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by jgreen10 13y ago
https://aws.amazon.com/marketplace tip: search for wordpress, magento The biggest drawback of AWS is that you miss features not because they don't have them, but because they have so many of them. :)
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by jgreen10 13y ago
It's more like... the social network. Everything else is in the perimeter.
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by jgreen10 13y ago
Bebo, Hyves, MySpace were very popular among teenagers. Your life dramatically changes after high school, and the types of products and services you use change with it.
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by jgreen10 13y ago
Not saying that it's a good decision, but I imagine Comcast has data on the Internet usage of millions of customers.
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by jgreen10 13y ago
Plain hashing and encryption are equally silly, especially without salt. Use bcrypt.
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by jgreen10 13y ago
Can someone explain why Elop did a bad job? No one was buying Nokia phones anymore... they are now.
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by jgreen10 13y ago
That's partly because women have careers in developed countries, which they won't if there's no work.
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by jgreen10 13y ago
Are you suggesting no one has a car? Anyway, Android (Linux) dominates the mobile space, and Linux dominates the server and a lot of the embedded space. So yes, cheap stuff outsells expensive stuff.
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by jgreen10 13y ago
You don't need RAII if you don't have exceptions. Separating allocation and initialization is a good thing.
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by jgreen10 13y ago
I didn't have any trouble with the C examples, but with C++ it just puzzles me why people would want to use a language like that in the first place. What does it buy you except bigger head aches?
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by jgreen10 13y ago
How far into the presentation do I need to go for someone to mention that the quotes in the printf are not US ASCII and therefore the program would not compile?
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by jgreen10 13y ago
So what's the alternative exchange format between different programs then?
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by jgreen10 13y ago
Blocking traffic from Chinese IPs goes a long way.
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by jgreen10 13y ago
I was considering using Node.js for a new project, but I quickly backed away from it when I realized it didn't do basic flow control properly.
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by jgreen10 13y ago
Computers to the rescue.
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by jgreen10 13y ago
Tesla's technology is so far ahead of other manufacturers that people will probably have heard of Tesla long before BMW et al. catch up.
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by jgreen10 13y ago
Is it? Do you have any examples?
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by jgreen10 13y ago
Microsoft has a culture of being first of the market, though not always with the best product. Products like Windows 98 and IE4 were buggy, but so far ahead of their time that they had a crushing impact and it took the rest of the world yea
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by jgreen10 13y ago
Because they did. Windows-powered touch-screen Pocket PCs and Tablet PCs existed years before the iPod. Microsoft just didn't find mobile devices important enough and wasn't willing to re-invent Windows for it. Windows Mobile was
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by jgreen10 13y ago
To me, Consolas is the only programming font that looks natural, as if it isn't even monospace.
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by jgreen10 13y ago
Does Google losing users help advertisers make sales?
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by jgreen10 13y ago
The web changes all the time and the market catches up. In the early 1990s, the web was about linked information. Today we have Wikipedia and Google. In the late 1990s, the web became about ecommerce. Today we have Amazon. In the early 2000
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by jgreen10 13y ago
Sorry, by "they" I meant the NSA. I really don't think it matters where you are for the NSA to spy on you.
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by jgreen10 13y ago
It's not really about US vs. non-US. They can see everything.
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by jgreen10 13y ago
Strange policy to build an organization that could destroy the only industry that is keeping your economy going.
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by jgreen10 13y ago
curl https://install.meteor.com | less
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by jgreen10 13y ago
and all his colleagues will be jealous of him submitting so quickly.
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by jgreen10 13y ago
Really? Scientists are people. Proving each other wrong is one of the biggest motivators to do years of painstaking, labour-intensive research. Of course, you can't prove someone wrong without being rigorous.
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by jgreen10 13y ago
Apple is a company producing consumer devices, while the others are companies offering Internet services, which is what PRISM targets. Apple has only recently had some success in the Internet services space with iCloud.
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by jgreen10 13y ago
What I completely missed about BitCoin at first is that it enables programmatic exchange of money. That's big.

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