asciitaxi

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   by asciitaxi 16y ago

   I think a "code plan" is the equivalent of a "business plan". Neither have much value. A working product is execution of the code plan. A working business is the execution of the business plan. When the technical person creates the working
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   by asciitaxi 16y ago

   I think the problem is that MS used to sell everyone Windows for $300 and Office for $300. Then everyone had to buy them again at work. I'm not sure how they can make this up licensing a phone OS. What can they charge? Ten dollars?
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   by asciitaxi 16y ago

   I have used AWS on 2 projects now. On the first project, we used 2 small instances as web servers, 1 small instance as a database master, and another as a slave. The slave machine handled backup of db and uploaded files by zipping everythin
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   Ask HN: How are you using AWS to serve and scale your web app?

   3 points by asciitaxi 16y ago|1 comments
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   by asciitaxi 16y ago

   I think before the advent of personal computing, a bit of extra complexity was ok. Life was pretty simple. You had a car, a stereo, a tv with a button for each channel, a stove/oven, and a calculator. You actually had room in your mind and
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   by asciitaxi 17y ago

   Really brilliant article
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   by asciitaxi 17y ago

   Good stuff! I'll be moving to Canberra in January and I was a bit worried that there was very little of this sort of thing. If you're still meeting in 2 months, count me in.