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by ecaron 12y ago
Several points: * A definitive decision with clearly defined dates. * Acknowledgement towards successors * The HUGE effort and endeavor to snapshot and maintain the archives for posterity.
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by ecaron 12y ago
This should serve as the gold standard for how to implement a decision like this.
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University of Illinois issues DMCA takedown for previous years' homework(github.com)
73 points by ecaron 12y ago|95 comments
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by ecaron 12y ago
The similarities between Fab & Jobster shouldn't be overlooked. And a lot of the lessons from 2007 ( http://mashable.com/2007/12/13/jobster-ceo-steps-down/ ) seem to be forecasted in 2013 ( http:&
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by ecaron 12y ago
Why is the remote work limited to people in PST? If a potential candidate is in Iowa, couldn't the requirement just be "Are you ok working 10am-7pm your time?"
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by ecaron 12y ago
As a follow-up, the General Manager of Amazon WorkSpaces reached out to me and asked for my feedback. This is one place where the Ikea-analogy holds true. Just like Home Depot, Amazon has workers that engage with their customers and know ho
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by ecaron 12y ago
Launched back in 2011: http://mashable.com/2011/02/10/google-wedding/
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Docker rebranding Fig to Compose(github.com)
1 points by ecaron 12y ago|0 comments
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by ecaron 12y ago
After trying for 3 weeks to make AWS WorkSpaces work for my company, I can still confidently say that Amazon doesn't get it. Their solutions are more "Go to Home Depot and get the parts to make a desk", whereas Google Apps is
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by ecaron 12y ago
> We chose to make use of our spare and decommissioned hardware. That included a pair of Juniper EX4200 switches and three HP SL170zG6 (48GB ram, 2 Xeon L5640, 2 1Gbps NIC) In other words, Mozilla has enough money that a 48GB ram machin
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by ecaron 12y ago
The changelog at https://github.com/lodash/lodash/wiki/Changelog gives some nice examples of breaking changes for anyone moving from v2.x
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by ecaron 12y ago
As a side note, if you click that link and see Flickr's homepage, just close the tab and click it again. I think Flickr has launched a new feature...
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by ecaron 12y ago
Auto-updating is possible even without using addons.mozilla.org, sites like Pinterest do it all the time for their plugin. Mozilla rolls that option into their CFX builder - https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/Add-ons&#
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by ecaron 12y ago
Personally, I hope that this doesn't get added to addons.mozilla.org. Their arbitrary human-control editor policy would be the best thing to cause stagnation of innovative plugins such as this. If the author goes the self-hosted route,
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by ecaron 12y ago
Lots of good questions here: * The "sign-in before you'll let people follow" is just a straight forward result of A/B testing. It was like a 9-to-1 difference for single site returns. And despite the developer in me sayi
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by ecaron 12y ago
You're right, a Show HN is probably overdue. I'll post one in the next couple days. Thanks for the idea!
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by ecaron 12y ago
Previous fruitful HN conversation: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7580465
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by ecaron 12y ago
You're welcome to email me at eric@trackif.com and I'd love to chat about it, but I'm not going to hijack this thread with my marketing schpeels ;-)
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by ecaron 12y ago
You need to comment more on HN. Everytime I see your username I think "Why doesn't he have more karma - he typically responds with gems."
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by ecaron 12y ago
When I started working on https://trackif.com , I thought the premise was thin because prices couldn't fluctuate that much. I assumed everything gradually declined in price, and that it'd primarily be driven by store-A
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by ecaron 12y ago
Does it make me too cynical that my initial reaction to anything on petitions.whitehouse.gov is "Who cares?" Can someone point me to a petition that actually made a difference?
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by ecaron 12y ago
But its screen is <13". Not really an apt comparison. I'd think the T450s would be a more suitable alternative.
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by ecaron 12y ago
> So, how to do we revive Persona? I mean, it's still around, but it's been kind of back-burnered by Mozilla. Come up with a way to market it that makes sense to your mother in under 10 seconds. The "why the heck is this b
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by ecaron 12y ago
node.js doesn't have v1.0 release yet, but I still use it... I think we're reaching a more acceptable point in technologies where our proper test coverage ensures that using an unblessed release in production is acceptable.
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How we made editing Wikipedia twice as fast(blog.wikimedia.org)
339 points by ecaron 12y ago|132 comments
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by ecaron 12y ago
Better conversation from 3 years ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3237478 (which, oddly enough, is about the last time this project was updated)
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by ecaron 12y ago
I really, really, really want to move to using a tiling window manager. Watching YouTube videos of people using them well, you can't help but think "Damn, they're really crazy efficient". But I can't find one that h
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by ecaron 12y ago
Probably 10% of our queries are direct key lookups, the rest easy-to-read yet still non-trivial.
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by ecaron 12y ago
Absolutely. We've been using Mongo for all the core functionality at TrackIf.com and are still very happy with it. (Our biggest complaint was our initial MongoDB host provider was hosing our performance, once we switched to a non-share
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by ecaron 12y ago
It is amazing how many in this community are able to just dismiss this "Oh yeh, boot2docker performance is still awful." If Docker was a product by Google or Microsoft, we'd have pitch forks out by this point. Yet somehow Doc

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