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by fourspace 15y ago
The most surprising part of this story is that RealNetworks is still in business. What a horrible piece of software, on the server and the client side.
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Font Dragr: Test custom fonts in the browser. No code, just drag and drop.(fontdragr.com)
27 points by fourspace 15y ago|6 comments
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by fourspace 15y ago
I absolutely would get excited for Dropbox saying they reached 10 million paying users. =)
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by fourspace 15y ago
I admit, my post was an overreaction. My concern, and the reason I've stopped reading TC, was that we're in a culture that celebrates VC funding as some sort of business success. It's a milestone, but it's not success (in my eyes, anyway).
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by fourspace 15y ago
Sigh, another article that celebrates funding as some type of success. It isn't. What matters is what they do with that money.
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by fourspace 15y ago
You're assuming he's only taking one exposure per scene. It's easy to take that many photos in only a few days, let alone a week. Hell, I can take 300 shots of my infant son playing around in about 15 minutes.
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by fourspace 15y ago
Nice writeup. I've been using a system like this for years, having reached many of the same conclusions. The only wrinkle is when sites require you to use capital letters, special characters, restrict password length, etc.
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by fourspace 15y ago
It really isn't an interesting exercise. It's comparing one bombing by one person to thousands of acts of vandalism and theft by thousands of people. It's fairly self evident that "looking deeper into the root causes" is not going to preven
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by fourspace 15y ago
Looking forward to it. Interested to see how you solve the problem of menu editing.
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by fourspace 15y ago
Maybe I'm oversimplifying things, but why haven't these companies distributed their compute resources across various facilities and cloud providers, enabled instant failover, and tested this before outages like these?
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by fourspace 15y ago
This looks fantastic, just what my company was looking for to quickly develop websites for the small business clients we deal with. They all want a CMS, but the value proposition just isn't there for us for a $2,000 project that requires al
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by fourspace 15y ago
Depends on real estate agreements, power costs, etc.
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by fourspace 15y ago
Articles like this are hilarious, especially for those of us that helped design, build and manage Google's datacenters at one point or another. First, the number of servers may be impressive, but anyone that's done large scale computing can
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by fourspace 15y ago
Nice work! I've been hacking on something very similar. What are you using to save the layouts?
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Does this journal article break the record for number of authors?(ncbi.nlm.nih.gov)
1 points by fourspace 15y ago|0 comments
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by fourspace 15y ago
That kind of blew my mind too. Three years in prison for "transmitting porn", prosecuted in a state in which he didn't even reside? WTF. Here's some more detail from the US Appellate Court: https://www2.bc.edu/~herbeck/cyberlaw.thomas.html
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MTV News covers "The Internet", video from 1995(openculture.com)
75 points by fourspace 15y ago|30 comments
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by fourspace 15y ago
To clarify, I meant over the long term. If you're not making profits or at least breaking even over the long term (spending <= revenues), you're out of business. The problem with the US is that they aren't just borrowing in a low season
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by fourspace 15y ago
No, they want spending to be less than or equal to revenues. That's the only rational way to run a business.
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by fourspace 15y ago
I worked at Google for 5 years. 9-5 is possible, though most people work extra hours. The more important issue is the mental energy. 8 hours at Google is different from 8 hours at a low-key tech gig.
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by fourspace 15y ago
I think this was the more important bit: Again, to belabor the obvious: The illegal version isn't just free. It's better.
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by fourspace 15y ago
I've been using it for a few weeks now and really like it. There are a few clunky bits and I've yet to find a way to send them feedback. That said, it's a product I wouldn't mind paying for. I just hope they release a mobile app sometime so
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by fourspace 15y ago
Looks like `links`.
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by fourspace 15y ago
My iTerm2 looks exactly like that screenshot, and is available now (unlike Lion).
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by fourspace 15y ago
Really? YouTube could remove the comments and not only would I likely not notice, but I'd consider it an improvement. Their current comments harbor some of the most idiotic fury I've seen on the internet.
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by fourspace 15y ago
I worked there for 5 years in cluster management / datacenter operations, from 2005 - 2010. While I had a blast, I'm now working for myself (consulting + startups) and could not be happier. Google is the right place for certain kinds of peo
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by fourspace 15y ago
It's not curious that the scores are not commutative; they shouldn't be. For example, I guarantee you that pg is more interesting to me than I am to him.
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by fourspace 15y ago
The funniest part is that Zynga has made a solid business selling virtual goods, while Groupon has built a crap business selling the real thing.
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by fourspace 15y ago
I use Compass/SASS with the 960gs grid system, allowing me to create purely semantic HTML while the layout remains in CSS. Using a grid system doesn't necessarily pollute your content. https://github.com/chriseppstein/compass-960-plugin/
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by fourspace 15y ago
11px font with 19px line height? Uf, not for my tired eyes. Fixed with this CSS snippet: p { font: 16px "Lucida Sans Unicode", "Trebuchet MS", Verdana, monospace; }

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