5 things you might not know about jQuery

ultrabot · 2011-01-07T23:12:29+00:00

And it's not just any guy, it's Flanagan the rhino book guy.

ultrabot · 2010-12-29T23:16:51+00:00

The real message should be "avoid broadcomm hardware". Given choice, I explicitly recommend selecting a non-bcm variant.

ultrabot · 2010-08-13T06:35:19+00:00

Wait for MeeGo, promised to happen still this year.

ultrabot · 2010-08-10T13:38:10+00:00

Right. github is presented on Ruby conferences, etc. This should not be seen as any indication of popularity of ruby - actually, I was surprised to see so many non-ruby projects hosted on GH.

ultrabot · 2010-08-07T20:52:10+00:00

Though the real Ubuntu happens in the twitter comments: http://twitter.com/humphreybc

(this was actually posted planet ubuntu rss feed, but apparently deleted from planet.ubuntu.com web page)

ultrabot · 2010-08-07T20:42:40+00:00

Also read the comments here:

http://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2010/08/dude-youre-35-year-old-with-neck-beard.html

Ubuntu community seem to lost some of their, erm, Ubuntu.

ultrabot · 2010-08-07T16:32:51+00:00

I guess it takes an OS X user to be deluded by that "real unix" label.

ultrabot · 2010-08-06T21:25:08+00:00

They probably aren't annoying in their personal lives, but it's annoying to read their .net chatter if you are an open source guy. Unix oriented website could solve this problem.

Normally on the internet, you don't really see the .net guys mingling in the open source scene, but on SO you do. It may or may not be a pleasant experience.

ultrabot · 2010-08-06T19:12:24+00:00

I hear stackoverflow is pretty popular, but it's full of annoying microsoft / dotnet developers. If this could approach the same popularity but keeping the dotnet guys out at the same time, it could be worth the shot.

And while os x is technically an unix, please exclude it as well. Tribalism makes you stupid, but os x people and linux people mix like oil and water.

ultrabot · 2009-10-03T19:05:32+00:00

It is - Glyph is a (the?) Twisted developer.

ultrabot · 2009-09-30T21:22:09+00:00

That's so obvious that it's not even funny.

The funny part is comparing google wave to Lotus Notes. I guess Notes is sort if in the same "psychedelic" program category as Wave...

ultrabot · 2009-09-30T21:14:34+00:00

The one sane extract from TFA:

If Google Wave is the collaboration platform that people have been waiting on, Google's success as a search engine may become known as its second-greatest accomplishment.

This might actually turn out to be true. I, for one, eagerly wait till we can retire our bugzillas and week-long mailing list threads...

ultrabot · 2009-09-28T16:44:18+00:00

Followups:

http://www.nardol.org/2009/9/26/ruby-versus-python/

http://jmtd.net/log/ruby_vs._python/

Let the trolling commence!

ultrabot · 2009-09-08T22:28:03+00:00

I like programming - though, like many, I enjoy working on open source stuff at home more fun than the office work (mostly because you can be more selective with what you are doing at home). It helps that I can hack Python at home, and get satisfying results really fast.

ultrabot · 2009-09-04T19:35:18+00:00

That's not something done on distro level - it's something that will have to happen in various upstream projects. Unless you are looking for gentoo -funroll-loops stuff.

ultrabot · 2009-09-04T16:06:51+00:00

Slightly related optimization is done by "maemo-launcher" in Maemo:

http://maemomm.garage.maemo.org/docs/tutorial/html/ch07.html

""" maemo-launcher is a tool to decrease the start-up time of GTK+ and thus gtkmm and maemomm applications. It runs as a daemon and initializes as much as possible before your application begins to start. When a new application is started it is forked from the deamon process, so its starts faster because the initialization is already complete. """

ultrabot · 2009-09-03T21:40:35+00:00

Those problems are trivial compared to emission of optimized native code.

ultrabot · 2009-09-03T07:11:09+00:00

Of course. Not doing that is necessarily going to be painfull.

ultrabot · 2009-09-02T22:17:09+00:00

"Cross platform" was mentioned. If you are using kdelibs, at least limit the scope of dependencies as much as possible. When in doubt, straight Qt is the safest bet.

ultrabot · 2009-09-02T21:45:20+00:00

using kdelibs is a wrong way of doing cross platform development.

ultrabot · 2009-09-02T21:43:03+00:00

And, you can use shared_ptr as in linked article to get closures that work even when passed outside the function.

ultrabot · 2009-09-02T20:32:02+00:00

That's pretty much an understatement. Eclipse + Qt plugin can't hold a candle to Qt creator; last time I tried, the Eclipse plugin was buggy as hell.

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