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by beering 12y ago
Will you be explaining how you didn't set up redundancy in the system to handle inevitable outages?
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by beering 12y ago
Competitors can bid, but will have generally worse answers for the specially crafted requirements. The competitors can either say "no, we don't do that" and hope that the committee doesn't mind, say "yes, we could
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by beering 12y ago
In lawsuits, it doesn't really matter. You can name anyone and everyone who's connected to the matter, and then sort out who gets dropped from the suit in court. For example, if Yogscast was actually behind a lot of this, then it
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by beering 12y ago
So you're saying that if I overpromise something and get a bunch of people to give me money for it, I have an escape hatch to never repay the money? Then it's appealing to start some BS kickstarters, never deliver, and never refun
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by beering 12y ago
I think this is ripe for a lawsuit if money is not refunded. You can name both Yogscast and Winterkewl in the suit knowing that Yogscast has enough money to pay damages. Yogscast would then try to get out of the suit, but it'd be trick
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by beering 12y ago
Perhaps not the most subtle example: I may tell someone to "man up and crank through the work". I didn't intend on being sexist, but someone points it out. And then I proceed to get into an irrelevant shouting match about how
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by beering 12y ago
Don't forget that Minecraft was originally just a game where you could walk around and place or destroy blocks. None of the fancy stuff you're talking about was added until the game started taking off.
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Ask HN: What does your Android app's "installs by version" graph look like?
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by beering 12y ago
I think the author hit this point by accounting for an accelerated growth of the "underserved" taxi market. He puts it at 6% YOY - what do you estimate it to be?
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by beering 12y ago
I switched to node.js because it was the trendy new thing and I could charge 3x the rate of boring mainstream programmers to deliver the same product, except worse (because it's node.js). I need a new thing though, since apparently nod
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by beering 12y ago
These stories about switching to node are pretty funny: "I switched from a dump truck to a motorbike and now I can drive way faster!" Node.js isn't really faster than most other popular languages with an evented library, but
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by beering 13y ago
I agree with your point about block storage - with Linode, there's a hard limit on how much hard drive space you get on any single server, which makes it a poor choice for anything that requires a lot of storage space (databases, file
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by beering 13y ago
I think it's worth the attention because Mozilla is a huge part of our life as hackers, and their mismanagement of the controversy could be a big case study for the rest of us. Would things have changed if he made a big direct apology
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by beering 13y ago
I had the understanding that it could be more efficient to be able to use fewer power plants that can be operated efficiently or replaced individually rather than millions of independent ICEs. But I'm far from an expert on this.
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by beering 13y ago
You live in a very different world from me if a "large bill" is an extra $40. For even a small company like who I work for, any fluctuations in our AWS bill under $100 would probably go unnoticed. Our total infrastructure cost (of
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by beering 13y ago
Managing your risks is fair, but it's not clear that Google Drive is less reliable than Dropbox. 1) Google Drive is a fundamental part of their online office suite, which means it's used internally for day-to-day employee work. Re
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by beering 13y ago
One thing us hackers should be especially aware of is that it is a violation of the free Google Maps API terms of service to embed Google Maps in anything that makes money. Read that again. If you make a classifieds website but charge bus
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by beering 13y ago
Oh boy, where to start? * Swartz did not create something novel. Tidbits did. * Swartz was not an MIT student. Tidbits authors were. * Swartz violated policies/rules of a couple non-profits (MIT and JSTOR). Tidbits did not. * Swartz mi
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by beering 13y ago
The irony of this is that many programmers treat continuations as some ivory-tower Lisp nonsense that seems unapproachable and inscrutable, and then they go to work and try to figure out how to get their node.js callbacks to work properly w
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by beering 13y ago
Constraint-based logic programming is actually pretty straightforward. You just define a constraint, and it tries to go and find things that fit. Quines is as simple as saying that you want eval(x)==x, and it will try to fill in answers for
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by beering 13y ago
So, what exactly is wrong with Anki's interface? The basics seem pretty simple - load a deck, and if you know the answer, click the green button, and if you don't, the red button. I can't imagine why you'd need to delve
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by beering 13y ago
The people who campaign for GPL software authors to change their license seem to assume that the authors of the software naively chose the GPL, as opposed to choosing it for its particular spirit. That's really important distinction th
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by beering 13y ago
By your logic, you should be in Africa RIGHT NOW distributing food to children instead of whining on HN. So, why are you waiting to book your tickets? Aren't you thinking about your priorities in life? That something bad is happening s
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by beering 13y ago
I agree---this was one of the most content-free articles I've read that compares products. Any time I see an article pushing a relatively unknown company over a well-established one, there's the suspicion that it's just part
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by beering 13y ago
This appears on HN coincidentally after the discussion on rating differences between cultures[1], so that different countries may have different views about what a scale of 1-10 means. A 7 in Brazil might not be a 7 in India, for example. [
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by beering 13y ago
To other readers - this post is 92% typical post-interview review, but the last 8% is a big WTF on Amazon's part. So... if you're short on time, feel free to skip to the end.
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by beering 13y ago
Oh goodness... if only there was a way for the computer to manage all the bookkeeping of what happens after what, in a way where multiple things could run at approximately the same time, without the programmer having to thread "promise
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by beering 13y ago
Because the NSA would rather use the data for more important things, like terrorism, war, and espionage of foreign governments. Even if just for public perception, I don't think anybody, NSA included, really wants the NSA to use its dr
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by beering 13y ago
The download-link trickery was probably relatively ineffective, since most people only needed one download to figure out how it worked. There were a lot of people who paid for premium Megaupload accounts so they could download stuff fast
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by beering 13y ago
I think you misread the comment you're replying to. People are not entitled to ignore all externalities that cause discomfort to others. For example, creating toxic pollution that spreads to people around you and forcing them to pay

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