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Startup Offers Failed Entrepreneurs A Million-Dollar Signing Bonus(businessinsider.com)
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Distributed Algorithms in NoSQL Databases(highlyscalable.wordpress.com)
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by jcdavis 14y ago
The "urbanized areas" referred to by that article are mostly subsurbs. 'According to the Census Bureau, a place is "urban" if it's a big, modest or even very small collection of people living near each other. That includes Houston, with its
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Facebook Announces $2 Billion Share Buy-Back(businessinsider.com)
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Not to mention FB has been issuing RSUs (not options) for several years now, which means that 1) Later employees still get a payout, of course only half of what they were expecting 2) Anyone early enough to get in when they still were givin
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by jcdavis 14y ago
Annoying or not, its a fairly accurate description of the state of APIs. I agree about the all GET setup, although I've never actually seen that in the wild (seems pretty dangerous). I personally have no problem with using POST for all endp
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by jcdavis 14y ago
The real problem are the laws, you can't expect companies to always just "play nice" within the context of those laws.
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> you should be allowed to mimic the features present on other competitors' devices. To play the devil's advocate (as someone who hasn't taken a position on this ruling, but hates software patents in general): Why? Apple appears to have
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by jcdavis 14y ago
We don't know enough yet. A company cannot take back options, but laying off all employees would save them from having to give the unvested portion. This could easily halve their stock liability to employees, depending on a bunch of factors
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by jcdavis 14y ago
Yes. The vast majority of payments I see in Starbucks in the US are via credit cards (or debit cards). With modern PoS systems, paying via card is faster and more convenient than cash, not to mention other benefits (rewards on cards, being
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by jcdavis 14y ago
Yes, I would guess they are providing this service at a (slight) loss to Starbucks.
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by jcdavis 14y ago
Wow, huge deal for Square. I'm very curious what the terms of the deal are: presumably Starbucks isn't willing to pay much more than what their current processing fees are (maybe a tiny bit more for the premium of being able to use Pay with
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Memory Access Patterns Are Important(mechanical-sympathy.blogspot.co.uk)
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Surely he must have signed some sort of NDA before going into said meeting, which he is now breaching?
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Its not a fair comparison, but shouldn't they also be trying/using EC2 GPU instances? I would think a large transcoding service such as zencoder has at least looked into it at some point
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by jcdavis 14y ago
It may not that hard to use, but Padmapper is still a far superior experience (eg email alerts on apartments in an area which meet your criteria)
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They all are, GP has chosen to be unfortunately sarcastic.
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Good catch, thanks. Updated my original comment
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"Since the benefit of using EC2 is that you can provision instances elastically" That is certainly a benefit, but I think many would argue that its far from the only benefit. And as with all EC2 pricing, reservations drop the price subs
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by jcdavis 14y ago
Actually I don't think the risk is all that high. If the sinking ship still sinks, then oh well. But, however small the chance, she manages to turn things around...
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I disagree. In both cases, people are taking the easy way out, because hard things are well, hard.
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Update: can't seem to edit my original post, but there is now a link, someone came to their senses
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by jcdavis 14y ago
Link to the actual project: http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/ouya/ouya-a-new-kind-of-... Pretty pathetic that The Atlantic is just embedding the project's video without even an actual link. Why the hell do so many sites still do this?
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by jcdavis 14y ago
This has to be one of the more ridiculous things I've read on HN recently. I (or any other developer) shouldn't be care about getting raises? Why exactly? There are lots of plenty of good places to work not called Valve that don't suffer ov
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by jcdavis 14y ago
Overall an excellent article, but its worth mentioning that as I understand it, String's hashCode() method pre-1.3 or 1.2 (forgot exactly which version they switched over) used a different function, so it can indeed change (as the hashCode(
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For starters, lastpass is using https, which is definitely better
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Its probably worth mentioning that one of the reasons SCS is so above others on that list is that unlike most schools in the US, at CMU CS is a separate school from engineering, and thus reports its own separate numbers. Not that the CIT (e
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by jcdavis 14y ago
What do you recommend users do instead? Unfortunately there will probably always be websites storing passwords in unsecure ways. I mean I'd certainly rather not have to deal with the hassle (however small) of using LastPass, but as you said
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Fast Intersection of Sorted Lists Using SSE Instructions(highlyscalable.wordpress.com)
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Google buys Meebo(blog.meebo.com)
294 points by jcdavis 14y ago|112 comments

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