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by krosaen 16y ago
The idea of uploading and storing "my music" seems antiquated; what difference does it make if my bits are copied over there vs sharing access to the exact same bits? Given that they acquired lala.com, I hope they go with their model: you
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by krosaen 16y ago
though I think a lot of the sensibilities from QSB have landed in the iphone google search app and the search box for android
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by krosaen 16y ago
too bad the spinoff project within google, Quick Search Box (same guy who started quick silver was involved), didn't really ever gain traction and has not been actively developed in a while, it had promise: http://code.google.com/p/qsb-mac
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by krosaen 16y ago
Isn't this just the problem of choice? If you really want an end to end cohesive development stack here you go: use google app engine with Java and gwt, all java, all eclipse, all the way to the client side javascript / packaging etc. But
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by krosaen 16y ago
Do the founders get the equity in the meantime before the future "stripes" are granted? e.g, let's say after two rounds of 10% employee equity, the company gets acquired, leaving 30% that had been set aside for future rounds of employee eq
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by krosaen 16y ago
fwiw the khan academy runs on app engine and is open source: https://sites.google.com/a/khanacademy.org/forge/for-develop... pretty easy to keep up with the progress by running it locally and occasionally syncing. one note: on my nexus on
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by krosaen 16y ago
ah good call, I was poking around the js
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by krosaen 16y ago
A bit off topic but anyone know how they do the fancy header with the pushpin notes swaying forward as you hover over them?
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by krosaen 16y ago
Interesting that all of the examples provided, google, amazon, facebook, MSFT all apparently provide units of stock with a predictable initial value; with stock options, all you can do is guess whether the company will grow and by how much,
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by krosaen 16y ago
Before even reading the paper, I lazily wonder if any of the techniques used have implications for clojure's persistent vector implementation
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by krosaen 16y ago
IMHO the most important "clean code" boundary for web apps is a non-enhanced interface (plain old forms). From there, pages can progressively enhance until the cows come home with jquery plugins and complicated interface code, but as long
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by krosaen 16y ago
this comment helped me get around the import errors when using nosegae + webtest. http://code.google.com/p/nose-gae/issues/detail?id=45#c1 totally a PITA but once it is working having a set of smoke tests for all of our urls is invaluable
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by krosaen 16y ago
be careful (see other comment in thread): http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2387945
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by krosaen 16y ago
related: scalability is not efficiency. discuss.
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by krosaen 16y ago
Great timing given the att acquisition of t-mobile, was just wondering if a nexus like phone would still have a carrier to call home.
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by krosaen 16y ago
Illuminating. Seems that the academy's recent focus on mastery and testing is of utmost importance, at least that way students who watch the videos but do not absorb the material will realize they don't actually "get it" when they can't an
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by krosaen 16y ago
I enjoyed this, but I think the author wants Google Docs to suck more than it really does in order to fit the narrative; I love google docs, even if it wasn't the first to get real time collaborative editing to work smoothly. The UI for
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by krosaen 16y ago
we conduct our monthly usability studies at the library in two adjacent study rooms. quiet and no bullshit internet, skype screen sharing is no problem :)
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by krosaen 16y ago
very cool. for those interested, a similar plugin is jquery quicksand http://razorjack.net/quicksand
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by krosaen 16y ago
but the link between the obscure query and the click on the page wouldn't have been made without bing knowing the user first searched for the query on google, no? if it were simply boosting page clicks that would be one thing, but how else
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by krosaen 16y ago
I recently cancelled my netflix (streaming) subscription because the selection isn't very good. Until I can watch the current a-list TV shows and movies, it just seems like a constant compromise not worth making. Instead I watch hulu or o
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by krosaen 16y ago
now that the original email has been posted, clearly a defensive response from an overstressed individual, which I can totally identify with; it's easy to get snippy when things are going wrong faster than you can keep up and all you hear i
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by krosaen 16y ago
for those curious, this could provide similar benefits to javascript (or other dynamic) language experimentation that pypy does in python: http://codespeak.net/pypy/dist/pypy/doc
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by krosaen 16y ago
"It’s a popular notion these days Google has lost its “mojo” due to failed products like Google Wave, Google Buzz" Really? Taking a single one sided tech crunch article (that is in contrast to several other recent TC articles marveling at i
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Design Patterns in Dynamic Languages (Peter Norvig)(norvig.com)
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by krosaen 16y ago
related: Norvig's presentation on how many design patterns are unnecessary in dynamic languages http://norvig.com/design-patterns
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by krosaen 16y ago
Wow, what a one sided piece. the flops from google: "Buzz, Wave, Google TV, and the Nexus One". As Paul Buchheit points out, "They take big risks. People often point to projects such as Wave as evidence that Google has "lost its magic" or
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by krosaen 16y ago
good point, I think I ran into that when I was playing with coroutines to build a simple finite state machine to parse something; as soon as it got the least bit complex, I was like, "you mean I can't extract a generator!?" I was originall
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by krosaen 16y ago
related from 2007: "How Your Creepy Ex-Co-Workers Will Kill Facebook" http://www.informationweek.com/news/internet/webdev/showArti... It certainly hasn't, but can facebook be the first social network to somehow help people maintain their
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by krosaen 16y ago
""" if we squint a little it looks almost like a synchronous call.. you can take a piece of code that was written using synchronous calls, and mechanically translate it into a tasklet: just decorate your functions with @tasklets.tasklet and

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