emmett

94 ms·

871.
by emmett 19y ago
We don't share much with "agile development" except a rapid development cycle. "Agile development" things we don't do do (from the wikipedia article): Exhaustive unit and integration testing - our testing is sparse and only for things tha
872.
by emmett 19y ago
Have you seen myspace.com? It's proof that clutter isn't the problem tech people think it is. See http://andrewchen.typepad.com/andrew_chens_blog/2007/11/do-y... for more in depth coverage of the same idea.
873.
The Next Tinyurl(blog.emmettshear.com)
4 points by emmett 19y ago|1 comments
874.
by emmett 19y ago
If someone proposed that my company be subject to regulations on what algorithm we could use to rank our search results, I'd be kind of upset about that.
875.
by emmett 19y ago
If you want to build your own S3 clone before you get started on your project, that makes perfect sense. Although, in that case, it makes little sense to use S3 at all. The whole point is that you don't have to write your own clone.
876.
by emmett 19y ago
Google Analytics actually just added support for AJAX/Flash actions...look up the documentation, you can have each step of that process appear as a "page".
877.
by emmett 19y ago
I agree PHP has a lot of ugliness to it, but it's hard to argue with things like the success of Facebook. If that's not serious webapp development work, I'm not sure what qualifies.
878.
by emmett 19y ago
Nice catch. I didn't notice that. However, maybe PG just likes Obama - you can support a candidate that you don't think is certain (or even likely) to win. * No longer relevant given PG's response
879.
by emmett 19y ago
The one problem with the theory I see is that it's easy to choose which candidate is more charismatic after they've won. So, PG - put your money where your mouth is. Who's the most charismatic candidate this time?
880.
by emmett 19y ago
Results 1 - 10 of about 153,000 for ruby install error. (0.23 seconds) Results 1 - 10 of about 166,000 for python install error. (0.26 seconds) Results 1 - 10 of about 264,000 for java install error. (0.22 seconds) Results 1 - 10 of about 1
881.
by emmett 19y ago
Justin.tv does.
882.
by emmett 19y ago
Aha! zip == matrix transpose. I wonder why I never noticed that before...
883.
zip is its own inverse
8 points by emmett 19y ago|5 comments
884.
by emmett 19y ago
The disturbing part here is that prep schools actually are good . If they were extravagant wastes of money, they would be irrelevant. The reason we have public education is that we're trying to give everyone an equal footing to start out i
885.
by emmett 19y ago
That's correct. Thanks for clearing that up!
886.
by emmett 19y ago
The web is just the most convenient place to deliver software. Justin.tv has a huge* amount of highly concurrent, high performance Python code that delivers our video. That video is still delivered via the web, though. Speaking of which, we
887.
Reality looks staged(tvtropes.org)
1 points by emmett 19y ago|0 comments
888.
by emmett 19y ago
How old is your computer? I've found news.yc load times are close to instant.
889.
by emmett 19y ago
It's still under too much development and too unstable to offer an outside API, but it's something we're very much considering.
890.
by emmett 19y ago
Congrats on launching the platform Sam - I remember you talking about that back in the summer of 05 for Radiate. Loopt has come a long way!
891.
by emmett 19y ago
So, technically, the software we've written is a distributed flash video distribution system, of the type one could use to run a CDN. But "distributed flash video system" is like 20 characters longer and a lot harder to say than CDN. It run
892.
by emmett 19y ago
Honestly, if we hadn't made that list I would have been a little offended. The original Justin.tv idea (which is what they're reacting to here) was clearly pretty dumb.
893.
by emmett 19y ago
The article at no point says that those genetic traits which are linked to race could not have an impact on intelligence. Instead, it says that what evidence there is for that is very weak, and that the effect (if it exists at all) is sma
894.
by emmett 19y ago
Ah, the system administrator...a position even harder to fill than developer in my experience.
895.
by emmett 19y ago
Facebook has 50 million active users, is the 7th largest website online according to Alexa, and is growing rapidly. Many of these startups failed to even launch, and the ones that did never got traction or had completely unsustainable busin
896.
by emmett 19y ago
A trait being highly heritable does not make it highly genetic. Correlation is not causation. http://www.cscs.umich.edu/~crshalizi/weblog/520.html
897.
by emmett 19y ago
Ministry of Sound 2008
898.
by emmett 19y ago
Not if you're Justin.tv!
899.
by emmett 19y ago
"In the short run, it's good for the economy when young people believe they need to buy an entirely new wardrobe every year, for example." The broken window fallacy is back, wearing an all new suit of clothes!
900.
by emmett 19y ago
It's articles like these which make me want a vote down button.

More ›