ajitk | 13 years ago | on: Light Table 0.4 released
This is awesome! I haven't used an IDE for a long time now but LT has shown enough to convince me to use one.
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ajitk | 13 years ago | on: Yahoo shuts down six products
Not pertinent to the discussion, but why does some of the links use http://google.com/url?q= prefix for redirecting URLs? Any advantage of doing so instead of directly linking to the posts?
ajitk | 13 years ago | on: Pithy.js - An internal DSL for generating HTML in JavaScript
I prefer https://github.com/jed/domo to create DOM elements in browser. Its output is a real DOM element whereas in pithy.js, its string.
ajitk | 13 years ago | on: Standups are Not Poisonous
> This puts less emphasis on "looking useful" as individuals and more on championing tasks to see their completion.
This is a very good approach. Separating task and people is key to getting things done. When things are getting tough for an individual, the team can rally behind.
ajitk | 13 years ago | on: Scientists Inject Human Brain Cells Into Mice, Make Them Smarter
Aren't they sentient? They are able to perceive and feel things.
ajitk | 13 years ago | on: Contest: Hack my bitcoins and keep them
I was expecting a twist in the plot. :)
ajitk | 13 years ago | on: Tata Introduces Flatpack Nano House: 215 Square Feet For $720
The attribution text (partially visible) suggests the source to be CarAdvice.com. Interestingly, the image on attributed caradvice.com article has same image as the one in the linked article. CarAdvice in turn seems to have taken image from another blog[1] (as linked in the article) and added the attribution.
[1]http://blog.miragestudio7.com/affordable-mass-housing-in-ind...
ajitk | 13 years ago | on: VPN access being disabled in China
VPN and SSH[1] have been means of evasion. But there have been anecdotal evidence of "unstable" VPN[2] and SSH connections before.
[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Firewall_of_China [2] http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2011/may/13/china-crack...
ajitk | 13 years ago | on: Rendering templates obsolete
I like it. Saw a similar approach in Firebug's domplate. dom-o looks cleaner.
I really like the pitch to "Reduce the number of moving parts" at the cost of small learning curve.
ajitk | 13 years ago | on: How and why we switched to Amazon EC2
I too have found quite a few usable offers from lowendbox.com (LEB) and lowendtalk.com (LET). Searching the websites bring up quite a few attractive deals.
However it may be tricky to pick a good host. It is usually a good idea to look for past experiences before signing up. The community is active and helps make that decision: http://www.lowendtalk.com/discussion/5136/best-leb-host-q3-2...
ajitk | 13 years ago | on: How and why we switched to Amazon EC2
That is true. Amazon has been in cloud hosting space for a long time to cover almost all areas required to run a server. I am rooting for competitors though who could offer more services. That should bring interesting services and drive down cost even further.
ajitk | 13 years ago | on: How and why we switched to Amazon EC2
Recently stumbled upon very competitively priced DigitalOcean: https://www.digitalocean.com/price-comparison-chart
They have APIs to manage on-demand instances as well.
ajitk | 13 years ago | on: Backbone UI
I wonder why they choose not to use native input element for a checkbox. Was it for a consistent visual theme?
Using custom widgets instead of native often leads to usability issues. In this case, when the a checkbox gains focus, a SPACE BAR scrolls the page instead of toggling its state.
ajitk | 13 years ago | on: South Korea bans virtual item trading & bots
There was a period in 1920s during which alcohol was banned in US. It was based on morality of the time. This shows that authorities can decide to ban something based on morality of the time irrespective of how deep the association of the subject/object is with our culture.
In game economy is nascent but becoming more complex every day. It required Valve to hire an economist. It may have been a novelty. But for how long?
> Games cannot really go "underground" though.
I meant the economy will go underground to meet the demand of in game favors.
ajitk | 13 years ago | on: South Korea bans virtual item trading & bots
Recently read http://blogs.valvesoftware.com/economics/it-all-began-with-a... where Yanis Varoufakis, an economist, is studying in-game economies. And now this where South Korea bans trading virtual goods since "The main purpose of the games is for entertainment... item farming for commercial gain is a “serious hindrance” to a “healthy gaming culture”".
Isn't it same as banning sale of alcohols/drugs since they can be harmful? It will push the activity to go underground.
ajitk | 13 years ago | on: Chinese RFC proposes separate, independent, national internets and DNS roots
From the draft:
> ...network A, B and ... are AIP networks; Domain node "www.yahoo.com" in network B is expressed as "www.yahoo.com.B" for its external domain name.
It mean that www.yahoo.com can co-exist in AIPs A and B. The "external domain names" will be www.yahoo.com.A abd www.yahoo.com.B. Would HTML documents be linked using local names or external names? Local only names are not going to work across APIs unless www.yahoo.com maintains same document hierarchy in all of them!
ajitk | 13 years ago | on: Display 100 Hello World Without Using Loops
On the contrary, wouldn't OP's solution be an example of more generalized implementation of multiplication? I can see that it is similar to (X * 2) where X defines behavior of __mul__.
Yes, there is chance that arbitrary objects can provide different semantics for __mul__. It would be true for any language.
ajitk | 13 years ago | on: The trouble with Checked Exceptions (C# architect)
Now that you you mention labels, I see the similarity to C. I might have been influenced by OP's reference to use indentation to make code more readable instead of using braces.
ajitk | 13 years ago | on: The trouble with Checked Exceptions (C# architect)
My mind parsed the first code block as a mix of Python and C. IMO, the later would be more readable since it involves parsing only one rule that the eye is already used.
ajitk | 14 years ago | on: Why I switched to Spine.js
What I like more about Backbone is loose that it provides loosely coupled small components. Small components that work well independently. This is a great feature. It makes it easier to adapt them according to an application's model/architecture. To top it off, this has encouraged developers to build a rich ecosystem of plugins.