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by campnic 14y ago
I admit to some naivety on the issue, but it seems like these retirement plans have a some exposure when it comes to inflation. Looking at the world economy and the unprecedented measures that were/are being taken to avoid inflation (fed. r
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Ask HN: Events lost when using Google Analytics for iOS SDK 2.0b3?
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by campnic 14y ago
Well, we can split hairs on language, but 'steal' - 'to take or appropriate without right or leave and with intent to keep or make use of wrongfully'. This pretty much sums up the situation described by the article. Notice that I'm not maki
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by campnic 14y ago
How could anyone give you an estimate? We have no idea the amount of corporate drag associated with this. In theory, it could be a large cost considering this is a large enterprise which has to meet many, many customer information and priva
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by campnic 14y ago
IBM has done this forever. Its called soft licensing. (or at least that is what their term was) It not a free copy. If you use this and they have proof, you would be sued for violating the licenses. Its the same as stealing. Just because th
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by campnic 14y ago
Thats funny. You must not work in the 'apps for government agencies' space. :)
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by campnic 14y ago
Based on some rough second hand estimation [1] it is an order of magnitude larger then all other AZs and is about as big as them all combined. [1]: https://huanliu.wordpress.com/2012/03/13/amazon-data-center-...
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by campnic 14y ago
The entire time I'm reading the article and the comments, I'm just mentally jaw-dropped by these comments. We are no where near the top of the 's-curve' for computational or industrial technology. The entire argument is a straw man by Kaspa
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by campnic 14y ago
We are using GA to track mobile apps. The local queuing and dispatch of hits to GA is covered here[1]. We've found it to be pretty reliable. You can also modify the dispatch time for testing, etc. [1] https://developers.google.com/analytics
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by campnic 14y ago
At the risk of going off topic, a question about sampling and sampling rates. If I set sampling to 1%, will the visitor totals in the Google Analytics dashboards reflect 1% of my true values or do they compensate/extrapolate out to 100% bas
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by campnic 14y ago
As an Android developer, its really exciting to see good examples of the tools in action. The documentation on how to debug problems beyond crashes/ANRs is a bit thin. That being said, I do have one gripe. There are some chasms between the
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by campnic 14y ago
I understand your point about not assuming, but I generally get negative feelings about companies that don't communicate clearly when they make decisions for me that cost me money. I think that is the authors primary gripe.
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by campnic 14y ago
The original article was a commentary on Heroku with a short conclusion which included a comparison to the authors experience with AWS. Your comment reads like an ad for a third service which isn't at all related to the original article. If
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by campnic 14y ago
I've recently started trying to understand how these dilution events occur. I was wondering if you could better explain what happened in this case so I could further my understanding.
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by campnic 14y ago
There is a misconception, extremely prevalent on HN and in the startup community, that you're dead at 35. Really, if you are 25 and not certain about what you want to do, the real 'risk' you should be taking is trying something completely d
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by campnic 14y ago
Even though the features lag behind some of the more 'flexible, newer' languages, its exciting to see some of these come down the pipe. After using libraries like Google's Guava, I'm anxious to see some more functional-esque styles get inte
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by campnic 14y ago
This comment does nothing but make you look ridiculous. Either discuss the article or don't.
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by campnic 14y ago
For a moment, based on the backtrack (amazonaws.com), I thought Amazon was suing Rackspace. It'd be nice to get that fixed.
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by campnic 14y ago
I don't work for Facebook. I work at a mobile company that does iOS and Android development. I work daily on our Android apps. Here is my experience: 1. The cost of maintaining iOS and Android is something like 1.5x the cost of maintaining
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by campnic 14y ago
Yes. I think that is a useful business. If you could make a system that was scalable and provided an API like parse that sounds like something interesting. Have virtual machine images you can host. The hard part would be figuring out how to
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by campnic 14y ago
Its funny that you say 'slightly'. The demands from apple are 4-5 orders of magnitude what they paid samsung for royalty fees on samsung's patents.
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by campnic 14y ago
Is someone's "true potential" only reached when they chew up employees during 80 hour weeks? When they have a sales team that will do whatever it takes to land the sale including stretching the truth? Is 'true potential' only evaluated base
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by campnic 14y ago
Wow, could we put the mythical "startup" on any more of a pedestal? '... merely a successful small business' as a diminutive to 37Signals? We've really jumped the shark here, haven't we?
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by campnic 14y ago
A couple questions about your example: I noticed that the xmin changed from Connection 1 from 189018 -> 189028. Is that just a typo? Is the concept of transaction in this regard a 'state of the entire db'? If a transaction included mult
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by campnic 14y ago
I really feel like there is an educational opportunity for the HN community about patents. We frequently have these articles where the title of the patent is copy pasted into a submission to generate the largest amount of hysteria possible.
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by campnic 14y ago
Take a moment and compare your response to the other responses here. The other two (at the time of this writing) of them are useful to help someone understand something. The author wrote up his thoughts as a blog post and took the time to s
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by campnic 14y ago
I'd like to see someone do this and handle times and timezones. What a pain that is.
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by campnic 14y ago
a very real downside of keeping it open source What is the downside of keeping it open source?
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by campnic 14y ago
Let me see if this reaches you up on your high horse: Not everyone gives a shit about making money from the software they write. There are many reasons to write software. There are many reasons to not charge for it. Stop presuming to know w
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by campnic 14y ago
I wrote a rambling reply and decided to cut it down to bullet points: 1. You can have a fulfilling life without a start-up. 2. You can be incredibly successful without a start-up 3. A balanced life is not limiting. The concept that the amou

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