mono | 15 years ago | on: Apache Pivot 2.0 released
There's a big demo button on the top. Or you take the short way: http://pivot.apache.org/demos/
mono's comments
mono | 15 years ago | on: Ask HN: Strategy for app release
I would suggest to post a descriptive link here?
mono | 15 years ago | on: Web Services Our Startup Relies On Every Day
Thanks for this long version! Might learn to stop trying to maintain every solution on myself.
mono | 15 years ago | on: Web Services Our Startup Relies On Every Day
Wow. Looks like you have outsourced every imaginable job when there's a webservice for it.
Are you doing this because of bad experiences when servicing your own or did you do this from the start? Did you compare the running costs/reliability between outsourcing and self administration with a positive result into outsourcing?
mono | 15 years ago | on: Why Google is not winning in Russia - and unexpected search comparison results
Great article about language as the last man standing against globalism. If you ever have to manage the translation of a piece of software into a different language, you will find two kinds:
One in western chars where you can get a feeling about the translators work and one in different chars like russian, japanese, chinese, arabic where you don't get a ghost of idea what is written there.
For search engines this is much harder: if you don't employ a sufficient numbers of native speakers for these languages, you will never get sufficient results. All other employees can't help you out. Translation software is useless, if you don't know how to weight the possible results from the cultural canon. A cyrillic reader expects to find the russian state library on top when looking for a lib, not the library of congress.
mono | 15 years ago | on: US Patent system so dysfunctional you can patent a stick from a tree
If you're in need of a good startup idea:
Claim a patent for crossing fingers to build a luck generator.
mono | 15 years ago | on: Space Invaders: Why you should never, ever use two spaces after a period
Two spaces is so long ago, that as an europaen I even didn't know, you can do this. Big cultural gap!
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