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deleoon The Greatest Running Shoe Never Sold

Way to thick sole to be any good. That certainly doesn't good form running easy.

deleoon Is That Pinterest? Nope, No It’s Not

Not true, they're playing hard to get. They're not open for everybody, although, sure, the limit isn't geographical

deleoon Is That Pinterest? Nope, No It’s Not

If Pinterest wouldn't be so slow (like most US startups) to open up to the whole world. I signed up a few months ago and still haven't got my access.

This wouldn't solve the problem but for sure the effectiveness of these German guys "creations" would be reduced.

deleoon Unity is the end of Ubuntu

I think Unity is useless because these kind of inexperienced users almost don't exist anymore. Everybody got used to the "ugly" interface made of contextual menu and "hard" to adjust settings and those who didn't could live with sensible defaults that could always be overridden.

But with Unity it's like if they went out there to replace QWERTY keyboards with friendlier layouts without paying attention that none of the current users already got so used to the on-purpose-unfriendly layout you're actually slowing them down now.

deleoon European startups have been feeling the cash crunch for a long time

There's no VC or even VC mentality, especially in Italy. Partly it's due to the fact that it's more difficult to make it in a market that is segmented by language barriers, whereas in US you have a critical mass of customers that speak the same language. On the other hand you'll have more competition in US: but that's probably because VC there throw money at anything that moves.

deleoon Italian Wikipedia shut down

Agree, but maybe we should just outsource it to normal people: the kind of people that haven't got their tentacles around everything that happened in the last 50 years! Like these http://www.beppegrillo.it/movimento/ although the outsourcing idea isn't half bad as long as they're not all former bankers! :)

deleoon Italian Wikipedia shut down

Only the President can send him home...

deleoon Italian Wikipedia shut down

I'd like to see the Scandinavian countries dealing with the mafia... no, not the one you see in movies that cuts horses' heads, but the one that blows up motorways.

deleoon Node.js has jumped the shark

Another boring, silly "jumping the shark" post

deleoon Node.js is Cancer

If I was Yahoo I'd think twice before adopting something like Node.js, but if you're a little guy that wants to scale on the cheap and is willing to take risks because the alternative simply won't work for what you're trying to do, then just use Node.js. Django, PHP, Rails with Apache in front of them aren't designed to handle thousands of persistent connections and it would be far more expensive to scale the traditional web-stacks to handle them.

As some Joyent guy was saying there's real resources behind Node.js, it isn't just a cool hack made by some promising Jedi but it needs to fit your use-case. If you're designing a real-time web app and you have a limited budget then go for it, I don't think there's anything better out there now (except for Tornado, Twisted, which is just a matter of taste) unless you're Yahoo, Google, etc...

deleoon Bada Bing, Bada Boom: Culture inside Bing

Google instant is good for tablets/phones, not for desktop computers. Too bad they rolled it out to everybody I don't like it too much either, but can live with it.

deleoon Break Google

Looks like the syntax of Google's CTemplate someone posted today: http://code.google.com/p/google-ctemplate/

deleoon Microsoft has Abandoned Silverlight and All Other Plugins

Funny, I've been working on a Sharepoint project the last two months. This could have been a 3 man-day PHP/MySQL job yet it required 1 Project Manager and 2 devs (one full-time, 1 part-time) 2 months of work! The reason it took so long is that we couldn't touch code (think paranoid Fortune 50 company).

And then they talk of TCO and miss profits: they throw money down the drain, what do they expect?

deleoon Ask HN: My side project. Is it useful?

Good one! Like the idea. The UI needs some hard thinking but for a prototype it's very good. If you had a vision to actually make this happen and include all other transport options I think you wouldn't have too much trouble finding someone to throw money your way.

deleoon Joel Spolsky Launches Trello - Organize Anything Together

Going for Basecamp's jugular :)

deleoon MongoDB 2.0 Released

A bump like that should be for backward incompatible changes but it actually looks like a makeover to appeal more to serious biz customers that would have trouble getting on to a 1.0 technology.

deleoon Facebook First Half Revenue Hits $1.6 Billion

Why would you?

Well, for the same reason people already do it on vkontakte.ru:

- it's easy

- if you go fullscreen it doesn't matter where you're streaming from

- it lets you discover stuff you might like (what's your friend watching, etc...)

deleoon Google to Android Developers: 'Do Not Develop in the Open'

C'mon Google, let us develop with Go or Python, I hate Java with the passion!

deleoon Facebook First Half Revenue Hits $1.6 Billion

Facebook could cannibalize all of these markets you mention: nothing prevents them from turning it into a marketplace of new/used stuff and a platform to watch movies on or sell songs. Have a look at the (pirate friendly) Russian vkontakte.ru: whole american TV series and movies can be watched there.

deleoon Coffee & Power: Buy and Sell Small Jobs

I think it will work regardless, most of the gigs will just be done remotely.

deleoon Coffee & Power: Buy and Sell Small Jobs

Ugly name! But good idea trying to eat fiverr's lunch.

deleoon Why I'm (Finally) Switching to CoffeeScript

So well, then you write something in CoffeeScript, "compile" it to Javascript and run it in Node.js? Ugly dev cycle, maybe worth hooking to Eclipse.

deleoon Why I'm (Finally) Switching to CoffeeScript

And how will Node interpret it?

deleoon Why I'm (Finally) Switching to CoffeeScript

No I think you are confused. That is Node.js syntax. Ok now show me how you open a file on the filesystem in CoffeeScript then.

deleoon Why I'm (Finally) Switching to CoffeeScript

OT question. How healthy is the Twisted ecosystem these days? Besides it being stable and been around for years, how does the post-divmod horizon looking? Is the whole stack still being maintained?

deleoon Why I'm (Finally) Switching to CoffeeScript

Well but this isn't written in CoffeeScript. This is what I was saying: CoffeeScript can work alongside Node.js but can't access the filesystem. It might be good in its own right for DOM scripting and such but it doesn't open any more doors than Javascript.

deleoon Why I'm (Finally) Switching to CoffeeScript

So how do you write a basic web server in CoffeeScript?

deleoon Why I'm (Finally) Switching to CoffeeScript

CoffeeScript is interesting, but to be more so it shouldn't be limited to browser scripting. Until it doesn't become more general purpose i'll just stick to Python or Node.js

deleoon Linus Torvalds writes pretty awesome commit messages

How long before he will rewrite and window and widgets library?

deleoon Python Tools for Visual Studio

I use Python on Windows for Django developement. Since I'm need to use other Win based software for work I use it also as my dev station. Can't complain, Windows does the job and Python doesn't care. One of the advantages of Python being x-platform. I find that most people that use Linux for dev, then emulate Windows for something, so I just stick to Win. This might change in Oct when Ubuntu 11.10 comes out, but probably now. Win has served me always very well.