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devmachon Google+ Is Going To Mess Up The Internet

Fb has also but the difference is :

* nobody told me "what is right"

* nobody forced me to give my real name.

* nobody kicked me or my friends out becauseof the some funny name or profile picture.

devmachon Google+ Is Going To Mess Up The Internet

Google can be a giant now but it isn't mean that it's invincible. Google isn't innovative since "Gmail", keeps making mistakes (buzz etc) and make people angry. Nowadays people aren't royal to the products and even "normal" users can change their habits (remember icq -> msn transformation)

devmachon Google+ Is Going To Mess Up The Internet

Google isn't the internet and if it fails , it's google's problem not ours( or internet's ?). There is other alternatives to google's services, if one finds the others better than google, he is free to use them. Seriously, just don't use it if you hate it, that's the best response that you can give.

I don't use G+ because of the "Real Name Policy". It's my choice to give my real name or not and Google don't respect my choices. I have FB, e-mail (yay!), blog, skype etc... I have everything to communicate with my friends or with the world ! I don't need some Nazi to give me an advice like "If You Have Something You Don't Want Anyone To Know, Maybe You Shouldn't Be Doing It"....

devmachon Impress.js - a Prezi like implementation using CSS3 3D transformations

As a someone , who tortured with Prezi on academic level : While it's cool, - for the listeners - it's hard to follow, hard to take notes and hard to make connections between slides. It can make your product presentation bearable but if your goal is teach something to someone LaTeX, Ppt etc still beats it.

devmachon How to Survive Your First Year As An Entrepreneur

If a client going to fire you, i'm sure there is a more way than having a conversation in his office. I think in face-to-face conversations there is a always a way to rescue your "relationship" with the client but you got a little chance over the phone or per brief.

ps: i guess you're not in a business with someone who can shoot you in your foot !!

devmachon German authorities sent 440,783 SMS to track citizens w/o their knowledge

"...I ended being asked for a coffee by the agent. I was not worried because I had nothing to hide."

please google : why you shouldn't talk to the police

devmachon Setting up Django + NGinx + Green Unicorn in an Ubuntu EC2 instance

If you use Cloudfoundry.COM you are locked in, it's still in beta and we don't know about pricing model. If you use opensource version (Cloudfoundry.ORG) you still need "server guys".

devmachon Setting up Django + NGinx + Green Unicorn in an Ubuntu EC2 instance

It's not actually a recommendation, Nginx docs says :

"Look, here is our official release under nginx.org and there is some wonderful work from volunteers which you can install development, stable and nightly builds without hassle"

devmachon Setting up Django + NGinx + Green Unicorn in an Ubuntu EC2 instance

* Because i can.

* Because i can understand the technology behind the "magic".

* Because i can understand the technology behind the "magic" and design my system better.

* Because i can understand the technology behind the "magic" and design my system better and if PaaS provider goes out of business i have a chance to survive.

* Like snap said before : i've got the power...

And most important : because i'm a masochist bastard, who has trust problems...

devmachon Setting up Django + NGinx + Green Unicorn in an Ubuntu EC2 instance

Why PPA ? It's maintained by volunteers and there is no connection with "Igor Sysoev". What i'm missing ?

devmachon Bye Daddy: Search who hasn't fled GoDaddy yet

I don't like it :

* SOPA isn't mentioned on the page.

* The reason of " hate " isn't clear. Hating someting just because it's hip is nonsense.

* "Top searched domains list" is useless, you have to list the domains that gave promise but doesn't act.

* Again, in a clear text : It's not about GoDaddy, it's about SOPA.

devmachon Harsh Realities From 500 Startups Founders

Why people such obsessed with running business like playing poker ? If you're puting your everything on the line, i think you are doing something wrong. What's hard with starting small, taking small risks and growing slow but steady ? Starting a business shouldn't be about going crazy, acting like a fool, putting everthing you have on the line and at the end loosing everything.

People please, while you are at the university ,please, visit some (m)ba lesssons. If you don't have this chance, take advices from someone who you trust and runs a business.

devmachon Backbone patterns

i'm using something like that :

SubModel,CollectionSubModel

MainModel { subModelCollection : CollectionSubModel }

ViewSubModel { model: SubModel, collection: MainModel.subModelCollection }

ViewSubModel listens model and collection ( using model.bind() and collection.bind() ). If someting happened, which should inform all submodels i fire an event with a collection.trigger(). Say if i want to hide MainModel, MainModel's View calls model.subModelCollection.trigger('hideParent') before remoing it's "el".

* : i'm sorry if you confused because of my explanation. i tried my best.

devmachon Godaddy's official position on SOPA - Just Posted

> Go Daddy is the world’s largest domain name registrar with more than 50 million domain names under management.

Every time when i read some company's "we are f.ing big you s.ckers" shit, i hate them a lot... Yes you are a big company because of us, the individuals. If you forget it, you have to lose.

devmachon Backbone.js Fundamentals

There was two alternative for me : backbone and knockout. They are both good frameworks ( and serves different goals ).

