tmister
Joined 14 years ago
Karma
280
Submissions
38
Member since
Nov 1
Recent submissions
Comment · 13 years ago
Reddit had a discussion about it a while ago http://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/1pto3b/google_e.... Also the comment posted at this context http://www.reddit.com/r/firstworldproblems/comments/1pvgjx/g... comparing about environments of Google and Microsoft is now at top of r/bestof.
Comment · 13 years ago
Gates is one of those rare people who is at a time a good developer, good manager and a cunning businessman. I started to appreciate him after watching Triumph of the Nerds documentary series. I literally loled for 5 minutes after watching Gates in an event parodying IBM which was organised by Jobs http://youtu.be/riyAe4BKAng?t=20m1s.
Comment · 13 years ago
I think it is a bad decision from Facebook to go after Social Fixer. From the Chrome extensions page they have ~200K installs. This is peanuts compared to Facebook's user base(compared to Google where number of Adblock installs are ~40 million combining Firefox and Chrome, it hurts Google more they can't say much about it because of fearing of criticism from their core supporters). But future will be bright for them because people are accessing Facebook more from mobile devices where default mobile browsers are very restrictive and the trend will not change for foreseeable future.
Comment · 13 years ago
Yes you can. As others have pointed out, it the DE that uses most system resources. For common development task you don't need 3D gimmick. You can install lightweight DE like LXDE or XFCE. I use Xubuntu in my home pc and installed it as a Virtualbox guest in my office pc allocating 1.5GB of RAM. Things have been buttery smooth. For a comparison of system resources used by different DEs see the article http://pclosmag.com/html/Issues/201109/page08.html. The article is a bit old but still relevant.
Comment · 13 years ago
I would also recommend you to watch Triumph of the Nerds.
Comment · 13 years ago
You can try the driver released from Microsoft http://sqlsrvphp.codeplex.com/. Haven't tried it myself though.
Comment · 13 years ago
Add another positive, he knew that LOC is not a good measurement of software development[1]
[1] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PWylb_5IOw0&feature=player_de... (go to 38:59 time mark)
Comment · 13 years ago
People here will argue that he is the worst CEO ever, that's debatable of-course. But I want to say some good things about him. To me he is a guy in a suit who understood software development. He shouted (in)famous "developers, developers, developers"[1], he knew that LOC is not a good measurement of software development[2], he poured loads of money in MSR ignoring the pressure of shareholders. For these reasons only he is a fine guy in my book. So I thank him for his works in Microsoft.
[1] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8To-6VIJZRE
[2] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PWylb_5IOw0&feature=player_de... (go to 38:59 time mark)
Comment · 13 years ago
Well Chrome had this feature for a long time. Personally I don't find it much useful. But to me the killer feature of firebug is that when you open an XHR entry in new tab it opens the tab with all POST variables. Super handy when debugging REST api.
Comment · 13 years ago
Also see http://samy.pl/evercookie/
Comment · 13 years ago
But it is Microsoft who made it trendy among web designers and even influenced Apple. Ironically this trend started by a company which was remarked as "tasteless" by Steve Jobs.
Comment · 13 years ago
Also as per your information I just checked performance of Symfony2 and laravel against rails and django in multiple query section. Though those two PHP frameworks were at the bottom in single query tab, in multiple queries tab the situation just reversed http://www.techempower.com/benchmarks/#section=data-r6&hw=i7... . Interesting indeed.
Comment · 13 years ago
AFAIK hhvm doesn't have namespace support yet. So Symfony2, laravel, ZF2 can not be run in it. But basic PHP performance would skyrocket I assume.
Comment · 13 years ago
Especially when Qualcomm is the only decent player in town.