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by jd 14y ago
Given that the iPhone 5 will be announced next week, a lull in 4S sales isn't so strange.
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by jd 14y ago
It's a shame they publish such an obfuscated status update. A "hardware failure in our primary encryption hardware device"? "corrupted encryption keys"? Not exactly reassuring! Did a hard drive fail? If so, why aren't they using RAID? And i
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by jd 14y ago
Those are fair points, but I don't agree with your general point of view. After all, it doesn't matter much if the product is just slightly lousy or awful. You don't end up using the products so the money is equally wasted in both cases. Le
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by jd 14y ago
I agree that the Kindle Fire is awful, but the Kindle 4 (the small one without the keyboard) is brilliant. And I'm eagerly awaiting next year's version. And if buying a dud upsets you, why buy fancy new gadgets on launch day in the first pl
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by jd 14y ago
From what I remember from The Paypal Wars (highly recommended): There was a culture clash when X got bought by Paypal. Elon was in charge of X and became the CEO of the combined company (as Peter Thiel took a leave of abscence) and wanted t
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by jd 14y ago
Carmack talked about VR too, but I'm referring to the comments he made about framerate and latency in the context of Rage. See http://www.computerandvideogames.com/videos/e3-2011-john-car... - around 16 minutes in he mentions how a few fr
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by jd 14y ago
You're right about the latency. I think latency matters a great deal for any game that aims for immersion. And here we're dealing with a clearly visible delay between the large and small screen.
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by jd 14y ago
It looks very cool, but I must say I'm skeptical about their claims about the latency. Judging by the video, it's at least 200ms, perhaps as much as 500ms. Contrast this with John Carmack, who has recently talked about the importance of low
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Why we think 37signals' Backpack is getting phased out(blog.stunf.com)
3 points by jd 14y ago|0 comments
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by jd 14y ago
I'd say that contrarian anecdotes are good if -- for instance -- the discussion spawned by the anecdote leads to a better understanding of the subject at hand. However, because anecdotes are stories we tend to remember them vividly and they
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by jd 14y ago
They use regular consumer grade HDDs on the cheaper servers, and enterprise grade on the slightly more expensive ones. For instance, their EX6 servers have 2x 3TB of high quality hard drives (€70/month) and their EX5 servers have 2x1.5TB co
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by jd 14y ago
I had almost exactly the same experience. Also a hard drive that was starting to die on us on a Sunday night and they had it replaced within the hour. We just had to reboot and start the raid mirror again. 6 minutes downtime in total. Their
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by jd 14y ago
When people talk about "doing something" they typically mean "create something". The author didn't say "Find something you enjoy consuming. Consume it. Over and over again.". Gaming, reading, watching the news, that's all consumption. Good
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How we build real time full-text search with Sphinx and Django(blog.stunf.com)
3 points by jd 15y ago|0 comments
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by jd 15y ago
Interesting. Thanks for the link.
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by jd 15y ago
Nobody advocates running barefoot on asphalt. And yes, running can wear out your joints, but even if you wear running shoes.
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by jd 15y ago
Although there are certainly some entrepreneurs who do everything in anticipation of a big reward in the end, this isn't true for me or for any of the entrepreneurs I know. It's the work itself that's rewarding. It's creating something from
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by jd 15y ago
Although you certainly have a point I think your judgement is a bit too harsh, and the the logic "it was copied in 12 hours [therefore] it sucks" just doesn't follow.
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by jd 15y ago
I didn't see my option on the list. My dislike for the abomination that makefiles are made of knows no bounds. Most of the languages above I can avoid (I simply don't use the languages I don't like), but I curse every time I have to open a
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by jd 15y ago
It's a great release, but bulk_insert is really really dangerous because it apparently doesn't call the save() method nor the pre_save or post_save signals. I don't like this because a lot of us put validation logic in Model#save and use th
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by jd 15y ago
And the cool thing is that a smartphone now serves the function of all of these gadgets. It's a music player, video player, camcorder, digital camera, answering machine, and so on. Internet TV replaces the need for satellite TV and a cell
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by jd 15y ago
Not to mention that they still serve obnoxious ads when you have a subscription.
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by jd 15y ago
This is a really well written response by Mike, but frankly I'm not convinced. Not in the least. And to accuse Ira Glass of unfair editing (with the dead silences and all) really takes the cake. I think Ira gave Mike every opportunity to co
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by jd 15y ago
Nope. Some people downvoted because your assumption that people know the positions of their representatives is wrong. The average person on the street is has a level of understanding that's closer to "Keep the government out of my medicare!
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by jd 15y ago
The problem with this strategy is that people can create boxes filled with votes in advance. Add/remove/swap boxes to shift the election in your favor. Also when there are reports of voter fraud it's really difficult to figure out who cheat
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by jd 15y ago
I think that for voting to work well it has to be completely anonymous. So you can vote the way you want and nobody can prove you voted for the wrong guy. Otherwise your Friendly Neighborhood Thug can drop by the day before the election and
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by jd 15y ago
Writing an unpolished programming language isn't that much work in comparison to writing a complex virus. Especially low level languages where instructions map pretty closely to the CPU instructions are easy to create. I think it makes a lo
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by jd 15y ago
Of course there can be unforeseen complications, but those are the exception rather than the rule. You can also have complications when you bring your car to the mechanic. Still we want to know what a typical oil refill is going to cost,
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by jd 15y ago
I don't think it's obvious at all. Because the question of how to make money was implicit in the mind of Satish: (1) build beta version and get some users, (2) improve product based on user feedback, (3) charge money for the product, (4) wa
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by jd 15y ago
People are so grossed out by a doorknob they refuse to touch it, only to immediately walk to their desk to type on their keyboard. A keyboard which is typically far dirtier than the bathroom they just avoided touching[1]. Oh, the irony. [1]

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