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901.
by cwp 15y ago
Samsung.
902.
by cwp 15y ago
They design the hardware, but they don't manufacture it.
903.
by cwp 15y ago
Because in this case, "money grab" actually means "extortion". The original article mentions that NPR has registered npr.xxx, but they don't plan to do anything with it. They registered it strictly to prevent someone from putting up "adult
904.
by cwp 15y ago
I've been thinking about elevator algorithms lately too. My building applies the principle of least privilege to the elevator - residents are issued fobs which give them access to the floor where they live, plus any common areas. The proble
905.
by cwp 15y ago
Um, "limited academic ability?" The guy has a bachelors in science, two masters degrees and is working on a Ph.D. He's not stupid, regardless of Mark Twain's wit. Now, I completely agree that a single anecdote isn't cause for policy overhau
906.
by cwp 15y ago
Also relevant is the inverse issue: Monday morning quarterbacks have the benefit of hindsight, but they don't have information that was and is available on the field. Hastings was clearly trying to solve a real problem that Netflix is facin
907.
by cwp 15y ago
Not to be pedantic, but it's "dissent." This seems to get spelled wrong a lot.
908.
by cwp 15y ago
Of course he could keep requesting answers until he was satisfied. That's called "interviewing."
909.
by cwp 15y ago
The DMCA "ushered an era of investment, innovation and job creation?" Well, I suppose, but that's an incredibly charitable way to put it. I think "failed to prevent an era of investment, innovation and job creation" might be more accurate.
910.
by cwp 15y ago
You still miss the point, though. Patrick isn't saying that calling yourself a programmer is inaccurate or ignominious. He's saying that it's not going to have a desirable effect on the listener. He's saying you should talk about the value
911.
by cwp 15y ago
Gimme a break. There's no mystery here. "Tech elite" is a code word for venture capital. VCs pooh-pooh lifestyle and bootstrapped businesses because there's no opportunity for them to profit. VC-backed founders have been successful at raisi
912.
by cwp 15y ago
Not only that, but Siri acts as a layer of indirection between you and the search engine. She can decide which search engine to use based on the query. That opens the door for subject-specific search engines to steal chunks of traffic fro
913.
by cwp 15y ago
Really? You think that the government spending lots of money on the war is not what got us out of the Depression? Of course the boom happened after the war was over. During the war... there was a war on. All that effort was getting droppe
914.
by cwp 15y ago
Then just run in checked mode.
915.
by cwp 15y ago
Normally I don't upvote humor on HN, but that was great.
916.
by cwp 15y ago
Right. So ideally, we want a big public spending program without a war.
917.
by cwp 15y ago
Actually, Gilad Bracha, one of the designers of Dart does say exactly that. He's also working on another language that has no static (ie, global) state. See http://newspeaklanguage.org/
918.
by cwp 15y ago
Yup. I often do something like this: - write a test for a method that isn't there yet - run it, get a red bar, as expected - run it in debug mode, and get a debugger - write the method implementation in the debugger - possibly w
919.
by cwp 15y ago
Definitely. But if they released an open-source version of IE, started shipping IE frequently for Windows, Macintosh and Linux and released the Dart language spec and implementation under an open-source license... well, then I'd like it a l
920.
by cwp 15y ago
Be careful about conflating the Free Software Foundation with the Open Source Initiative. Free software is about distributing source code for moral reasons, while open source is about distributing source code for utilitarian reasons. I thin
921.
by cwp 15y ago
Actually, I had been offline all afternoon, and only learned of it when I opened up HN. I was stunned by the top story, and it was good 3 or 4 minutes before I noticed that the entire front page was devoted to Steve. At that point I got som
922.
by cwp 15y ago
Actually, I think Apple could ride out a 6 month product delay quite easily. It would seem that the 4S was delayed 3 or 4 months (part shortage resulting from the earthquake in Japan?) from the normal summer release with no ill effects. Rel
923.
by cwp 15y ago
Wow. Regardless of the merits of his political thesis, that is some excellent writing.
924.
by cwp 15y ago
Neat! I love how it can figure out what (possibly discontiguous) areas give the required commute time by transit. Doesn't seem to have any apartments, though. EDIT: It finds apartments in New York; maybe it just doesn't work in Canada. Whic
925.
by cwp 15y ago
Wow, wish I could have seen that talk. I recently got similar results by doing client-side load balancing: 27% improvement, on average, for users that were not close to EC2 East. See http://instantdomainsearch.com/articles/faster_domain_na
926.
by cwp 15y ago
That's exactly the distinction being made. Italy's debt is highish but manageable; it budget deficit is small. If it can borrow at reasonable rates for the next few years, it's not in danger of default. That's illiquidity. Compare to Greece
927.
Client-side load balancing(instantdomainsearch.com)
19 points by cwp 15y ago|2 comments
928.
by cwp 15y ago
I use a system based on Fabric. It fires up an instance, connects via SSH, installs and configures everything needed for the app, saves an AMI, then terminates the instance. Then deployment is just a matter of launching an instance with tha
929.
by cwp 15y ago
Actually that's one of the things I like about HN. So easy for a community site to degenerate into a handful of long-running in-jokes, applied to the topic of the day.
930.
by cwp 15y ago
I don't know.

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