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patcito··on Twitter URLs and Limitations
but cellphones may get half of the message only, as it is limited to 140 chars.
patcito··on No to SQL? Anti-database movement gains steam
This process is only slow if your DB is already huge. CouchDB forces you to think your query a bit more before building your DB. To be fair though, try to add an index to a huge SQL database, it will take long too, and sql indexes are needed on any frequently used query.
patcito··on No to SQL? Anti-database movement gains steam
> So, you have an article with an id of 5. What if you want to look up the articles by author 9? You're just unable.

Yes you can, at least in CouchDB, just create a view that emits the author id and you're done.

patcito··on Your Résumé Won't Get You Hired
As programmer, something that might help more than a cover letter or a résumé is open source code you wrote.
patcito··on Firefox 3.5 is out
I've been using Firefox 3.5 and it's fast and hasn't crashed at all unlike Opera which crashed every once in a while here on Ubuntu Karmic.
patcito··on StackExchange- The Stack Overflow Knowledge Exchange Platform
> Successful proprietary software -- the ones you use, the ones you love, the ones you have heard of -- are the exception. Projects like this are the rule.

FTFY. In other words, most software suck and fail, open source or not, welcome to reality.

Also, here is a full working clone of stackoverflow http://code.google.com/p/cnprog/ hosted here http://www.cnprog.com/

patcito··on Why free software shouldn't depend on Mono or C#
> I don't get it. Why is the GNU Project developing their own C# implementation but is seemingly anti-Mono?

Did you read the article? Having a free C# implementation is important because it allows people to run their C# program on free platforms according to the FSF. However, writing and distributing apps in C# is not encouraged as people might get sued. RMS points that he has nothing against mono or any other free C# implementations (proof is that GNU has its own Portable.NET) as it allow people to move to a free platform.

patcito··on Why free software shouldn't depend on Mono or C#
Because C is so old that all those patents have already expired?
patcito··on Iranian government using crowd-sourcing to identify protesters
Only if the sites are hosted in Iran.
patcito··on IPhone 3GS review by Stephen Fry
Doesn't that make Fry kind of a hypocrite? http://www.gnu.org/fry/
patcito··on Freenode has blocked the Mibbit client permanently.
You can use that now http://webchat.freenode.net/
patcito··on Freenode has blocked the Mibbit client permanently.
Same here http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=665661
patcito··on Freenode has blocked the Mibbit client permanently.
You can use that instead http://webchat.freenode.net/
patcito··on Freenode has blocked the Mibbit client permanently.
http://webchat.freenode.net/ lightweight, minimalist, opensource, fast, ad free, I love it already.
patcito··on Update on Google Native Client - now built into Chrome
They say they are trying to respect the NPAPI spec, so it should work with any browser that works with NPAPI that is to say firefox, webkit, opera etc except IE I guess (not sure).
patcito··on I want to help you write better...
Most web browsers already have spell checking.
patcito··on Users Love Microsoft, Yahoo Search -- When It's Branded With A Google Logo
Yahoo first search engine was google embedded into yahoo. Before that, yahoo was just a searchable directory of websites. Later yahoo switched to their own search engine ouverture.
patcito··on Rate My App: blueTunes.net -- a cloud music service
> Straight out of the engineering department at blueTunes, try our next generation uploader (patent pending)

seriously??

patcito··on Wolfram Alpha: The Wikipedia Killer
Wikipedia is one of the main source of data for Wolfram Alpha, so killing Wikipedia would make Wolfram suck if not die.
patcito··on Ubuntu One : Store, Sync & Share
That's only for the client though, not for the server.
patcito··on Why Facebook Can't Become Twitter: Its Closed Nature
MySpace had 20-30x the number of users that Facebook did not so long ago.
patcito··on Facebook pays 150 employees ~$50K to keep the site clean
> Google only gets away from by using some very clever image recognition algorithms.

Not sure about that, they check the site the picture is hosted on.

patcito··on Why People Don't Like Nerds or Programmers (In School)
> You obviously knew that would happen and you went on doing it anyway, so you fit into the category of people I'm talking about here.

Or maybe he just doesn't care what people think on this matter.

patcito··on JSConf2009 Wrapup
"Third, WebKit gets the prize for our favorite JS engine (not surprising with all the Cocoa love being shown)"

Why? WebKit doesn't have much to do with cocoa.

patcito··on The Gazelle Web Browser - Stanford talk Wednesday
But will it have good support for w3c standards and a fast JS vm?
patcito··on Chinese clone of StackOverflow. Uses even the same design, built using django.
Thanks.
patcito··on Chinese clone of StackOverflow. Uses even the same design, built using django.
So where is the source?