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   by ericflo 16y ago

   Let me guess: iPhone?
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   by ericflo 16y ago

   Sounds like a great fit for a great team! Congrats to both parties.
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   Track hidden metrics(thinkoutsidein.com)

   1 points by ericflo 16y ago|0 comments
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   by ericflo 16y ago

   Kinda curious how you thought this was going to go down :)
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   by ericflo 16y ago

   I just caught myself thinking: "I hope they got a software patent on this, they deserve it." But I usually hate software patents unequivocally. So, yet again, a real-world use case reminds me that nothing is so black and white.
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   by ericflo 16y ago

   Awesome news for both CloudKick and Rackspace. For what it's worth, I hadn't really tried out CloudKick before, but tried it after today's news...I'm quite impressed. I really hope Rackspace rolls this functionality into their own offerin
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   by ericflo 16y ago

   It's a serious news source.
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   by ericflo 16y ago

   I've seen this phenomenon before and it really is fascinating. I was not able to ever capitalize on it, but I hope someone else is is able to better dissect it, study it, and post about it.
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   by ericflo 16y ago

   In my experience, it's pretty rare for a project of this maturity to continue to get faster and leaner--usually you see more features and bloat bringing performance decreases. Somehow SQLAlchemy has managed to not only add features, but ge
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    by ericflo 16y ago

    Wow, I don't know how to say this other than that I disagree with almost every single thing you said. You're really advocating that he emulate the hubris, overzealous, wannabe cool tone of "put this in your pipe/and smoke it"? Building a p
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    by ericflo 16y ago

    Was this a Campfire hack, or did they happen to know a username/password combo and try Campfire first?
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    by ericflo 16y ago

    Google Chrome OS
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    by ericflo 16y ago

    I've seen a number of times when people don't understand the statelessness of HTTP, and try to put megabytes of data in a cookie-backed session--unable to understand why that doesn't work, etc. This is especially prevalent in .NET land, whe
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    by ericflo 16y ago

    I think Lanyrd's "tracking" feature solves this, because it shows which of your friends are interested in the conference right alongside those who are slated to attend and/or speak.
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    by ericflo 16y ago

    Not sure what you're getting at here--Lanyrd lets you see where it is, who's attending (and which of those are your friends), the planned sessions, and the date/time.
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    by ericflo 16y ago

    You used to be able to create a Facebook app with some viral hook and slap ads on it and make hundreds to thousands a day. Now it's much, much harder due to Facebook cracking down so hard on virals, but it can still be done. Another way is
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    by ericflo 16y ago

    This is awesome.
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    by ericflo 16y ago

    Fair enough, I do see where you're coming from. Definitely agree on the "testing for what you actually want" point.
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    The Rise Of The Gentleman Hacker(techcrunch.com)

    178 points by ericflo 16y ago|37 comments
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    by ericflo 16y ago

    Yeah, but then there's that whole other class of people who are great but can't deal with the pressure and awkwardness of coding on a whiteboard in an interview. No interview process can be perfect, so unfortunately the trick is in correcti
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    by ericflo 16y ago

    I've been a Rackspace Cloud customer for years, and happily so, but it's this constant drumbeat of innovation and forward momentum at Amazon that makes me seriously reconsider my choice. I really want to see Rackspace step up its game over
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    by ericflo 16y ago

    Yep, exactly. I expect that as node.js rises in popularity in general, JavaScript's use as an embedded game scripting language will rise (possibly at the expense of Lua and Python). Actually now that I write this, I wonder about the possib
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    by ericflo 16y ago

    "There is a $50 publishing fee for making a prediction." No thanks, not willing to pay that overhead. I'd put $50 on the bet, though :)
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    by ericflo 16y ago

    This is why I don't ask candidates to code. I ask them to describe concepts, articulate trade-offs, and/or walk me through their process of solving a real problem (usually something I've just solved so that I'm intimately familiar with the
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    by ericflo 16y ago

    Want to make a bet that we'll see JavaScript used to script a game within the next 5 years? I'd bet money that we will.
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    by ericflo 16y ago

    As an aside, I think /dev/fort is one of the coolest ideas, ever: http://devfort.com/ (This site was developed during a /dev/fort)
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    by ericflo 16y ago

    It's important to note that this is not "Pure Django", it recommends django-nonrel, which is actually a fork of Django.
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    by ericflo 16y ago

    They had United States court orders. But DNS be subject to US court orders?
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    by ericflo 16y ago

    I'm not excited about having to go through all my apps to update them for this. It's going to be hours of work, followed by weeks of users reporting subtle bugs that cropped up as a result. This kind of frequent, sweeping change is the rea
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    by ericflo 16y ago

    Yep, I think the first commenter puts it well: "just like HTTP isn't a license"