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by javery 17y ago
Comparing music(ipods, mp3s) with books is really a broken comparison. The first reason is that switching between an album, CD, and mp3 I have the exact same experience. Reading a digital book and a paper book are still very different exper
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by javery 17y ago
What is amazing about it? And should you really submit stuff here saying it's amazing when it's your project?
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by javery 17y ago
What about redfin.com?
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by javery 17y ago
I agree the debugger is good, I have found myself using it less and less though.. especially when I write tests. Intellisense can be useful, I turn it off by default but when I do need to use it I admit it is nice.
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by javery 17y ago
At one time I loved Visual Studio enough to write Visual Studio Hacks for O'reilly, but I have finally had enough. The thing is bloated and continues to get more and more bloated. I have turned off as much as I can and removed all the toolb
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by javery 17y ago
The first link is about scanning, storing, and making available entire books. The last is about the caching ability. The second one includes some great information, but if you read about the specific cases (starting on page 6) you can see i
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by javery 17y ago
Are you sure that indexing is a copyright violation? You aren't reproducing the text in full and it seems like excerpts would be part of fair use. Do you have a source?
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by javery 17y ago
Is there any reason Google can't just index it anyway?
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by javery 17y ago
The question is what did those listeners do? Did they go buy her album? Did they go buy a concert ticket?
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by javery 17y ago
Yes they get 40% less and no they don't have any say, that being said 40% off at pragprog is probably still more money to the authors then the 40% + cut that Amazon or other retailers take.
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by javery 17y ago
You notice it says that it is still available? So if it says it's taken couldn't you now go use their pass phrase? I take it it only ships it to their address, but still seems like it would be a hassle to fix.
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Coin-operated Borgocrat goes to Google, acquires whole new set of opinions(fakesteve.net)
175 points by javery 17y ago|42 comments
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by javery 17y ago
I am running MSSQL on Windows on EC2 without any issues, normal db tuning rules apply.
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by javery 17y ago
The performance tests here seem about useless. When memcache is slower than all your databases its a good indicator that after your first call all the databases just cached the request, to get meaningful performance metrics you would need t
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by javery 17y ago
For a service that relies on third party clients so much it seems like usage numbers (users, number of tweets) would be much more important than traffic numbers which probably miss much of that.
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by javery 17y ago
They are recording the talks (big camera behind me) and I think they get posted after the conference.
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by javery 17y ago
He was saying that facebook on the surface seems very frivolous, its basically online gossip at first glance. But there is huge potential in it and that things that can appear frivolous can have huge potential. (twitter falls in this catego
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Tell HN: PG's Trends List from BOS 2009
55 points by javery 17y ago|30 comments
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by javery 17y ago
But I don't think they do (apply equally well), sure you could do some of these things in a SQL database but they would be less than optimal. Mongo is built to do these things and seems to do them well. It's about using the right tool for t
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by javery 17y ago
Wait, I clicked on this link and moved all the way to the right time to hear exactly what the title says? That could mean tons of things, but kudos for having nothing better to do then dig through old footage to find one sentence that could
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by javery 17y ago
Its not the number of people that bothers me, it's the lack of focus. Google was very focused in the beginning.
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by javery 17y ago
Really? Microsoft has 90k people and has only managed to create a handful of good products (and that depends on your definition of good).
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by javery 17y ago
The reason I have never tried Zoho is because I can't believe anyone could create that many awesome apps, which leads me to believe they are all mediocre and just checking another box on the "how many apps can we build list". I don't know i
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by javery 17y ago
http://googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.com/2008/06/improved-...
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by javery 17y ago
Actually the first principle of negotiation is to make the other person THINK you have a better option. :)
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by javery 17y ago
If you have knowledge they need why not just offer to provide consulting services back to the company while they transition. This way you get to eat and they get a smoother transition.
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by javery 17y ago
I believe Class B wasn't introduced for that reason, if I remember correctly it had something to do with people with Class A needing to divide stock to leave it in their will or as gifts.
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by javery 17y ago
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=912777 - good comments about it here.
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by javery 17y ago
Ironically the first time I was forced to use Sharepoint was when I was writing a book for O'Reilly. They used it as a rudimentary source control system for documents. The best definition is that it's "an intranet in a box"
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by javery 17y ago
I bought Hackers thinking it was about crackers (which my 16 year old script kiddie self was very interested in) but ended up reading it cover to cover and it helped me realize that real programming and hacking was much cooler than cracking

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