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by bdb 16y ago
Of course. But it was posted here, and most of the people here know how to do that. My real message, which was obfuscated by the snark in my original post, was that it's worth checking out for the user experience alone -- in an age where w
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by bdb 16y ago
Except, um, you can use it in the States. Spin up a cheap VPS in one of their licensed countries, http://www.lowendbox.com/tag/uk/ share it with some friends, ssh -D, point Spotify at your proxy... not hard.
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by bdb 16y ago
This is particularly awesome because my Cr-48 came with a piece of paper that said something like: "Do not crush, incinerate, blend (guess we'll never find out if it'll blend...), ...(several other things)..."
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by bdb 16y ago
Netflix is merely a peripherally-involved third party in the recent Comcast/Level(3) drama. But I guess being a big enough AWS customer might help them get problems fixed when they arise. I sincerely doubt that Netflix would be acquired by
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by bdb 16y ago
From what I have heard, they are not. They are literally going full speed ahead moving all of their infrastructure (aside of streaming) over to AWS.
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by bdb 16y ago
Businesses where Amazon is already dominant, or at least well-established, yes. Amazon also consistently promotes their own first-party sales above third-party sales. Many of those third-party sellers also have other outlets for selling t
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by bdb 16y ago
What happens when Amazon launches their competing streaming video service? [1] Just a rumor at this point, but when a large set of content comes in-window for both Netflix and Amazon and each needs to spin up a thousand instances to transc
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by bdb 16y ago
Not using it for anything right now -- haven't had time to integrate the it into the stack at my new company. I miss it. ;-) However, we used it for all kinds of things at my previous company: everything from incrementing a counter for eve
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by bdb 16y ago
Graphite definitely does not get enough love. It's an amazing piece of software, though can be a little rough around the edges sometimes -- I imagine it's improved a lot over the last year. The idea to add markers for code deploys is great
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by bdb 16y ago
http://www.digitalmusicnews.com/stories/090310groovesharkumg
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Fun for hacking: a chumby-powered device for $49(bunniestudios.com)
3 points by bdb 16y ago|0 comments
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by bdb 16y ago
I pick up and leaf through 2600 whenever I end up in a Barnes & Noble or Borders, just to see if it's still there, really. I'm generally not that excited by the articles about computer security, but I still love reading articles written
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Comparing Digital Video Downloads of Interlaced TV Shows(pagetable.com)
10 points by bdb 16y ago|1 comments
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Whoa, Google, That's A Pretty Big Security Hole(techcrunch.com)
260 points by bdb 16y ago|33 comments
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by bdb 16y ago
The other thing to note here is that virtually all of Apple's web properties are Java applications. Apple has a tremendous internal investment in Java and Java technologies -- the App Store, Apple Web Store, iTunes Store, hell -- even Ping
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by bdb 16y ago
Or, could it be that it was a delicate inter-company relationship and it took time (and Sun being acquired by Oracle) for this shift to take place?
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by bdb 16y ago
Agreed. (Still not quite as bad as the Adobe Reader updates, though. My god.) Hopefully you'll have the option to use Java on OS X packaged like it is on Linux.
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by bdb 16y ago
Aligning the Java release schedules for OS X and basically all other platforms would be fantastic. Rather than some kind of deprecation, this actually makes OS X a first-class citizen in the Java ecosystem.
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by bdb 16y ago
As a hiring manager and startup founder, this is all excellent advice.
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Using Facebook UIDs (Facebook's response to the recent press.)(developers.facebook.com)
11 points by bdb 16y ago|0 comments
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Operation Developer Love(developers.facebook.com)
22 points by bdb 16y ago|8 comments
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The Making of the Syyn Labs Car Organ(blog.makezine.com)
1 points by bdb 16y ago|0 comments
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by bdb 16y ago
Great story -- inspiring. I've read it several times over the years. But can you imagine what would happen to these guys today (and everyone who had helped them) if the Worldwide Loyalty Team were called in?
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Playlist.com files for Chapter 11(news.cnet.com)
11 points by bdb 16y ago|4 comments
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by bdb 16y ago
FYI, as far as I know, they are hosted with the good folks at ServerCentral, at the DuPont Fabros CH1 site out in Elk Grove Village.
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by bdb 16y ago
We use the same display as the Panic folks for this: http://www.panic.com/blog/2010/03/the-panic-status-board/ Aside of a hiccup upon delivery, it works well, has a built in computer(!), and is built to stay on 24/7.
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by bdb 16y ago
To clarify: what I'm saying is that your average commercial banking officer is probably going to be plenty helpful, at least until you're out of the seed funding days.
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by bdb 16y ago
Why, specifically, do you need a bank that fits those criteria? This time around, we chose to just open a business account with a bank that one of our founders used for his personal banking. That said, the bank you are looking for is Silico
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by bdb 16y ago
The Droid is a great phone too. I think I like the screen better than that of the Nexus One. I just can't get into the Evo. If you haven't held one in your hand, you don't understand the size of this thing. It feels like talking into a p
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by bdb 16y ago
http://wiki.cyanogenmod.com/index.php/Main_Page#Dream If you have a Dream (G1/ADP1) or Magic (MT3G/ADP2?), highly recommended.

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