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by koblas 16y ago
What about a puzzle system system -- Companies can post/host questions and then review the answers. I've drafted a quick blog post if anybody wants to comment more directly... Maybe I'll make it this weekends projects (since my frid.ge cl
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by koblas 16y ago
IMHO frid.ge was always a bit questionable, I personally built a comparable product and quickly realized that there is a huge amount of momentum around getting people into a system that is pretty much devoid of people you know. Groups (and
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by koblas 16y ago
Personally I like the reverse, up and over at either Kings or Old La Honda down 84 -- then Pescadaro to Alpine and down Page.
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by koblas 16y ago
Are people having success with hiring based on problems like this? I've seen it at Dropbox, Facebook, Bump, Quora (and many others). While I agree that it would remove the chaff from the job submission pipeline, does it fill it with enoug
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by koblas 16y ago
Noticed there was a bit of lag between any operation... Anybody have an idea if it was a platform issue or a data fetching issue?
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How does hunch work?(hunch.com)
2 points by koblas 16y ago|0 comments
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by koblas 16y ago
Outside the yet another list blog post, I'm since I've adopted wkrte ( http://code.google.com/p/wkrte/ ) as my favorite lightweight jQuery editor. Has anybody ever seen a real review of jQuery RTEs rather than an inventory?
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by koblas 16y ago
Feels like somebody doesn't trust #define's for their C++ code. While you don't get the type "safety" you get something thats a bit more natural.
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by koblas 16y ago
It's more of a personality trait that a "role". A typical CTO in a small organization is less of a people person and more of a technologist, the VPE is more of a business process person (it needs to ship on tuesday, don't forget the custom
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by koblas 17y ago
XML has the advantage that validation is part of the DNA of the data, while JSON is useful the world of JSON validation is not mature by any stretch.
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by koblas 17y ago
Just for another random comparison: http://trends.google.com/websites?q=webcrawler.com,+excite.c... It's a little amazing that iwon is gaining in market share...
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by koblas 17y ago
Just one point of interest is that Unisys only attempted to charge for the compression of data not the playback. So, browsers were never subject to the licensing fees that Unisys was asking for, only products like Photoshop which created/c
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by koblas 17y ago
Hate to say thing, but I too had similar problems. Turns out that postgrey works for a while, but the spammers know how to work it better than you think. So for a few days it worked, then slowly started to degrade back to where I was gett
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by koblas 17y ago
While this article is 10 years old, it contains a few very good points -- I've referenced it many times over the last 8 years. Specifically: -- Scripting languages relative run time and memory consumption overhead will often be acceptable
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by koblas 17y ago
Another survey article, with no conclusions or recommendations... No pros/cons covered, somebody have a good _review_ rather than a survey?
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by koblas 17y ago
What would be the implications of combining surfing history and bookmarking -- outside the "privacy" concern. If I noticed that you visited page X lots of times should it be considered bookmark worthy?
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by koblas 17y ago
I guess the question is why are people still building/managing their own servers for startups? EC2 and Rackspace cloud is cost wise equal, with the ability to have cold standbys and somebody else manage the infrastructure. The only case th
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by koblas 17y ago
Most of the time we're working somewhere between the legacy solutions and the ideal solutions. Only a few companies have devoted time to focusing on a specific technology to yield completely interesting tidbits. What's most interesting is
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by koblas 17y ago
UPS Failure at the colo
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by koblas 17y ago
I think it's a fair point to say that apathy is Windows 7's biggest competitor. I would never recommend somebody "upgrade" their home computer to Windows 7, I might recommend they buy a new computer with Windows 7. There is a school of th
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by koblas 18y ago
Last time I was walking through security I started to wonder if you could fill your 1 Gallon zip lock back with as many 3.5oz bottles of water? What would happen if you had everything correctly packaged... All because there were _two_ chec
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by koblas 18y ago
Are we sure this isn't a pilot for a new spring season replacement show for NBC. Maybe a reality show featuring Jerry and Bill -- it's not "The Simple Life" but rather "The Billionare Life"
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by koblas 18y ago
That's a fairly inconclusive link, somebody died who led a full life. They accomplished many things and lived their passions. A interesting tidbit in today's NY Times (AP story) http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/health/AP-MED-Healthy-Obesit
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Don’t go backward, newspapers(steveouting.com)
2 points by koblas 18y ago|1 comments
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by koblas 18y ago
Dug into this a bit more did a quick writeup here: http://www.skitoy.com/p/python-vs-ruby-performance/172 Bottom line is well over 70% of time is going to rand() and 25% to list overhead, threading is drowned out by that noise.
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by koblas 18y ago
Making newspapers hyperlocal is a scary thought. I think one of the big values that newspapers and other media -- skipping the intrinsic bias diatribe -- bring is a breath of coverage. I read the newspaper for some amount of news, but I al
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by koblas 18y ago
Sounds like a startup process * have an idea - LEGO: I want a coast guard helicopter - SW: It's a digg clone! * design - LEGO: 3d modeling - SW: a whole bunch of whiteboarding (WIKI etc.) * what's custom and what's stock
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by koblas 18y ago
The Resin server ( http://caucho.com/ ) converts PHP => Java which conceptually sounds better, though I've never heard of anybody doing it for production purposes.
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by koblas 18y ago
While it's novel that it's compiling to PHP, you're still at the mercy of PHP as a language and what it has to offer. For instance, PHP lacks a true closure so if Kira want's one it'll have to build out a full system... C++ : C => Kira
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Teens are spending an average of 11.5 hours online, yet...(ypulse.com)
5 points by koblas 18y ago|3 comments

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