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by irrelative 16y ago
Source code theft... right. Tech journalists need to stop referring to source code as the "secret ingredient" or what have you. What could possibly be in the code? A faster algorithm than hundreds of PhDs have discovered? Or a novel approac
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by irrelative 16y ago
Seconded. Using distributed RCS, you commit often and therefore have a pretty good log of your daily activities.
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by irrelative 16y ago
Indeed. Old school advertising was sort of like a mystery box. What do you think's inside? It could be ANYTHING! Sort of like the maxim "Half my advertising works, I just don't know which half." Well, Google let you measure which half, and
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by irrelative 16y ago
Also, decry made up statistics in the post, but then claim to define new trends by using a sample size of 1.
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by irrelative 16y ago
As a UI developer with about 5 years of experience, that seems about right to me. I think I could have written that app given about 8 months. Heck, I suspect that the page turning animation was a relatively small part of the development. I
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by irrelative 16y ago
I think it's a little harsh to say that I "completely missed the point" of this article. I get it -- Apple products are very polished and carefully designed and the Android lacks that polish but is feature rich. Is that an accurate descript
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by irrelative 16y ago
The hatred of linux on the desktop is terribly cliche, especially on a site targeted towards hackers. Linux on my desktop is the greatest development environment I've ever used, having played extensively with OSX and Windows as well. I can
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by irrelative 16y ago
I think this is mostly free publicity to acquire other talent. Engineers like to work with other good engineers. For instance, I'd love to work with Joe Hewitt and Paul Buchheit and Bret Taylor. Firebug, gmail and tornado.py (respectively)
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by irrelative 16y ago
Given microsoft's history of browser releases, I'd prefer an out-of-date implementation that js libraries can wrap to a wait-and-see approach. It would be better than nothing -- websockets solve an important and annoying problem.
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by irrelative 16y ago
A lot of the math in this is a little... strange. For instance: "20 * 60 * 5 = 60k satisfied clients a minute" Hmm, that's a lot closer to 6k in my mind :-) Also: "The throughput of the server went from about 60k requests per second to abo
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by irrelative 16y ago
Additionally, your arms are free which is a big win, and at least in the video, it didn't require wearing a helmet. I think they've made leaps and bounds over the smug issue. It looks like this only targets indoor super smooth surfaces, but
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by irrelative 16y ago
Reducing the number of pre-forked processes shouldn't matter that much (at least with Apache). Your kernel implements copy-on-write when forking processes for all the memory that needs to be duplicated, so it doesn't actually use n times t
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by irrelative 16y ago
You're completely correct in comparing this to relationships (though maybe dating is better than marriage, but still...). Basically any pairing problem is prime territory for a technical solution. That's why we see so many attempts (and e
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by irrelative 16y ago
The point of the fee isn't to make money. Imagine how many people would have applied if it were free? They still need employees to read all of those applications and they need to keep the quality of student up as high as possible (so they c
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by irrelative 16y ago
...as long as he continues to reach his numbers. The real position he wanted to be in was to be able to ignore short term numbers for long term positioning. I think it's safe to say he can't really do that anymore.
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by irrelative 16y ago
I realize you're being sarcastic and this doesn't apply to you directly, but this has been bugging me for a while: Everyone needs to stop saying these guys are "well funded." $200k is nothing especially for a team of 4 people. It's certai
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by irrelative 16y ago
Yeah, you could -- I wonder what would happen if the client gets it wrong or is deliberately dishonest? Not trusting the client is a big part of writing an open server and this seems like you would have to trust the client in a big way.
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by irrelative 16y ago
To me, the most striking part of this author's argument is that Microsoft isn't prevalent enough. They're still making plenty of money, but he wants them to be chasing the tech press a little more. It's pretty obvious to me: Microsoft isn
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by irrelative 16y ago
Not posting this to encourage people to use it -- I just recall a lot of people mentioning porn as a big barrier to the video tag taking off. Maybe if someone creates a porn site that only uses HTML5, it can become the killer app needed to
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YouPorn to offer HTML5 video tag support(newteevee.com)
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by irrelative 16y ago
What seems like a parody to you, seems like a pretty clever hack to me. The novelty of the making a beer pong company seems like the ultimate slap in the face to other public companies worrying about SOX compliance and such. I bet they mak
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by irrelative 16y ago
It's too bad that this is the case for facts as well as ideas. Ideally science can turn on a dime when the data is overwhelming, but in practice there's a huge lag.
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by irrelative 16y ago
The author of this hits on a really important topic in my opinion: that for all of the talk about adhering to the standards, in every other field of engineering adhering to the standards it the absolute bare minimum to have a product. Imagi
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by irrelative 16y ago
I agree, but it would have been a less steep uphill battle if they had done this 7 months ago.
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by irrelative 17y ago
And, I'd add, not humble naturally but got that way by being humbled again and again by his knowledge.
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by irrelative 17y ago
As a home coffee roaster myself (including building my own roaster) I'm guessing that experimenting programatically with roast times would cause the smoke alarm to go off regularly. I guess you could hope that later generations get better a
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by irrelative 17y ago
Not sure why you're being downvoted, because you're right. Adobe feels like that for the same reason: you get an annoying swagger when you own a monopoly. Adobe owns "rich content" on the web. And just like Microsoft, they also know what a
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by irrelative 17y ago
Additionally, the iPhone checkboxes were created because clicking checkboxes is hard to do with the iPhone interface, not because they're better than plain old checkboxes. Just because Apple does it, doesn't mean it's the best way to do thi
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by irrelative 17y ago
In addition to selective reporting, perhaps the terrorists who are trained creative writers get caught much earlier so we don't hear about them at all. Or when they try to create explosives, they blow themselves up, so we don't hear about
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by irrelative 17y ago
I agree. Nor do I call them beautiful.

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