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1291.
by latch 15y ago
Seems pretty simple to me: they have spare capacity.
1292.
by latch 15y ago
It isn't a sale if you weren't planning on buying it in the first place.
1293.
by latch 15y ago
Really? It reads to me like if the battery of a Tesla fully drains, you need to pay $40K to replace it.
1294.
by latch 15y ago
And softlayer is by no means the cheapest provider of dedicated hosting in the US (though, there are few comparable providers (in terms of price and quality) with multiple regions).
1295.
by latch 15y ago
The site has no privacy policy, as far as I'm concerned, that means buyer-beware. HOWEVER... A comment by cmonsen (founder??) on the original-OP states "User privacy will be critical and we are making that a priority." (1) So..ya, a bit of
1296.
by latch 15y ago
The interview process provides very little information to both parties about each other. Both of you have to make a decision on what you know. It is entirely possible that walking away from such an interview would, in retrospect, be a mista
1297.
by latch 15y ago
Nope, not pre-existing, but emerging. There are a number of reports on the topic, Wiki references one by PwC (1). There's also the fact that China appears to be heading for a serious problem with respect to the age of its population. Conver
1298.
by latch 15y ago
Two problems with this. First, rising wages in China isn't going to bring jobs back to the US. It'll bring jobs to India. Second, from the perspective of as casual observer, it would seem Apple's success disproves all three of your concern.
1299.
by latch 15y ago
I live in Hong Kong, which this report ranked 2nd. In my opinion, the advantage is staggeringly MONUMENTAL.
1300.
by latch 15y ago
Looking at this without looking at the quantity and quality of available talent is the most absurd thing I've ever seen. It's easily the most important thing to measure, it's easily what would push the US near the top, but it's hard to mea
1301.
by latch 15y ago
Maybe I shouldn't base my opinion on a single story, but this is pretty much everything I know about Startup Chile (and it isn't good): http://hervalicio.us/post/14915671294/on-startup-chile
1302.
by latch 15y ago
yes, the blog post was quite clear that it's built in-house, with no plans to open source it since it isn't a generic solution (it's purpose-built with Basecamp in mind).
1303.
by latch 15y ago
I've stopped a couple interviews mid-process when it became evident that the interviewer was going to focus on this sort of crap. Their shock is its own reward.
1304.
by latch 15y ago
Good point, thanks. So it potentially provides you with opportunities for further optimization. I guess the message from DHH is that they hit their performance targets, so this would be an unnecessary optimization (and I'm tempte to say "no
1305.
by latch 15y ago
Hey, I totally agree that if your actions are gonna be consumed by clients other than your own UI, it makes total sense. However, I've seen people [strongly] advocating this approach even when this isn't the case..that's what I don't get.
1306.
by latch 15y ago
I don't understand why "it can't possibly be close to as fast"? Is the idea that with client-side templating, you've distributed the rendering? But returning a cached html fragment is the exact same amount of work on the server as returning
1307.
by latch 15y ago
If I knew anything about pinterest, I might be able to help you more.. One area where MongoDB (and almost everything else) suffers is with a large skip/offset value for paging. Getting the first page of results from MongoDB or from Redis wi
1308.
by latch 15y ago
Well, it's really stacker + pushState + MAX cache. But why would there be a performance penalty? Doesn't this result in the client doing _less_ work all around? Less work than the multi-page approach...and less work from the client-side tem
1309.
by latch 15y ago
I have to say, reading this made my day. I've been feeling such a push towards client-side templates lately, that I felt like it was just me that didn't get it. I really don't understand what's so compelling - unless those exact same action
1310.
by latch 15y ago
For me, the benefit of abandoning (or, at least, not focusing on) Windows, is that you aren't constrained in terms of tools and toys. Things like memcached, varnish, nginx, redis, mongodb, node, (etc, etc, etc) either only work on NIX, wor
1311.
by latch 15y ago
Paul Vick, whose name appears on the patent, had a great blog post about this. Had to dig it out of archive.org: https://gist.github.com/1846067 FWIW, as much as I hate[d] VB.NET, Paul Vick was (is?) clearly a superstar - both in terms of
1312.
by latch 15y ago
they are adopting a 1-year release cycle.
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Technology interaction and ethics(boingboing.net)
3 points by latch 15y ago|1 comments
1314.
by latch 15y ago
I'm not saying I like it, but this isn't synchronous code, which I think the readme does a pretty good job of explaining.
1315.
by latch 15y ago
The use of node-fibers is how it's different. Up to you on whether or not you think that makes it better.
1316.
by latch 15y ago
I don't mean to rant on you, but I do like having this conversation :) I don't think limiting what we view as sustainable to only the things we want is being reasonable. Sure, there's degrees of sustainability, and we can talk about it in t
1317.
by latch 15y ago
It's more than just the building material. I live in a 65 story building..8 units per floor (I'm sure it thins out near the top though). How many people per sqft of land do you think we take? How much would be taken by free-standing (sing
1318.
by latch 15y ago
So it costs 2x more [than a 320], performs the same, but gets you up to an order of magnitude more endurance. The question then is: when are you planning on replacing it. If you are going to replace it within the lifespan of a 320 (maybe fo
1319.
by latch 15y ago
No, if you look at the characters in the UI. Still, clearly the answer is that's a hacker's computer. Just because its an India store doesn't mean the hacker is Indian.
1320.
by latch 15y ago
I love how the fields are prefixed with acronyms for the table name.

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