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by davidu 16y ago
PS, If I was Apple I'd be buying this tomorrow, or I'd just amp up development of my own software, probably basing it on the new iAd Developer tools which were recently released.
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by davidu 16y ago
Congratulations, you are about to be offered a lot of money from a big company. Do you take it? ... Or do you create a new software empire for the creative web development world to rival Adobe but built on open standards?
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by davidu 16y ago
For those curious, the photo at the top can be seen in San Francisco if you head north-bound on Mission as it turns onto South Van Ness, moments before South Van Ness crosses Market and becomes Van Ness. See for yourself: http://goo.gl/map
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by davidu 16y ago
Right, which is why I didn't do that (unlike the entire point of the URL in the OP, which does that). I just said that those groups of people don't have hundreds or thousands of machines to manage if they can maintain a custom naming scheme
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by davidu 16y ago
The people who argue against naming machines in an automated fashion don't have hundreds or thousands to manage. We do something simple: class of machine + number . city. m1.sjc1 == generic machine in san jose m2.sjc1 == another gener
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by davidu 16y ago
That's it? I'd expect it to be much higher. I wonder what the percentage is in an urban city like San Francisco... 80%?
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by davidu 16y ago
What does any of this have to do with YCombinator? It sounds like you just needed to hire a customer support rep and scale your organization.
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by davidu 16y ago
History has always proven my statements to be right. Changing human behavior in such a fundamental way is highly unlikely to happen from some technical limits put up on a website. I don't need to be a part of those sites to know this.
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by davidu 16y ago
Using a cookie doesn't make something non-PII... Your user-agent and request details are enough for me to tie you to an existing account: https://panopticlick.eff.org/
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by davidu 16y ago
Lots of sites think they need to put up walls to maintain a sense of community. History all across the Internet (and before the Internet) has shown this to be a fallacy. Tragedies of the common are avoided by proper structure and accountabi
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by davidu 16y ago
Why do you think you need safari or a browser? There are plenty of other (and easier) ways to make HTTP connections in iOS and implement account registration.
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by davidu 16y ago
So the exclusive community that doesn't allow regular folks in has let in some bad neighbors? Good thing they have kept their walls up... Good lesson there...
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by davidu 16y ago
Are you kidding? The UDID and the phone owner's name are easily correlated. As soon as you register for an account on a game or app, you will connect UDID to your email or first/last name. As soon as that happens, it could easily end up i
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by davidu 16y ago
Startups are hard enough without life-altering and life-threatening car accidents just before you launch. My hat's off to her for sticking with it. And to her team for sticking with her.
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by davidu 16y ago
It's entirely fair. If I knew them, I'd keep my mouth shut, because I don't talk negatively about friends. And it's entirely fair because I know what I see. And that's more than enough to gauge their execution.
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by davidu 16y ago
I made that point, so actually you agree. I also made the point that they've failed to execute so far, which reduces my faith in their ability to all of the sudden start executing well. Perhaps that's what you disagree with? In which case
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by davidu 16y ago
too late for this audience. maybe the mass market that has never heard of them will be kinder. but I doubt it. too little, too late. they didn't have the right people to execute on this, and from what I can tell, they still don't.
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by davidu 16y ago
This is one app that I prefer doesn't auto-update. For most people it already works great, why rock the boat? For others, let them control the updates... These are our files, after all!
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by davidu 16y ago
Strong Disagree. Great products often have to come out of small teams and companies. Often times it's even former employees who create those comapnies and are re-acquired! This is why Cisco acquires companies started by former Cisco emplo
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by davidu 16y ago
This is only effective if you are prepared to put up when they call your bluff. Two more points: 1) It's almost impossible for people to not be emotional when someone is threatening them with a lawsuit and that's why it's always better to h
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by davidu 16y ago
Really inaccurate title. The paper says nothing about what Deens is. BIND does a lot. What does Deens do?
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by davidu 16y ago
Unlimited bandwidth is easy to provide. Just rate-limit the port once they exceed a certain amount of bits transferred. They still have unlimited bandwidth, but at 128kbps instead of 128000kbps.
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by davidu 16y ago
Looks like they shouldn't have outsourced their entire infrastructure.
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by davidu 16y ago
You raise a good point. As a lefty, I don't want to be left out. :-)
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by davidu 16y ago
Interesting point.
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by davidu 16y ago
I think this guy is making this story up. It used to be true, back in early 2009. The mint changed their policies long ago. He wrote this post in summer 2010. I call BS.
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by davidu 16y ago
It's great -- but the navigation really belongs on the left side, right-aligned text.
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An amazing tale of broadband latency and congestion(gettys.wordpress.com)
5 points by davidu 16y ago|0 comments
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by davidu 16y ago
I've been waiting for someone to create this. Since libTorrent was released, I figured someone would do something like this. No idea if Aero is using libTorrent, but the idea was a natural evolution. This looks well executed, thanks. Can'
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by davidu 16y ago
Anyone know what really happened? [ Not inserting obvious comment about lack of communication during outage... ]

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