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by aschobel 18y ago
Nice! Mine didn't score as well. On the surface it wasn't that much different than the default ListActivity. Like an iceberg all the interesting bits are underneath. It allowed for async updates and other neat things. Also this is a client
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by aschobel 18y ago
Sure, but the JS library that powers GMail should at least get a mention and not be buried 6 minutes into a video interview.
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by aschobel 18y ago
I can't think of Yahoo app that I use on a daily basis, but there are quite a few Google apps that I use constantly. Being able to see how Google works their magic is pretty cool.
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by aschobel 18y ago
The dark launch idea is neat: "The secret for going from zero to seventy million users overnight is to avoid doing it all in one fell swoop. We chose to simulate the impact of many real users hitting many machines by means of a "dark launch
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by aschobel 18y ago
Sure, it's in the video interview with Mark Pilgrim http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MmUiKaHWjLI At 5:28 Mark says: "This is a big part of the encyclopedia and the guide. It is not just having a reference section but having a series of how-
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by aschobel 18y ago
Holy cow! Google also released their cross-platform Javascript library that they used for GMail and other projects. http://code.google.com/p/doctype/source/browse Awesome.
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by aschobel 18y ago
Yeppers, RapidSSL reissued them without a problem
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by aschobel 18y ago
It is strongly recommended that all cryptographic key material which has been generated by OpenSSL versions starting with 0.9.8c-1 on Debian systems is recreated from scratch. grrrrrrrrr I hope rapidSSL.com will re-sign my new SSL certif
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by aschobel 18y ago
How about where do I report spam? This user seems to be spamming the submission inbox: http://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=duthel
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by aschobel 18y ago
Being able to run your social apps outside of Facebook or Hi5 and on your web site seems incredibly powerful. The example they give is guacamole lover who wants to build a community around her guac recipe site. She adds a OpenSocial a widge
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Google previews Friend Connect. Run Open Social apps on your web site.(techcrunch.com)
2 points by aschobel 18y ago|1 comments
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by aschobel 18y ago
The meat in the comments of Blaine Cook's blog entry: http://romeda.org/blog/2008/05/scalability.html#140141155247... "Scaling Twitter as a messaging platform is pretty easy. See Mickaël Rémond's post on the subject. Scaling the archival,
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by aschobel 18y ago
Windows 3.1 Font Dialog Still in Vista. Win 3.1 was released in 1992, yikes! http://bink.nu/photos/news_article_images/images/13552/origi...
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by aschobel 18y ago
The coolest thing from JavaOne had to be getting Effective Java 2nd edition. Being able to meet the Guice guys was also great.
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by aschobel 18y ago
When you wrote your app for Nokia and SE did you write for MIDP?
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by aschobel 18y ago
Likewise, I used it as a deadline to get the RESTful API done. When I AJAXified my app a few weeks later it was dead simple since I had a solid API to write to. The money would have been nice since I'm bootstrapped, but it would have allowe
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by aschobel 18y ago
Congrats! You really did win, and good luck on your future projects.
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Ask YC: Android Developer Challenge results are in. Did you win? What did you make?
16 points by aschobel 18y ago|13 comments
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by aschobel 18y ago
At least they get weekends off, unlike the startup life. :P
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by aschobel 18y ago
High income taxes in Denmark worsen a labor shortage http://www.iht.com/articles/2007/12/05/business/labor.php I'd rather not pay a 63% marginal tax rate. I'm sure that must hurt when you try to attract talent.
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by aschobel 19y ago
Are they already using Java? This is al3x's comment from last night: "Apologies, that would be our Apache answering when it can't find an application server to talk to. We'll work returning a proper 501 in that case. " http://groups.googl
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by aschobel 19y ago
That should be a really fun project, I wish I had those kinds of problems to solve.
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by aschobel 19y ago
Do you have any more info on Facebook's chat architecture or were you just speculating? A quick Google of "erlang facebook chat flat file" returns your initial post, would love to read more about that if have anything.
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by aschobel 19y ago
I used to email myself notes all the time, but that gets really cumbersome. I want something that is as easy to use as a Google search or notepad.
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by aschobel 19y ago
3banana of course! =) I'm releasing it to my friends this weekend, shoot me an email at beta-feedback@3banana.com if you want to be an early tester. What is 3banana? 3banana makes your notes useful again. With 3banana you can easily jot s
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by aschobel 19y ago
Agreed, did you talk to him at Speed Q&A at Web2Open? http://www.socialtext.net/web2open/index.cgi?speed_q_a That was my favorite part of the conference. Thanks again to Tony for putting it together, being able to talk to these people
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Java Developers rejoice, Effective Java 2nd Edition by Joshua Bloch has gone to press(smallwig.blogspot.com)
10 points by aschobel 19y ago|5 comments
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by aschobel 19y ago
I found the following talk from Startup School '08 interesting since I'm in the very same position. "Mike Arrington speaks at Startup School 2008 about how to get, and how to respond to press for your startup." http://omnisio.com/startupsc
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by aschobel 19y ago
Thanks. One of the problems with email is that it is "offline" in the sense that I can't link to an existing conversation from AIM or Facebook. Launch will hopefully be next week. crosses fingers
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by aschobel 19y ago
Hehe, I also use text files. I can never find anything. One of the cool things that 3banana does is that it labels your notes automatically based on basic patterns, so you can query it to give you all the Phone Numbers you jotted down in th

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