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Snap values itself at nearly $24B with its IPO pricing(techcrunch.com)
103 points by hoov 10y ago|151 comments
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by hoov 10y ago
This is pretty big news. I know that when I was at Adobe, the only reason that Perforce was used for things like Acrobat, is because it was simply the only source control solution that could handle the size of the repo. Smaller projects wer
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Dropbox’s Smart Sync lets users open a file stored only in the cloud like normal(techcrunch.com)
127 points by hoov 10y ago|69 comments
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Dropbox and Intel work together to protect your data(blogs.dropbox.com)
2 points by hoov 10y ago|0 comments
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Diversity at Dropbox(blogs.dropbox.com)
4 points by hoov 10y ago|0 comments
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by hoov 10y ago
I bought a house a year and a half ago; Zenstimates are consistently ridiculously low for my area. I was looking for single family homes in Somerville, MA. There is so little supply that every home goes immediately after listing and most li
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by hoov 10y ago
This sounds lovely. I live near Boston, Massachusetts and have a distinctly different experience. > I don't mind waiting in line for 3 minutes. Or 5. It's never longer than that, even if the cashier discusses the latest news wi
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AWS announces virtual private servers starting at $5 a month(techcrunch.com)
7 points by hoov 10y ago|2 comments
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by hoov 10y ago
Was this an older build? We had serious issues at first, but our setup is pretty stable these days.
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Trump transition team appointments indicate a bid to dismantle net neutrality(techcrunch.com)
7 points by hoov 10y ago|0 comments
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by hoov 10y ago
Are you familiar with her work? I think she's was breath of fresh air compared with other baby boomers in the industry. I, for one, will miss her.
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by hoov 10y ago
I've been thinking about how to respond to this for a little while, because I'm a bit biased and I don't want to give away to much information about Drew's personal life. I lived with Drew through college and a bit after
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by hoov 10y ago
It was more of a lack of abstraction than anything. The server reflected more or less what the OS presented -- an add and a delete rather than a move. Putting the pieces together later to present better information to the user was difficult
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Vanessa Wittman to step down as CFO and Ajay Vashee to take the reins(blogs.dropbox.com)
1 points by hoov 10y ago|0 comments
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Introducing AdminX: New ways to securely manage collaboration at scale(blogs.dropbox.com)
1 points by hoov 10y ago|0 comments
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Dropbox steps up to business users with AdminX, plans device management(techcrunch.com)
1 points by hoov 10y ago|0 comments
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by hoov 10y ago
That's not quite what I was trying to say. What I was saying is that there's many splits in the Python community. I work on large distributed systems, and have zero experience with quantum computing or advanced maths. But, I'
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by hoov 10y ago
I respectfully disagree, but I suspect this might be a disconnect between different Python communities. I find the code extremely difficult to parse. Even ignoring the egregious PEP-8 issues (and, I know that PEP-8'ing existing code ca
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by hoov 10y ago
I was thinking the same thing and then some. I ask a version of this as an interview question, and this doesn't pass my muster. That being said, I do think that implementing a URL shortener is a really good exercise, and I commend the
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by hoov 10y ago
InsightSquared | Boston, MA | Full Time | Onsite InsightSquared is a well-funded Boston startup. Our SaaS app helps businesses make data driven decisions by pulling their sales, marketing, financial, customer service & other data from A
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The coming wide-spread use of drones in agriculture(hackaday.com)
3 points by hoov 10y ago|0 comments
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by hoov 10y ago
Odd. I'm also in Boston and have to use it almost everywhere I go.
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The Curious Case of JavaScript’s `sort`(influxdata.com)
23 points by hoov 11y ago|57 comments
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by hoov 11y ago
I'm pretty damn angry right now, but I'm sure that in a few days I'll get over it. I run the tech side of a decent sized startup right now. Having joined ~4 years into the venture, one of my immediate concerns was the lack of
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Dropbox Celebrating half a billion users(blogs.dropbox.com)
7 points by hoov 11y ago|0 comments
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by hoov 11y ago
Yeah, map and filter not really idiomatic; you're almost always better served by a list/generator comprehension. Even Guido has regrets about map/filter/reduce: http://legacy.python.org/doc/essays&#x
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by hoov 12y ago
Yeah. NTFS is case preserving, not case sensitive.
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InsightSquared Closes $13.5M Series C Financing(insightsquared.com)
2 points by hoov 12y ago|0 comments
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by hoov 12y ago
I believe that "dedicated" means that it's dedicated to your account. So, there can be more than one guest, but those guests are your EC2 instances.
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by hoov 12y ago
> Or use syslog() like a sane person, and let that "extra thread" live inside the OS IPC mechanism. As it turns out, we had nearly the same symptoms as the OP. After running strace on syslogd (CentOS 5), I realized that it also

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