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by btipling 15y ago
So the garbage collection is optional? That's cool.
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by btipling 15y ago
I was looking at Windows Phone seriously the other day. The UI seems pretty nice, except for that bit about text running off the screen. I don't know why anyone would think not being able to read entire words is helpful. The default apps ar
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by btipling 15y ago
I would have voted for Go. Agree, should be on the list.
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by btipling 15y ago
I appreciate all the work ZeroCater is doing to create a better catering experience. We use ZeroCater at our SF Rackspace office. Their customer service is very responsive. The website is great. My biggest complaint is how variable the food
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by btipling 15y ago
The various warnings about drivers, touchpad and wifi in these answers is almost amusing if not a little depressing. Remember the promise of the Linux Desktop? I remember giving ubuntu a good try in 2006, but after nightmares with xorg conf
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by btipling 15y ago
The language is pretty much amazing. There is so much that is right with it. The tools are very helpful. The makefile free build tool it ships with, 'go', is great. Things are really well documented. The source code is easy to read. I have
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by btipling 15y ago
It's not a hyperlink, pininterest is either hot-linking or making a copy of images to which it has no copyright for and for which the users who added these images do not have copyright access to.
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by btipling 15y ago
Can you imagine a post like this on HN two or three years ago?
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by btipling 15y ago
> the actual problem with JavaScript - a select few determine the introduction of language features. What language exists in which this is not the case? Language by committee sounds terrible.
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by btipling 15y ago
Some people think "I didn't like it" means nobody should like it. I like my kindle fire, although I think I'd prefer a Ice Cream tablet next year. I like widgets and power and awesomeness. But just because I think I might like something els
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by btipling 15y ago
I wonder if we need text logs at all anymore. It seems silly to expect people to be able to read millions of log entries from tens, hundreds or even thousands of servers. Maybe binary logs using protocol buffers or thrift are the way of the
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by btipling 15y ago
If they're selling the Fire at a loss, how are they going to destroy the iPad in terms of profit. Mind you I ordered a fire, so I hope to see it succeed.
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by btipling 15y ago
> "If your candidate doesn’t understand getElementById, getElementsByTagName, appendChild and removeChild, you have a problem" Why, because you can't reach the Mozilla docs? Reference based questions are no way to do an interview. It's
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by btipling 15y ago
Right, the private consumption by tens of thousands of Google Reader users. Is it private because they have to login? Like what is the difference? One is a web page with all of Techcrunch's content, and the other is a web page with all of T
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by btipling 15y ago
I made this with redis, node.js, backbone (frontend and backend!) and jquery UI. Has taken about 4 months so far. It's entirely open source, and you can (somehwat) easily set it up on your own server: https://github.com/apphacker/sphela I
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Show HN: Sphela, real time public groups for Twitter(sphela.com)
18 points by btipling 15y ago|1 comments
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by btipling 15y ago
Right because you'd only ever want to find things that were notable.
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by btipling 15y ago
Except duckduckgo can't find my project and Google can: http://duckduckgo.com/?q=sphela+github https://encrypted.google.com/search?q=sphela
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by btipling 15y ago
http://www.aoltv.com/bloggers/oliver-miller/page/1/ are his articles.
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by btipling 15y ago
They are doing useful things, they're helping create scalable technology that can serve 600 million people. Cassandra, HipHop, Thrift, etc are all products from those minds. In addition the kinds of problems they are solving, such as creati
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by btipling 15y ago
>" this is only acceptable for application start-up routines" You gonna come spank me if I do it synchronously and it works for me? I hate when people are so forceful with their opinions.
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by btipling 15y ago
Airbnb has a solid business model.
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by btipling 15y ago
Might have just been copy Demand Media wrote for him.
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by btipling 15y ago
You wont get the nice upgrades. I always get the mac app store version because you can't convert from one to the other.
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The New York Times home page sucks(skitch.com)
1 points by btipling 15y ago|2 comments
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by btipling 16y ago
Haven't come up with any kind of thing that people are willing to pay for. :/
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by btipling 16y ago
He's able to be his own boss running his own company. I'd trade my dayjob for his position in a heartbeat.
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by btipling 16y ago
Doesn't seem to work for me on Chrome on Mac OS X. I have flashblock but I disabled. According to the FAQ it uses quicktime. I think I might have that disabled.
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The rationale for Ceylon, Red Hat's new programming language(arstechnica.com)
7 points by btipling 16y ago|0 comments
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by btipling 16y ago
I doubt Gruber would have posted anything about this if the mentioned poll had a result favorable for Android.

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