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by catch23 15y ago
And the ones who know about Monsanto probably don't know that every visit to the grocery store is showing support to Monsanto.
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by catch23 15y ago
Wow, looks like he got slapped by some Google VP or something -- the post ceases to exist.
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by catch23 15y ago
Well like steve mentioned -- you can't just have a platform and hope it will save you. You need a killer app on top first... The only killer app I can think of from yahoo is mail & flickr.
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by catch23 15y ago
amazon.com runs java since day 1, fairly successful too :-)
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by catch23 15y ago
Probably doesn't work in school settings, but at work, it's pretty normal. Visit any UPS corporate office and you'll see people there look like they wear the exact same white shirt & black pants every day.
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by catch23 15y ago
It's cool to do it as a prototype language, but I doubt someone would make use of it over php. Until someone ports drupal or wordpress to "the next php language", php in the current form probably isn't going anywhere.
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by catch23 15y ago
Selenium requires java. There are python bindings to selenium-rc, but you still need the rc server. Normally I don't do selenium so early in the code process, but it isn't bad either.
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by catch23 15y ago
not sure why you're being downvoted here, but I do agree on the c++ binding infrastructure. I think the things he listed are quite possible in node -- I can't see any of those things he listed that might be cpu bound. A fairly popular smal
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by catch23 15y ago
what prompted you to switch from macvim to vim? you'd lose a number of useful features like copy/paste, fullscreen, & scroll integration.
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by catch23 15y ago
capitalism at work. price has always trumped quality there, probably due to a much poorer middle class than any other 1st world nation.
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by catch23 15y ago
Investors are savvier than you'd think. Even on a rumor that the vendor is doing an exclusive lock-in with MS, I'm sure you'd see the stock price dip. Investors spend all their time looking at news reports in their target industry, so I'm
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by catch23 15y ago
I think the introduction of the SSD is causing site owners to "leave the cloud". I haven't seen any cloud hosting that lets you choose SSD-based disks yet, probably because it's low demand and high expense. The throughput of a single sata
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by catch23 15y ago
The 1GB of today was the 128MB of yesterday. I'm guessing in a year or two, games implemented on webgl will be a step up from farmville and require more than 1GB of memory to run well. IE9 still has a chance to catch up if they end up bec
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by catch23 15y ago
the internet has upgraded from a series of tubes to a cluster of clouds.
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by catch23 15y ago
I guess it depends what you consider "very large". If you're talking about multi-petabyte, then I'd probably use hdfs, but otherwise mongodb might fit. I hear craigslist uses mongodb to store their data since 1997, which is a fair amount
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by catch23 15y ago
I'm guessing you were an older user, and when sites change TOS, they're required to ask older members to review the new TOS. However new users haven't agreed to the old TOS and thus they won't get the popup.
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by catch23 15y ago
If that were the case, wouldn't apps like google calendar get cancelled long time ago? I doubt the ads on google calendar are sufficient to sustain the number of users it has on a daily basis.
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by catch23 15y ago
I'm not sure if Google understand their own freemium model. Isn't the idea to let people use your cloud service at a very low cost, in hopes that they'll scale up and pay more? I feel like there's a huge gap between free and paying $400 a
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by catch23 15y ago
For $81/month, you can get a 4 processor 2GB Linode box, which is enough to run a few dozen fun projects on there.
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by catch23 15y ago
As Wesley Chung noted in his reply on the GAE mailing list, GAE is designed for companies who get very unpredictable traffic. If you get a very predictable traffic, it's significantly cheaper hosting on AWS. Some of my apps previously cos
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by catch23 15y ago
It's still an issue -- you have all this data that you have to migrate off of app engine. Some of my friends who migrated on to GAE said it took them almost 2 full weeks to load data into GAE, and now I'm sure it would cost them at least a
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by catch23 15y ago
I don't think it's a small minority of apps. 100% of the people I know who are using GAE are seeing the minimum of a 4x price increase for their app (before the 50% discount). The price increase would actually prevent some small ISVs from
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by catch23 15y ago
Yes, but they're cheaper. So for $300, you pay for what you get. I'm not even sure if this news warrants a headline on HN.
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by catch23 15y ago
There's at least a dozen no-contract android phones under $300 on Newegg: http://www.newegg.com/Product/ProductList.aspx?Submit=ENE&#3...
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by catch23 15y ago
that thing is 3x the cost of a macbook air... and I thought apple products were expensive.
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by catch23 15y ago
+1 on the fixed width. I'm a developer, so I have a big monitor -- it's hard for my eye to follow sections of the document without lined up elements.
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by catch23 15y ago
It just looks ugly, hard to put into words. It feels like there's too many shades of colors & font sizes. You don't need gradients to make a site look good. Maybe you guys just need to hire a designer. I feel like you have over 20 di
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by catch23 15y ago
The linked account also has 100k "followers" as well. I doubt a fake Vic account could amass that many considering there aren't that many on G+ yet. So the only other possibilities is that Vic is lying, or someone hacked into Vic's accoun
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by catch23 15y ago
I wonder if it's possible to increase the speeds, without having to revise the chip-on-the-motherboard. Then users could upgrade their speeds by buying a new "faster" cable.
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by catch23 15y ago
I thought lightpeak was from intel? "Our telecom source noted that Intel made an unusual choice in also using active cabling for future optical-based iterations of Thunderbolt ... Intel would not say when official specs would be released to

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