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by flyt 15y ago
Ask Apple what negotiations with Facebook are like when your goal is to copy their entire dataset and build a competitor. Nobody would be stupid enough to allow this with their own business.
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by flyt 15y ago
This is a great improvement, and having JSON data for the metrics means that you can skip having the server render all those graphs via rrdtool and instead use something like HighCharts or other Canvas based graphing toolkits. Now they just
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by flyt 15y ago
We're reaching a stage where banning somebody from all Internet access is over the top, even for crimes like this. This would prevent him from accessing online billing for utilities, banking, and many government services. Some banks are eve
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by flyt 15y ago
probably "like every understaffed, underbudgeted IT department in the world" bad
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by flyt 15y ago
No-Hiring somebody after they get one wrong answer is ridiculous. A wrong answer during an interview and how it's followed up on is one of the most telling parts of the whole process. If you want to hire people that are good at taking tests
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by flyt 15y ago
Sounds like a great reason to introduce new hardware in the fall that takes advantage of the new device setup process and wireless syncing to iTunes/iCloud. iOS 5 is better on iPhone 5.
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by flyt 15y ago
Really, really nice looking building and landscaping. Why keep the IL1 campus, instead of just moving everybody into a slightly larger mothership in 2015?
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Apple accidentally leaks "Automatic Download" capability for apps in iOS 5(macrumors.com)
2 points by flyt 15y ago|0 comments
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by flyt 15y ago
Sorry, but Facebook's graph describes my actual friends. Gmails with my bank and landlord are not a better representation of my contacts.
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by flyt 15y ago
just search "SFO to NYC"
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by flyt 15y ago
Nobody buys Macs to use as servers outside of a very small workgroup-like market, usually for creative houses. DEFINITELY nobody is picking them up as "mysql and apache servers instead of linux" because OSX is a terrible server OS and not w
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by flyt 16y ago
The difference is context within my social network. None of my friends have Google Profiles and are unlikely to reconstruct their graph on Google Profiles. Clicking +1 doesn't have as much social distribution as the Like button because of t
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by flyt 16y ago
Yet the bulk of advertising dollars goes to demand generation (i.e. Drink Pepsi!) and not fulfillment (i.e. searching for Pepsi on Google & seeing a targeted ad for Pepsi). Companies pay a lot to get people that don't know about their p
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by flyt 16y ago
You can buy the lighting yourself, it's from Redwood Systems: http://www.redwoodsystems.com/products
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by flyt 16y ago
HP, Dell and other vendors are already showing off hardware built to the new specifications: http://instagr.am/p/C66FU/
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by flyt 16y ago
Get all the CAD files and other specifications here: http://opencompute.org
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by flyt 16y ago
This isn't a response to Greenpeace, this is a response to the real costs that it takes to run compute infrastructure at the scale of Facebook, Amazon, Google, etc. If a datacenter can run at 1.07 PUE (as Facebook's new datacenter does), th
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by flyt 16y ago
Palo Alto's utility company did the same thing while they rebuilt their bill pay site. Really frustrating as a user, especially for a city at the heart of the Valley.
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by flyt 16y ago
Facebook's Like button can be either "Like" or "Recommend", and publishes the selected verb into news feed. Many news sites use recommend for this exact reason (NYT, for example).
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by flyt 16y ago
A 30-minute long TV show is actually only about 21.5 minutes long. The rest is advertising. People will tolerate it if the rest of the content is relevant and engaging. If the ads are well targeted then they make people even more accepting
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by flyt 16y ago
Don't worry, if Apple acquires them (like they did their last company, Lala) then Gruber will suddenly realize how revolutionary the idea is.
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by flyt 16y ago
If you can't trust engineers to work in production, then you can't trust their code. Extensive logging, auditing, and granular access control are also critical to making this work in a large engineering org.
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by flyt 16y ago
for the lazy: http://movies.netflix.com/WiMovie/Born_Rich/70008257
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by flyt 16y ago
For whatever reason it was a nonstarter for me. Notational Velocity + Simplenote has worked much better.
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Facebook's Web Server Strategy: 'Chinese Foot Soldiers'(pcmag.com)
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by flyt 16y ago
This explains why it's so overcast in Palo Alto today.
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by flyt 16y ago
I thought the same thing, and then I posted :D
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by flyt 16y ago
probably not. oh well.
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by flyt 16y ago
Facebook for me; I know two people living near Tokyo that instantly updated their statuses and it just snowballed from there. It took the US news (nytimes.com) at least 20 minutes to have anything up, but twitter and facebook exploded insta
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by flyt 16y ago
other live stream: http://english.aljazeera.net/watch_now/ watching the 3-meter tsunami roll over land is surreal

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