azza-bazoo

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by azza-bazoo 11y ago
I love services for app notifications but despair that there are so many -- having a management layer on top of all of them sounds awesome!
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by azza-bazoo 11y ago
This is such an awesome, anachronistic mix of the shiny new and the internet of yore. It's a shame MUDs expect you to be constantly interacting, I keep being slow and having them time out on me (then having to ;;reset to revive the s
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by azza-bazoo 14y ago
I hope they publish a post-mortem when all is resolved, it'd be an interesting read. I remember hearing that they had a fairly complex mix of MySQL, Riak, and Varnish caching, in what sounded like a reasonably well-thought-out design. Also,
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by azza-bazoo 14y ago
> You still have the same email client you paid for, you weren't paying for future features. Although I agree, if you look through the other Sparrow threads there's a strong theme of "I paid with the expectation of future improvements".
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by azza-bazoo 14y ago
I wonder what the false-negative rate of this algorithm is. 99% (which I assume is the true-positive rate) is certainly impressive for such a simple test, though. It would be all kinds of awesome if this turns into something that can be don
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by azza-bazoo 14y ago
... which still doesn't excuse them not running with the idea and continuing to improve. Sparrow did; maybe I should have said "shifting further ". (And yes, Gmail popularized conversation view, but it was talked about at IBM Research and
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by azza-bazoo 14y ago
> Gmail is pretty much perfect There isn't any room for improvement in Gmail? Really? It's still using the same basic design of every email client since forever (labels/mailboxes at the left, inbox shows a time-sorted list of messages
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by azza-bazoo 14y ago
Wow. Hopefully this will give Gmail the kick in the pants it needs ... the interface really hasn't changed that much since the early days. (Well, of course it's been prettified a bit, but besides a few things like Priority Inbox there have
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by azza-bazoo 14y ago
I was hoping for less "here's how your commit message should be formatted", and more "here's what your message should say". Though at least the blog it links to[1] discusses the latter. No guidance on how many changes should make up one goo
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by azza-bazoo 14y ago
I don't think it's a symptom of hype in the Valley. (The high rents in general, sure. But not the hacker hostels.) As others mentioned, the whole point of being in the Valley in the first place is to be around other people doing similar thi
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by azza-bazoo 14y ago
"a program is without value before it is used by an end user for something valuable" Nice snippet of advice there. Also the rest of Trygve's original post is an excellent reminder (and in simple terms) of MVC as an idea, rather than MVC as
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by azza-bazoo 14y ago
I agree with the last paragraph in the article -- it's pretty crazy to see Google anointing this software update as special and rushing it out so much faster than normal Android updates. I mean, I get it, this is a headline-grabbing issue a
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by azza-bazoo 15y ago
The title is a bit silly, of course science has advanced since the 1500s and you need to focus on one sub-field to make a contribution. But I think the point towards the end is a good one -- that advancements in science will increasingly re
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by azza-bazoo 15y ago
It seems to ... generate different robot images, based on the names you type in, I guess?
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by azza-bazoo 15y ago
Maybe this person hadn't had much chance to network beyond their coworkers or people otherwise connected to the company? Depending on how they got fired, I could see how that might create a sense of being excluded from the bit of the commun
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by azza-bazoo 15y ago
Sure, 'twas obvious sarcasm, my bad. But there are good reasons for China's economy to grow sustainably for some time yet (emerging middle class, manufacturing going more high-tech, etc). They have major structural problems too, but it's
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by azza-bazoo 15y ago
Sad but true. I love PHP, but it's like the Internet Explorer of (web-)server side languages. First there was the ordeal of dragging folks off 3 and onto 4, then 4 to 5, now 5.2 to 5.3 ... I look forward to writing PHP 6 code in my hovercar
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by azza-bazoo 15y ago
I think you might be missing the point, though. The argument is that we're collecting exponentially more data about the brain, but that data doesn't translate directly to understanding. You mentioned Phineas Gage. That case led to the ide
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by azza-bazoo 15y ago
Um, no. Japan's economy has been stagnant for close to twenty years now. China's economy has plenty of growth left in it. Although you're right that much of the scared-of-China crowd are just people who've transplanted their fears away from
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by azza-bazoo 15y ago
Agreed. These are the same Chinese authorities that refuse to publish key economic statistics, or blatantly make them up. They also have trouble keeping track of government debt -- just this week there were reports about regional government