Patrick_Devine

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by Patrick_Devine 13y ago
What's the application for extremely black nano tubes, and what does it have to do with the payment platform mentioned in the article?
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by Patrick_Devine 13y ago
My first experience with Windows for Workgroups was in 1994 when we were forced to use it at work. By that time I'd already been using Linux for a few years (since before 1.0). In my opinion, WFW didn't really hold a candle to X1
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by Patrick_Devine 13y ago
Teams are dynamic, not static. You can have new hires, you can lose people and you can get code written by others that you have to maintain (especially the case with CPAN). I agree this is also a problem with domain knowledge. The second
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by Patrick_Devine 13y ago
Even though PG didn't say it, a lot of ideas in this essay reminded me of Eric Reis / Lean Startup thinking. Getting off your ass and giving your customers rock star treatment is essentially the same as the "Genchi Genbutsu&
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by Patrick_Devine 13y ago
The largest reason why I would hesitate to use Perl in my startup would be the core philosophy of TIMTOWTDI (there is more than one way to do it). Being able to write something multiple different ways leads to Perl being a lot easier to wr
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by Patrick_Devine 13y ago
Did the author mean "fire quickly" in the sense that he should determine quickly whether a person is a good fit, or did he mean when you make the decision you should do so with some expediency? It seemed like the former, but the
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by Patrick_Devine 13y ago
I thought the NIST definition for cloud computing was fairly succinct. The five essential characteristics are: 1. On-demand self service 2. Broad network access 3. Resource pooling 4. Rapid elasticity 5. Measured service I&#
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by Patrick_Devine 13y ago
What am I missing? I'm not really seeing a difference between Mailbox/Tempo's scarcity vs. that of Facebook. How is the technical limitation of "load testing" any different than Zuck telling people he wanted to ma
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by Patrick_Devine 13y ago
Seth, you'll be missed.
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by Patrick_Devine 13y ago
The flight path into SFO goes right over my house in Palo Alto. It's funny, I was wondering why there had been no planes flying overhead today, but hadn't realized what had happened until I saw this post. I hope everyone is OK.
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by Patrick_Devine 13y ago
You know, I thought that, but they seem to get stronger over time. Maybe I'm just imagining that, but without bolas they often seem to be able to take me down. That's even with a spear, both swords and a rifle. I never use the l
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by Patrick_Devine 13y ago
Sweet. Although, frankly, I can't believe how much time I've sunk into this game since seeing it on HN the other day. It would be nice to fix the end game and add better ways of fighting the infernal Ferral Beast. Maybe a laser
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by Patrick_Devine 13y ago
The "Making of ..." feature at the end of the video is also worth watching. Apparently they have no love for lawyers, however.
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by Patrick_Devine 13y ago
My hesitation about using Go would be having to forgo all of the ecosystem built up around a more mature language. I haven't coded much in Ruby (I gravitated to Python), however I would assume that Ruby has a much richer set of librar
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by Patrick_Devine 13y ago
I think Citrix does two things with this; it potentially stops losing more market share to KVM, particularly in regards to OpenStack, and it also will potentially eat in to ESX market share. In the last slides I saw at http://p
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by Patrick_Devine 13y ago
I'm really hoping that Tesla licenses the technology to other electric car manufacturers and makes certain their other vehicles (Model X, Roadster) can use it. It would be really silly to have "Tesla Model-S only" service st
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by Patrick_Devine 13y ago
Bummer. Was it really costing Dropbox a lot to keep the service? From the aquihire blog post in December, I got the impression there never was an intention to keep things running.