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by bengl3rt 15y ago
Maybe nothing should be web apps... maybe the pipe is for content and services, and native code is for layout and interaction...
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by bengl3rt 15y ago
I've done likewise but actually just found that scraping at scale (even with something like EC2) is very expensive - which sort of precludes having any sort of free tier/freemium model around the resulting site. I would have had to charge m
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by bengl3rt 15y ago
Hmm... Looks like this is an Xcode 3 project file. I can still get Xcode 3 from Apple's developer downloads, but it looks like it only includes the older iOS SDKs, not the OS X 10.5 SDK required to build this.
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by bengl3rt 15y ago
It seems to me that Sabre et al are all overly complex, left over from the days when you had to physically go to a travel agent's office to watch them clatter incantations into a monochrome terminal as they manually assembled your itinerary
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by bengl3rt 15y ago
In the past I've succeeded in offsetting this (and staying connected with the team) by going into the office 1-2 days a week, and working from home the rest. I found it was a nice balance of autonomy and socialization.
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by bengl3rt 15y ago
Come on, now. Would this "Artur on SSDs" video be nearly as memorable (and therefore efficacious) without all the swearing? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H7PJ1oeEyGg
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by bengl3rt 15y ago
There may indeed be a design issue with the new Dreamliner that was not caught in flight testing, but one anecdote doesn't make data, and even the Dreamliner still isn't as automated as your average modern Airbus. Moreover, the safety of pl
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by bengl3rt 15y ago
The hysteria that the mainstream media seems to inject into its reporting of even the most routine aviation incidents has always annoyed me. A belly landing, missed approach, and manual gear drop are all scenarios that crews have practiced
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by bengl3rt 15y ago
Yep, looks like whatever version of my app (DubPlate) that's up on the store in March '12 is the version that's going to be there in perpetuity, because it can't be updated for the sandbox on account of its using the CD burner pretty much a
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by bengl3rt 15y ago
I can think of at least one fairly large development organization that has moved to the github model internally - with pull requests and everything. Their developers love it.
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Steve Jobs and coming home to Silicon Valley(blog.miazmatic.com)
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by bengl3rt 15y ago
Does it at least AirPlay so I can put this up on my TV?
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by bengl3rt 15y ago
Why do I have to use Flash to watch this? Doesn't seem to work on my iPhone.
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by bengl3rt 15y ago
Thirded on the dual (or more) monitors... I find different types of music helps me with different types of work. For example, if I already understand a problem very clearly and have visualized most of the code in my head (and it's just a ma
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by bengl3rt 15y ago
I would really like to know the answer to this as well. Where's the line between a "project" and a "startup"?
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by bengl3rt 15y ago
I don't understand why people share an iTunes account with their spouse/family. Does that mean they share an email address too? Why?
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by bengl3rt 15y ago
Nor will he get to live in his dream house, which he finally got permission to build on a specific spot in Palo Alto last year.
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by bengl3rt 15y ago
Agree 110% - I destroyed my wrists at age 18 working 12hrs/day on a startup (who recently got acquired, congrats guys!) because my setup was ergonomically very poor and I had terrible typing technique. Luckily, I had my parents' health insu
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by bengl3rt 15y ago
Unfortunately, this does not solve the problem that many hackers that I know have. They would have no trouble selecting between a number of different applicants/candidates - they are having trouble with generating "deal flow" in the first p
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by bengl3rt 15y ago
The best news about this in my opinion is that websites can no longer block EC2 IPs if they want to work properly on the Kindle Fire... between this and free inbound bandwidth (now we know why they made that happen in the first place), scra
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by bengl3rt 15y ago
Sad that that's a good indicator, still, no?
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by bengl3rt 15y ago
Seconded. I just lived there for eight months and came away with the idea that it's a great place to visit, not a great place to live. The cognitive overhead of being frugal in NYC is absurdly high so you eventually give up on it to focus o
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by bengl3rt 15y ago
Right. It has the smaller, less powerful TB controller that only supports one monitor. Hoping this will change in future generations as they try to create a super-thin 15" pro machine as well.
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by bengl3rt 15y ago
I should qualify: I do iOS, Android, backend Django/Postgres, and Clojure dev. I'm sure I could run Postgres locally on the Air and the SSD would keep up without breaking a sweat but I like to share dev databases between my machines by runn
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by bengl3rt 15y ago
Seconded. Once the Air can run two external monitors over Thunderbolt I can ditch my desktop.
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by bengl3rt 15y ago
Isn't this basically what Path was trying to become?
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by bengl3rt 15y ago
This is one of the biggest reasons Linus Torvalds refuses to re-write the Linux kernel in C++ even though he is repeatedly pushed to do so... in C++ a whole bunch of things outside the file (templates, operator overloading) can make it so t
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by bengl3rt 15y ago
Agreed. Right now it is a performance arms race - IOPS trumps everything. However, bigger and bigger enterprise vendors are doing rigorous qualification tests on SSDs for white-labeling purposes and demanding that the firmware be bulletproo
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by bengl3rt 15y ago
At the moment, the reliability problem with SSDs stems entirely from firmware bugs, rather than the underlying flash technology. All the issues you hear about with regards to drives causing blue screens or simply failing to be recognized by
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by bengl3rt 15y ago
Original story: http://news.ycombinator.org/item?id=3001020

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