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by ericflo 15y ago
Google has 36 billion dollars of cash on hand, so they had the money, they apparently weren't willing to bid more than pi billion though.
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by ericflo 15y ago
They certainly had the money, they just didn't bid enough money.
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by ericflo 15y ago
We used jquery.gritter.js for Convore http://boedesign.com/demos/gritter/
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by ericflo 15y ago
I thought that at first too, but they have press going back to 2009 under the name scvngr: http://techcrunch.com/2009/08/13/scvngr-lets-you-build-aweso...
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by ericflo 15y ago
It's a little hard to judge this article when the most important information (the before and after of the name) has been changed in the pursuit of anonymity.
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by ericflo 15y ago
That's exactly what I'm talking about: that facility9 blog post explaining why they chose HBase had many factual errors about Cassandra when it was posted, and had to be revised after several respected people in the space contacted the auth
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by ericflo 15y ago
Facebook for a long time didn't use the vastly (and I mean vastly ) improved open source version of Cassandra, instead opting for their internal fork. Instead of choosing to do so, I believe they have now switched to HBase, mainly for its
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by ericflo 15y ago
Didn't Steve Jobs put out a standing offer to buy Nintendo at one point?
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by ericflo 15y ago
That's not really a good tactic, because Google could just change its policies.
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by ericflo 15y ago
Really, that doesn't feel like it should be that hard? As a developer, that sound like a nightmare. Services like these aren't just a piece of software that can be versioned, it's a system of systems, each one with certain requirements, l
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Exposed: Facebook’s Secret iPhone Photo Sharing App (Which Looks Amazing)(techcrunch.com)
97 points by ericflo 15y ago|42 comments
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by ericflo 15y ago
Rampant speculation is exactly what the author of the article is doing, I don't see why it can't go both ways :)
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by ericflo 15y ago
Thanks!
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by ericflo 15y ago
Twilio?
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by ericflo 15y ago
Nice! How does that handle upgrading the permissions later? That was one of the big problems I ran into before: that we requested read access and then to get write access we had to have users first revoke permissions and then grant them a
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by ericflo 15y ago
Unfortunately the way that Twitter's OAuth works, at least when I dove into it a few months ago, is that if you ever want to send out a Tweet on anyone's behalf (for totally legitimate reasons, with user permission etc), you have to req
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by ericflo 15y ago
Yeah, and there's an awful lot of stuff where you die without the right medication. Your comment seems especially flippant given the list of drugs listed in this article: things like anesthetics used in surgery, drugs used in emergency tre
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by ericflo 15y ago
I built something similar a while back during the Django Dash, but there's no server software to install because it just uses ssh and tail: https://github.com/ericflo/servertail This looks more polished and complete though from a user int
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by ericflo 15y ago
It's been a while since I worked at Mochi, but unless they've dramatically changed their technology, it's because they don't have access to the cookie: Mochi's ad product is a library that Flash game developers include in their Flash games
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by ericflo 15y ago
I think this explanation is fine: according to the post, it's storing information about the ads you see, not about you. So you're not being tracked.
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by ericflo 15y ago
I don't think that Nick Martini guy is a GitHub employee.
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by ericflo 15y ago
I disagree, I think that history.pushState is the most important thing.
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by ericflo 15y ago
"I've done better than them" vs. "I am better than them" is such an important distinction, it really is those subtle differences in attitude that make all the difference in how we view the world and what we get out of the world. Somewhat of
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by ericflo 15y ago
A great team will eventually arrive at the right idea.
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by ericflo 15y ago
Innovation does have a formula though: create very small passionate teams with autonomy and proper incentives. And then the trick is to resist the temptation to tamper with the team once it's successful (e.g. don't do what they did here ht
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by ericflo 15y ago
IntoNow seems pretty successful.
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by ericflo 15y ago
Actually he addresses that and proposes syntax to address it. let fib = fun(N) -> fib(N, 1, 0) end in fib(N, A, B) when N < 2 -> A; fib(N, A, B) -> fib(N-1, A+B, A). end. Where everything in th
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by ericflo 15y ago
(Speaking about the "Speedy Foundations" section) Is there some kind of magic in Node.JS and MongoDB that makes application logic fast and scalable? Am I just a curmudgeon? Am I barking into the wind? Language choice never implies speed or
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by ericflo 15y ago
Sorry, I should have specified that I was using the word rational in this way: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rational_choice_theory namely, "that an individual acts as if balancing costs against benefits to arrive at action that maximizes
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Andrew Chen's 2011 Blogging Roadmap: “Zero to product/market fit”(andrewchenblog.com)
56 points by ericflo 15y ago|2 comments

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