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by andr 17y ago
We need a two-way jobs section IMHO. Companies could offer jobs and hackers can announce their availability. Two-way markets are usually more efficient. OP, I find your post disenginous. You could say it's the best thing ever if you were to
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by andr 17y ago
Both Flickr and PHP5 appeared in 2004. For one of the biggest PHP sites in the world, I'd imagine they'd upgrade sooner.
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by andr 17y ago
Word on the street is that someone has acquired a top secret CIP device and has reconfigured the subcircuit board to connect to the FAA subchannel. Jack Bauer is on the case.
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by andr 17y ago
It's still only a plan. They are collecting opinions from the community right now. :) For the record, BART = Bay Area Rapid Transit and covers San Francisco and neighboring towns. MBTA is the Massachusetts Bay Transit Authority and covers G
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Why The Boston Globe may be shutting down(alek.posterous.com)
14 points by andr 17y ago|6 comments
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by andr 17y ago
Off topic, but I love Jason Santa Maria's blog. Every post is not only interesting in its content, but is a design exercise in its own! It's a pleasure to browse the site even if you don't read the posts.
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by andr 17y ago
How about adding the rating to the link? http://g.isnsfw.com/blah . Then you won't need a preview.
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by andr 17y ago
The only benefit is that by switching from base 10 to base 36 or base 62 (26 lowercase + 26 uppercase + numbers) you are average URL will be shorter. You can usually do this using http://php.net/base_convert
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by andr 17y ago
Mosso offers S3-like storage with free CDN, and Slicehost is now part of the Mosso family, so it's kosher.
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by andr 17y ago
Yeah, it's quite cheap. You just forgot rent, food, utilities (including a broadband connection) and the depreciation costs of your laptop :)
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by andr 17y ago
Whatever the case, it would be significantly easier to correct GCC's shortcomings instead of starting afresh (and facing all those shortcomings, and others, again).
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by andr 17y ago
The curse of the entrepreneur: The more successful you are the less satisfied you get.
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by andr 17y ago
I'm sure mainframes by the hour are in the pipeline.
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by andr 17y ago
A quick way to increase your cloud expenditure by 64x - run WebSphere Portal on your EC2 instances :)
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How Google streamlined their results page by loading only 1 image(google.co.uk)
5 points by andr 17y ago|1 comments
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by andr 17y ago
The Wufoo guys seem great all around - business approach, design, technology (their PHP profiler from today), and customer service. I egotistically wish their main product was different, because I want to use what they make, yet I don't nee
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by andr 17y ago
I think this should've been implemented as a compile-time C# extension, similar to LINQ. The addition of a new language makes things confusing. You write your code in C#, then you have to rewrite some in Axum? Then you have to connect them?
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by andr 17y ago
I hope it's not permanent. Why not encode "Hacker" using HTML entities so content blockers don't catch it?
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Ask YC: Innocuous news?
70 points by andr 17y ago|45 comments
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by andr 17y ago
SQL was invented in the 70s for business analysts to write reports without having to go bug the programmers. So what? Unix was invented in the 70s because Ken Thompson wanted to play Space Travel. [1] Queries are not composa
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by andr 17y ago
This says enough: * The Conferencing system is compatible only with the Microsoft Internet Explorer browser only. Other browsers are not compatible There will always be a market for non-technical people that don't know enough about
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by andr 17y ago
The article says outright that the user IDs are not a reliable scheme for measuring growth, so I'm failing to see the relevance. <speculation> It appears that they are doing a partitioned autoincrement for their user IDs. For exampl
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by andr 17y ago
One smart thing Oracle could do is make their database talk the MySQL protocol and SQL dialect. They already support pretty much all of MySQL's features, so offering an instant upgrade path might get them a lot of business. A cheaper Web ed
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by andr 17y ago
Yes, Windows has been commoditized, but Microsoft is not really suffering from it. Even though most users don't care about the OS, they still need one. In most cases, they go with Windows. You can even say Microsoft won the battle by having
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by andr 17y ago
Pirate Bay hosts torrents which use many different tracks - not only The Pirate Bay's. And a .torrent file in that sense is similar to a link.
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by andr 17y ago
Oracle owns InnoDB and Sleepycat/BerkeleyDB, both of which are in active development. InnoDB is also MySQL's most popular storage engine. So I wouldn't fear for MySQL's future. It wasn't doing well in Sun anyways.
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by andr 17y ago
Yeah, hawala evolved into giros (or postal transfers) in most of the western world.
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by andr 18y ago
Try http://hackerne.ws/ or http://icombinator.net/ or use your phone.
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by andr 18y ago
That's only one of the needed steps. Adjust your headers so that static items are not reloaded frequently. Use versioned urls (e.g., /scripts/main.js?234) and update the versions only when you change the scripts or CSS. YSlow goes a long wa
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Should Twitter remove its follower count?(techcrunch.com)
22 points by andr 18y ago|18 comments

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