budwin's comments

budwin | 11 years ago | on: We have the potential to solve the biggest problems of today

Building Yo is not a hard problem.

budwin | 12 years ago | on: Show HN: People Food - $7 Office Lunches for Hungry Startups

What a wonderful idea. Just FYI, I went to share this on facebook, and the thumbnail was white on white. You might want to put a few metadata tags in there.

budwin | 14 years ago | on: Facebook Disconnect

Just as an FYI, disconnect causes a number of login problems on a few of said sites rendering them unusable.

budwin | 15 years ago | on: Myths About Introverts

let's please just celebrate our differences rather than tear each other down. This is a real insult to anyone who doesn't consider themselves introverted...

budwin | 15 years ago | on: Facebook open sources its servers and data centers

This is a great talent acquisition play.

budwin | 15 years ago | on: WebOS 3.0 SDK

> "One of the MBAs gets in the way, makes a decision he has no place making, and hands one of HP's competitors a major competitive advantage."

This is kind of mean spirited. Why hate on the MBAs?

budwin | 15 years ago | on: Who is Using Node.js And Why? Yammer, Bocoup, Proxlet and Yahoo

I've used Node.js to power a little "social doodling" pet project I made: http://letsdrawit.com and I find it a useful way to think about concurrency because there are certain types of race conditions you don't have to consider (for example any critical regions in memory)

It's extremely useful for the "evented" part, but I get the sensation of using node for hosting webpages might be overkill and not the appropriate tool. Instead, I've got the node.js core proxied behind an nginx server hosting static files and ruby rack (for when dynamic content is necessary).

Does anyone see an advantage of using Node to host templated webpages?

budwin | 15 years ago | on: In praise of Go or "Why I moved from Python and C++ to Go"

"- It is compiled into machine code (no interpreter, unlike Python)."

anyone have any kind of measure on how bytecode compares to machine code these days? (most "interpreted" languages have a hidden compile step these days). I understand that this question is largely subjective to the runtime and the task being executed.

budwin | 15 years ago | on: Why Django Sucks, and How we Can Fix it [slides]

I really feel what they said about the community and core developers:

Reading the correspondence on the following bug really turned me off to the project. http://code.djangoproject.com/ticket/5172.

Specifically: "Please do not reopen a ticket that's been marked "wontfix" by a core developer;"

I'm not sure how the issue jives with the whole Django philosophy, but with that much interest in changing the templating language, I found that a bit harsh...

budwin | 15 years ago | on: Hacker Uses XSS and Google Street View Data to Determine Physical Location

Maybe I missed something, but is this really how Firefox's location services work? By phoning google with the MAC address? I understood google was logging them, but didn't know they were _using_ them...

budwin | 16 years ago | on: What are the lesser known but cool data structures?

happy to see disjoint sets in there

budwin | 16 years ago | on: Microsoft strikes back: introduces docs for facebook

This is Facebook's "instant personalization" feature that just launched. You can disable it in the privacy settings/applications. (it's opt out).

budwin | 16 years ago | on: Dear Steve Ballmer

The Mozilla blog is the mouthpiece of the Mozilla foundation right? Unless I totally missed something, didn't the author on behalf of their organization, offended both of their largest platforms owners?

budwin | 16 years ago | on: Microsoft calls Zoho the "Fake Office" - Zoho responds with a zinger

Definitely unprofessional for both companies involved :-/. Zoho could have taken the high ground here, but instead just sank to the same kind petty name calling.

budwin | 16 years ago | on: Google introduces "Fast Flip"

it's almost as if google is waiting to launch stuff until _right after_ a new feature comes out on bing

budwin | 17 years ago | on: 13 iPhone Apps That Need to be Made -- Add Yours in HN Comments

if you want it, totally build it!

budwin | 17 years ago | on: Google is replacing conference room paper schedules with solar-powered LCD's, updated via 802.15

they had paper schedules?

budwin | 17 years ago | on: The next-gen iPhone will be the new Pocket PC

video chat will _not_ be the next killer app. Sorry.

budwin | 17 years ago | on: SQLite As The MP3 Of Data

different tools for different tasks. as far as setup time goes, sqlite wins by a long shot.

budwin | 17 years ago | on: Don’t Make Me Write HTML

I wouldn't feel comfortable using something like markdown until I had a firm grasp of how it works and the kind of html it writes.

And at that point, I guess I might as well write good ole html... Unless browsers _universally_ supported a new better language, I'd hate to have to think of browser nuance in two different markups...