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by aristus 14y ago
Except that no one involved really gives a shit. This is enterprise software bought by some manager to restrict access for the hoi-polloi in order to satisfy some HR rule. It's at least three levels removed from reality.
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Running a book like a startup(laurenipsum.org)
2 points by aristus 14y ago|0 comments
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by aristus 14y ago
Because of my name I get occasional contacts from journalists who write for magazines with names like "Latino Business" and "Technology California Latino". At first I felt the same as you, but one of the journalists explained it to me quite
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by aristus 14y ago
My favorite eye-stabby example of this was parsing RSS feeds (with meaningless timezone abbreviations!) from sites in the southern hemisphere. Depending on the date and various last-minute laws (thank you, President Chavez), the differentia
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by aristus 14y ago
The OP means "assistive" as in "tools used by people who are disabled". It's not a choice to be blind.
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by aristus 14y ago
Working on unimportant things often leads to overlooked things, and that's gold. "the future" is more or less defined by its disagreements with the past about what is and is not important.
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by aristus 14y ago
Congrats! Many years ago I worked on a similar idea: first a desktop archiver called Dowser, and an online app called Archivd. If you don't have enough to do (heh) one killer feature is to extract semi-structured data: email addresses, phys
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by aristus 14y ago
Keep arty and put a bird on it!
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by aristus 14y ago
These are good rules of thumb, but need more context. Plugging an article I wrote about this & other things a couple of years ago for FB engineering: https://www.facebook.com/note.php?note_id=461505383919 The "DELETE FROM some_table"
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by aristus 14y ago
Of course. Route 53 is the way to go for any site smaller than, say, Reddit.
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by aristus 14y ago
If you are interested in "latency-based" DNS routing, I'm giving a talk at Velocity in June about how we do it at Facebook: http://velocityconf.com/velocity2012/public/schedule/detail/... Slides: http://www.slideshare.net/aristus/doppler
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by aristus 14y ago
"Offering labor-intensive rewards that do not move your project forward are a net loss." http://carlos.bueno.org/2012/03/rocking-kickstarter.html
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by aristus 14y ago
Congrats, Ben!!
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by aristus 14y ago
Apache Traffic Server, nee Inktomi Traffic Server, is still alive and kicking.
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by aristus 14y ago
import random def vcd2usd(vcdollars): if random.randint(0, 9) == 9: return random.randint(0, 30) * vcdollars return 0
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by aristus 14y ago
Heh. I need a prescription to buy Vitamin K because it is in "prescription-strength" doses. Lovely self-circular logic.
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by aristus 15y ago
As a publisher I am able to opt out of DRM with all the majors like Amazon and Apple, but there is no indication that my book is DRM-free, nor a way to search for DRM-free books on their stores. I wish there were. I can imagine a scene in t
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by aristus 15y ago
Wag.com (and soap.com, diapers.com, etc) are wholly-owned, very profitable subsidiaries of Amazon.
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by aristus 15y ago
I'd add Lauren Ipsum, a kids book about computer science I wrote with my wife: http://www.amazon.com/Lauren-Ipsum-Carlos-Bueno/dp/146117818... For every copy we sell we're donating another, too: http://www.laurenipsum.org/141
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by aristus 15y ago
Also: http://www.philippinephilatelist.net/Reading/Spanish/spanish...
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by aristus 15y ago
I started researching peering, and came across references to the SMS study and the Treaty of Berne. From those two clues I found everything else via Wikipedia and the library. Iirc there is a book about the history of the Berne treaty but t
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by aristus 15y ago
My friend Tom and I did a talk about this at various conferences, wow, 2 years ago. The interesting thing is that we're following the same evolution as the old snail-mail network and the SMS network. Eventually we'll realize that "cloud pee
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by aristus 15y ago
A good counterexample would be Lotus, and possibly Flickr. I'm not claiming PayPal would have been more successful otherwise. I don't know. Many strategies can be successful. Levchin is the one teaching kids that everyone else is "completel
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by aristus 15y ago
That cuts at the root of the disagreement. Categorically stating that diversity is "completely wrong" for a startup ignores plenty of counterexamples, so, yes, he's wrong. Diversity creates communications latency. It creates other things li
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by aristus 15y ago
Surprise surprise, the next paragraph: "PayPal also had a hard time hiring women." This kind of thinking is what Mitch Kapor calls a "Mirrortocracy". It can work, in the sense that maybe you can recruit enough people just like you, down to
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Corrupting the Youth with Computer Science (2010)(carlos.bueno.org)
2 points by aristus 15y ago|0 comments
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by aristus 15y ago
That's a fair criticism of the feature. I'm sad it hasn't gotten a lot of love. But it's not BS, or a cynical marketing ploy, or what have you. Most projects at FB are executed by a surprisingly small number of people. FWIW, I'll take a loo
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by aristus 15y ago
Title is editorialized and misleading. "One third of builders said that some homes were appraised at less than they were built for" is NOT equivalent to "One third of homes are appraised less than their worth".
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by aristus 15y ago
As of this writing there are 15 separate Amazon sellers claiming to have new and used copies of my print-on-demand book. Their prices range from $12 to $888. http://www.amazon.com/gp/offer-listing/1461178185/sr=/qid=/r... I haven't called
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by aristus 15y ago
Somewhere around the time he made $140,000,000 selling an indie game to gobs of people who love to create, then announced he was writing another game which included a CPU.

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