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by Herald_MJ 11y ago
Postgres isn't slow. But this is a very specific example that doesn't actually prove anything either way.
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by Herald_MJ 11y ago
Greenplum was a startup that was acquired by EMC in 2010. Pivotal is partially an EMC venture, so I guess that's how it ended up in their hands.
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by Herald_MJ 11y ago
I actually first heard about airbnb in 2011, the time they were all over the startup news because someone's house was trashed. At the time I thought "this is terrible, but this service sounds great!" and I've used it man
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by Herald_MJ 12y ago
Thanks for pointing out that it's from 2013. I was reading this and thinking I was sure I'd played spaceteam much longer ago than a year.
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by Herald_MJ 12y ago
If this isn't affiliated with Uber, isn't it pretty likely this will be shut down?
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by Herald_MJ 12y ago
fwiw I have been rejected for the same reason. I seem to remember it was a two-line fix for this.
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by Herald_MJ 12y ago
You said 'local preferred', but neglect to mention where you are. It's SF, for anyone else wondering.
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by Herald_MJ 13y ago
WhatsApp do maintain a J2ME version, but it's not the same codebase as their Android app.
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by Herald_MJ 13y ago
> Toner isn't cheap but it's cheaper by several orders of magnitude over the ink in an inkjet printer True, but this doesn't actually matter. A lot of toner will still be being bought by schools & governments, and tha
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by Herald_MJ 13y ago
These are just the ones which expired in the last 24 hours.
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by Herald_MJ 13y ago
or 3) develop some social empathy and learn to infer when someone is not attracted to you, and then act accordingly by not showing them any interest beyond a cordial one that meets the demands of your profession.
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by Herald_MJ 13y ago
Why are all these attacks targeting Twitter usernames? Do these really have particularly significant resale value? It seems like much greater profit could be made with access to someone's Amazon account, but these seem to be used as me
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by Herald_MJ 13y ago
Twitter has no interest in there being a handles market. In fact, I wouldn't be surprised if their T&Cs expressly forbids it.
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by Herald_MJ 13y ago
Are we calling asm.js a "spin-off" now?
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by Herald_MJ 13y ago
> ...oh... do you remember Steve Jobs was suggesting all apps for iPhone should be web apps? He was way ahead of his time. He only suggested that at the time because iOS had no app store. It was one of his cunning moments of misdirection
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by Herald_MJ 13y ago
> any language that isn't super symbol-heavy (Obj-C, for example). I can't think of any non-esoteric language more symbol-heavy than Obj-C!
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by Herald_MJ 13y ago
On iOS at least, both of these pieces of information are not available to developers, because both buttons perform OS-specific tasks which apps are not allowed to interfere with. Contrary to some other platforms (to my knowledge, most notab
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by Herald_MJ 13y ago
Isn't "Native Quake Live" just Quake 3 with adverts?
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by Herald_MJ 13y ago
Also, WebGL wouldn't run with Quake 3's codebase (which is basically what QuakeLive does).
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by Herald_MJ 13y ago
In my experience, mongo doesn't even scale horizontally all that well...
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by Herald_MJ 13y ago
> If you're really performance obsessed, a spreadsheet isn't really the best solution anyway... I agree with this, but tell that to the millions of non-programmers the world over (including almost exclusive use in the finance s
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by Herald_MJ 13y ago
Are you sure Gnumeric is better than Excel? Excel is really stupid fast. There are old stories of the Excel team at Microsoft being the most performance-obsessed group around. Excel really is a very great product. Can you demonstrate equiva
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by Herald_MJ 13y ago
That OS X has support for it's own hardware is fact. That OS X is better than Ubuntu is opinion. It's also worth mentioning that Ubuntu has perfect support for the current Macbook Pro and Macbook Air, so I don't know what poi
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by Herald_MJ 13y ago
"less than 10% of computing devices people use are desktops or laptops" You're going to need a citation for this, I don't believe it to be remotely true.
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by Herald_MJ 13y ago
The comments given on HN back then were so much more constructive! I think I started reading HN about a year after this.
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by Herald_MJ 13y ago
I've heard "Rails style" about as frequently as I've heard "Django style". I've never heard "Sinatra style". In fact, when someone first mentioned Sinatra to me, they explained it as "like a
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by Herald_MJ 13y ago
> the two most influential frameworks (Rails and Sinatra) You admit that you're a Ruby developer, so you must see that this is slightly blinkered. Influential on what? There's not much Rails brought to the table which was enti
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by Herald_MJ 13y ago
RT is a hilariously (& obviously) biased news source, and yet seems to pop up on HN quite frequently. Come on guys, let's have some standards in our news providers.
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by Herald_MJ 13y ago
Google Wave was great. It's failure wasn't due to design either.
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by Herald_MJ 13y ago
This is not unusual at this point in the product cycle.

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