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pretty neat. but what happens to OS level abstractions like the file system, sockets, ect?

I played an identical game a few years ago. Someone went ahead and bid $100 for the $20. Models work fine as long as "rational" behavior is a worthwhile assumption.

link to the paper (PDF) - http://www.eecs.berkeley.edu/Pubs/TechRpts/2009/EECS-2009-13...

That is the first thing I noticed also. the pricing is non-trivial to. $60 for 1k/day requests? damn

The central thesis of the post “Optimizing for your software project becoming big is the same as optimizing a car to hit a rock wall - you are optimizing for failure” is garbage.

I can't imagine any sane engineer not realizing that writing say an operating system is on a different level of magnitude than writing some HTML peppered in with a little Javascript.

Edit:

"This is the reason I like agile. It emphasizes small, working pieces all the time. If you work with code this way, you can’t really become big. Instead, your project will be forced to be modularized and divided into smaller, more logical components that are highly cohesive and decoupled from each other."

Using Agile really doesn't guarantee you any of this. You're still very free to abandon separation of concerns and end up with a tightly coupled mess.

so couldn't you then take this and then target AS3 to say native x86 code, bypassing the Flash VM entirely?

walmart style inventory management / analytics for mom n pop size stores

I'm inherently weary of anyone who claims that dynamic languages with loose types are the end all be all.

I can only speak from experience with PHP, but at some point your app+framework is just so big that I've almost wanted to sacrifice some development time for a little type safety. It really sucks not having a guarantee that somefunction() will always return an array of some object.

Or even worse, taking 5-10 mins to wade through library code to figure out what to call obscure_helper_function() with.

try{ somecode(); }catch(Exception ex){ // eh this will NEVER happen }

(12) General Devices for Lowering Morale and Creating Confusion

(e) Act stupid.

-clearly why we won the war

can you shoot up a link to the CAP paradox?

It's cool because the b-trees are spanning several servers in a cluster. Presumably this would make increasing capacity transparent to client applications because you could just add more database machines while still connecting to a single "instance" of the server.

No more replication. No more sharding.

probably true for a lot of places http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sneakernet

err - Bad Ass Mother Fucker (BAMF)

agreed. you're welcome to crash at our pad in Boston as well.

Eclipse for Java. Zend Studio (built on Eclipse) for PHP/Javascript

Extremely interesting. Last March I actually tried to switch the name on an American Airlines ticket and the agent on the phone informed that it was impossible to switch the name on a ticket. She went so far as to claim the computer system didn't even support name changes. I called her out on that and then she told me that federal law prohibits name changes on tickets.

Assuming this article is valid - how would an airline even know that the name on the ticket doesn't match if I refuse to produce ID? (it was a domestic flight so no passport)

Valid point. You'd probably have to hand inspect the generated ASM to make sure the compiler didn't really dick something up.

Also, with the optimizations on modern chipsets it might not be immediately obvious which implementation will actually run faster.

We're by Tufts in Somerville, MA. You can get a pretty reasonable place for 600-700, assuming roommates aren't an issue. About a 5 minute walk to Davis Square and then a hop and a skip to either Harvard or MIT.

* in Photoshop - "save for web" and let it figure out what it thinks is optimal

* YSlow for Firebug to see if anything is really loading slowly / being gross

* Like you mentioned, YUI Compressor to minify/compress CSS and JS

* We use Symfony so the Symfony dev toolbar to profile slow SQL queries and generally see what is causing pages to render slowly.

* Lately, Firebug's NET panel to monitor what requests are taking the most time.

to much recursion!

Hmm it doesn't really count but JBoss is open source and has paid developers. jQuery UI is maintained by a consulting group. Firefox's core developers are paid. I'm pretty sure there are paid contributors on Hadoop and Lucene.

And lets not forget Rails....

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Eclipse has the JDT package which gives you access to the parser that Eclipse uses internally.

Live! search could do these types of calculations for sometime. It could even handle solving quadratics.

Interesting. I wonder how it deals with library dependencies and the like.

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it's been awhile since I played with Mindstorm but I remember that you could write the apps in C++ and then target the Mindstorm platform.

presumably you'd be able to set this up in Linux but don't quote me on that.

you could probably write a Greasemonkey script to integrate other search results into one view (ie mix in Bing results into Google results ect)

Bears more than a passing similarity to Greasemonkey (which is awesome). Looks like it would let you do things in that gray area between stuff Greasemonkey can do and stuff you really don't want to start messing around with XUL to do.

My big gripe with Firefox extension development was that getting started there were like 20 different source files and a dozen configuration files just to get something on the screen. With that said, the extension API is pretty robust and lets you play pretty deep into the core of FF.