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by Toddward 14y ago
John Browett is leaving too - that didn't last long.
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Google’s lame duck explanation of why the Nexus 4 doesn’t have LTE(thenextweb.com)
4 points by Toddward 14y ago|1 comments
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by Toddward 14y ago
This is a repost: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3838880
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Instagram was Courted by Facebook as Early as SXSW(pandodaily.com)
1 points by Toddward 15y ago|0 comments
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by Toddward 15y ago
I haven't been able to find anything anywhere that says they actually closed that round - merely that they were looking to raise money at that valuation. EDIT: Open mouth, insert foot: http://techcrunch.com/2012/04/09/right-before-acquisit
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by Toddward 15y ago
Quite a jump from the $500 million valuation they were shooting for last week[1]. [1] http://techcrunch.com/2012/03/08/no-filter-required-instagra...
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by Toddward 15y ago
Presumably, Google assumes that the account owner is the person or entity committing the click fraud and will find ways to continue perpetrating the fraud if only an IP or range is blocked. It's probably much less of a headache to just nuke
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by Toddward 15y ago
“It is very clear to me that substantial change is what RIM needs,” Mr. Heins said on the call with investors. Compared to (just a few months ago): "I don’t think that there is a drastic change needed." Oh, RIM.
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Google Campus, a startup Petri dish, to open in London's Tech City on Thursday(theverge.com)
1 points by Toddward 15y ago|0 comments
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by Toddward 15y ago
Using bare PyMongo, asyncmongo, or some ORM-like solution? Coincidentally, I'm also working on my own app using Tornado and Backbone and considering the switch to Mongo (currently using the base MySQLdb wrapper included with Tornado) - curi
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by Toddward 15y ago
Curious as to what the backend stack is - can you provide any details?
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by Toddward 15y ago
Yeah, the external keyboard would be a must. Thanks for your thoughts.
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Ask HN: Does Anyone Write Code With an iPad?
14 points by Toddward 15y ago|10 comments
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by Toddward 15y ago
We've heard/read countless stories of YC companies pivoting, but I can't find any hard data on it. I'd be curious to know what the pivot rate is for YC portfolio companies during their funding cycles; given this change, it would seem that t
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Python 2.8 Un-release Schedule(python.org)
110 points by Toddward 15y ago|97 comments
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Is Ice Cream Sandwich out yet?(theverge.com)
3 points by Toddward 15y ago|0 comments
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by Toddward 15y ago
There's a meetup at Google's Crittenden Campus (Mountain View) that'll be going over this next Wednesday: http://www.meetup.com/sv-gtug/events/51114452/
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by Toddward 15y ago
Here's a subreddit I found, though it seems to be only moderately active: http://www.reddit.com/r/IRstudies I'd be interested to know of any other destinations people know if.
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Apple responds to iOS contact data sharing: ‘It’s a violation’(9to5mac.com)
1 points by Toddward 15y ago|0 comments
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by Toddward 15y ago
I, erm, played around with Play! early last year and loved it. However, I wanted to get out of my Java comfort zone and moved on to Python (and subsequently Django); I would have tried Scala with Play!, but support for Scala appeared flaky
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by Toddward 15y ago
I've chatted with a few potential cofounders over the past several months who have exhibited these traits - the arrogance, the condescension, the overall shady attitude. It's exhausting trying to explain to people that they are not Steve J
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by Toddward 15y ago
I applied, interviewed for, and then (stupidly) realized that I couldn't attend the coming batch. But I did get a chance to chat with Nick for 45 minutes or so - these guys seem very with it and I really admire how the primary focus of the
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by Toddward 15y ago
Seconded - the Django tutorial is very well written and extremely informative. Django's documentation in general is a valuable resource.
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How to Prevent Memory Bloat in Mongo(tech.yipit.com)
8 points by Toddward 15y ago|0 comments
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by Toddward 15y ago
I upvoted this because, a few months ago, I had a hell of a time sifting through the sheer number of similar, but inoperable/poorly documented Django backends. In the end, I rolled my own, but I wish I had known about this project.
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by Toddward 15y ago
"We had 845 million monthly active users (MAUs) as of December 31, 2011." That blows some estimates out of the water.
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Facebook to File for $5 Billion IPO Tomorrow Morning(mashable.com)
1 points by Toddward 15y ago|0 comments
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by Toddward 15y ago
I'm going to be really curious to see what he does next. Jon did an excellent job of making Palm relevant and exciting again. It was just too bad that their hardware was shoddy and the all-in push came too late.
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by Toddward 15y ago
I have to say - living a life that was a constant misrepresentation of itself must have been exhausting .
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by Toddward 15y ago
Ok, allow me to clarify my position: I agree with notion that there are more important problems to work on than many we see startups pursuing. If you had to pick a primary point being conveyed by the column, would you pick A) there are many

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