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NYC here, and I am really sick of hearing about this. I just don't care anymore.

>In the unlikely case I end up working a day-job for the rest of my life Statistically, that's an incorrect statement despite the best wishes of all present. You also failed to pre…

Please breed. A lot.

The lack of good debugging tools continually stymies me.

We don't do a lot of flashy animations or anything like that at my place of employment, so generally it's a, "get it working, get it working reliably" priority order. Server-side j…

I'm a back-end programmer by day who dreams of doing embedded work. Hacking the DOM in js is not my specialty. That said, I've hacked around with node.js.

I work as a django/python programmer by day, although I do my fair share of front-end work (mostly template building/cleaning and ajax/javascript/jquery.) Although I've been progra…

I continue to get better, and I'm almost to the 4 year mark. I've improved more in the last year than I did in my second year. (First year programming professionally remains the la…

Actually, I talked to him about librelist and Lamson in an email exchange awhile back. Cool guy. I don't totally grasp his reasons for moving from rails to python other than cultur…

Neither, I just take lumps and work out of them. There's no real trend.

COOL. Too bad I work in Python at home and work. Balls. :| Rubyists always get the pretty toys.

Given enough human effort and turing completeness you can make anything with anything. Everything is feasibility and pain.

They're didn't really write a web app framework in brainfuck, they just plugged a PHP interpreter of brainfuck into a module for apache. I mean, yeah, you can make web pages, but t…

Am I the only one tired of mathematical tests? I'd rather see a test comparing the relative speed and scalability of various web app implementations. And don't give me that line ab…

We aren't really trying to get YCNews embroiled in environmental politics are we? Come now. I'd rather read about A/B testing on Erlang.

An encrypted tunnel that isn't initiated at the database level should work fine. Addendum: I'm more than a little puzzled that someone would be aware that a particular nosql databa…

This is marketing trash. Life is too short, don't watch.

>Maverick, haha, I'm far from it. Just tired of the restrictions on computing devices I buy. Me too, I dream of computers that are designed from the ground up to be accessible to t…

This faux disgruntled move from Apple to Android trend is kind of sad. They're showing it off and blogging it like it makes them a 'maverick' when in fact it's just a "Grass Greene…

Could someone please explain this (joke?) to me?

It would certainly make sense to do compression while it's stored server-side in RAM if they're RAM capacity limited.

Well, I guess for their scale, CPU-limiting factors would make compression not worthwhile. That said, for more common scaling issues, I think compression would be a huge win, espec…

Am I the only one wondering why facebook hasn't implemented a compression backend into memcache much like Reiser4 and ZFS has done? They've made it very clear that they're RAM limi…

>preverbal proverbial

Am I the only person in NYC rolling their eyes at this continual barrage of "IN NYC IT RAINS MANNA FROM THE SKY!" ?