aroman

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by aroman 13y ago
At first I read your comment as "rather brilliant way" and I agreed with it more than your actual comment :)
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by aroman 13y ago
I agree strongly about #1. I can totally see where they were coming from (and frankly they are truly in uncharted waters with this funding campaign -- nobody has really ever attempted a crowd funding initiative quite like this one), but you
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by aroman 13y ago
You can call them whatever you want, but I don't need to write any migration scripts when I change the schema. Writing a migration script MIGHT be a good idea, depending on my setup, but I definitely don't NEED to. I don't re
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by aroman 13y ago
Right, like CloudFlare's services. I remember reading the postmortems from that very large attack a few months back. Surely GitHub must have the money to beef up their pipes, no? Or perhaps they're noticing that these outages aren
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by aroman 13y ago
Looks like another DoS attack: "0:18 UTC GitHub.com is recovering at this time from a DoS attack. We're continuing to monitor things and will provide further updates as the situation develops." Is there really no way to prote
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by aroman 13y ago
I have absolutely no special knowledge of the situation, and I share your puzzlement and frustration. But my simple (though completely speculative) theory (and I fully expect it to be the correct one) is that security is simply not somethin
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by aroman 13y ago
Rapid iteration comes to mind (as a result of its lack of schemas). It's also great if your objects are JSON documents, and as such it's particularly suited for uses such as a backend to Backbone. Those are two areas in particular
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by aroman 13y ago
Does "everyone you know" have recent experience running Mongo in production? Because I have, and from my perspective calling it "a joke" is borderline trolling. I'm not trying to be hostile, but you've got to
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by aroman 13y ago
I mean you're kind of trying to say "Why not X?" The answer is X would probably work fine, but Mongoose got there first, set the standard, has lots and mindshare, and is very well written and tested. Could most everyone use D
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by aroman 13y ago
Ah, thanks for the followup. So basically the point is that people are recognizing the problem isn't just a growing pain of early mobile adoption, but rather is a serious and fundamental problem that needs lots of money and effort to t
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by aroman 13y ago
I agree with the statements presented by the article (i.e doing real work on iOS sucks), but I don't really see what the title of the article has to do with its content. What led them to draw the conclusion that the productivity app ma
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by aroman 13y ago
What I don't understand about the idea was why would anyone visit a page full of ads? Did the owner sign deals with the major browser vendors at the time? I really, why would anyone want to visit a page with nothing more than 1,000,
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by aroman 13y ago
See also the coolest auditory illusion I know of: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shepard_tone
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by aroman 13y ago
I don't know and presumably neither do you. I'm not saying we shouldn't question the government, I'm just saying we shouldn't automatically assume ulterior motives. Coming up with theories of ulterior motives is eas
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by aroman 13y ago
Wow, I'm usually pretty skeptical about these new niche social networks, but I've gotta say that is really really cool. Great work on the "living photo" idea -- that kind of adds this magical sort of feeling to it, which
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by aroman 13y ago
Totally agree with everything you've said. I wasn't trying to equate helping the NSA build spy tools with building equipment for the Nazis -- just how doing so can be a slippery slope because it scales to such awful things as we
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by aroman 13y ago
Talking to a friend of mine who works there, they haven't moved away from it at all really. They've been optimizing the heck out of it, and as much as my kneejerk reaction to their infrastructure is "a collage of rubberbands
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by aroman 13y ago
I don't understand this argument. I know there were in fact no WMDs found in Iraq, but I believed the government when they said that they had reason to think there were. So it turns out there weren't, and going in was a big mistak
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by aroman 13y ago
I'm going to give you the benefit of the doubt and assume you're not condoning their actions, but in case you need a more clear example of where this paradigm breaks down: IBM & Nazi Germany, Nazi Germany in general, etc. Iron
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14-year-old Developer Creates SMS Notification System for Apple Dev Services(macrumors.com)
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by aroman 13y ago
Worst as in least effective, but best as in most amusing.
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by aroman 13y ago
Well I think "both" is the first alternative described: get rich any way you can, then use the money for real good. I think Bill's Microsoft was definitely not very interested in "Don't be evil" -- monopolistic
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by aroman 13y ago
I really like that. As rising high school senior, I often struggle with this -- the question of whether to get rich any way I can and then make my mark on the world (a la Bill Gates), or whether I should strive for my money-making to also b
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by aroman 13y ago
Having just Googled that quote, I'm going to assume it was meant to be a paraphrasing of my comment/a (sarcastic?) response to it, rather than an actual quote. In any case, I didn't really mean other countries in my comment.
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by aroman 13y ago
As fellow (hopefully that's a safe assumption) an outsider looking in, I have to agree with this. It also just generally frustrates and disappoints me that so many brilliant young developers and entrepreneurs spend their time fixing te
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by aroman 13y ago
Hah, thanks for pointing that out!
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by aroman 13y ago
Zach's talks are always so enjoyable and well put together. I wonder what he uses to build his slide decks -- he's certainly developed a very strong and unique visual style for himself.
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by aroman 13y ago
Edward Snowden currently on top of the leaderboard. Hmm. http://pplrep.com/leaderboard
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by aroman 13y ago
But nobody is suggesting that. It'd be an additional $605. You didn't feel that the 625/830 price of the phone was worth it to you. The people who did already chose to donate for the "goodwill funding of the project&quo
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by aroman 13y ago
Why do they have the same exact item/reward point at $625, $675, $725 and $830? It seems to me they're realizing there's no way they can reach they goal selling at the $830 price point, but why have all other levels simultane

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