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   by SamAtt 17y ago

   We're doing this specifically to test but I don't see latency being a serious issue. The apps only pull text of about 1k at any given time and we have a 40Mbps connection so assuming we find a service in the U.S. I can't see it being a pro
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   by SamAtt 17y ago

   We're looking at outsourcing a few of our non-secure applications because management is unpredictable. They will, without any warning, just decide they need to give x group of employees a computer and we'll have to add 20 computers to the
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   Ask HN: Outsourced SQL Providers?

   3 points by SamAtt 17y ago|6 comments
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   by SamAtt 17y ago

   Facebook certainly could have handled things better but other than that I agree with you. It seems a little obnoxious to demand free service. Even if it was free before. If it were more money he might have a better case. But given other
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   by SamAtt 17y ago

   Ironically Colonel Sanders was ashamed of the franchise (last paragraph: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harland_Sanders#Death_and_legac... ) so I think he'd approve of this :)
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   by SamAtt 17y ago

   I understand you were joking but there's a grain of truth in what you're saying. People who don't believe in Evolution are looking for holes in the theory and those holes will always exist. Because no matter how many fossils we do find th
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   by SamAtt 17y ago

   I was pretty disappointed. Usually his posts have interesting insights and are well thought out. That's what makes them worthwhile. This post was the exact opposite of that. It's an insight that pretty much everyone who knows anything ab
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   by SamAtt 17y ago

   I'll second this. We've been experimenting with Zoho Office which has an API (at least for it's most important apps). I'm shocked that Google (a company with way more resources) hasn't at least matched what Zoho is doing in the space.
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   by SamAtt 17y ago

   I don't :)
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    by SamAtt 17y ago

    I think the author's point is that the internet needs a payment system in which the customer doesn't need to put in their credit card. That's why he's saying Amazon could be the default payment provider (since almost everyone has an Amazon
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    by SamAtt 17y ago

    "People assume that when the mind wanders away it just gets turned off" Who assumed this? It seems like a pretty stupid assumption from a cognitive standpoint. Daydreaming is basically an activity where the brain has to create a whole sce
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    by SamAtt 17y ago

    I was 4 when my family got a computer. All I really remember was that the storage media was a cassette tape. My Dad worked for weeks to get the Cheers theme to play on it (using some DOS midi program I assume) and I remember wondering why
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    by SamAtt 17y ago

    I don't like to get in the middle of these PC vs. Mac threads. But I couldn't resist the perfect opportunity to post one of the greatest videos ever put on youtube (imho) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=clYOR8vLgE8
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    by SamAtt 17y ago

    I don't see how updating your status on Facebook presents any more obligation than putting out a tweet on Twitter. There's certainly not so much of a difference that it would make me use one over the other. Funny Story, every follower I ha
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    by SamAtt 17y ago

    It would have to be one heck of a backlash However bad Apple gets a developer is still talking about a couple months payments vs a decrease in their total income if you go to Android/Blackberry/etc... That's why Apple can afford to treat d
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    by SamAtt 17y ago

    At least in the United States that isn't true. In the U.S. the republic was constructed as a way for the well educated to trump the masses if need be. That's the original reason for the Electoral College and that's why the U.S. Senate was
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    by SamAtt 17y ago

    I actually think this is an excellent idea. Before you interview them have them interview you for a couple minutes. We ask questions based on what we value so by listening to their questions it allows you to determine what they value. Eve
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    by SamAtt 17y ago

    I see the problem he's identified and I have used this analogy before. But when I use it I generally say "Programmers are like writer's who can't make a single spelling or grammer mistake and have to write a story about every action their
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    by SamAtt 17y ago

    The only thing that makes me think we aren't entering the post-Windows era is that Office is still a cash cow for Microsoft. Because the situation Microsoft is in now with Windows greatly resembles the one they were in with Office '97. Pe
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    by SamAtt 17y ago

    I get 42% but I see your point. Though it only processes when the picture actually changes and even then only for a second or less. If you set a reasonable delay I don't think the processor load would stop you from using it.
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    by SamAtt 17y ago

    This article is basically just speculation on his part but I disagree with his premise. He’s looking at the next generation iPhone like Microsoft looks at products which is to stuff as many features in as possible. Even if they don’t work
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    by SamAtt 18y ago

    What's weird to me is the media is all over the place about Conflicker when it doesn't do anything. Then it eventually does exactly what the media predicted it would (download spyware/malware) and no one but the tech media seems to be cove
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    by SamAtt 18y ago

    The point of the article is just to say that some people will consider working on a porn project to be a negative and that could have an impact on your programming career. So while I understand that U.S. citizens in general are more puritan