alayne

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   by alayne 13y ago

   It's only not a tech problem if every service has Google levels of server capacity and performance. Websites still regularly fall over when posted on aggregation sites.
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   by alayne 13y ago

   Well, for starters, he is a CEO not a CTO.
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   by alayne 13y ago

   Corvettes are known for getting unusually high mpg on the highway. I always understood the primary factors to be light weight and tall gearing. V8 Silverados don't get great highway mileage, right?
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   by alayne 13y ago

   The Corvette is a significantly lighter vehicle due to its fiberglass body. I consistently got 19mpg or less in my 335i. They've improved the mileage a bit in newer versions, but not much. An M3 would be worse of course.
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   by alayne 13y ago

   Step 1: find the correct source code. Reading code has its place and tracing code has its place. I have difficulty understanding nontrivial codebases without some amount of tracing. In this case you chose to present the source for a FreeBSD
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   by alayne 13y ago

   A typical RESTful API: PUT new data to resource x/y/z An asynchronous non RESTful API: POST job information for resource x/y/z GET status of job for resource x/y/z until status is comple
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   Protesters block Apple, Google buses in San Francisco area(reuters.com)

   4 points by alayne 13y ago|0 comments
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   by alayne 13y ago

   http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Register_renaming
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   by alayne 13y ago

   To be fair, Google's army of researchers does publish a sizable number of papers and participate in conferences. I don't want to make it sound like they are a vacuum or not contributing to human knowledge. I am just having issues
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    by alayne 13y ago

    Much of the driverless car tech is from CMU and other universities who have been working on it for 30 years. Google hired several people from CMU and Berkeley. Are they putting resources into it and improving it? Absolutely. I just don&#x27
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    by alayne 13y ago

    Bell Labs invented fundamental technology like the transistor and the laser. I wouldn't put Google Maps in that league. They did not invent autonomous vehicles or wearable computers, though they have made strides in commoditizing the t
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    by alayne 13y ago

    This makes it sound like they want another VM alongside existing JS VMs specifically for Dart. Isn't that making the same mistake again of not specifying a general purpose VM?
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    by alayne 13y ago

    Show me any evidence that college educated people, in particular, are having trouble finding employment. These numbers look extremely favorable http://www.bls.gov/emp/ep_chart_001.htm .
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    by alayne 13y ago

    I don't buy the arguments that trade jobs are a good option. It's especially hard to swallow from a college graduate who belongs to an anti-union political party. Unless you are unwilling or unable to go to college, the numbers in
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    by alayne 13y ago

    You're not counting local taxes. Gas taxes are about 50 cents a gallon.
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    by alayne 13y ago

    What's the source of your 30% statistic?
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    by alayne 13y ago

    Collectives can only divide so long before they become indivisibles.
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    by alayne 13y ago

    You can't generalize across 300 million people based on one year of personal experiences.
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    by alayne 13y ago

    Sure, for scripts, adhoc analysis, command line hacking and whatnot, go ahead. Regexes should be seen more like a last resort than a good software engineering choice. They're a code smell. I have seen so many incorrect, slow regexes fr
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    by alayne 13y ago

    Is that a serious question? Almost every major language has some kind of string trim/strip function for that purpose.
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    by alayne 13y ago

    Please don't use regexes.
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    by alayne 13y ago

    Try the correct test input: noe\u0308l
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    by alayne 13y ago

    This seems like something that should be part of their business instead of waiting for catastrophes.
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    by alayne 13y ago

    Writing us off as "geeks" is absurd. A lot of us are high level developers, architects, consultants, and so on.
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    by alayne 13y ago

    Sometimes thought leaders need to light the way when issues are not apparent to the masses. I have been saying for a long time that having companies own our identities is a bad idea.
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    by alayne 13y ago

    Google has owned youtube for 7 years and this year they decided to mess with people. Why?
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    by alayne 13y ago

    I am now actively reducing my youtube usage. Maybe it's a drop in the bucket, but I think a lot of people are getting tired of Google's bullshit.
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    by alayne 13y ago

    This falls short. Phones should never be locked, even if there is an open contract.
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    by alayne 13y ago

    Thank you. I haven't laughed so hard in a long time.
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    by alayne 13y ago

    I watched the latest episode of Small Empires yesterday about Kitchensurfing and was very impressed. I definitely recommend the show if you are interested in startups and Alexis Ohanian http://www.theverge.com/video/sma