willarson 19y ago
I think the important question is "why are they using C++/Java?" If they are using them for efficiency reasons, then this may be a case prematurely optimization, and they may not like the tools either, but feel trapped into using them. On
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by willarson 19y ago
"Could be done in a handful of days" is the stock response to web applications these days. On one hand its mostly true (its easy to get the majority of functionality working), but its also a bit of bravado: raw functionality and a polished
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by willarson 19y ago
Unfortunately it seems that Xinu's site is down at this point. I tried Popuri just now and they both seem like mashups of screenscraping/public api content. Not too hard to do, but still interesting. Both of these sites seem somewhat paras
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by willarson 19y ago
You're ignoring what I am saying, seemingly because you are focused on mocking me. As such I'll make a final attempt to explain myself, but it seems likely that communication will be thwarted yet again. There was solid and easily locatable
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by willarson 19y ago
As for the blog it was having a brief issue with psycopg2, apache, and python eggs... mutter . I'm still learning the sys admin side of things (but it is fixed now). In general it has been stable... (Apache2, Lighttpd for serving media, me
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by willarson 19y ago
"The personal information you provide may be used for such purposes as responding to your requests for certain products and services, customizing the advertising and content you see, and communicating with you about specials, sales offers a
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by willarson 19y ago
As a quick preface, I usually think its much easier to have a coherent conversation when we actually reply to the comment we referring to, otherwise it won't be listed in the threads section and will easily go unseen. "Moreover, they will

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