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by biot 12y ago
Perhaps it's meant to convey that, unlike the story, the system can deliver "A Message From the Emperor".
842.
by biot 12y ago
The typical phrase is "on bare metal".
843.
by biot 12y ago
> to keep there data up to date Should be "their data". You should also fix this in the app description: should be "about what their options are", not "about what there options are".
844.
by biot 12y ago
As this appears to have been submitted by the author: the site is very difficult to read on an iPad. The font size toggles between small and large every few seconds. Easily reproduced in both Chrome and Safari.
845.
by biot 12y ago
Say you have the best client in the world (perhaps your own brother) and you do $5K worth of work. A few years later the company is acquired, gets all new management, and now your $5K software is supporting a $500M/year business. Some
846.
by biot 12y ago
Would you have had the same experience by coding directly in Ruby? The magic of Rails would similarly be hidden from you, forcing you to learn what's going on under the hood.
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by biot 12y ago
See https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8859199 for a great discussion (329 comments) on Brooke Allen's APL hiring story.
848.
by biot 12y ago
Discussed before at: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8876429
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by biot 12y ago
Depends on the definition of "signed up". 99% of them may have signed up for the free 10 text message trial. Without knowing the conversion from signup to paid, retention rates, and so on it could be either wildly profitable or lo
850.
by biot 12y ago
Just keep in mind that such a house's protection against easy breaches by police (who, in a no-knock scenario, will be equipped for a breach) also prevents easy breaches by ambulance or fire crews. What if you're only able to call
851.
by biot 12y ago
Very true. I wasn't addressing what is defined as a seed, but his second point asking "How far do SV angels expect you to be before they'll put that kind of money on the table?"
852.
by biot 12y ago
This is blogspam. Original source was discussed here yesterday: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8921655
853.
by biot 12y ago
It boils down to risk tolerance. If Elon Musk were to say "I'm thinking of doing something new, just not sure what yet", someone will throw $7.5M at him. On the other hand, if you're not a big name with an established tr
854.
by biot 12y ago
If you have 100% code coverage and have solved the halting problem, yes.
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by biot 12y ago
In a few decades, the concept that someone ever needed hearing protection around a robot will be quite the anachronism, similar to how someone used to marvel that a computer could fit into a space smaller than a large room.
856.
by biot 12y ago
In addition to what thephyber said, the Netflix culture doc has been very widely read across many industries as exemplary of a high performance culture. Similarly, I'm not in the shoe sales business but I've read the Zappos Core
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by biot 12y ago
The strategy of "wait a bit longer" can be configured with an exact value for how long to wait via this recovery feature. However, given that you don't have any information about the failure's permanence or whether it ca
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by biot 12y ago
Any reason why this isn't automatic? From the "Recover your instance" docs: Examples of problems that cause system status checks to fail include: * Loss of network connectivity * Loss of system power * Softwar
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by biot 12y ago
> Wait, shouldn't that be easy for them to compete with, then? Oh, but it is. If the municipal service can only offer 1.5Mbps for $40/month, the private ISPs can offer 2.5Mbps for $70/month, 5Mbps for $125/mon
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by biot 12y ago
Current version of Chrome, but my Windows font settings are set to 110% (system-wide, not browser specific) to make it easier to view text when in a high resolution on a small monitor. I see this issue with various sites that assume a fixed
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by biot 12y ago
The site could use a UX check itself. :) Using Chrome on Windows: http://imgur.com/EK3Mu3s http://imgur.com/SbUmSzh Also, what would be really handy is the ability to download the result not as a document,
862.
by biot 12y ago
Due to its fascinating subject matter, it ends up being one of the most-submitted stories on HN. There are various others articles and background stories around its engineering and funding as well: https://hn.algolia.com/?q=
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by biot 12y ago
The one thing I do like about the new search site is that it doesn't open everything up in a new tab... something that is an annoyance with the current search. Please keep it that way! If I want something in a new tab, I'll just C
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by biot 12y ago
> I don't know if the industry has as concise of a term > for throwing everything out and starting over I recommend using the word "flush". Some examples: "we flushed that idea and started looking at some
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by biot 12y ago
You're addressing a different issue; at-fates-hands was addressing the issue of "keeping your FTP credentials in plain text" whereas you are discussing that plain FTP is an insecure protocol (a point I fully agree with). Th
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by biot 12y ago
> What exactly is "crypto-gibberish"? You generate a random password from the set of inputs that the system allows, usually printable ASCII characters. So instead of a non-gibberish password like "correcthorsebatte
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by biot 12y ago
If you're looking for proof, we can always run the research through a Begger's funnel plot and graph the results; the outliers should then be revealed as plain as day!
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by biot 12y ago
It's also in one other place that I can detect, though you may need to play it with sufficient volume to hear it. That you only heard it at the end lends credibility to the effectiveness of hiding morse code in a song.
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by biot 12y ago
Though I don't know morse code (beyond S-O-S), I know of morse code and roughly what it ought to sound like. I really wish the article had started out with the SoundCloud player, saying "Listen to this first... notice anything
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by biot 12y ago
The analogy is off. Bus vs. car riding on the road is equivalent to the packets which ride on top of the underlying internet infrastructure. That some people group their information into the same packet (a bus) vs. dedicating the packet to

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