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by dewitt 13y ago
"Net Applications numbers are far more accurate than the 3 in the table above." This strikes me as curious, as I don't know of any popular websites who would agree with that statement, since their own traffic more closely m
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by dewitt 13y ago
Off-topic, but that's a weird statement from the WSJ: "Firefox is the world’s second-most-popular Web browser on personal computers, with 18% market share, according to Net Applications, a web-analytics consulting firm. That trai
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by dewitt 13y ago
Hi curiousDog, if you're paying for one of our support packages ( https://cloud.google.com/support/ ) and you're not happy, I'd be interested to hear about what's not working for you. You can email me
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by dewitt 13y ago
Yes, you can do that. Open the preferences and select "Only sync some folders to this computer."
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by dewitt 13y ago
I think a lot of people are familiar with the term. It is not a compliment. See http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=bro . "Obnoxious partying males who are often seen at college parties." "An alpha
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by dewitt 13y ago
Is the "bro" intended to be ironic, or are the creators actually not aware that the term is used to represent the worst (most misogynistic, most crass, least mature, least dependable) people currently flocking to the industry? It
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by dewitt 13y ago
The site just went live at 9:00 PM PST, so that's what FB had cached from the placeholder site beforehand. G+ had the same problem. Mostly this demonstrates a need to be able force a recrawl when generating the thumbnail.
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by dewitt 13y ago
I agree. That is a big difference. Thank you for adding that.
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by dewitt 13y ago
"Any link shared after about 10am links to Feedly. I don’t know of any other service that pulls this kind of stunt." Twitter wraps every link in a redirect.
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by dewitt 13y ago
I'm sincerely sorry things didn't work out in your case, varelse. I don't know your backstory, and it wouldn't be my story to tell even if I did. But I do know it makes me sad whenever I hear that we have any attrition,
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by dewitt 13y ago
I found it fairly accurate, and I've worked there seven years. For most engineers most of the time, the job isn't politics or performance reviews. It's writing interesting software with talented teammates. (Counterexamples of
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by dewitt 13y ago
FWIW, Google doesn't particularly like it when people use APIs outside the terms, either. Having to take down an app is never fun or enjoyable for anyone involved. And the cases in which the terms aren't programmatically enforced
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by dewitt 13y ago
Thoughtful reply, I really appreciate that. Thank you. And don't get me wrong—I love APIs, I build them for a living. And I know how much users love them. Unfortunately, not all companies love providing them, or have the economics of d
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by dewitt 13y ago
I appreciate that you want access to their content, and I may personally agree they ought to build an API. But isn't it up to them to decide whether or not to do so? Otherwise isn't it just stealing? (Fully expecting this to be
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by dewitt 13y ago
"And thus spoke someone who has never built a REST API" Here are Brett's projects: http://www.onebigfluke.com/ Maybe you've heard of some of them? PubSubHubbub, Google App Engine, Camlistore, Google Co
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by dewitt 13y ago
This was announced publicly back in March, if I recall correctly: http://googlecommerce.blogspot.com/2013/03/calling-all-sf-ba... I'm a fan. We use it several times a week.
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by dewitt 13y ago
> I look forward to a day when I'll be able to pay a consistent 0.05/0.1 BTC for a pint. The value of a bitcoin will have to become less volatile before that day comes. Compare: http://blockchain.info/charts&#
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by dewitt 13y ago
Worth observing that for all the excitement about the recent crop of billion-dollar Silicon Valley startups, SoftLayer is based in Dallas, TX (and founded only in 2005). I suspect, and this will be easy enough to prove one way or the other
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by dewitt 13y ago
Odd. I've been doing eng management at Google for the better part of a decade and I've never heard the term "Perf Room" before, nor did an internal search turn anything up. Maybe it is used, but at the very least I'm unaware of it. I realiz
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by dewitt 13y ago
I worked for Tripod.com back in the day, which eventually sold to Lycos for about $60M, just a few months before Yahoo bought Geocities for $3.6B. Needless to say, maybe we should have held out a bit longer. The late 90's were a strange tim
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by dewitt 13y ago
If I ever want to get rich, I'll set up shop convincing small businesses they need to do things the way Google does, if only they want to remain competitive. Oracle has used exactly this business model to great success, and obscene profit,
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by dewitt 13y ago
OnTrac recently "lost" a 75 llb package of mine while on the truck out for delivery, and took several days to admit it was missing, and only then after about a dozen calls and emails. There's not a doubt in my mind it was either stolen (mos
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by dewitt 13y ago
> If I can't buy it via Amazon, I probably won't buy it. This was 100% true of me as well for a decade or more. But getting into the Google Shopping Express beta changed everything. Same day delivery (i.e., even faster than Prime), co
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by dewitt 13y ago
Discussion from last year: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4099751
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by dewitt 13y ago
Right. In Clojure you'd use an explicit trampoline for stack-free mutual recursion.
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by dewitt 13y ago
Clojure also doesn't support TCO, and from what I can tell the explicit loop/recur is sufficient, which also has the advantage that it is very clear (i.e., the compiler will tell you) when TCO is not being invoked. With implicit TCO you m
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by dewitt 14y ago
The challenge is that people really really don't want to see game invites / gifts / in-app purchases in their friends streams, unless they're personally playing the game, too (and even then they don't always like it). Imagine you follow @
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by dewitt 14y ago
FWIW, I certainly didn't intend any disrespect (sorry that the person above jumped to that conclusion). I meant it more in the sense of a happy surprise, given that you had already freely distributed the content, also making the brand itsel
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by dewitt 14y ago
Also, Steve, would you consider using the Creative Commons Attribution-NoDerivs 3.0 license instead of a homemade license? I believe the CC BY-ND conveys most* of the same things you intended with your license, but it has the advantage of b
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by dewitt 14y ago
Good stuff. And I was curious after seeing this if "Learn ... the Hard Way" was a brand that that Zed Shaw had trademarked or otherwise intended to keep exclusive. (Not that there necessarily would have been anything wrong with that, but st

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