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Ask HN: Review my startup - getupp: location-based commitments
12 points by _stephan 16y ago|10 comments
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by _stephan 16y ago
Here are the slides: http://codespeak.net/svn/pypy/extradoc/talk/microsoft-jan-20...
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by _stephan 16y ago
It would be great if this shortened the wait for a Titanium JS debugger...
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by _stephan 16y ago
Spideroak.com works too. It automatically backups your data to the cloud (securely encrypted!). It synchronizes your data across multiple machines (and multiple OS) and you can access all past versions of your files. It's free if you don't
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by _stephan 16y ago
I had the same issue: Shortly before Skype went completely offline, my Windows Skype client suddenly started crashing every few minutes. The Mac client didn't have that problem. Some bug in the new version is probably the likeliest explanat
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by _stephan 16y ago
My point was that in certain markets unregulated competition will naturally lead to a monopoly. The technical term for this in microeconomics is "natural monopoly", and the explanation at the beginning of the Wikipedia article is actually p
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by _stephan 16y ago
> you take away the governmental protections that allow them to have a monopoly and let the market consume them when they refuse to change their shitty business practices. How is that supposed to work? Have you ever heard of http://en.
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by _stephan 16y ago
I suspect Google isn't doing this for legal reasons. They probably have to take care not to look discriminatory in any way.
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by _stephan 16y ago
So, that's about 5 cent per day then.
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by _stephan 16y ago
Really? Acetylsalicylic acid is available as a cheap generic drug in Germany.
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by _stephan 16y ago
Thanks for the pointer. I read the Wikipedia page, but I found the explanation of the general concept too abstract. The definition of a RESTful web service further down the page is much clearer. However, does it really make any practical di
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by _stephan 16y ago
Could maybe someone give a concise definition of what makes an API RESTful and explain why the AWS Query API is not RESTful and how a RESTful API would be better?
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by _stephan 16y ago
Can maybe someone comment on the current reliability of GAE? What people write on this topic, for example in the comments on http://www.carlosble.com/?p=719&rewrite , sounds pretty scary. Apparently the status page at http://code.goo
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EU Opens Antitrust Investigation Into Google(nytimes.com)
2 points by _stephan 16y ago|0 comments
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by _stephan 16y ago
No, the German data protection officials insisted on Google blurring the original source material and not preserving any unblurred copies. IMHO, that might be appropriate in certain exceptional circumstances, e.g. when inadvertently somethi
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by _stephan 16y ago
Has anyone tried iOS 4.2 on the iPhone 3G and could comment on the performance?
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A True Story about iPods, Audio Books, Swat Teams and Design of Technology(spideroak.com)
1 points by _stephan 16y ago|0 comments
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by _stephan 16y ago
Silverlight != Moonlight
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by _stephan 16y ago
I think you didn't get the point of jbjohns post. You're just restating his message (more clearly, though). Did you maybe overlook the 'hamstrung' and the 'why not give us an "assembler" option' at the end?
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by _stephan 16y ago
What about making the constructors protected?
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by _stephan 16y ago
Sometimes an alternative is to make the destructor in the base class protected.
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by _stephan 16y ago
The German hoster regfish offers XServe based servers: https://www.regfish.de/cloud/macosx I wonder whether they'll continue offering OSX servers.
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by _stephan 16y ago
Getting a VPN account from some service like witopia.net is not rocket science. People just need to be educated that they need a VPN account if they want to use a publicly shared network without compromising their privacy. (Of course, as bo
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Anders Hejlsberg presenting C#'s new async feature at PDC10(player.microsoftpdc.com)
2 points by _stephan 16y ago|0 comments
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by _stephan 16y ago
Short reply by Krugman: http://krugman.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/10/28/friedman-on-japa...
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by _stephan 16y ago
I doubt any dynamic language implementation on top of .NET could ever compete performance-wise with one of the modern JS engines. The CLR doesn't allow for certain low-level implementation tricks, like tagging pointers, and doesn't give you
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by _stephan 16y ago
Are they actually using HTTP for anything?
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by _stephan 16y ago
Is the written form of the talk already published somewhere?