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by jganetsk 18y ago
That depends. If HN is supposed to be an example of a high-quality product on the Internet... then this is definitely a topic worthy of discussion on HN. I'm not submitting a feature request. I'm trying to start a discussion about user expe
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by jganetsk 18y ago
I understand that pagination of a list where items move up and down is hard. I understood that while creating this thread, and I'm still not convinced that it's not worth solving. I work for Amie Street. We are an e-commerce site where the
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WWW invented in 1934(nytimes.com)
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by jganetsk 18y ago
Yes, OTC Melatonin is not regulated by the FDA, mainly due to the lack of studies on its long-term effects. If you were going to try it, go for a low dose. Try 300 micrograms [1]. Most stores sell a minimum dose of 1 milligram, but you can
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by jganetsk 18y ago
A good example of this is the "flat Earth model". It took thousands of years for a thought that the Earth may not be flat to enter people's minds. Why? The "flat Earth model" is actually a myth. I guess you've been lied to. The Earth bein
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by jganetsk 18y ago
We aren't talking about the users of this board, we are talking about the average American who went through the public education system. 99.9% of them have heard of George Washington Carver, but not of Onsager and Landau.
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by jganetsk 19y ago
You wouldn't sum an array of 10 integers using reduce... you'd most likely use fold. Spolsky was talking about the power of abstracting away for loops. Functional programming languages do this all the time, with primitives like map, fold, f
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by jganetsk 20y ago
Doesn't have to . But it sure might not get routed that way.
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by jganetsk 20y ago
I think user experience can and will be duplicated. I did post a link to an SVN front-end that has a very similar interface. Maybe the competitors are locked-in to some bad design decisions and can't quite recreate the same user experience.
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by jganetsk 20y ago
Latency is fine, I think, and gets better all the time. The browser is a fantastic platform. You never have to install web apps. You never have to patch web apps. And you are automatically connected through the client-server paragidm that
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by jganetsk 20y ago
It's just like a quine that uses stores some sort of numerical representation of itself as a byte array in the code.
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by jganetsk 20y ago
More Buxfer you. Mor Buxfer me. More Buxfer everybody!
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by jganetsk 20y ago
Ar the YC founders having this kind of experience? This sounds like a traumatic experience to me, but pg claims a 100% satisfaction rate.
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by jganetsk 20y ago
Just so everyone is aware, S3 guarantees only 4 nines of relability (99.99% uptime), not 5 nines. 5 nines means the service is down, on average, 5 minutes out of a year. 4 nines would be almost an hour. That's still pretty damn good.
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by jganetsk 20y ago
Let them roll out Joost as planned, and build a following (assuming that Joost is interesting). Then, watch them release a patch, which enables Joost to optionally function as I described. It would come at marginal cost to Joost. Some peopl
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by jganetsk 20y ago
Are you kidding? Moral gray areas are part of the fun of startups!
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by jganetsk 20y ago
These are fairly restrictive languages. What about ML languages, like SML or OCaml, which are not purely functional? Anyone using those?
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by jganetsk 20y ago
There's a recent research project called Farsite which tries to answer these questions. http://research.microsoft.com/~adya/pubs/osdi2002.pdf
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by jganetsk 20y ago
That is a very interesting idea. User-driven broadcasts would have to compete in the "P2P marketplace". Consider this scenario. Joost is P2P. If I start my own Joost broadcast, I notify my peers of its existence. Those people who tune to my
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by jganetsk 20y ago
I'm going to respond to my own post, and add that... for the initial phase where you don't expect to make money... you have chosen a great setup. S3 is a robust , reliable, and easy way to handle the intial ramp up should hoards of users si
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by jganetsk 20y ago
Well there doesn't seem to be a GDrive at the moment... but there are many other similar online storage solutions. Techcrunch had an article with 13 of them... http://www.techcrunch.com/2006/01/31/the-online-storage-gang/ It's a pretty cr
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by jganetsk 20y ago
It's all fake except for the part where you say "Cobol and Fortran are useless." That, of course, is real.
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by jganetsk 20y ago
I don't think ISPs are very happy right now.
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by jganetsk 20y ago
The ML family... you get a type-safe language and all the benefits of functional programming... and both OCaml and SML are only between 1-2 times slower than C. And you get the benefit of the static type checker, which catches 90% of bugs.
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by jganetsk 20y ago
It's hard to categorically state whether data should be free or not. A great book to read about this is Wikinomics: How Mass Collaboration Changes Everything ( http://www.amazon.com/dp/1591841380/), which describes many cases of data bein
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by jganetsk 20y ago
Look at the prices for S3: $0.15 per GB-Month of storage used. $0.20 per GB of data transferred. So, that means Dropbox is going to have to resell S3 at a premium for the added value of these nice Coda-like features. Would you p
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by jganetsk 20y ago
How are you going to scale up your storage to meet the demands of the users? Are you doing something clever, like Google Filesystem? This is not an easy problem, if you aren't prepared for it in advance. If 10,000 users sign up tomorrow...
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by jganetsk 20y ago
The Coda guys asked this question nearly 20 years ago. http://www.coda.cs.cmu.edu/ Sorry for being a Coda troll.
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by jganetsk 20y ago
I've seen this before. It's called Coda. http://www.coda.cs.cmu.edu/ Great work bringing this to the web, and integrating it with Windows!