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by drgath 14y ago
TOTAL $9M VENTURE FUNDING TOTAL $9M Series A, 9/06 1 Greylock Partners - $1M Series B, 6/07 2 Greylock Partners - $8M
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by drgath 14y ago
I recently attended a lecture given by an astronomy professor/cosmologist who concurred that yes, the big bang is on its way out as the accepted truth. Like a swirling drain, we're getting closer, and there are aspects of the theory that a
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by drgath 15y ago
Somewhere there are some lawyers saying the exact same thing about someone they hired to build them a website. "Seriously... this kid started complaining when I told him I wanted it like X, and he said it should be like Y cause it'll be eas
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by drgath 15y ago
So a 1-2 hour drive for anyone living in Bev Hills, Hollywood, Brentwood, Santa Monica, etc... Not that Union Station is much more central. LA is just too damn big (geographically) to make that viable.
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by drgath 15y ago
> The absence of such makes us the laughingstock of Europe and Asia. Please. The geography of the US compared to these Europe & Asia projects are so radically different, the reason high-speed rail hasn't been a priority is because
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by drgath 15y ago
I feel this same way about "brogrammers", do they even exist? I've never met one, and I'm a pretty social guy. I'm sure there are some douchy guys who happen to be programmers, but are there enough to even call it a trend? Or is it just
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by drgath 15y ago
Yup. They are similar. Yahoo! Live was pretty awesome.
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by drgath 15y ago
Current Yahoo here. I love working for Yahoo. Fun & unique challenges to solve, compensated well, and is a nice environment. Think what you will, but there are plenty more that are like me. My current team is full of some of the best
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by drgath 15y ago
I know. If you are talking about some of the most advanced apps Google develops, I'm sure they will cease supporting FF10 & Chrome 20 at some point this year. I prefaced my post by saying "I'd assume you are talking about Google search
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by drgath 15y ago
"Google will probably stop this year." I'd assume you are talking about Google search? No they won't. 100% guarantee you Google will still support FF3.6, just like Google does, and always will always support IE6. jQuery, YUI, and all the
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by drgath 15y ago
Yes, but then you miss out on auto-completion for searches. Hence, why I prefer the separate bars. If I know the URL or title of the page (for FF's Awesomebar), cmd+L (URL bar). If I want to search, cmd+K (search box). It's all personal p
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by drgath 15y ago
Having grown up in the midwest, now living in SF, and commuting daily to SV, yeah, most of the world thinks it's the same thing. SF is just a suburb of SV.
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by drgath 15y ago
Currently showing Linus on my page. Bug, or feature? :) http://www.githire.com/user/derek
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by drgath 15y ago
Just about every library & language has a Request-like wrapper. It's nothing unique to Node, and certainly nothing unique to client-side JavaScript where native XHR is a nightmare.
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by drgath 15y ago
I came here with the same question. Considering I come from PHP & JavaScript where the native APIs are awful, wrapping is a necessary step for sanity. Interesting that Python didn't have this until now.
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by drgath 15y ago
Funny. But to be fair, a Hello World in C compiles to a 27k binary. Yeah yeah, optimize this, leave out that and you can get it smaller. Still doesn't change the fact that Hello World is not the target use-case for either C or Dart. Dar
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by drgath 15y ago
Sure, jQuery is bad at scale. And by "scale" I'm not talking pageviews, I'm talking features, development team, etc... For that, modular libraries like YUI and Dojo are the answer. You can create some of the most advanced web applications
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by drgath 15y ago
As awesome as JSLinux is, until it gets networking i/o, there's little real-world use for it. Once it does though, the floodgates of awesome will open up.
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by drgath 15y ago
The definition of "software patent" is about as misused as "impeachment" or "HTML5". Ending software patents fixes very little with what is wrong with the patent industry because most of what people assume are software patents, likely aren'
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by drgath 15y ago
> In order for monopoly power to exist, there have to be barriers preventing users from switching search providers. That is incorrect. A "monopoly" is simply having a large enough control over the market that you dictate how others acce
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by drgath 15y ago
The difference is that the iOS stuff only runs on $500 devices. The web stuff runs on just about everything. No one ever said standards were easy.
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by drgath 15y ago
> About the only near-market leader Yahoo controls is Flickr #1 US properties - Y! News - Y! Sports - Y! Finance - OMG - Y! Mail - Homepage (for portals) And probably some others I don't know of.
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by drgath 15y ago
"Culture" is defined by parties? I think you are confusing "culture" and "perks". I love the culture at Yahoo.
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by drgath 15y ago
Yup! They look like this, http://www.flickr.com/photos/mmhmm/1753309475/
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by drgath 15y ago
The first step would be for WebSQL to be a W3C/WHATWG approved standard & recommendation. Until that happens, no browser should implement it.
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by drgath 15y ago
But considering Google already stole the name "Go" from another language, it's likely that they just don't care.
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by drgath 15y ago
Just because it is open doesn't mean the other browsers will, or should, implement it. NaCl will never see the light of day in other browsers even though it is entirely open-source. Until NaCl, Dash, and whatever other stuff they decide to
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by drgath 15y ago
Don't get me wrong, I 100% agree that sites should be allowed to host their own version of YUI because there are some circumstances where it may be necessary. That's why we distribute all the source code to be able to do it. But also keep
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by drgath 15y ago
Gord, thanks for the comments. Very much appreciated. Here are some of my thoughts... > "Give the team autonomy / ie. a virtual startup within Yahoo. Maybe split off a team or an Open Source startup ?" Everyone involved with the proje
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by drgath 15y ago
Join us for a YUI Open Hours sometime. We do them every few weeks and you can learn about all the latest stuff we're working on. Follow @yuilibrary on Twitter for updates. You can also follow us all on Github and see everything we're doin

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