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1. 901.▲
   by boucher 18y ago

   Please don't post direct download links. Especially after the last ones were removed.
2. 902.▲
   by boucher 18y ago

   At any startup I would want to work for, wearing a suit would at worst be neutral.
3. 903.▲
   by boucher 18y ago

   Low latency is great, but I would take your concerns with a grain of salt. 80ms isn't bad. boucher$ ping google.com PING google.com (64.233.187.99): 56 data bytes 64 bytes from 64.233.187.99: icmp_seq=0 ttl=241 time=83.783 ms
4. 904.▲
   by boucher 18y ago

   Short answer: yes. Long answer: There's still some work to do.
5. 905.▲
   by boucher 18y ago

   Actually, we use both methods. You can preprocess the code ahead of time if you want, and serve content that way. We do this for our core frameworks (AppKit and Foundation). Most of our application code is not preprocessed though. One o
6. 906.▲
   by boucher 18y ago

   Absolutely, and, as soon as its ready :)
7. 907.▲
   by boucher 18y ago

   Well, for one, 280 Slides is free. PowerPoint is far from it. More importantly, its really nice to use software that you don't have to install or download, and that gets automatically updated to the newest version. Plus, neither PowerPoint
8. 908.▲
   by boucher 18y ago

   It's a pretty big difference though from downloaded desktop software.
9. 909.▲
   by boucher 18y ago

   We started slides at the beginning of Y Combinator in January. Since then we've written both slides and a significant portion of our framework.
10. 910.▲
    by boucher 18y ago

    Fixed.
11. 911.▲
    by boucher 18y ago

    The TechCrunch embed has bitten us a bit harder than expected. We're actively working on it!
12. 912.▲
    by boucher 18y ago

    Claim: "Google's BigTable Costs 10 Times Less than Amazon's SimpleDB". Fact: Structured data storage on BigTable costs 10 times less than structured data storage in SimpleDB. Those two statements are not the same. Implying they are is very
13. 913.▲
    by boucher 18y ago

    Well, I'm glad you added the quotes, because the title is pretty ridiculous without them (and really only slightly less so with them).
14. 914.▲
    by boucher 18y ago

    Well, no, this is still misleading. One specific portion of the service costs 10x more, not the whole service. Furthermore, its the one part of the service that Amazon doesn't really expect you to use (hence the price). As you said, stora
15. 915.▲
    by boucher 18y ago

    This claim is ridiculous. Amazon's pricing is clearly designed to get you to store as much structured data as possible in S3, and simply to store references to that data in SimpleDB. If you follow that model, the pricing is very similar.
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    by boucher 18y ago

    You can store a hash of the password in the DB as opposed to the password itself. The only time the actual plaintext password needs to be passed is at registration time, and even then you could add another hash step to get rid of that. Wh
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    by boucher 18y ago

    This is basically what we do.
18. 918.▲
    by boucher 18y ago

    Well, at the very least, its cross browser / cross platform.
19. 919.▲
    by boucher 18y ago

    I tend to agree, and I didn't make any claims about the number of requests. But data transfer really isn't all that slow, and 1415 bytes only takes about 10 milliseconds on a dsl connection (and 100ms on dial up), which is insignificant co
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    by boucher 18y ago

    While I think you have some good points, the difference between 20504 and 21919 bytes is completely meaningless.
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    by boucher 18y ago

    This isn't really image manipulation in JavaScript at all, it's image manipulation in PHP with a javascript front end. It's also not particularly new -- see snipshot ( http://snipshot.com/ ).
22. 922.▲
    by boucher 18y ago

    Still doesn't deal well with eval'd code (though I'm not surprised).
23. 923.▲
    by boucher 18y ago

    Seems highly overpriced to me. I'm on MT's Grid, and I haven't been impressed with that either.
24. 924.▲
    by boucher 18y ago

    What isn't recommended is the implication that the site is somehow sponsored by facebook, which I think they will feel this site tries to do. Intentional or not.
25. 925.▲
    by boucher 18y ago

    I suspect facebook will not approve of their logo appearing so prominently at the top right of the page.
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    by boucher 18y ago

    This is only marginally useful. It is not, for example, an effective way to maintain a login session, which will obviously break down on opening another window, or browser restarts, etc. Plus the fact that any website could then steal any
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    by boucher 18y ago

    Ok. The results are almost the same, except that Google's results have a much better UI. While Sarkozy was fourth on Google, and third on Powerset, it was both much higher on the Google page thanks to the ridiculously huge Powerset "facz"
28. 928.▲
    by boucher 18y ago

    Not if you're using Safari!
29. 929.▲
    by boucher 18y ago

    "How well does the back...print" It looks really good printed actually, which I was a little surprised by. "something about the text in the top-right corner on the white side seems off" You're right, and the colors are poor choices. The co
30. 930.▲
    by boucher 18y ago

    I don't have great design skills, and these certainly have flaws, but I'm pleased with the way they came out: http://rossboucher.com/downloads/cards.png Comments welcome.