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by aston 18y ago
I missed the whole memo on how MySpace is worse than Facebook. They've dealt with their (larger than Facebook) scaling issues with what appears to be industry leading uptime, they're the biggest domestic social network by about a factor of
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by aston 18y ago
I heard from a buddy who worked on IE7 while he was a summer intern that the IE team still had code from IE 1.0 sticking around.
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by aston 18y ago
I think there's probably a lot of precedent for "seasoned replacements" making a positive impact when it comes to technical infrastructure. Not that I can point you to any. But my sense is that most big sites on the web owe a good chunk of
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by aston 18y ago
"Let's Discuss Disqus" So that's how you say it...
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by aston 18y ago
Paul Buchheit attributed the "100 happy users" thing to Eric Schmidt, if I recall correctly.
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by aston 18y ago
Clarification on parent: One of the best parts about UTF-8 is that ASCII text is also valid UTF-8-encoded text.
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by aston 18y ago
Although Gladwell would argue that Lisp, too, was as much an invention as anything done with it afterwards, insofar as the person who invented, say, CLOS was simply discovering it (in McCarthy's terms) before someone else did.
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by aston 18y ago
Pissing contest, I know, but that doesn't necessarily hold at all top tier schools. At MIT I've found pretty much every professor to be willing to chat with students, whether just after class or at office hours. At the same time, I have not
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by aston 18y ago
I was about to refer you to AppJet, but apparently they're switching back from PHP to Javascript.
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by aston 18y ago
Google App Engine.
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by aston 18y ago
This article's worth reading just for the stock market metaphor. And the Artic Monkey references.
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by aston 18y ago
Could be a gambit to play at Yahoo!'s insecurity. You know, how you start acting like you're going out with another girl to make your ex jealous.
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by aston 18y ago
Bug report: typing a ' leads to a JS error. Yay, quotes.
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by aston 18y ago
Haha. Good to know I wasn't talking about you behind your back. It's cool, man.
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by aston 18y ago
Check out San Jose State. I stayed there as an intern with Google. The place is nice, albeit sort of out of the way depending on where you want to be. Not sure if you could get similar rates as an individual, though.
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by aston 18y ago
I think Facebook is Aaron Greenspan's favorite subject.
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by aston 18y ago
Great UI. Really takes advantage of the blurring of the line between perception of responsiveness and perception of actual speed. I don't think it's that much faster in real terms than instantdomainsearch, but it feels like it's way speed
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by aston 18y ago
I disagree, at least in the general case. I believe everyone has a basic responsibility for the well-being of others (insofar as you can reasonably help), and so even if the negotiated agreement is bad I think it's more virtuous to end on g
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by aston 18y ago
The bottom line is so-so, but the top line's great for a company like Take Two. EA can afford to spend money to get hits, they just need more of them.
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by aston 18y ago
Doesn't speak well to her commitment to the company, but she probably was right about being owed more equity in the company, if only because her leaving really has taken out a good chunk of the value of the enterprise.
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by aston 18y ago
So sick. The scale of that is incredible. Facebook and MySpace don't make that much together in a year... And somehow this company is only worth $2B?
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by aston 18y ago
It's not really stated anywhere that the email address in your profile is not public. Easy mistake to make.
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by aston 18y ago
compare http://www.tutorialspoint.com/prototype/prototype_hash_proce... to http://www.prototypejs.org/api/hash Why wouldn't you just read the (awesome) docs?
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by aston 18y ago
Long looks pretty decent, so long as MSFT offers a little over $33 and so long as YHOO takes it. Or you could wait for Yahoo! to do the stock buyback...Hehe.
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by aston 18y ago
I know what you mean.
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by aston 18y ago
Last time I threw up a patch, it wasn't really all that well-received. In part because I didn't submit it on the "feature requests" thread? Without a real regex library, adding things to the 'markdown' parser in news.yc is pretty rough stuf
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by aston 18y ago
PHP: <?echo "Hello, world."?>
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by aston 18y ago
I pretty much get everything I would get out of blogging by posting on news.yc. Unless your blog has upmod/downmod arrows, it's hard to beat the feedback here.
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by aston 18y ago
Gotta hold something back for the next press release.
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by aston 18y ago
Not a bad comparison, but I feel like there's something off about it that I can't quite put my finger on it. I think maybe it's along lines of the fact that Apple is the type of company to create an object that you kind of revere for how it

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