dedward

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by dedward 16y ago
Awesome.... thanks!
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by dedward 16y ago
I'm a little puzzled from the news - while good, it doesn't really seem to clearly state that they put the thing into orbit. Did it go up and circle the earth at least once? Did it just obtain a given altitude (because orbital altitude !=
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by dedward 16y ago
Except, just as with SPAM, clever SEO strategy can be far more than just best practices. The right ad-buys and keywords at the right time in certain businesses can generate extremely attractive CPA numbers compared to other methods of ma
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by dedward 16y ago
Seems a little harsh, - it's written somewhat badly, but the comments about endianness are important - sure, a randomly generated 64-bit integer encoded as big-endian is, entropically speaking, no more useful than it's little-endian brothe
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by dedward 16y ago
It is humungous, to be sure. The only reason skype is the king right now is because nobody has motivation to switch to anything else. Skype works, without hassle. It's a good product. The moment it ceases to be a good product, though, ther
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by dedward 16y ago
Exactly.... I actually found Skype's way of handling this to be far more fair and less predatory than most - not only were they generous with the expiration date, but they insisted you only had to log in and place a single call (spend a pen
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by dedward 16y ago
I would immediately seek out, using all methods possible, anyone who could reasonably be considered an expert on such issues (to my own satisfaction), and find out their opinion. Then I'd find out what my budget was, and who else I had to d
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by dedward 16y ago
As a person who paid money I earned for a good product, including the promise of a free upgrade to 2.0 whenever it came out - I would not share your feelings on the matter. (This does not mean I have any expectations as to when 2.0 is comin
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by dedward 16y ago
As long as the libraries aren't statically linked you are okay there... at least as far as libraries that are part of the stock system goes. (otherwise we'd never be able to build against, say, a differnet libc or anything like that) "Howev
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by dedward 16y ago
No - requiring a commercial compiler & sdk wouldn't be a problem - this is a licensing issue - the terms under which the author of the iPhone application is re-distrubiting the app, through the iTunes store, cannot be possible under the
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by dedward 16y ago
True enough... Time to dig into the details I guess.
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by dedward 16y ago
Buy the nice desktop computer and then install your own SSD and re-install the system on it - then use the mechanical drive for bulk storage, compiling, video streaming, etc.....
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by dedward 16y ago
True enough... but you're underestimating the subjective performance increase. It's astounding (not with this drive, but with a full SSD) Since switching my mac to a decently quick SSD and doing a few other tweaks to go along with it - I a
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by dedward 16y ago
From the admittedly not very good benchmarks provided - I don't see the appeal. I get the appeal of a potential hybrid - but I don't think this is it. I replaced my system drive with an 80 gig Intel X25-M G2 a while ago (late-2009 macbook p
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by dedward 16y ago
I don't think that's the issue.... it's just that when you have. A massive number of sumultaneous tcp sessions, lots of home routers choke up tracking all that state in their nat tables. A custom protocol could do a better job.
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by dedward 16y ago
Underwater? Viewed as an investment any car puts you underwater immediately - it's a net loss. If you borrowed money and are also paying interest on the vehicle, that's just MORE cost... I don't get the rationalization. Yes, a new-ish used
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by dedward 16y ago
Any time I've looked at leasing a car, it's a bit more expensive than what it would have cost me if I had purchased the car, used it for a couple of years, and then sold it. With the lease, I'm paying a premium for not having to worry about
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by dedward 16y ago
They may depreciate slower, but the insurance and maintenance costs are a heck of a lot higher in absolute terms.... I'm sure they more than make up for the lesser depreciation. Cars aren't investments.... bottom line. You buy an aston mar
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by dedward 16y ago
Statements like that generally assume that that's an investment adjusted against inflation or devaluation......looking at the interest rate alone on a currency is meaningless without the rest.
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by dedward 16y ago
Us users don't want google to direct us to the site with the best SEO guys on any given topic - we want them to direct us to the sites that are most likely to contain the data we are searching for. Google's job, to stay on top of the search
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by dedward 16y ago
Sour grapes..... If what google wanted was to stop letting search terms show up in weblogs of sites they linked to, they could have done it plenty of other ways, cheaper and easier than rolling out SSL globally.... and they were never oblig
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by dedward 16y ago
I love all the new android phones I see.... and I like the openness - the hacker in me wants one. But you know - the iphone/ipod Touch - it took me 10 seconds to figure out how that stuff worked. I had to ask my friend to show me how to nav
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by dedward 16y ago
Why worry about a million a year in revenue (or did we mean profit here) - what you really want is probably the lifestyle you think you will get when that happens.... perceptually, what's the difference between a million a year and 10 milli
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by dedward 16y ago
Is there some reason a proper contract couldn't have prevented this in the beginning? If you sold off 10% to investors, then it's your fault, is it not, that you did not get the financial control you required out of the deal, allowing the V
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by dedward 16y ago
That would all be spelled out in whatever contracts came along with the influx of VC capital, wouldn't it? The whole point of a contract is to get down in writing the agreement between parties as to how things will be handled. If you expect
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by dedward 16y ago
Right.... So it's probably perfectly binding. If they hold the copyright outright, they can create such conundrums lik e conflicting licenses. If it incorporates the work of others though , it's tricky.
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by dedward 16y ago
Let the lawyers sort that one out - as long as you stay away from copyright violation, and as long as you are well informed as to the potential situations you might end up in, and have an idea how you might deal with them if something comes
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by dedward 16y ago
It would probably have landed you an interview at my last round of hiring. A CV rarely lands you a job - it just gets you in the door. While finding someone who's curious, smart, and capable at a young age is what I've looked for when hiri
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by dedward 16y ago
Exactly... It's common for epople to think that the framework covers every aspect of the technical architecture of the actual website/service itself - probably a natural assumption due to how the web evolved - Apache, static files, then som
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by dedward 16y ago
I believe gmail always had HTTPS as an option - in 2008 they added an option to selectively make it the default if you want - now they've reversed that and made it the default from the start. There is strong reasoning, backed up by user ex

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