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by jfager 15y ago
That's a terribly depressing thread towards the end.
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by jfager 15y ago
If someone prefers to search Google without personalization, add "&pws=0" (the "pws" stands for "personalized web search") "Append a cryptic query param" is a terrible user interface, and it's a little silly to suggest this as a solut
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by jfager 15y ago
They're different problems. This is about running two versions of a web application concurrently and migrating clients from old to new gracefully, without bringing down the site. JRebel is about hot-swapping the bytecode that's loaded int
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by jfager 15y ago
Actually, this is why I think Square is so well positioned. They're offering a full suite of merchant services, from payment processing to loyalty program management to proximity advertising, and there's nothing stopping them from joining
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by jfager 15y ago
The incentive was having the music to listen to, and if you're constantly on the move and want easy access, you own an iPod, which Apple has sold a few of in the past. And they'll justify it the same way they always have: poorly and comple
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by jfager 15y ago
The number of people who look at this as "now anytime I want music in my iTunes account, I need to go torrent it first", who weren't already active pirates, is going to be so miniscule it won't even matter. This is for people with existing
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by jfager 15y ago
I totally agree with you, I was just clarifying the other comment. I've been thinking about uploading my whole collection to Amazon, whose music store I much prefer to iTunes, but an order-of-magnitude price difference is hard to justify.
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by jfager 15y ago
The music's already out there. If you really wanted to go to all that trouble, why haven't you already done it? And do you really think that if you suddenly show up in a bunch of torrent logs you won't get sued just because you gave Apple
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by jfager 15y ago
1. That's what the comment you're responding to is complaining about (if I paid for it in the past, why would I hand over $25 bucks to pay for it again?). 2. Apple doesn't live in a vacuum and isn't stupid, they know they're effectively o
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by jfager 15y ago
The major difference is that telecoms have at least some kind of user lock-in, so it makes sense to go after hypergrowth to get that user before your competitor does. Groupon has zero such lock-in - a user actually has an incentive to sign
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by jfager 15y ago
That's true, but then yet another knock on Groupon is that it's not clear they actually have any sort of exclusive access to their userbase. It doesn't really cost a Groupon user anything to also sign up for LivingSocial or AmazonLocal, an
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by jfager 15y ago
One of the knocks on Groupon has always been how easy their product is to clone, and how the competition in the space will inevitably drive margins down.
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by jfager 15y ago
This is cool, but I'd like to see it include the volume of the search term and provide a way to filter out terms above or below a specified volume threshold (i.e., show me the terms within the top 20% of all terms by volume that best correl
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by jfager 15y ago
Those 'each' examples aren't sugar, they're functions. They don't produce code, they are code. To make them faster, you have to use the more verbose for loops in their place. Sure, a JS developer could write out the for loop each time,
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by jfager 16y ago
I think photo sharing is just a shot at hooking into a really valuable data stream. All they should want are phones that are turned on and sending them pictures, audio, and location info, and they can turn around and spit out all kinds of
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by jfager 16y ago
That is an interesting use case, but I don't know if it's enough to make the case for the company. Given that you can pretty effectively address that problem via Facebook or Flickr today, I don't know that someone would put $41M into a com
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by jfager 16y ago
The underlying technology sounds like it was inspired by The Dark Knight - sensors in cell phones streaming data back to a central server where it can all be processed together into a cohesive view of what's going on in the world. The photo
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by jfager 16y ago
That sounds similar to my pet bug: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=632749
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by jfager 16y ago
Pentadactyl is not the new name for Vimperator, it's the name of a fork of Vimperator. Both projects still exist and are both still being actively developed. In my experience, at least as of last Friday, you have to use a nightly to get a
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by jfager 16y ago
That's true, but he's also risking his reputation (and his paycheck) if he doesn't shop around for later stage investors for his companies. This kind of thing is his job, it's what Y Combinator exists to do. When one of his companies lo
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by jfager 16y ago
Forgive me, I think we've had a misunderstanding. To my mind, the IOCCC is a contest where very smart people work very hard to bend C as far as it will go to come up with very clever programs. The fact that something as impressive as J is
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by jfager 16y ago
I'm not trying to take anything away from pg here, but " all of that" refers in this case to 7 emails with one VC. AirBnB has raised $7.8M (at, what, around a ~$40M valuation at the time? 6% of which would be over $2m). Is it really that
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by jfager 16y ago
As a wholly unaffiliated, self-selected, and entirely unofficial spokesperson, I'm happy to bestow this lifetime achievement award on behalf of the IOCCC.
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by jfager 16y ago
"Everything you actually could do is worthless to us, but please send all possible help for this scary thing that you don't understand and can't possibly actually assist with" is the opposite of "Don't Panic". It conveys helplessness and d
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by jfager 16y ago
Randomly jumping on a flight into Japan to wander around asking people in English if they need help is obviously stupid. But that's not just stupid for Japan, that's stupid for pretty much everywhere. Pointing out its stupidity isn't usef
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by jfager 16y ago
I think you missed my point.
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by jfager 16y ago
How many people in the world are actually qualified to offer any useful help on the Japan nuclear situation? Does anyone really think that they're just sitting around doing nothing right now? I don't care how organized and prepared the Jap
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by jfager 16y ago
If TechCrunch had altered their published opinion because they were pressured by their parent company or their subject, then yes, you could take that information and infer they compromised their journalistic integrity. But that doesn't impl
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by jfager 16y ago
Instead of using our extra CPU power to parse with less efficient algorithms, I think we should use our extra CPU power to integrate parsing more deeply into our editors/IDEs. With a fast parsing algorithm, you could parse as a programmer

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