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   by jeff18 17y ago

   The limitations are not really a problem for me. If you're referring to the sporadic datastore errors, that was actually resolved in 1.3.1, by having it auto-retry natively (no need for a decorator anymore). I would really like to see supp
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   by jeff18 17y ago

   I use it. Pros: - It is practically free. An article I wrote was #1 on Digg, Reddit, etc. and Google charged me $0.11 for the traffic. - Very easy to use. I can rapidly develop production ready web apps with it and deploy it in one click.
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   App Engine SDK 1.3.1, Including Major Improvements to Datastore(googleappengine.blogspot.com)

   5 points by jeff18 17y ago|4 comments
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   by jeff18 17y ago

   This is awesome because it consolidates all of your bandwidth usage, e.g. if two accounts use over 1 TB, you will start getting discounts. This makes my Ask HN obsolete: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1101648 Anyone want to join up
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   New AWS Feature: Consolidated Billing(aws.typepad.com)

   4 points by jeff18 17y ago|1 comments
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   by jeff18 17y ago

   This does not make logical sense. His original argument is basically "they took err jerbs!!" claiming that people who contribute unpaid articles to for-profit companies are unethically depriving "real" journalists of jobs. This follow up a
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   by jeff18 17y ago

   Wow, I can tell this is a touchy subject for you. I'm not claiming that I know of any unknown security flaws, I was simply proving to you that there have historically been quite a few critical security flaws. Are you claiming that the cur
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   by jeff18 17y ago

   I think the difference between IE6 and WebKit is that in all of Apple's documentation they say WARNING DO NOT USE -WEBKIT EXTENSIONS -- THESE ARE NOT STANDARDIZED YET AND ARE SUBJECT TO CHANGE and explain the dangers of using standards th
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   by jeff18 17y ago

   Not much elaboration is needed. WordPress has a surprising number of critical security holes. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WordPress#Vulnerabilities
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    by jeff18 17y ago

    I don't really see the need to use a pixel font when printing to paper. It's not like a piece of paper has a given grid that must be followed like a monitor (which is not totally true, given sub-pixel anti-aliasing on LCDs). This might be
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    by jeff18 17y ago

    I will take full responsibility for this. I felt weird submitting my own content, so I asked my friend to submit it on my behalf, which is obviously much worse. I have since learned that submitting your own content is encouraged, so I am
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    by jeff18 17y ago

    Does TechCrunch really do this?
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    by jeff18 17y ago

    Wait does this mean that LLVM supports C++ well now? Last time I checked at WWDC, it had great C and Objective-C support, but C++ was hardly there. It would be great if Xcode can add support for all of the awesome refactoring and static a
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    by jeff18 17y ago

    There is not much to rebutt... Apple is clearly pushing HTML 5 heavily. They are one of the founding members of the spec and they have invested countless millions of dollars in WebKit development. Claiming that Adobe is pushing HTML 5 mor
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    by jeff18 17y ago

    Air was not mentioned. However, Apple is by far the biggest contributor to the WebKit project. That would be like saying "Camino is driving HTML 5 forwards more than FireFox".
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    by jeff18 17y ago

    While I'm always glad to see articles created by non-famous people on Hacker News, it sucks when the article turns out to be utterly worthless and riddled with inaccuracies. Seriously, a random Slashdot post is more worthwhile than this, y
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    by jeff18 17y ago

    I'm busy with my own startup. :D If I had more time, I'd like to though. I already do this to some extent, on a small scale, e.g. I share a dedicated server with several other people, so it is much cheaper, but it would be great to commodi
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    Startup idea: Amazon S3 / CloudFront cost distributor

    5 points by jeff18 17y ago|5 comments
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    by jeff18 17y ago

    Please correct the article! :)
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    by jeff18 17y ago

    Surely in six years, Ogg Theora will be just as good as H264 and computers will have advanced to the point that converting the relevant clips will be quite efficient? This will force the owners of H264 to either create a fair price for the
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    by jeff18 17y ago

    This is what's great about HTML 5. While Adobe is looking backwards and trying to claim that HTML 5 is not a viable replacement for itself, HTML 5 is actually rapidly accelerating. The H.264 licensing was a deal breaker for Mozilla, and n
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    Page Speed 1.6 Beta - new rules, native library(stevesouders.com)

    1 points by jeff18 17y ago|0 comments
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    by jeff18 17y ago

    Great! About 12 percent cheaper than it was yesterday.
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    by jeff18 17y ago

    "HTML" in this context is meaningless. Are you talking about XHTML, HTML4, HTML5 or what? ;) It depends on the doctype and namespace. In XHTML, an uppercase HR is technically meaningless, since it is case sensitive. In HTML5, it is not c
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    by jeff18 17y ago

    HTML is not necessarily case sensitive, you can use upper or lowercase tags in HTML 5, and perhaps others. With that in mind, the tags should be normalized when querying what an element is (hr == HR == hR == Hr). Uppercase was chosen: ht
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    Reddit has a new [comment] rendering engine(blog.reddit.com)

    3 points by jeff18 17y ago|0 comments
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    by jeff18 17y ago

    This is exactly what HTML 5 changes though. You don't even need an internet connection (other than to download the web app originally, obviously).
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    by jeff18 17y ago

    You should check out 280north's Atlas. http://280atlas.com/ It's still in beta, but you can get access to it by preordering it (highly recommended). WebKit's Web Inspector is quite awesome -- Apple actually has bankrolled a few full time
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    by jeff18 17y ago

    This basically reads, "If HTML 5 is so great, why aren't Flash developers, like myself, using it?!" That would be a much more interesting article, and the reason is basically because the market share is not there yet, although it is increas
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    by jeff18 17y ago

    So to summarize: - Make a lot of fake accounts to submit content, so it looks like there are many more users than there actually are - Get mentioned in a very popular essay by Paul Graham - Eventually stop submitting content from fake accou