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by johnyzee 17y ago
I probably have one of the better home connections in Copenhagen, at 50 mbit/s for $12 monthly. In real world use it normally pulls app. 5-6 MB per second off the general internet.
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by johnyzee 17y ago
Culture permeates an organization from the top. The guy probably just followed the tacit business practice, but was clumsy about it due to his age and inexperience. I mean, Michael Arrington takes equity in return for publicity, this guy to
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by johnyzee 17y ago
That's nothing. There is a huge passage in II Kings 19 which is a verbatim copy of Isaiah 36-38: II Kings 19: http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=2%20Kings%2018-2... ; Isaiah 36-38: http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Is
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by johnyzee 17y ago
Upvoted for the information, but your fantasy of "putting bullets into bad guys" while working for the U.S. army is pretty sickening. Outside of military, nationalist propaganda, you are most likely fighting someone who is defending his hom
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by johnyzee 17y ago
I'd rather have a strong brand filled with knowledgeable customers who truly enjoy and appreciate what I've created instead of making a quick buck - being just another fad. Come on now, it hardly gets anymore faddish. It's just t-shirts,
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by johnyzee 17y ago
Although I mentioned business strategy, by 'blown away' I mostly mean engineering enginuity. But as far as business is concerned, they are still in a good spot, what with basically owning the internet, even though they haven't monetized it
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by johnyzee 17y ago
I am blown away by some of the stuff Google puts out, I can only imagine what their internal technologies and tools must look like. To me, that more than anything validates their approach to hiring, development and business strategy, of whi
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by johnyzee 17y ago
You could build it yourself using Kannel (open source SMS gateway - www.kannel.org) and an old mobile phone.
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by johnyzee 17y ago
Putty Connection Manager is your friend (it's free): http://puttycm.free.fr/cms/ Store username password and anything else you tend to do once logged in (such as tailing a log file) and save as a launch sequence - bam, one click to check
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by johnyzee 17y ago
Great picture. Is that the backside of an Amiga 500 on the bottom shelf to the right? [Edit] You already answered that. I had a 1200 bps modem for that rig around the same time and would sit around on BBS'es for hours.
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by johnyzee 17y ago
Really. Considering that Israel is firehosed with money from state and private sponsors, I have always wondered why one hears so little of successful technology ventures coming out of there. Personally I have only ever heard of ICQ (which w
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by johnyzee 17y ago
http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2005/04/06/
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by johnyzee 17y ago
Maven sucks and everyone hates it, but uses it anyway because tragically there is no better alternative for large projects. For me, the M2 plugin for Eclipse seals the deal as it makes the build files double as the IDE project files. One pl
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by johnyzee 17y ago
I hope, instead of merely listening in, the insurgents start to jam and crash the drones. Sorry, but a different view needs to be represented. To a lot of people the foreign occupation of Iraq is a grave injustice, not just some big game.
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by johnyzee 17y ago
Wikipedia has taken all the fun out of arguing :). Thanks for the correction.
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by johnyzee 17y ago
I believe the stated difference is that, contrary to e.g. the hermit crab, the octopus found the tool in one place, then took it somewhere else (to the other coconut half) in order to use it, exhibiting a planning capability beyond just tak
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by johnyzee 17y ago
There was a story not long ago about an octopus in a German aquarium. Apparently, the museum noticed that a particular lamp was always broken. With the help of surveillance, they discovered that every night, an octopus in a nearby tank woul
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by johnyzee 17y ago
Thanks for the feedback, it is valuable. I will make sure we take a long hard look at the points you mentioned. The product is still a few features away from being ready for the public launch, the value proposition should be more apparent w
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by johnyzee 17y ago
We build TeamPostgreSQL with GWT. It is a PostgreSQL web administration package. Feel free to to take a look: http://www.teampostgresql.com The download package comes with a bundled sample database, so you can take it for a spin too. Feed
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by johnyzee 17y ago
Man. One moment he is donating an old Unix box to a local hacker or rambling about obscure details of contemporary graphics cards, the next he is comparing his F50 to his custom built TVR. Now I know where the term 'rock star programmer' ca
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by johnyzee 17y ago
He mentions going away to stay at a hotel for a week doing research (only leaving to get diet coke). That sounds pretty cool, does anyone have more information about that? I remember reading a similar thing about Bill Gates checking into a
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by johnyzee 17y ago
Windshield wipers? Seriously though, NASA is very PR savvy. Announcing the robots' lifespan as three months was probably just to make sure they would overdeliver. Still an awesome accomplishment.
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by johnyzee 17y ago
Startups need marketing/business guys as much as they need coders and they need them from day 1. The idea must be pitched, refined and sold BEFORE you get too far in product development, as it is crucial in choosing direction for developmen
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by johnyzee 17y ago
It's a good gimmick, but on the video it seems to be a regular chair with a few thin layers of foam stretched out over it.
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by johnyzee 17y ago
I haven't watched the video but her stuff is 90% fluff. "But she is a [good-looking] woman who writes programming books!" is always the implied disclaimer, but sorry, that does not make the books any less dumb, condescending or speculative.
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by johnyzee 17y ago
The application does take a while to load, but the bottleneck seems to be browser javascript performance, and mostly in Internet Explorer. In fact that might well be the biggest issue we have with GWT, and we have to resort to a few tricks
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by johnyzee 17y ago
We make TeamPostgreSQL with GWT (teampostgresql.com). GWT is very different from Javascript libraries. Our entire code base has not a single line of Javascript in it, it is all Java classes. I can't imagine what a nightmare organising and r
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by johnyzee 17y ago
That sounds pretty traumatic and I am incredibly impressed that you have the wherewithal to handle the community relations part after that. That said it is probably a good idea to really get to the bottom of your feelings about it once you
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by johnyzee 17y ago
Why not VR helmets? That sounds so much more doable (and immersive) than building a wall (or for a holodeck, a room) of screens. I have enough trouble fitting a 40" LCD into my living room.
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by johnyzee 17y ago
I probably have the best Adsense performance I have seen anywhere: Page impressions Clicks Page CTR Page eCPM Earnings 1,235 62 5.02% €14.78 / $21.24 €18.24 / $26.21 Those are July, all time st

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