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by jconley 14y ago
Another thing this OP leaves out is Sparrow was also probably running advertising, and thus burning more capital, to try to get their app store organic coefficient up. The peaks and valleys in the ranking numbers lead me down that train of
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by jconley 14y ago
I purposely avoid programming and electronic devices for the sake of perspective and brainstorming. When I'm writing code I'm boxed into production mode. Get. Shit. Done. But, particularly when the work I am doing is self-directed and self-
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by jconley 14y ago
How many downvotes did you get? :) Apparently you get downvoted nowadays for having an unpopular opinion. Strange.
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by jconley 14y ago
Regardless of merit on either side, the attitude presented by the creator of PHP in this post makes PHP and open source in general look bad. Seriously? I still can't believe that's how the situation was handled. EDIT: Rasmus calls the bug
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The acquihire is just the Dot Com Ferrari signing bonus of the new age. Except now you have to prove you can actually take risk and get shit done before they give you the Ferrari. Seems reasonable.
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I wonder if he was eating our food. Playdom has three meals a day "up stairs" in that building, where we are headquartered and have an entire floor. There is also another startup incubator in this building. It's pretty funny they just menti
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Video: BBC Interview with Dr Eben Upton of the Raspberry Pi Foundation(bbc.co.uk)
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THIS is how you get support for a brand on social media(music.yahoo.com)
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by jconley 15y ago
My 3 yr old kids had exactly the same reaction to a nearly identical scenario. Though, we subscribed to cable TV after my father in law threatened to not come visit any more if he couldn't watch his live sports with the clicker... Publisher
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Kickstarter + Indie Game Studio = Learn to code in a FPS game(arstechnica.com)
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Developers (myself included) worry too much about future unlikely pain and suffering, especially the degree of said suffering. Maybe you spend a few weeks here and there rewriting things. Big Deal. Scalability and performance is complicated
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Some #askbillg (Ask Bill Gates) Questions Answered(thegatesnotes.com)
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Don't worry about all these egotistical computer science bigots on HN telling you that you are inferior because you can't wax poetic about the work of the scientists in our field. Understanding performance and result trade-offs of various s
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by jconley 15y ago
It's a pretty good trade-off with a heterogeneous application workload. There is a "to the metal" mode in ASP.NET/IIS now, mentioned in that article, that lets you use the IOCP thread directly in your applications and avoid that context swi
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by jconley 15y ago
This is almost exactly what ASP.NET and IIS do in recent iterations. http://blogs.msdn.com/b/tmarq/archive/2007/07/21/asp-net-thr...
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Sounds like we have a development organization that needs to say NO more often and work less, and/or get enough budget to split up and build an entirely new team.
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by jconley 15y ago
Node enforces a programming model that puts you down the path to extreme vertical scalability, you know, actually using all the hardware you are paying for. CPUs and the kernels that manage them are good at running code. They suck at waitin
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Awesome mobile/tablet job search aggregator: Job Mo(jobmo.org)
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I didn't say the industry doesn't care. But, the business model relies on detecting as much as possible and shoving that in your face to get more bookings. I have no doubt you take false positives very seriously at an engineering level. How
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by jconley 15y ago
The business of antivirus, especially, has a huge incentive to shove it IN YOUR FACE that the software is detecting things whether they're false positives or not. This scares people into re-upping their subscription. Most computer users don
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Paradox CEO Calls DRM a 'Waste of Money'(industrygamers.com)
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Unchained Reaction, a new Rube Goldberg inspired reality show by the Mythbusters(m.deadline.com)
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This seems to be an issue in every online community, whether news-oriented or not. I'd like to try an experiment with a less open online geek news community. Social trust-based. Very hard to get an account that can write comments. Must be i
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Rube Goldberg Newspaper Page Turner. Poor Hamster.(youtube.com)
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If them neutrinos are faster than light, physicists have a lot of work to do(arstechnica.com)
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And the survey says. . . Gamers play more on mobile than consoles or PC(venturebeat.com)
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HBO Ditches Netflix, Positioning its own non-Cable Distribution Services(venturebeat.com)
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I got 8/10!
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This is definitely a real concern with the SaaS model and one of the reasons big business has been reluctant to rely on it. Source code escrow works really well to sell enterprise customers. Perhaps there should be something similar for Saa
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Do More Tweets Equal More Sales?(blog.kissmetrics.com)
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