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by krosaen 16y ago
"So why, aside from these pricing differences, would consumers want to use this Amazon App Store at all? There are a few answers to that question. The first is that there are manufacturers making Android devices that decide not to partner w
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by krosaen 16y ago
khan academy youtube channel / playlists has been working well for me, but cool to see this too
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by krosaen 16y ago
That would be cool. Perhaps even more interesting to me would be the thought process behind each decision, font choices, font sizes, spacing, layout etc. If you watch enough videos on lynda.com you can get pretty good at production of d
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by krosaen 16y ago
track the follow up twitter bickering between Zed and Appelbaum: http://bettween.com/ioerror/zedshaw/Dec-21-2010/Dec-28-2010/...
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by krosaen 16y ago
Which do you prefer? Python or Scala?
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by krosaen 16y ago
pretty slick. a free plugin with not quite as many bells and whistles: http://code.drewwilson.com/entry/tiptip-jquery-plugin
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by krosaen 16y ago
cool, this has been available to google apps premier accounts for a while, I wonder if this means they'll make it free for the basic google apps accounts too (the only place where this would be of use to me).
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by krosaen 16y ago
I like how SICP teaches you about programming first, and then considers how code might be executed on a register based machine: http://mitpress.mit.edu/sicp/full-text/book/book-Z-H-30.html... rather than starting from the bottom up.
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"I was walking to a business dinner in NYC. Someone told me they were going to start working with a new manager and asked me if I knew him. The name sounded familiar and I thought I had done something with him during the Broadcast.com days.
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by krosaen 16y ago
glad to see Ben Darnell is on top of it: http://groups.google.com/group/python-tornado/msg/681856dbb4...
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by krosaen 16y ago
point taken :)
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by krosaen 16y ago
Guess I'm just saying I prefer more in depth articles on HN over news blurbs. For instance, if there was eventually a follow up article that explored the changing landscape of business, that would be the kind of article I would like to see
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by krosaen 16y ago
i do not have the power to downvote, but I don't think this is a deeply interesting article. http://ycombinator.com/newswelcome.html
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nice example of how at the beginning the only way to get good at building real things is to dive in and put yourself through the ringer
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by krosaen 16y ago
I wonder if running lift / scala on GAE jvm would be worthwhile; if you could hack it to work with the channel api for all the comet stuff...
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aw it wasn't that bad! perhaps the piano music was a bit cheesy but it got the point across well enough that I installed it
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by krosaen 16y ago
I can see that... but kicking the can down the road is would be an obviously bad form of debt, like a payday loan or something... Technical debt is a term that to me is more interesting when you might have a payoff as described in Eric Rie
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by krosaen 16y ago
Whether or not this pans out, I'm happy to see someone hold out on an acquisition. someone has to resist the temptation of an acquisition to be the next huge thing, and this means groupon has a chance at being the next 100 billion dollar
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by krosaen 16y ago
True that interviewing is a resource hog and the post nicely articulates the problem. But I don't think it really counts as a technical debt, if it were you would gain something from it in the short run. For example, by not testing your c
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by krosaen 16y ago
One interesting difference is that each 'groupon' is sold by a sales person, and has its witty copy prepared by a staff writer, whereas most of adwords is 100% self service. That's the main reason it would surprise me if google did in fact
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by krosaen 16y ago
those are the two books I bought :)
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by krosaen 16y ago
We use python on GAE, and chose tornado, and admittedly this is partly because at the time it was the new hotness and I like friendfeed a lot. That said, even though with the wsgi adapter you've neutered what tornado is famous for (evented
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by krosaen 16y ago
Thanks! our startup (realtimefarms.com) also runs on GAE (python though), and we use the blob store image serving to great benefit, but have been toying with supporting video uploads, helps to hear how you guys are doing it.
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by krosaen 16y ago
Nice writeup. I'd like to hear more about how you manage using S3 for video in conjunction with running the rest on GAE.
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yeah, check out "get_serving_url" on: http://code.google.com/appengine/docs/python/images/function...
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yeah, I've written a wrapper around it so we can post process the results and memcache that, but asynctools has been really useful!
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I've gotten full text search working using techniques similar to those described here: http://www.billkatz.com/2009/6/Simple-Full-Text-Search-for-A...
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This hasn't been my experience. Yes, existing techniques for full text search works or things like geolocation queries won't work but there are other[1] techniques[2] that work just as well; it's just not the sql way. Basically, support fo
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App Engine 1.4 includes always on, channel API, 10 minute tasks and more(groups.google.com)
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interesting that it is in browser, but they say are "rolling it out... on Android with Froyo (version 2.2) and on iOS devices (version 3.0+) including the iPad" what features does the android 2.1 browser lack the prevents it from being ava

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