* With backbone's models and collections, i can organize my application structure better. It's not easy but result is a clean code.

* Backbone's Router is no-brainer.

* Syc allow me to use RESTful JSON requests. Even i'm not using it, it's good to have such an option.

* Data-binding is a plain pain. You have to write your own code but there is always a library that you can use (eg. https://github.com/derickbailey/backbone.modelbinding ).

* I can always read the source code and thanks the comments i can understand most of it. My complain about good and advanced tutorials not because of the laziness, it was because saving time.

devmachon GoDaddy supports SOPA, redditor proposes "Move your Domain Day"

People makes mistakes. I bought some domains from GoDaddy. As they expire i'm transfering them to namecheap.

devmachon Backbone.js Fundamentals

* Majority of the tutorials on the net are just useless. One can't uunderstand how the backbone internals works. We need more advanced tutorials than "Hello World with Backbone" and "Introduction to Backbone"

* Some important gotchas with backbone isn't documented ( or somehow i missed ), one example :

from document :

...

remove view.remove() Convenience function for removing the view from the DOM. Equivalent to calling $(view.el).remove();

...

in views, $(this.el).remove(); removes event bindings and if you call render() of this view again you should call also .delegateEvents(); somewhere in your code.

devmachon Backbone.js Fundamentals

What bugs me about backbone.js :

* Lack of documentation. Every time, when i want to do something more than "todo app", i have to read the source code. Well, it's OK and a programmer has to read the source code to understand whats going on under the hood, but a little bit more good documentation can be really helpful.

* Examples are so simple. In a read world app it's more complicated. I have model ( persons ) and this model has collections ( contact datas, invoices etc. ) to find a way to handle all the mess i spend a weekend and read useless tutorials. In the end i gave up, read source code and my builded app on events. A better example could save my time and if there was a "best practices" guide, i could be sure that i'm on the right track.

devmachon Startup Idea: User Retention as a Service

So true. One more e-mail from the service which i don't care can turn my ignorance to "anger". And yes, there is something called bad marketing.

devmachon Can we stop writing "smart" applications?

Well, language detection "problem" frustrates me a lot, because :

- Everytime i visit google i have to change language

- I might be don't care and use it in german ( or some other language ) but this time the results are different than "English" Google.( Local pages that i don't care and i can't read comes first etc. )

Google should take an action in case of inconsistency. If my ip region and my browser language doesn't match, google can ask me if i want to view google in my browsers language. It costs only a few lines of js code but brings a big satisfaction.

devmachon People of the Internet: we can fix the English language

No we can't : English isn't the mother tongue of all the People of the Internet/World !. If you want your customers, the people who pays your salary, speak perfect English please stick with UK-Market and stop cry.

devmachon How ZeroCater (W2011) got started

A Question : There is a some local Turkish website called yemeksepeti.com ( = food basket/cart. They have english version of their web site if you want to check ) which in service since 2001. One can see the menu and order any meal from the member resaturans and get his food in 10 to 40 minutes without paying extra fee.

If one implements the same system, he can kill the middle man. What prevents other start-ups to do that and how can zerocater protect it's business ?

devmachon [dead]

I really hate these marketing craps.

Just give tech specs and price.If the suppy is so limited, after all items sold-old, take pre-orders for the next party...

devmachon All Maps in China are Transformed

Could it be true also for the some parts of Europe ? When i was in Belgium ( Brugge ) and Germany ( Nürnberg, Berlin ) i used google maps a lot. And i realised some streets, not all, looks longer or shorter than others on the map.

devmachon Ubuntu should zig to Apple’s zag

I think, the problems with the Ubuntu are :

1- They think users are plan stupid so they have to decide what's good for users.

2- They're just copying from Apple, don't think about why apple did like that. This will end up with a mess. When i use my friend's mac, i think "this thing can't be better" and then when i use ubuntu with unity all i can think is "What the fk they were thinking ?"

devmachon Exploiting 'INSERT INTO' SQL Injections Ninja Style

is it works also with prepared statements ? or only with really lame code ?

devmachon Why Chef?

Sorry, my bad. I meant to say "recipes".

devmachon Why Chef?

Is there a something like Foreman[1] for Chef ? Something able to create and spin up new VM and execute receipts after install ( by using just a "web browser" ).

[1]: http://theforeman.org/projects/foreman/wiki/Screencasts

devmachon Awesomium (embeddable browser)

http://code.google.com/p/chromiumembedded/

What's the main difference between this project and awesomium ?

devmachon Isostick: the USB memory stick that thinks it’s an optical drive

So you need 150 different operation systems on your usb and computer ? I'm just fine with creating usb stick with most recent version of os when i need. And i think most people feels the same way...

If i can solve my problem with software and ordinary (=cheap) hardware, why should i pay 10 times more ?