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by adw 15y ago
Absolutely none of this is officially supported, right? (It looks very much like "game on, DotCloud", from what you've been finding, though....)
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by adw 15y ago
It's fairly hard to find a large Web service which isn't "cloud" in some sense. Doesn't nearly all of Netflix run on Amazon AWS?
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by adw 15y ago
Or, um, Gmail/Hotmail/Yahoo! Mail.
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by adw 15y ago
nah, your best bet's definitely nXML - http://www.thaiopensource.com/nxml-mode/
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by adw 15y ago
It's a social problem, not a technical one, so it needs a social solution. (That probably means assertive moderation, thread killing and user-banning.) I don't see how you can align the game mechanics of a scoring system with the kind of to
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by adw 15y ago
This, this, this. Ashton Kutcher is, in all likelihood, a much better representative of one of the demographics Airbnb would like to access (wealthy hipsters) than any VC would be. The whole game is understanding your audience. He's a profe
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by adw 15y ago
Isn't a lot of this the whole Lisp thing again? (The human-readable serialization format for Lisp is, as I understand it, damn close to being an ASCII serialization of the AST for Lisp, hence...)
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by adw 15y ago
So what plain-text source encodings are is a serialization format. Now that's interesting, because running with that thought, what if there were multiple equivalent serializations for the same program? What if one were more convenient than
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by adw 15y ago
Your portions are bigger. (Seriously.)
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by adw 15y ago
Even if it is - and reading the article, it's Dave Winer, who I doubt would think of himself as a marketer - then that doesn't make it wrong! Marketing is a legit discipline with a bunch of charlatanry around it. So is programming. So is ba
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by adw 15y ago
I think it's a bit of an indictment of the industry, actually. We're not that good at making tools to think with for people less skilled than ourselves, and that's the most important thing we can be doing. Here's an example. I'm not the m
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by adw 15y ago
32x EBITDA (the net income is artifically low thanks to one-off writedowns).
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by adw 15y ago
No, not for themselves; for their shareholders – ie for you. They're saying that there's an illiquid opportunity they can access which you can't. You might disagree with them; if you do, sell the stock.
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by adw 15y ago
Node.js on the developer desktop, yes, running Windows.
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by adw 15y ago
Feature, not product. No-one cares about recommendations by themselves, they just want to buy or look at stuff. (DirectedEdge's product is, effectively, developer tools, so people who want the feature don't have to build their own. Hunch is
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by adw 15y ago
Berkeley DB? (Or Tokyo Cabinet...)
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by adw 15y ago
This is intensely nerdy, but "encrypted form" can be jargon for what we'd mean by "anonymised" in certain contexts around personally identifiable information.
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by adw 15y ago
Makes sense. Thinking about it, most of the DB2 usage I've heard of is behind ATM and core accounting systems in retail banking rather than trading applications/low-latency...
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by adw 16y ago
If it's financial sector (and it likely is), IBM's DB2 has a large userbase.
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by adw 16y ago
The real thing I can't get my head around with BitCoin is that, at least in theory, real-world currencies are backed by force of arms. I know they're kind of a consensual hallucination, but it's one backed by hegemonic power: the pound coin
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by adw 16y ago
I'm speculating it uses Pete Warden's OpenHeatMap (it's, like, a 20k executable, it has to be pulling map data from somewhere).
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by adw 16y ago
As we all know we get what we measure, right? The problem here fundamentally is that there's not a clear metric which correlates with "good", because there's no clear definition of what "good" is. (This is my utility function. There are man
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by adw 16y ago
I had a BA because every first degree at my alma mater BA. I guarantee you it's at least the equal of any science course anywhere in the world. (They give you an MA for free later, but that's a weird historical accident; I have a proper Mas
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by adw 16y ago
Something related which occurs to me; investing in ideas is basically premature optimisation, because great people can change ideas but average people are unlikely to spontaneously become great.
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by adw 16y ago
Timetric in London – python hacker into data ( http://timetric.com/about/jobs/ , if you email us say Hacker News sent you). We're funded and in White Bear Yard ( http://whitebearyard.com/ ), which is a very cool place to work.
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by adw 16y ago
If you're unfamiliar with this; Hawk-Eye is the system used in high-level tennis and cricket to do computer-assisted refereeing. They've got a lot of IP for camera-based systems (think Kinect) and there are obvious gaming applications here.
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Hawk-Eye ball-tracking firm bought by Sony(bbc.co.uk)
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by adw 16y ago
Scrabble for iPad already does this in part (tile rack on your iPod/iPhone). It's a bit pricy yet but this is obviously a thing which is coming.
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by adw 16y ago
The Facebook crowd is 500m people. The number who even know what BitTorrent is compared to that is a rounding error.
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by adw 16y ago
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nielsen_BookScan (edited to add: is the canonical source of this kind of data)

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