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This is pretty cool. I usually had to add a little more context to get the correct result though. It would be nice to see the top ten results, maybe with a relevance score. It woul…

I found this odd as well, especially given how competing services (e.g. SoftLayer) so often cite the performance of dedicated servers as their competitive advantage over AWS.

I'm actually pretty amazed at the diversity, and how few of these frameworks I'm familiar with.

> It is not expected that the performance of compiled applications will ever rival 'v8'. JavaScript is an awful language for static compilation - it almost seems designed to foil a…

Just to clarify: I'm the OP, not the Author.

This. The Author pulled a serious coup here, translating an aborted business into a personal profile piece in a national paper.

The article is interesting and relevant, even if its premise is flawed. It certainly merits discussion, critical as it may be.

Title is from the article; I am not the author.

Nice work. I've built roughly half of this before, but your API is cleaner and the docs really tie it together.

These are all beautiful illustrations, but they don't feel iconic to me. Granted, there is a spectrum when it comes to detail, but isn't the purpose of an icon to distill an idea t…

There was a time when you could say the same about street view. Now they're working on the bottom of the ocean.

"However, we continued our attempts at possibly making our product work but by mid-February, we realized that we were grinding through our days. Grinding is okay and sometimes nece…

Even better: use data from your own project management (or at least pretend you're using it internally).

Frameworks are great for startups. Before market fit, they make it easy to quickly build (and tear down) functionality. Afterwards, they make it easy to integrate new members into …

Thanks, that's what I was looking for.

"Convenient proxy factory bean superclass for proxy factory beans that create only singletons."

I was trained in Java, but I never had to do any Big Enterprise Java coding. Can anyone summarize why and when this style of development began?

This is great news for server-side tex rendering. Valiant efforts on behalf of projects like svgtex ( https://github.com/agrbin/svgtex ) notwithstanding, MathJax is abysmal for pre…