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but cellphones may get half of the message only, as it is limited to 140 chars.

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 SQ…

> 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…

As programmer, something that might help more than a cover letter or a résumé is open source code you wrote.

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.

> 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, mo…

> 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 b…

Because C is so old that all those patents have already expired?

Only if the sites are hosted in Iran.

Doesn't that make Fry kind of a hypocrite? http://www.gnu.org/fry/

You can use that now http://webchat.freenode.net/

Same here http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=665661

You can use that instead http://webchat.freenode.net/

http://webchat.freenode.net/ lightweight, minimalist, opensource, fast, ad free, I love it already.

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).…

Most web browsers already have spell checking.

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.…

> Straight out of the engineering department at blueTunes, try our next generation uploader (patent pending) seriously??

Wikipedia is one of the main source of data for Wolfram Alpha, so killing Wikipedia would make Wolfram suck if not die.

That's only for the client though, not for the server.

MySpace had 20-30x the number of users that Facebook did not so long 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.

> 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 thi…

"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.

But will it have good support for w3c standards and a fast JS vm?