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In Victory for Google, U.S. Ends Antitrust Investigation(nytimes.com)
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Why Gmail went down: Google misconfigured Chrome's sync server(arstechnica.com)
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by azylman 14y ago
I prefer my unit tests to test everything all the way down. They already have that, that's called integration testing. Unit testing is trying to test as small of a unit of code as possible - this helps you identify exactly where the error
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by azylman 14y ago
I think roughly 40% of the remaining code implements the last 20% of the features, and the other 50% is just random bloat. Request has a lot of extra code to deal with the global state. It's written as one giant class that sets all of its p
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by azylman 14y ago
To quote The Princess Bride: "You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means." You say that both me and the guy from Prismatic are trying to "justify" his actions, but that's completely false. Nowhere did I say th
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by azylman 14y ago
At work recently we reinvented something that already existed - but I think we had a good reason to. There's a node package called "request" [1] that's a very, very popular third-party library to simplify HTTP requests. If you look at the c
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by azylman 14y ago
Nowhere does he say that it's justified. Cut the man some slack. My interpretation from reading this whole thread, the associated article, and some comments is that there's an option for users to invite their Twitter followers/share activit
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Long-time Googler will head Silicon Valley patent office(arstechnica.com)
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Virtual Phone System Profig (YCS12) Shuts Down Fewer Than 3 Months After Launch(techcrunch.com)
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EU regulators to accept Apple, publishers e-book offer(reuters.com)
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by azylman 14y ago
Sorry, I didn't link to the source originally and it looks like I can't change the URL, but here's the (longer, more interesting) Bloomberg article: http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2012-11-05/apple-said-to-be-ex...
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Apple Said to Be Exploring Switch From Intel Chips for the Mac(bloomberg.com)
33 points by azylman 14y ago|67 comments
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by azylman 14y ago
If you read the chat log he posted, it actually makes him look bad more than anyone else. Yes, it's bad, shady practice to require someone to call you to get a refund you promise, especially if you don't list that they have to call you anyw
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by azylman 14y ago
San Francisco, CA - Full Time I work for Clever, a YCS12 company. It's quite honestly the best job I've ever had. Every day I get to solve fun and interesting problems in a market (education) where I can actually tell people that I'm trying
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by azylman 14y ago
This is completely unrelated to the post, but I was at the Airbnb tech talk and it was extremely interesting - thanks for putting that on!
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About today's App Engine outage(googleappengine.blogspot.com)
81 points by azylman 14y ago|30 comments
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by azylman 14y ago
What are you talking about? I posted a link with their support options and your response is "No, you can't get support". Clearly, you can - I linked to it. If I go there with my free apps account it's crystal clear, in big letters: "Email a
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by azylman 14y ago
This "Google has no support" is a myth that I see consistently repeated on Hacker News that I can't understand it's repeated. Google's support situation is actually the same as Microsoft's: if you pay (i.e. have a Google Apps for Business)
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by azylman 14y ago
The difference is that tax shelters usually aren't used to deprive your staff of salary, they're used to deprive the government of tax revenue. This is both.
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by azylman 14y ago
The 1% is the upper middle class Errr... how much income do you think makes you 1%? Hint: it's $150k/yr. That's not "upper middle class". I understand that there are a lot of people here that might make that, close to it, or more because
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by azylman 14y ago
The hardest part about this entire project took me about an hour to figure out. No, it wasn't sorting. No, it wasn't trying to organize or query search results. It was God damn JavaScript Closures. Believe it or not, out of everything, thi
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by azylman 14y ago
It doesn't matter how hard switching is for the browser, what matters is how hard switching was for the OS - that's where Microsoft had a monopoly. In that, switching was very hard. They were trying to leverage that monopoly in a new market
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by azylman 14y ago
It's very easy to give someone a list of concrete things they need to do about communication: 1) respond to emails within one business day, 2) update your manager and coworker 4 days before a deadline if it looks like you'll miss it, etc. O
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Former Patent Examiner’s Perspective On The Current “Patent Hubbub”(techcrunch.com)
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Mobile Payments Fustercluck(techcrunch.com)
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by azylman 14y ago
I never inferred that ctypes were required - in fact, I explicitly did the opposite. I asked if it was required for performant code. See the part of my post where I said "To regular pythonistas: Is this a common issue with Python, or only i
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by azylman 14y ago
Wow, I don't think I've ever had such a visceral reaction to anything I've posted on HN before. By people who clearly didn't take the time out of their day to even read what I posted! Basically, I don't use python very much and wanted to kn
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by azylman 14y ago
I'm not a big user of Python, but it seems to me that any language that requires you to embed a different language for performance is inherently broken. To regular pythonistas: Is this a common issue with Python, or only in the author's con
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by azylman 14y ago
It seems like the author is taking a specific subset of ed-tech ("online learning companies that rely on the student's intrinsic motivation") and trying to generalize it to all ed-tech. There are TONS of different companies doing some reall
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by azylman 14y ago
The difficulty of writing regexes for email validation wasn't the main point - the main point was that emails don't follow spec so any regex based on that is inherently wrong. However, it seems like saying "most email validation regexes are

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