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by kogir 14y ago
Her side of the story sounds awful, and to the extent it's true KP's inaction and behavior is despicable. I'm curious why she stayed though. VCs move between firms in the valley not irregularly, leaving previous firms on both positive and n
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by kogir 14y ago
Not entirely true. .Net and JS code on Windows RT will most certainly be JITed. All you need to do is target the CLR or JavaScript runtime.
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by kogir 14y ago
Given that right now there are already two more popular (extant) choices, iPad and Android Tablets, I fail to see how this is an issue. Back in the day when Microsoft got in trouble you couldn't really argue it was feasible to get a PC with
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by kogir 14y ago
Neither this, nor the articles before it were intellectually interesting. Corporate taxes are politics, and have yet to foster any stimulating discussion (other than emotional rants). It's not an fascinating moral issue, and it's not illega
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by kogir 15y ago
This was in 2005. Should have tried XFS if we didn't. I think we might have.
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by kogir 15y ago
Won't help. If the ISP is intercepting all outbound DNS queries, it will also intercept those made by your server. In case it's not clear, even non-forwarding DNS servers have to make DNS queries to the authoritative servers of each doma
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by kogir 15y ago
While generally good advice, sometimes it does make sense to put binary images in the database: At Loopt, long before maps were included on mobile platforms, we served our own map tiles. These 64x64 pixel PNGs were often less than 100 byte
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by kogir 15y ago
You're completely right. I also feel bad. I accidentally did one of the things I hate, off-topic comment on actually cool project, and would delete my post now if I could. I commend everyone who worked on this for pulling it off - it can't
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by kogir 15y ago
I'd be much more impressed if they just spent some time on their POSIX layer (which exists and is close to tolerable), so that arbitrary projects would compile. Why massively hack one project when you can make multiple work?
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by kogir 15y ago
I've been telling the IE team to do this since IE 9. In reality, the purpose of vendor prefixes is to keep two vendors from using the same name for two distinctly different behaviors. The current prefix model does that. After a prefixed ext
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by kogir 15y ago
I think we'll need to agree to disagree. Some examples come to mind: Is it impossible to build the internals of a filesystem first, and add ACLs as a layer on top? What about the internals of a database? Should you start with users, schemas
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by kogir 15y ago
You have to think of it as writing a P2P app with no "trusted" server. Each client needs to be suspicious of all content created by other clients, and handle it accordingly. There are many services where a trusted server doesn't really a
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by kogir 15y ago
They're not bolting it on as an afterthought. They looked for feedback from the very beginning on how people wanted to use it and what security features would enable those uses. Then they ensured that in designing the core product adding
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by kogir 15y ago
I've been lucky enough to get to play with Firebase from the beginning, and am really impressed with how it's come together. The team knows the security issues are real, and have a viable plan to address them for most use cases. I can't wai
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by kogir 15y ago
If you find yourself using primarily Java (nothing wrong with that, really), then just go all the way. I think the same is true for most any language. It's also valid to start doing everything new in a new language and gradually migrate awa
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by kogir 15y ago
I've found that when it doesn't make sense to keep everything in .Net, it's great to break things out into independent services. If there's something awesome you want to use in Java, like Lucene, expose it as a service and consume it from .
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by kogir 15y ago
Yes, you can certainly build a startup on .Net[1]. That said, there are some things you should consider carefully before you do: * Will you be able to recruit top talent? In Seattle, not likely a problem. In the Bay Area, it's harder[2]. *
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by kogir 15y ago
Is there some useful lesson here? I don't think iterate quickly counts. I'm sorry that thing didn't work out for them, and without some insightful analysis this article isn't interesting or newsworthy.
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by kogir 15y ago
Remove "position: fixed;" from "div.left-col" in responsive-stammy.css Unless there was a reason to break the (horizontal) scrolling.
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by kogir 15y ago
Actually, I'd only white-list Gmail and maybe Twitter. I'd prefer it if most site just served HTML to begin with. I run with JavaScript and Cookies disabled unless white-listed, and just leave the majority of pages that won't load. Techcru
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by kogir 15y ago
This is great, really, but I'd like to see something more aggressive: Non-foreground tabs should be completely suspended - plugins, JavaScript, media, you name it - unless they specifically request and are granted permission to run in the b
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by kogir 15y ago
I imagine they haven't released official APIs yet because they want to retain the freedom to change things at will while they explore the product space. Makes sense to me. Transition periods, documentation, and warnings all take time and e
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by kogir 15y ago
I would just sign it, stick it on S3, and forget it. Did I miss why that wasn't considered?
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by kogir 15y ago
When you have the check, it's true, sometimes photo deposits are less convenient. But if all you have is an image of the check, it's awesome. Say I wanted to send money to my sister. Before this I had to actually mail a check, or worse, pay
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by kogir 15y ago
Clean room requires that those creating the implementation don't have access to the original implementation. Having the same person(s) inspect the binaries and create an implementation fails this requirement. See: http://en.wikipedia.org/
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by kogir 15y ago
I think this is totally fine. Live Messenger is a private service, and Microsoft can run it however they want. Users will simply switch to competing services that don't suck. Let the market decide. Also, as behavior like this increases i
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by kogir 15y ago
I'd be delighted if they offered it for even just two regions. Right now if you want your service to be highly available you either run your own routers in two collocation facilities and forward to AWS, or you don't use AWS.
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by kogir 15y ago
Amazon is such a tease. Just give us Anycast Elastic IPs that work in multiple regions already! There's still no good high-availability story for region-wide outages, and there won't be until they do this.
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by kogir 15y ago
I disagree with the author. Backwards compatibility is one of the great things about Microsoft's stuff, not a bad thing. In 6+ years at Loopt, an upgrade (to get new shiny features) never meant we had to stop using older code. SQL 2012 is
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by kogir 15y ago
Can anyone who's experienced this provide more details? Browser (+ Version) Platform Cell Network (if applicable) Any Greasemonkey or other scripts you use

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