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by jbarham 14y ago
Speaking as a Canadian transplant to Australia via the US, the Australian mobile market is actually quite competitive compared to the US or Canada. There are more operators relative to the population, there are more shorter-term plans (i.e
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by jbarham 14y ago
Google's currently generation of Chromebooks are getting good reviews and appear to be quite viable as second computers. I know that everything my wife does on her current laptop (running Ubuntu) she could do just as well on a Chromebook, s
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by jbarham 14y ago
I use Linode for the name servers for my DNS hosting service SlickDNS ( https://www.slickdns.com ) and am very happy overall with their stability and performance (much better than EC2 at the low end).
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by jbarham 14y ago
> 3D design software for the masses https://tinkercad.com/
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Google App Engine introduces free trial for MySQL databases(googleappengine.blogspot.com.au)
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So Intel just hasn't bothered to getting around to designing a low-power x86 chip that can compete in mobile devices with ARM? The more likely explanation is that it can't be done because ARM is a better designed and therefore intrinsicall
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by jbarham 14y ago
> In today's marketplace, there's very little about the ARM instruction set that makes it better suited for low power applications. So it's just a coincidence that ARM powers 95%+ of smartphones? I think not. Given Intel's advantage in
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Rob Pike: Go at Google(talks.golang.org)
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by jbarham 14y ago
FWIW here's Google App Engine status page: http://code.google.com/status/appengine
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> They want large teams of mediocre programmers to produce code that is very supportable. Ken Thompson is known for many things. Catering to "mediocre programmers" is not one of them.
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FWIW I run the DNS hosting service SlickDNS ( https://www.slickdns.com ). The focus is ease-of-use, but there is also good redundancy with multiple name servers located in the US, UK and Japan.
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by jbarham 14y ago
One thing I appreciate about using Django and its DRM is that it hardly matters what database I use. If I'm writing SQL by hand I much prefer Postgres to MySQL since it is more standards conforming and has fewer random quirks. But given th
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by jbarham 14y ago
You could try shorting APOL (owner of University of Phoenix), DV (DeVry) and similar stocks of private education companies, although a lot of them are already down substantially from ~2009 highs. Student loan ABS are harder to short unless
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by jbarham 14y ago
I think the more pressing issue for Australians will be the costs and implications of the currently deflating housing bubble... Similarly in Canada. The US student debt bubble is just another "asset" bubble that's primed to burst.
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Student loan debt cannot be expunged via bankruptcy in the US.
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With other simple regular expressions Perl and Java will be millions of times slower than Go: http://swtch.com/~rsc/regexp/regexp1.html
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by jbarham 14y ago
FWIW the SlickDNS name servers are hosted by Linode so I'm a fan of their server hosting. For DNS management, the Linode interface is fine if you have a handful of domains with simple configurations, but beyond that it's unwieldy IMHO. I'd
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It's a FAQ: https://www.slickdns.com/faq/#api ;) The REST API is in final testing, and should be released later this week. It will ship with libraries for Python, Ruby and PHP.
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I run a DNS hosting service (SlickDNS, www.slickdns.com) and have seen a spike in signups today as a direct result of the Zerigo DDOS attack. I can't claim that SlickDNS is invulnerable to DDOS attack, but FWIW it does run tinydns name serv
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by jbarham 14y ago
FWIW it costs $27,156 a year on-demand or $12,720 as a reserved heavy utilization instance. For heavy analytics workloads I'd bet that Google BigQuery ( https://developers.google.com/bigquery/ ) would be cheaper and faster and more reliable
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by jbarham 14y ago
Funny how stories about bicycle commuting seem to peak in summer...
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Call me crazy, but operating the highest profile McDonald's franchise in Europe is probably not the first thing I'd consider if I needed to launder some money. But setting up a venture capital fund in Silicon Valley, given today's ridiculou
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by jbarham 14y ago
> Now if Google can just distribute it beyond the initial five launch nations... That's still much better than the Amazon Fire which AFAIK isn't even sold outside of the US. See also this article from The Verge: http://www.theverge.com
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by jbarham 14y ago
IMO this article is spot on. I've ordered the Nexus 7 and wondered if 8 GB would be enough, but then checked how much of the 16 GB on my Nexus phone I was using, and it's only a couple of GB. In contrast, the PCWorld review of the Nexus 7
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IMO Go's standard library ( http://golang.org/pkg/ ) is at least as complete as Python's for everyday programming and includes some things that Python's standard library doesn't such as crypto, image processing and a production ready HTTP s
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> GitHub is essentially a social/collaboration app for people who spin code. I'll admit that I'm unenthusiastic about social media in general, so this aspect of GitHub is the one I use the least. I've always found their slogan of "Soci
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by jbarham 14y ago
That's not how venture capital funds work. By definition they make high-risk investments which means there is a high variance of returns from the invested companies. Most of the investments will in all probability lose money, which means
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by jbarham 14y ago
> GitHub is essentially a web interface to a single open-source DVCS. Maybe I'm missing something, but does GitHub support something other than Git? > The switching costs to using another [...] Git hosting provider are minimal.
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I do use Bitbucket and it does exactly what I need: track changes to my private source code repos and manage issues. Does GitHub do some things better than Bitbucket? Sure, but I don't believe that those differences justify a valuation app
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> Gnome Shell and Unity make life hard for people who just want to use Facebook How? I installed Ubuntu on an old laptop for my wife and she finds it as easy as ever to do email and Facebook because essentially the only app she ever ru

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