Tossrock

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by Tossrock 15y ago
I think it'd be more accurate to say "Even /fairly large/ web companies can now be built [et cetera]". Good luck putting Google on AWS. Or (relevant to the name of this website) AWS.
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by Tossrock 15y ago
I am going to guess "no". For three people to scale a site to that size, I imagine it was a daily battle just to keep the thing flying. Not to mention, if they ran into a problem that could potentially be solved with some deep magic done on
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by Tossrock 15y ago
In my imagination, it would be a touch-optimized way to issue commands. By checking your history file, the program could build a library of your most used commands. So maybe you tap a pleasantly large icon representing the server you want t
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by Tossrock 15y ago
An employee costs more than their salary; there's health insurance/benefits, payroll tax, IT+support costs, etc.
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by Tossrock 15y ago
Well, I just lost one coworker and my boss, both of whom were good people and good workers. I think this seals my decision to move on; I only really came to work here because I did internships and felt like I owed it to my boss to put in a
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by Tossrock 15y ago
When your value proposition is "we won't sue you", you've lost your competitive advantage in innovation. Note that this also applies to the RIAA/MPAA.
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by Tossrock 15y ago
Did you read the article? It's not related to the virus's genome, it's related to the RNA that genome produces, which the interviewee contends is always doublestranded. In fact they specifically address DNA viruses and herpes.
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by Tossrock 15y ago
.015% is pretty funny as a "fuck you" number. On a billion in revenue, that's 150k, or probably about what they pay one senior developer in a year.
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by Tossrock 15y ago
Sounds like exactly the same thing as the South Korean produced 'Between' app, which is already cross platform. Not to say that they couldn't execute better, but it's not a novel idea. https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=kr.co.vc
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by Tossrock 15y ago
To me the most astonishing part of this article is that they can 'bake' graphene out of graphite oxide with consumer-grade tech. Did I miss something, or is that not a huge step forward for graphene synthesis?
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by Tossrock 15y ago
I don't think swapping batteries is a good analog for fast recharge. For one, the cost of a kilowatt hour in AA batteries well exceeds $100, even buying in 20-count lots. From the wall, it costs less than a dollar. Swapping batteries is als
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by Tossrock 15y ago
This is patently untrue. I have a friend who graduated from UCLA with a computing minor who was working (unpaid) in a Stanford lab who couldn't find paying work for over 9 months. And no, he is not some kind of idiot, he got a 2390 on the n
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by Tossrock 15y ago
Are you seriously comparing patents to genocide? Is that really what's happening here? One, get some class. Two, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Godwins_law
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by Tossrock 15y ago
I'm not proficient at law either, but I don't think selling exploits is illegal. Unauthorized computer access is, but as long as they aren't doing that access themselves, I think they're in the clear. The analogy I first think of would be a
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by Tossrock 15y ago
"Lifesaving" is a pretty nebulous concept. Does a plow which enables higher crop yields and thus less starvation constitute as life saving? Or a weather satellite, which allows prediction of rain patterns and more efficient irrigation usage
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by Tossrock 15y ago
The graphics are much, much better than something from 2005. For reference, here's a screenshot from a well-regarded 2005 console game: http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/8/82/Gun_Showdown.j... Especially for the PS3 hardware, the p
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by Tossrock 15y ago
11 separate pages, with a landing page to get to the 11 separate pages? That seems a little excessive, especially considering the low content of each page.
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by Tossrock 15y ago
I don't understand this comment. The parent was saying that he was a street brawler who went MMA; why are you repeating it? And he by no means "did so well". He did not do well at all.
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by Tossrock 15y ago
Wrong, actually. Read up on how bitcoin (or cryptocurrency in general) works.
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by Tossrock 15y ago
Whoa, I know the guy who runs this website, along with several of the authors. He actually just launched it a few days ago, primarily for the Penny Arcade forum readers. Small internet.
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by Tossrock 15y ago
I think you're nitpicking. The goods stolen had a value corresponding to the amount listed. Is converting the amounts from a transaction carried out in euros to dollars objectionable? I would argue no.
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by Tossrock 15y ago
Can't say that I have, no.
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by Tossrock 15y ago
Art, science and invention are closely related. As Albert Einstein said, "After a certain high level of technical skill is achieved, science and art tend to coalesce in aesthetics, plasticity, and form. The greatest scientists are artists a
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by Tossrock 15y ago
>There might be a boring stuff nobody cares about channel, but I've never seen it. C-SPAN?
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by Tossrock 15y ago
My bullshit detector went off somewhere around here: "CloudFlare provides performance and security for any website online.We handle more traffic through our network now than Amazon, Wikipedia, Twitter, Zynga and Aol combined." Considering W
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by Tossrock 15y ago
Actually, modafinil is practically tasteless, which I would say is objectively better than the bitter taste of coffee. Of course, it's possible to train yourself to enjoy that bitter taste through operant conditioning, but it's not really a
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by Tossrock 15y ago
Well, there are SOME clues. Mention of Silicon Alley means it's probably in New York. The fact that they were having dinner with the CEO means it's probably not Google-scale.
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by Tossrock 15y ago
I think the authors of this article may not realize that a gigabit is equivalent to 125 megabytes. The caption saying that it's "actually much faster" than the 134 Mbps listed by speedtest is silly.
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by Tossrock 15y ago
http://flattr.com/ ?
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by Tossrock 15y ago
Well, I'd quibble about 'huge swaths', but I was in the wrong, so my mistake. I guess this is what I get for going to Oakland once per year.

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