ColinCera

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by ColinCera 12y ago
Have you talked to your VPS provider? They should be able to cut you a break; after all, that 40TB of traffic cost them only a small fraction of what they're charging you, so if they're reasonable you should at least be able to ge
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by ColinCera 12y ago
Have you looked at CouchDB and its mobile accomplice PouchDB? -> http://pouchdb.com/ That seems like a good place to start.
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by ColinCera 12y ago
That's somewhat true, and to the extent it's true, it's an argument for why most people shouldn't be doing startups -- if you're not yet able to start a business that solves a genuine problem, then don't start
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by ColinCera 12y ago
I see a bunch of startup listing services springing up, e.g., Product Hunt and at least three others that have landed in my mailbox in the past couple weeks, which send out a daily list of new / newly discovered startups. It's k
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by ColinCera 12y ago
What is the point of having an About link, Contact link, Privacy link, etc., at the bottom of the page if it is impossible for a user to ever get to the bottom of the page because of your infinite scrolling nonsense. This is the third sit
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by ColinCera 12y ago
That's going to be a bo-nanza for trial lawyers.
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by ColinCera 12y ago
Thanks. I listened to that clip of the author's song and then listened to the entire four-minute-long Gaga song (which I'd never heard before). Maybe it's because I'm not a musician/composer, but to me they sound no
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by ColinCera 12y ago
Is there a link where you can listen to the author's original recording? It would be nice to be able to compare it to the Gaga song.
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by ColinCera 12y ago
That must be for major site-wide downtime — anyone who frequently uses Reddit knows that a few times per week you'll see a funny little "You broke Reddit" cartoon instead of the page you were trying to load. The problem usual
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by ColinCera 12y ago
The short answer is that you're right to ask the question because it could hurt you badly. A lot depends on your specific situation. How accomplished and in demand are you right now? Do you have a network of people who would hire you
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by ColinCera 12y ago
TL;DR: Go home, Kurzweil, you're drunk. Ray Kurzweil has never been particularly good at predictions. In his book published in 1999, he said by 2019 a $4,000 computer (in 1999 dollars) will be able to do 20 million billion calculations
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by ColinCera 12y ago
My experience with many conferences is that only a few sessions turn out to be worthwhile. If I'm there for 3 days with 5 sessions per day, perhaps 5 or 6 of the sessions I attend will be interesting, but in the other 9 or 10 I will kn
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by ColinCera 12y ago
The UK will be an altered state, not a newly created one; its membership status in the EU won't change at all.
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by ColinCera 12y ago
Interesting. I wonder if the UK actually lets people bank shot their way into citizenship (or at least a long-term visa) via Dominica or if they instead deny such applications on the grounds they're based on a ruse.
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by ColinCera 12y ago
Only if you're a citizen of a commonwealth country — I'm an American, so doesn't apply to me.
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by ColinCera 12y ago
As an American with two Scottish grandparents, I'm hoping an independent Scotland will implement a Scottish ancestry path to citizenship for Americans. I've visited Scotland twice and would love to live there and build a busines
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by ColinCera 12y ago
I believe parent comment was probably alluding to compilation time. My experience with Go is that the compile times are usually close to zero seconds and this indeed makes it feel almost exactly like working with Python or JavaScript. Paren
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by ColinCera 12y ago
Almost all Linux developers have used Qt, because KDE, and Qt has been around a long time; a significant percentage of all C++ programmers have used Qt on one project or another.
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by ColinCera 12y ago
Which "Lua wrapper API" did you use?
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by ColinCera 12y ago
Why would you do this? Is this the kind of "contribution" to the world you want to make? (Contribution is in quotes because this contributes nothing to the world; it subtracts.)
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by ColinCera 12y ago
Interesting. It says it doubles night vision ability, but night vision goggles/scopes give 10000x - 50000x amplification. If the scales are comparable and doubles means 2x, then these eye drops seem nearly useless — but of course the s
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by ColinCera 12y ago
It's a legitimate question because Uber and Lyft are a "new thing" and they're international brand names, something that's not true of regular cab services. If a cab driver in New York City rapes and kills a passeng
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by ColinCera 12y ago
I have done this for short stretches, 2-4 weeks at a time, by giving my cable modem to a friend with strict orders not to give it back until a specified date. It made a huge difference in my productivity and my overall well-being when I did
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by ColinCera 12y ago
I'm surprised he doesn't talk about Zotero. https://www.zotero.org/ Especially for a grad student, it seems like a better option than any of the other things he's tried/discussed.
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by ColinCera 12y ago
You have a point, but on mobile and embedded devices, nobody is "wasting gigabytes of memory through virtualization" and not caring.
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by ColinCera 12y ago
I think one of the motivations is that they want Go to be a language suitable for Android development and other use cases. In mobile and embedded devices, binary size still matters.
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by ColinCera 12y ago
Why oh why didn't the Times give this story the headline, "You Won't Believe What Facebook Is Doing To Your Timeline"?
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by ColinCera 12y ago
I have a hunch that WebRTC is going to make P2P a much more mainstream technology. Once most people are running browsers with WebRTC support, and there are good high-level libraries available for developers, I think we'll start to see
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by ColinCera 12y ago
My guess is it's a combination of development complexity and (probably more importantly) firewall/router issues. It's very hard — impossible, really — to deploy P2P technologies on a mass scale without thousands of users enco
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by ColinCera 12y ago
Wear them. I haven't bought undershirts in 10+ years, thanks to a failed startup. I still have one more entire garbage bag full of brand new t-shirts yet to go. Edit: In this case, it wasn't a failed startup (though the company di

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