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by gamble 16y ago
LiveJournal is a good example. They were forced to go invitation-only for a long time because they couldn't handle the traffic. By the time they had the technical issues under control attention had shifted elsewhere.
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by gamble 16y ago
What are you, HN's resident troll? I responded politely and informatively to your dickish 'citation needed' post, and your only response is to call me disingenuous?
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by gamble 16y ago
From the IAEA: ( http://www.iaea.org/cgi-bin/db.page.pl/pris.charts.htm ) 442 active reactors 125 shutdown reactors --- 567 total Destroyed reactors: Unit 2 TMI Units 1-4 Fukushima Unit 4 Chernobyl Percentage of reac
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by gamble 16y ago
How exactly are you quantifying severity? The worst case for a reactor is vastly worse than anything that can happen at other types of plant. The financial bill for cleaning up nuclear accidents is already in the billions of dollars, not co
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by gamble 16y ago
Nuclear industry PR reminds me of NASA's attitude to space travel prior to the Challenger explosion. The fact is that there are fewer than 500 reactors in operation worldwide, representing a significant fraction of the total number ever bui
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by gamble 16y ago
Interesting. I'd never heard of dotLisp. I'd love to know why he decided to move to the JVM.
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by gamble 16y ago
.NET is a pretty good implementation of a Better Java. It doesn't even suffer from some of the cultural problems of Java. (FooDelegatorHandleFactorySingleton...) It is a thoroughly corporate ecosystem, though. The vast majority of .NET pr
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by gamble 16y ago
It's articles like this that make me wish desktop browsers supported phone-style multitouch zoom. Tiny type, off-center, in a fixed column that takes up 1/4 of my browser window... ugh.
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by gamble 16y ago
An even better question would be 'what are you willing to give up to start a startup?'. On most measures (experience, contacts, etc) you're better waiting a few years before starting. The trick is that people tend to accumulate personal and
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by gamble 16y ago
Of all the problems Myspace had those two are probably the least significant, if they're even problems at all. Honestly, I never got the impression that there was much competition at all. Myspace was too early, made some design mistakes, an
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by gamble 16y ago
Google has been pushing the 'open' line heavily since Android launched. They've benefitted from endlessly positive PR; they deserve to be called on it when they choose profits over principle. That seems to be a lot these days. > I can d
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by gamble 16y ago
That would be my point. Practically all post-2007 phones and tablets depend on Apple's open-source work. It's easily the most important application on mobile devices. Had Apple decided to roll their own proprietary browser instead of extend
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by gamble 16y ago
Yes, Android's conception of openness is the kind where you get to advertise how moral you are and how dastardly the competition is, not the kind where you have to compromise on difficult business decisions.
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by gamble 16y ago
Apple doesn't hammer its competitors over the head with moralistic claims about how 'open' they are. Google does. However, I will point out that some of Apple's open-source work (Webkit) is far more widely used than anything Google has done
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by gamble 16y ago
Once again, Google's 'principles' become a way for apologists to excuse bad behavior, rather than something that actually informs their actions.
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Android openness withering as Google withholds Honeycomb (arstechnica.com)
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by gamble 16y ago
Most of the software-based 'hard problem' niches that are accessible to programmers without specialized domain knowledge outside software were filled by startups in the 70s and 80s that are now the establishment. Nobody is going to fund ano
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by gamble 16y ago
UPS is 'efficient'... So efficient they learned not to waste time on actual deliveries when they could just claim that the recipient wasn't home without ever having to stop the truck.
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Google closes Android 3.0 Honeycomb source to prevent use on smartphones(appleinsider.com)
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by gamble 16y ago
Bad advisors, bad friends, and bad investments. If you've really got a fortune to squander, that's the way to do it.
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by gamble 16y ago
DNF was more like a series of half-finished games, all worked on for a couple of years and thrown away. Nothing they showed the public ever had more than a year or two between it and one of the many restarts. The analogy to a 20% project is
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by gamble 16y ago
Problem is that while the real estate is cheap, the taxes are not. There's also the potential liability of owning land you have no ability to monitor and maintain.
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by gamble 16y ago
DUI checkpoints are used as a convenient way to peek inside cars the police would have no cause to pull over under normal circumstances. Then, if they don't like your attitude, they can make up an excuse to turn your car inside out looking
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by gamble 16y ago
That's true. I imagine the regulatory hurdles to add radios to existing towers is orders of magnitude lower than building new towers. Might be a win for AT&T in cities where T-Mobile has good coverage.
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by gamble 16y ago
T-Mobile's phones operate on a different frequency than AT&T. I don't see them merging the two networks. Chances are that T-Mobile's network will be put in maintenance mode, with any new customers receiving phones on AT&T's frequenc
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by gamble 16y ago
Yeah, programmer salaries in the UK seem very low. I'm Canadian, but my husband also has UK citizenship. We were contemplating a move to the UK, but it would have meant taking a significant pay cut, even though the cost-of-living was much h
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by gamble 16y ago
They were lucky not to live in the US! Since the foreclosure crisis began, a lot of people have found out their rental home was foreclosed when the sheriff showed up on their door to evict them.
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by gamble 16y ago
The first rule of the nuclear power industry is that you always protect the nuclear power industry. It stems from a culture ultimately rooted in nuclear weapons and the cold war. From the very beginning, civilian atomic power has always had
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by gamble 16y ago
Non-sequitor. Just because something else is bad doesn't make this situation any better.
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by gamble 16y ago
Are you joking? It's only 'habitable' in the sense that wildlife doesn't drop dead the moment it enters the exclusion zone. The animals are still receiving substantial amounts of radiation, and will continue to suffer for decades. The worst

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