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631.
by catch23 17y ago
not serious. if the courts can't even decide who owns the IP, I doubt the source is going to be free any time soon.
632.
by catch23 17y ago
How about an api so that we can script it? ;-) Would make it a lot easier for Amnesty International. All that handwriting makes my hand numb!
633.
by catch23 17y ago
Contact me offline and I can help you with this. email is in my profile.
634.
by catch23 17y ago
Here's a better venue: http://superhappydevhouse.org/SuperHappyDevHouse35 I've met my current and previous startup founders at these series of events. However, I've never gone there with the intention of finding a co-founder.
635.
by catch23 17y ago
Is it because Twitter runs on Ruby? What if I mentioned Scala and Twitter in the same sentence?
636.
by catch23 17y ago
Well, he's living in SF at the moment. I usually remember the days I crank on the heat in the middle of summer so my fingers are warm enough to type.
637.
by catch23 17y ago
That usually depends on the city. There's a Walmart here in Mountain View, but your only worry is being robbed by ex-Yahoo employees.
638.
by catch23 17y ago
What is the cost of the RV including all the modifications & addons? Also, how often do you move the RV?
639.
by catch23 17y ago
Seems like you'd never need cooling if you're in SF. I've needed heat in the summer in SF sometimes.
640.
by catch23 17y ago
Hm, interesting. Maybe computer science needs a new hip name to increase enrollment. We could call it "Autonomous Human Sociology".
641.
by catch23 17y ago
Honestly, I don't know how we got this press either... and I'm one of the founders. We haven't really tried hard yet either. I'm pretty sure we could get more if we tried.
642.
by catch23 17y ago
it's probably 'us'
643.
by catch23 17y ago
I don't see why this is stupid advice, I run dozens of applications off my USB flash drive. My USB flash drive happens to be an Intel SSD drive so the failure rate is probably lower, but it's nice to have a big portable drive that contains
644.
by catch23 17y ago
I'm not debating which database scales better. I'm questioning why anyone would use a "big" server for mysql. If you're going to do replication with mysql, you don't need 10 servers with 68 gigs of memory -- you'd probably be better off
645.
by catch23 17y ago
Lots of people create web pages for the deceased where visitors can add comments to. This seems like an obvious thing for Facebook to do.
646.
by catch23 17y ago
I bet they're applying for the YC W09 round!
647.
by catch23 17y ago
but still, it doesn't scale as linearly as other databases like Oracle or PostgreSQL. Even compared against MySQL 5.1, PostgreSQL scales linearly all the way up to 128 cores -- so it seems like for big databases, you'd want to use somethin
648.
by catch23 17y ago
Technically speaking, Java can have mixins as well if you include libraries that provide it. Stuff like Spring AOP uses aspectj under the covers and you can mimic mixin-like functionality in your classes with a few annotations here and the
649.
by catch23 17y ago
You can do closures, namespaces, mixins, etc in all of those languages (C++, C, Java). Some of them involve libraries, but the fact that people are engineering libraries to do those things means there is actually a need for those things in
650.
by catch23 17y ago
yeah, for most simple apps, scp will do the trick, but anytime you start writing scripts to upload the same set of files on 5 different machines, it's time to use capistrano.
651.
by catch23 17y ago
I'm not sure why they chose MySQL. Does mysql still scale linearly up to 8 cores? I figured most people who need 8 cores for mysql would have already gone to sharding or partitioning.
652.
by catch23 17y ago
The main issue was that zack's software would automatically make me follow someone. He could probably add some basic heuristics to prevent people from following spammers. Even basic bayesian filtering would have worked. Some of the spamm
653.
by catch23 17y ago
You should consider disabling the service until you fix this issue. It wasn't just a bad experience for me, it was a negative one... one that cost me around 5 hours of work to clean up.
654.
by catch23 17y ago
I was a user of your service. and when I signed up, I started following so many spammers I had to kill the oauth hookup. I don't know what was wrong with it, but it kept auto following all the horrible horrible spammers and my follower li
655.
by catch23 17y ago
their nightly builds have always been available and stable enough for normal use.
656.
by catch23 17y ago
Also, we're within walking distance of public transportation. So if you're staying in the city, you can take caltrain down to the Mountain View stop and just walk over.
657.
Post-StartupSchool hackfest @ the Hacker Dojo on Sunday
27 points by catch23 17y ago|5 comments
658.
by catch23 17y ago
what's wrong with pulp fiction?
659.
by catch23 17y ago
Gotta say, this is pretty sweet. Easy for app developers to add on something to make their apps social, with very little work on their part.
660.
by catch23 17y ago
I thought happy farms came first? I assumed most US companies quickly copied the Chinese version, FarmVille being one of the last clones, but more successful than their predecessors (like farmtown).

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