whackberry
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14 years ago
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on: Story behind the animals on O'Reilly book covers
I've gotten so used to them on my shelf, I rarely pay attention. I just go for the camel book(Perl) or the cow book(C). A classy trademark, love it - and the Oreilly quality has never dropped. Congratulatiosn and keep the awesome titles coming!
whackberry
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14 years ago
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on: The Lisp Curse
This is bullshit. People adopt languages because interesting things are made in them. The most interest I've found in lisp has been Emacs, because it's an awesome editor. If more Emacs-level projects in lisp were out there I bet lisp would be more popular. Otherwise, this is just political bravado with no concrete aplication.
whackberry
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14 years ago
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on: DuckDuckGo is blowing up
Hi, I've only been using DuckDuckGo lately and I love it. Search quality is so impressive and the respect for privacy is very welcome. I hope it is able to maintain this independent feel and not sell out like others did.
whackberry
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14 years ago
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on: Official Release of Google+ Pages
Google wants to become the WWW itself. Is this good?
whackberry
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14 years ago
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on: Facebook detects if you are logged in Gmail
Facebook is amateur when compared to Google
whackberry
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14 years ago
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on: 4chan's Chris Poole: Facebook & Google Are Doing It Wrong
Both Facebook and Google are doing it right. They just work for the wrong interests?
whackberry
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14 years ago
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on: Cassandra 1.0: 400% read performance improvement
Used that. Not Cassandra, but a very nice application of it.
whackberry
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14 years ago
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on: Why is Microsoft basically licensing Google's products?
Google doesn't use patents and that's a great boon to their benefit. Google makes money from self-made technology and uses no other patents, that's what matters. Microsoft is evil.
whackberry
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14 years ago
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on: Cassandra 1.0: 400% read performance improvement
They won't pivot. Digg sucks.
whackberry
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14 years ago
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on: Cassandra 1.0: 400% read performance improvement
I'd just like to add Fuck Datastax to that otherwise great comment.
whackberry
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14 years ago
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on: Cassandra 1.0: 400% read performance improvement
Cassandra is way underrated. It is a great advance in DBRMS, just not relational. I've put it to great use and it's an amazing database system. Searching is badly needed, regular expression searching by column values would make it kick Oracle`s ass anytime.
whackberry
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14 years ago
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on: Why Not Haskell?
Why haskell is a more appropriate question.
whackberry
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14 years ago
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on: What is the Limit to Human Population Growth?
The limit is right about what we have now.
whackberry
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14 years ago
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on: User Research Gone Astray: The Case of Windows 8 Explorer
Very very good article. Shit, in fact, the fact that I hurt my foot. But, other than that, not shit, but an excellent article. Not shit at all. Congrats.
whackberry
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14 years ago
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on: What's wrong with this code, really?
that example code is terrible, it deserved no analysis of any kind.
whackberry
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14 years ago
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on: Idea: mouseFreeze, A solution for Browser FPS Games
Anyone seriously considering the web browser as a platform for future 3d gaming is, of course, in a state of sin.
(stolen from Jon Von Neumann's famous random number quote)
whackberry
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14 years ago
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on: Zero-day Wordpress exploit on the loose - Patch your themes immediately.
great tips. appreciate that, thanks for sharing.
whackberry
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14 years ago
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on: Ask HN: AdolfHitler.com. What the hell should be done with it?
whackberry
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14 years ago
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on: Zero-day Wordpress exploit on the loose - Patch your themes immediately.
Of course, good clarification. "Wordpress" in the title means to call attention that this plugin runs under Wordpress, so anyone running it should check their filesystems for this file.
This...
find . -name timthumb.php
...should help.
whackberry
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14 years ago
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on: Linus Torvalds dumps Gnome3 for XFCE (G+ discussion)
This is going to be unpopular, I know. I'm a linux buff too, diehard fan since 1997.
BUT. One has got to admit the Windows 7 interface is great. I bought a new notebook that came with it and I gotta say, I wish Linux had ONE great interface and standard GUI programming API.
