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by dflock 17y ago
No, you're right, it doesn't. But if you take all of the pieces that Google have been assembling over the past few years - Chrome Browser & OS, Docs & Spreadsheets (ie. Apps), Gmail, Android, NaCl, etc... these all add up to a very
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by dflock 17y ago
You should probably be discussing this with your girlfriend, not random hackers. In the meantime, why don't you involve her more in your other stuff? She could come to French classes with you, for a start.
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by dflock 17y ago
Because that kind of hardware+DBA team is prohibitively expensive for a startup?
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by dflock 17y ago
What hardware is this running on, roughly? What the author was getting at, I think, was not that you can't do it, just that it's hard/expensive; you need fairly beefy hardware and experienced DBA's to manage horizontal scaleout manually.
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by dflock 17y ago
I think one of the points made at the end was that there kinda isn't one - people have been trying to come up with the perfect solution to scaling RDBMS's for ever and the current state of the art (pretty much) is as described in the articl
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by dflock 17y ago
And it's excellent and rock solid too. They've started talking about a beta and marking blocking issues in the public bug tracker: http://code.google.com/p/chromium/wiki/LinuxWeeklyNotes
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by dflock 17y ago
Correct. Also, a fair bit a the Mozilla Corporations funding comes from their search box referral kickbacks from Google, ironically.
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by dflock 17y ago
Ok, I read the 'article' but I'm not sure I agree with the apparent conclusion, not for the reasons given, anyway. I'm a linux user and a web developer - and I've already abandoned Firefox for everything except FireBug - after having used e
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by dflock 17y ago
It might not be helping GreenPrint that they have an excellent long standing and successful direct competitor in FinePrint: http://www.fineprint.com/products/fineprint/index.html I used to use FinePrint back when I used Windows and it's r
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by dflock 17y ago
Yes, that's what I suggested, actually.
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by dflock 17y ago
Might be quite fun if you automatically got Hatsby'd/Trouted when you initially signed up to AIM, as an intro to the service - instead of the 5 or 6 complimentary spim-vertising bots you get on your brand new buddy list currently.
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by dflock 17y ago
As far as we know, no, it's quantum all the way down. If you zoom in really close you can see the quata of everything, like looking at a newspaper with a magnifying glass - you can see the dots. If you zoom back out to our level, everything
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by dflock 17y ago
This has largely changed now - and is still changing. There are more options for people who wish to pay for extra treatment, even to the extent of the NHS funding medical tourism where it's cheaper to do so - and the option to go private fo
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by dflock 17y ago
This is how things are generally arranged in national health systems. In the UK for example, the NHS is actually made up of many local Primary Care Trusts (PCTs) which run the hospitals and whatnot in a local area; in larger cities a PCT ca
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by dflock 17y ago
It depends on how quickly you kill them and how you do it. Cholera victims go out in a flood of infectious watery diarrhea, thus spreading the virus to people in the vicinity and into the ground water, passing the infection along. Ebola doe
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by dflock 17y ago
I would say that you're correct. Apple's polish and attention to detail only seems to actually matter to a small minority of people - about 5% of the global marketplace, historically. Most (normal) people don't pay sufficient attention to t
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by dflock 17y ago
Maybe you could weight contributions differently, depending on what kind of behavior you want to encourage? For example you could make first contributions worth double, or have first contributions gain a bonus of x shares, which they can ca
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by dflock 17y ago
Looks interesting - anyone watched it yet and care to comment?
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by dflock 17y ago
Inform is a really nice little rules based language to much about in. For example, this exact text here, between the dashes: ---------- "Biosciences" by "Duncan Lock" Part 1 - The Undercroft The Undercroft is a room. "The bustling undercrof
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by dflock 17y ago
This is the original study from Chatham House & The Institute of Iranian Stuides, St. Andrews Uni: http://www.chathamhouse.org.uk/files/14234_iranelection0609....
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by dflock 17y ago
Yes - sounds like an excellent candidate for an A/B split test and an enlightening follow-up post on HN!
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by dflock 17y ago
The BBC is the Uk equivalent of NRk and I really wish that the scales would fall from their eyes and they'd get on with this kind of stuff. They currently do a little bit of this, and have the online iPlayer, but it's a pretty closed DRM'd
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by dflock 17y ago
Nope - the huge memory usage for Chrome is because this analysis is complete rubbish - it's double counting all the shared memory for each process, as you suggested.
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by dflock 17y ago
Yes, but this also gives you more legal leverage in most cases.
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by dflock 17y ago
I think maybe there needs to be a distinction between initial traffic - where you might need to shout above the din to get noticed - and long tail traffic, which is almost the opposite. Also, see Filthy Linking Rich: http://www.keyworddriv
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by dflock 17y ago
Imagine the outcry if all punishments were meted out on this kind of scale. Jaywalking: 10 years hard labour! And no, I wouldn't steal a purse, because a purse is a physical object, owned by an ordinary individual human being, who would be
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by dflock 17y ago
I can't really see how this is even remotely proportionate, by any stretch of the imagination. What were these 24 tracks? A bunch of obscure Swedish Death Metal by all accounts. Is it likely that collecting these damages would make more pro
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by dflock 17y ago
Probably a bit of both. At present I don't see why they shouldn't be at least as popular as a normal charitable donation. With Kiva, your money goes to some real individual, they use it to build their business, tell you about what they did,
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by dflock 17y ago
Either certify or build something public using your skills, I guess.
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by dflock 17y ago
"...and composition of programs is a fundamental concept to both users and programmers..." This sounds like a nice vision, but I think you must have different users to me, even given 30 years evolution for them too. Anyway, 30 years is half

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