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by chimi 14y ago
Losing the suit would provide evidence to potential acquirers that the patents are worthless.
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by chimi 14y ago
In the end, client side scraping of the data actually increases the traffic on CL's servers, because multiple people have to scrape the same posts, rather than a central server. If padmapper remained small, then they probably scrape more po
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by chimi 14y ago
I think some tend to think you are on a mission to prove a point or make money and have a popular site, slightly contrary to your stated position of just benevolently wanting to make craigslist apartment hunting better, so this could take y
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by chimi 14y ago
You have some typos on this page http://theformspider.com/product.php?descid=5
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by chimi 14y ago
So why does OUYA keep getting on the front page of HN day after day? If its likelihood of success is so low, why do we keep talking about it? And might the fact that we keep talking about it indicate that maybe those people who put money in
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by chimi 14y ago
> People tend to base risk analysis more on stories than on data. People base all decisions on stories rather than data. It's marketing 101 -- don't sell features, sell stories.
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by chimi 14y ago
Error establishing a database connection
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by chimi 14y ago
"Software is eating everything" even traditional employee roles in organizations. People who can automate will always win, because they can do more in less time. I remember once when I was consulting, I was on the bench for a few days and t
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by chimi 14y ago
After first reading about the benefits of procrastination a year or two ago, I made a conscious effort to delay decisions and actions that previously seemed to need immediate resolution. I found that I rarely encountered a situation that I
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by chimi 14y ago
I hear people say "They stole my idea!" or if they hear a familiar melody, "They stole that from The Doors!" So the dictionary agrees with the common use of steal in the realm of intellectual property. It's really the proponents of copyrigh
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by chimi 14y ago
It's pretty clear that Padmapper is making use of the craigslist posts without the rights to do so, which is defined by Merriam-Webster as "stealing". STEALING transitive verb 1a : to take or appropriate without right or leave an
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by chimi 14y ago
I don't understand why people keep saying it isn't stealing. According to Merriam-Webster: Definition of STEAL transitive verb 1a : to take or appropriate without right or leave and with intent to keep or make use of wrongfully
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by chimi 14y ago
Here's a better link to the original bypassing this blog spam: http://www.sacbee.com/2012/07/22/v-print/4648415/2-uc-davis-...
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by chimi 14y ago
I don't understand why we are giving this guy the time of day. He contacted journalists, lied to them to promote a book, so now the journalists are helping him promote his book. Rewarding the lying is only going to encourage more lying.
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by chimi 14y ago
It's easy to blame the app store and focus on Apple here, because Sparrow runs on Apple products, but it's not Apple's fault. Developers have given away software products for less than $0.99 since long before Apple conceived of an app store
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by chimi 14y ago
That's not the point. More to the point, those companies use lots of other software products, memcache among them, to improve the scalability of MySQL. It could be possible, if the numbers in the article are an indicator, that these compani
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Scalability: PostgreSQL vs MySQL(tweakers.net)
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by chimi 14y ago
Facebook, et al, use memcache and a plethora of other products to improve the scalability of MySQL. Here's one scalability comparison between the two: http://tweakers.net/reviews/649/7
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by chimi 14y ago
Especially in a forum, where very frequently, there is a post about sexism in our industry and a call to attract more women to the field.
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by chimi 14y ago
PostgreSQL is massively more scalable than MySQL.
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From what I've recently learned, isn't this what killed Digg?
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by chimi 14y ago
The only initiative Microsoft should focus on for the next quarter is ridding itself of Ballmer.
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by chimi 14y ago
People ask me, "Which language should I learn first?" I always say, SQL. If you know SQL you can do more than a lot of programmers who don't know SQL and SQL makes for better programs too. Win-Win.
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by chimi 14y ago
It's kind of like a used car salesman saying now is the time to own a car!
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by chimi 14y ago
No one can ever be aware of all the relevant factors.
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by chimi 14y ago
There can be problems with this approach, specifically, "The best way I know how" may not be the best way for the client. There are pros and cons with nearly every potential solution and it can be beneficial to discuss the pros and cons of
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by chimi 14y ago
Sorry for my ignorance. I've been searching for exactly what went wrong with the Digg redesign, but I can't find anything that really spells it out. Something with side-by-side comparisons or a deeper analysis than "Users leave in drove aft
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by chimi 14y ago
The problem is the hypocrisy. Every other organization in the U.S. can trademark their name, but only in their industry. The USOC does not sell gyros, meat, wine or movies. I really would like to know how this organization has gotten so muc
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by chimi 14y ago
I'm not advocating the purchase of bitcoins, simply providing an answer. I have no opinion on whether or not bitcoins are a good "investment." The transactional friction is a reason the market is small. If it's easier to transact and more p
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by chimi 14y ago
A negligible population would use such a tool, not only because hardly anyone in the "real world" uses bookmarklets -- and then what about NOSCRIPT?, but the time it would take to scrape, process, geolocate, and present the apartment listin

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