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by adventureful 14y ago
Pretty sure almost everybody on HN understands the technical separation between the two. Sometimes people speak in broad generalities, or use "Internet" when they mean "Web." It is in fact extraordinarily common.
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by adventureful 14y ago
You don't agree with the notion that many tech products like web languages (or browsers, operating systems / mobile platforms, or whatever) tend to trend heavily toward a single dominant product (either due to one simply being better, and o
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by adventureful 14y ago
Apparently it's closer to 78% http://w3techs.com/technologies/details/pl-php/all/all No matter how you try to hide from it, it's blatantly clear that PHP runs at least half the entire Web. What else exactly did you think was? Surely you d
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by adventureful 14y ago
All languages are annoying if you go by the griping, the more popular a language is the more amplified the griping. It scales out of actual proportion to the flaws, and instead scales based on the popularity. Then throw in the wide spread u
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by adventureful 14y ago
The only thing actually wrong with PHP, is that it's popular but not cool. And that's a terrible place to sit for any product. It runs half the Internet quite well, but if you went by the posting on HN, you'd think it was Windows Vista. I'v
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by adventureful 14y ago
Yeah, I wrote Tumblr in PHP, but I'm eager to abandon it. You know, it's just an easy to use, broken language that you can scale a site to 15 billion page views per month with. I'm sure my next project will need a better language, because i
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by adventureful 14y ago
Big mistake: no video demo on the home page I can immediately dive into and see @bubbles in action. This is a visual product, that's critical miss.
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by adventureful 14y ago
I was hoping the glasses would actually do something during the demo process, like begin identifying buildings (perhaps specifically targeting the Moscone building as the destination) while in the sky based on gps + visual matching of a 3D
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Army Developing Laser That Shoots Lightning(washington.cbslocal.com)
3 points by adventureful 14y ago|0 comments
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by adventureful 14y ago
The Android hardware business is a horrible business for all but a few of the manufacturers. I don't see what the benefit for them would to compete in the hardware business when they can deliver their software on top of 95% of all smart pho
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by adventureful 14y ago
Probably for roughly the same reason Nokia's old chief was putting down Apple on the cover story of Forbes when it came to who was going to dominate smart phones (November 2007 sounds right?). Like a deer in headlights that has never encoun
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by adventureful 14y ago
I think you nailed it. Their market was / is enterprise, which is a place where they certainly could have competed. I wouldn't want to be in the consumer space squeezed between Android and the iPhone, but RIM had a helluva position in enter
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by adventureful 14y ago
After hours price pegs their market cap at a mere $3.8 billion. Their all time high was $148.13 / share, on June 19th 2008, so almost exactly four years ago they were worth roughly $76 billion (95% destruction of value). That averages out t
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RIM posts big Q1 loss, to cut 5,000 jobs(finance.yahoo.com)
3 points by adventureful 14y ago|0 comments
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by adventureful 14y ago
And that's why he isn't dead. It wasn't that big of a deal for them, they threw together a hasty plan to wreck Megaupload, and wreck it they did. I doubt they counted on much blow back or much of a fight afterward either, which was part of
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by adventureful 14y ago
I wouldn't assume the authorities in question had any of this well mapped out (their preparation indicates they didn't), nor that they're all that interested in this case (it's not that high on the todo list). If this were strictly a matter
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by adventureful 14y ago
That seems strange. I've had a gmail account since the first open days of the beta in 2004, and never get spam in my inbox. Their spam filtering works extraordinarily well for me.
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by adventureful 14y ago
Fine application, except for the wood grain background.
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U.S. downs target missile in high-stakes test(reuters.com)
1 points by adventureful 14y ago|0 comments
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Mark Cuban: High-Frequency Traders Are the Ultimate Hackers(blogs.wsj.com)
104 points by adventureful 14y ago|121 comments
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Is Mitt Romney the New Darling of Silicon Valley?(cnbc.com)
2 points by adventureful 14y ago|0 comments
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by adventureful 14y ago
If by entitled you mean enslaved, sure. Americans are being boiled alive in the giant nanny state, and are treating their own children like the government treats them, no coincidence. Adults now rarely possess the virtues that are being que
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by adventureful 14y ago
Yes, it is practically guaranteed this locks him out of numerous larger venues that have exclusive ticketing deals. A price he's willing to pay clearly.
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by adventureful 14y ago
Should also calculate the size of the home page against the date of the first funding (rather than just the dns / http response). If a startup was funded with eg $3 million in 2007, and their supposed homepage is something like sub 3kb (10k
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by adventureful 14y ago
Nope, don't have timeline yet. I refuse, lol. On a side note, I didn't do anything to keep the old display style, I just didn't manually switch myself to the new timeline, and they never auto adopted me over.
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by adventureful 14y ago
Then you throw in a time cost variable for project management, people problems, quality control, hiring / firing, etc etc etc. Obviously whether it were worth it would be situational dependent, but there would definitely be an added time co
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by adventureful 14y ago
Most larger manufacturing companies move at a glacier pace. I could see Apple making a quick decision to use these and then having them in models within a year, but few other manufacturing companies are willing to move like that.
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by adventureful 14y ago
So there's a nice opportunity: software for OAM. Build something useful there and write your ticket in an acquisition.
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In hours, caustic vapors wreaked quiet ruin on biggest U.S. refinery(reuters.com)
3 points by adventureful 14y ago|0 comments
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Lonesome George, last-of-his-kind Galapagos tortoise, dies(reuters.com)
6 points by adventureful 14y ago|7 comments

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