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by crabasa 11y ago
This is a sad but expected capitulation on Mozilla's part. They weren't succeeding in their efforts to ship Firefox devices and they were blocked from shipping Firefox proper on iOS devices. If they didn't ship something, an
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by crabasa 11y ago
Sure, but products don't just appear out of thin air. Companies build product to drive business goals. Once upon a time support for Windows XP was critical to the success of the product. That is no longer the case. Hence they are remo
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by crabasa 11y ago
I think it's useful to keep in mind that the ideal number of platforms for a product to support is 1. Every additional platform makes it more difficult to ship new features and more expensive to maintain/support. Applications like
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by crabasa 11y ago
Ditto. I learned how to program Basic and Pascal on my Gateway. It was also the device that I connected my first modem to. First Prodigy, then AOL, then this weird little thing called the World Wide Web.
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by crabasa 11y ago
My family's first computer was a Gateway 2000. 486 25Mhz SX (no math coprocessor). Was worried it would have trouble running Wing Commander, but it ran just fine. I was sad to see the company go by the wayside, but they were victims of
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by crabasa 11y ago
Twilio | San Francisco | Full-time Onsite Sr. Engineer | API Tools Not every developer can get excited about tooling, but you're different. You're excited to use your experience as a developer to envision and build tooling for clo
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by crabasa 11y ago
I understand the correlation you're making between "corporate" units and the quality of the experience, but shouldn't the ratings and reviews system completely solve this? As a frequent user of AirBnB, I feel like there
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by crabasa 11y ago
I don't buy the author's arguments in general, but I think the comparison to Antarctica is probably the weakest. First of all, people have actually made a point of traveling to and setting-up permanent base stations in Antarctica.
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by crabasa 11y ago
I think it goes without saying that there is nothing remotely legitimate happening here. The fact that Aaron posted this comment and expected anybody to believe it is remarkable. That being said, I spent 5 minutes researching Aaron Cheung a
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by crabasa 11y ago
> except, of course, those living the most obvious new California dream, the technology gold rush. Try telling successful 25-year-old entrepreneurs in San Francisco that California’s over and you’ll get blank stares as they contemplate
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by crabasa 11y ago
This is an odd blog post for a company people consider to be utterly paralyzed and incapable of shipping new features.
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by crabasa 11y ago
That is only true given the current state of Twitter's product and business model. I think it's a stretch to say that they can't make the necessary changes to align interests. In fact, I think they're dead in the water i
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by crabasa 11y ago
The single most important thing that Twitter can do to encourage developers to build on their platform is to completely and unambiguously align interests. If a developer is successful, Twitter should be successful, and vice versa. This is i
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by crabasa 11y ago
I'm sorry if I gave you the impression that Telsa is competing with utilities to store energy at scale . I meant storing energy for personal use (vehicles/homes/etc). They will certainly source all of their energy from said
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by crabasa 11y ago
Comparing Tesla to existing car companies misses the point entirely. Telsa is an energy platform company that is investing in delivering (Supercharger network) and storing (Gigafactory) energy. Cars are certainly the current "killer ap
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by crabasa 11y ago
If you're curious as to why Amazon is behaving so foolishly given that this rebuttal serves only to extend the shelf life of the original story, you should consider that the founder and CEO of Amazon happens to own the Washington Post,
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by crabasa 11y ago
I think you mean "knowledge" or "education". There's nothing in this story to indicate the writer isn't intelligent.
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by crabasa 11y ago
I've been using http://surge.sh for the past year or so and love it. Features include: * free custom domains * clean URLs and supports for SPAs * simple deployment * collaboration features
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by crabasa 11y ago
I prefer to think that really great selling is teaching, not the other way around.
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by crabasa 11y ago
Certainly, a good part of A.W.S. software is open source, which means it could be used elsewhere, and companies like Microsoft and Google also have big clouds. But neither of them, nor IBM, which also wants the cloud
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by crabasa 11y ago
Apologies for the meta comment, but this post has been banished from the HN front page [1]. Any ideas why? ---- Update: It has been restored as of 9:33am PST. No sure why the downvotes, I found this is be somewhat amazing given whose post t
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Public letter from the founders of Draft Kings(fftodayforums.com)
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by crabasa 11y ago
I'm really surprised that they are touting the ability to cross-post. Is this ever a good idea for authors? In the absence of some very specific markup [1] you're likely to incur search penalties. [1] http://googlewebma
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by crabasa 11y ago
And not even a courtesy hat tip to Slack. Tsk tsk.
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by crabasa 11y ago
I have lived in Seattle since 2009, first working at Microsoft and now working remotely for a Bay Area company. For people who aren't familiar with the Seattle area, it is cleaved into 2 parts: 1) The city of Seattle or the "west
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by crabasa 11y ago
I hope you detected my sarcasm. I'm 100% with you and was upset when they consolidated all the MSFT hardware announcement threads the other day.
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by crabasa 11y ago
Hmmmm, I certainly hope dang or another admin consolidate all these stories into a single "Amazon" thread. Can't have multiple stories from a single company eating up space on the front page.
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by crabasa 11y ago
Twilio | San Francisco | Full-time Onsite Engineer | API Tools Not every developer can get excited about tooling, but you're different. You believe that tools should conform to a developer's workflow and not the other way around.
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by crabasa 11y ago
Probably a great time to buy some VLKAY: http://money.cnn.com/quote/quote.html?symb=VLKAY
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by crabasa 11y ago
RequestBin isn't a substitute for HttpBin, they do 2 completely different things: RequestBin = easily provision a url (useful for configuring a webhook) and inspect requests to that url. HttpBin = pre-defined urls that return specific

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