felixmar

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by felixmar 17y ago
The absence of private contributions makes the chart rather meaningless. Take for example The Netherlands: a pledge of 4.3 million dollars according to the data. This was an initial pledge by the government shortly after the disaster. In th
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Video, Freedom And Mozilla(weblogs.mozillazine.org)
55 points by felixmar 17y ago|65 comments
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by felixmar 17y ago
Not exactly the same but take a look at the Lenovo U1 hybrid http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/05/lenovo-ideapad-u1-hybrid-...
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I was one of the few who voted it up. It's a well written article with good comments.
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by felixmar 17y ago
I remember buying a boxed version of SUSE Linux a long time ago. Other distributions have tried that business model as well. It doesn't work. Most Linux users expect software to be free of charge.
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by felixmar 17y ago
Happy Midwinter Celebrations to all of you!
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by felixmar 17y ago
Are there YC funded startups that are based outside the US? I know a Dutch startup that received an invitation for an interview, but don't know if they got in.
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Moonlight 2 Released(tirania.org)
16 points by felixmar 17y ago|11 comments
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by felixmar 17y ago
It is possible to write a Silverlight client that understands Adobe's RTMP protocol if you really need it, but for non-live streaming to a Silverlight player i recommend IIS with smooth streaming on the origin server(s). The media chunks ar
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by felixmar 17y ago
Try out stuff How common is that at Microsoft? My perception is that few Microsoft employees participate in projects not directly related to their work, even if it's Microsoft technology. Take for example F#. I haven't seen much from Micr
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by felixmar 17y ago
The free inbound transfer is obviously a reaction to Microsoft's pricing. Windows Azure has free inbound transfer during off-peak hours until June 30 (see http://www.microsoft.com/windowsazure/faq/#pricing ).
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by felixmar 17y ago
I don't think it is useful to bring attention to that. Hacker News readers familiar with AWS will recognize the name. A certain amount of pseudo-anonymity may encourage people like him to post more on HN.
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by felixmar 17y ago
With MinGW you can cross-compile from Linux (and perhaps also from FreeBSD). Imho Cygwin is not suitable for applications like tarsnap that should be very reliable and fast.
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by felixmar 17y ago
The situation for 64-bit Windows is similar ( http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/ghc/ticket/1884 ). I imagine it will be even more difficult to find someone with extensive low-level Windows and Unix skills to create the Windows port.
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by felixmar 17y ago
It does not take much time to contact them personally and let them know about your site. A bit of courtesy in the startup world is never wrong.
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by felixmar 17y ago
The programmer creates a spark. The designer creates a lantern. The businessperson creates a lighthouse.
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by felixmar 17y ago
Firefox does not support MPEG-4 video because of patent licensing issues. Firefox supports Ogg files with Theora video and Vorbis audio. Google has an agreement with MPEG LA and is therefore able to ship an MPEG-4 AVC decoder with Google Ch
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by felixmar 17y ago
They should add delete buttons to all listed services which remove the service and content or at least reset everything to the default empty state.
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by felixmar 17y ago
Silverlight is pretty terrible Compared to what? Silverlight uses a bit more CPU time when playing MP4 videos compared to Media Player or VLC but about the same as Google Chrome. It may be different on OS X. How does Silverlight's video p
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by felixmar 17y ago
+1 for Google Maps. I've noticed several times that Microsoft's map technology is more accurate, but i keep using Google Maps because of the superior UI.
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by felixmar 17y ago
Hacker News excites me and i am sometimes a bit scared to post a comment. Now i know what to do. Watch me dive in deeper baby!
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by felixmar 17y ago
I upvoted you, but i think you underestimate many programmers.
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by felixmar 17y ago
One difference is that you could work for thousands of software companies. In search there's Google and somewhere down the road Bing. Everyone else faces a near impossible road uphill. What if the only places you could work is Google or Mic
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by felixmar 17y ago
I like both Haskell and F# so perhaps i can give some reasonable counter-arguments. 1) F# will be integrated in Visual Studio 2010. Large commercial companies like banks use F#. It is very unlikely that Microsoft will drop it. 2) Actually t
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by felixmar 17y ago
Atlas got tired of his job. He was replaced by a bunch of turtles.
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by felixmar 17y ago
Not officially supported, but someone is working on a C# driver: http://github.com/samus/mongodb-csharp/tree/master
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by felixmar 17y ago
Mature, consistent and simple to use libraries with good documentation is what Haskell lacks most. The foundation is great. Scalable servers could be a good niche for Haskell, but it would probably need backing by one or more companies to g
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by felixmar 17y ago
Seems like a useful service. One comment: the "Request Invite" link should be much more prominent imho.
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by felixmar 17y ago
http://www.metabrew.com/article/anti-rdbms-a-list-of-distrib... http://themindstorms.blogspot.com/2009/05/quick-reference-to... The comparisons in those posts are probably outdated soon with so many new nosql data stores.
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by felixmar 17y ago
Reading the pdf makes me appreciate Haskell again. It seems really complicated whereas using STM in Haskell is simple. One paper by Simon Peyton-Jones explains STM much better than this large user guide.

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