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by mdasen 11y ago
I think the big difference is a the the iPod offered users a superior UI, a simple syncing experience, was vastly smaller, and weighed a ton less. What does the OnHub offer? It offers a simplified setup - something you do extremely rarely.
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by mdasen 11y ago
Wouldn't switching to neutral increase fuel usage? When you're in gear, the engine is kept moving by the momentum of the car. When you switch into neutral and break the connection between the movement of the car and the engine, t
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by mdasen 11y ago
More than the speed of 5G, I'm hoping for its capacity. If it offers 40x the capacity of 4G (within the same amount of spectrum), it could become a good contender to replace home broadband (and add a lot of competition). T-Mobile alr
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by mdasen 11y ago
I've been shomer shabbat (observant of the sabbath) in the past and am still involved in Jewish communities full of observant people, even though I am clearly less observant. When I first became shomer shabbat, the first thing I notice
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by mdasen 11y ago
If the point of a business is compensating its employees, that might be a strategy. However, that isn't the point of the business. The point of the business is to generate money for the shareholders. Over the short/medium term,
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by mdasen 11y ago
Looking at GitHub's business model, it looks a lot more sustainable than SourceForge's. My company uses GitHub Enterprise. Unless we have some sort of deal/discount above the built-in, we're paying over $30,000/yea
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by mdasen 11y ago
The design seems similar to the one suggested in the 1999 USENIX paper "Flash: An Efficient and Portable Web Server". It's a good read on the topic. nginx came about in a time where you're a lot more likely to have you
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by mdasen 11y ago
You've brought up some good points in where Linode would need to expand to be an option for some people using, say, AWS. But I wonder if that's the right direction for them to go. Object storage is a hard area to compete in. Ama
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When people quote high revenue multiples, usually they're in an area that they see high future growth. Patrick's writings on BCC make it seem like a business that is stable to declining. Of course, as you point out, the low mult
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by mdasen 11y ago
I think most people aren't looking to containers for performance. Containers offer a lot more flexibility. At my work, we run containers on top of EC2. We have a system where we can note how much RAM and CPU we want a container to ha
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by mdasen 11y ago
Microsoft's fork is meant to be temporary, experimental fork. "This GitHub fork enables Node.js to optionally use the Chakra JavaScript engine on Windows 10, allowing Node.js to run on Windows on ARM. Our goal is to merge back int
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by mdasen 12y ago
It's very true that MongoDB was able to target developers who didn't know or care about a lot of issues in the databases world. However, I wouldn't attribute Vertica's success to coming out of the academic world and bei
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by mdasen 12y ago
I know of companies that will create a website for you that you pay them for and then charge a monthly fee to host it on their infrastructure. You can even charge based on traffic as well. That's a SaaS business model that both pays
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by mdasen 12y ago
Economists sometimes talk about different types of quality: actual quality and perceived quality. There has been a lot of spending that has been directed toward perceived quality at American Universities. That includes a lot of new buildi
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by mdasen 12y ago
Apple acquired CUPS (Common Unix Printing System) which is still used by a lot of Linux distros (like Ubuntu and Fedora). CUPS was bought by Apple in 2007 and continues to have open source releases and continues to be used by major Linux di
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by mdasen 12y ago
If people are curious, some of it comes down to the techniques and algorithms that each implement. This information might be a little out of date and I'm doing this from memory so please pardon/correct any inaccuracies. So, with
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It depends on the company. Google, as an example, sends you an email when you interview that there's no need to dress up for the interview - wear what you're comfortable in, the interview is about your skills. I'd say about
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by mdasen 12y ago
Apple is smart to be grabbing A123 engineers. While people seem to remember A123 for its auto pursuits, it also produced batteries for things like tools from Black & Decker. The problem with cars was that no auto manufacturer wanted to
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by mdasen 12y ago
PACER does charge, but if your usage is less than $15 for the quarter, you don't have to pay. So, if you're just curious about a few things, you can often get them without paying.
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by mdasen 12y ago
Toyota may have a market cap of $200B, but Ford, GM, Honda, Nissan, Hyundai Motor, Subaru, Fiat Chrysler, and Mazda have market caps of $63B, $61B, $59B, $44B, $38B, $26B, $19B, and $12B. You've really picked the outlier in terms of m
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by mdasen 12y ago
In CS assignments, there's usually a good amount of starter code that would be copyrighted by the university. As the takedown notices states, "a large portion of the uploaded code is copyrighted by the University of Illinois&quot
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by mdasen 12y ago
Content ID brings up an interesting twist on the DMCA. If a provider has "actual knowledge" of infringement, safe harbor doesn't apply. When Viacom sued Google/YouTube, they claimed that Google/YouTube had "g
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by mdasen 12y ago
AT&T isn't in as nice a spectrum position as Verizon, but the situation isn't what you've portrayed. AT&T has AWS spectrum in most markets, but it isn't a 40MHz chunk. That's still additional capacity. AT
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by mdasen 12y ago
Music Freedom is a little different, at least in theory. Theory is always cleaner than reality so let's start there. In theory, Music Freedom is a way to have all streaming music traffic not count toward your data cap. If that's
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by mdasen 12y ago
I've been looking for a databases course focusing on the systems side of things (concurrency control, query planning, disk, etc.), but it seems like it's too niche. If anyone knows of one, I'd be really happy to hear about it
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View > Tool Windows > Problems gets you a problems view.
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I believe you can switch that in the settings. Go to Preferences > Build, Execution, Deployment > Compiler and use the checkbox for "Make project automatically". Likewise, under Compiler there's a "Java Compiler&q
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Speeding up Rails 4.2(samsaffron.com)
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The GPLv2 is only a copyright license, not a patent license. Some open-source licenses do require you not to enforce any of your patents that might be used in the product, but the GPLv2 does not. As others have pointed out, this tablet isn
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by mdasen 12y ago
You've brought up an interesting point: correlation vs causation. One of the issues in discrimination contexts today is disparate impact. For example, we know that a bank couldn't say, "we don't want to lend money to b

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