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by meritt 14y ago
Just to put this in perspective, Oracle has just over $30B in liquidity. $1M / $30B = 0.0000333 That's the equivalent of having $300 in your pocket and someone demanding 1 penny.
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by meritt 14y ago
1280x960 is not a "big screen" by any modern definition.
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by meritt 14y ago
Can we please change the headline to something a bit less invalid and full of sensationalism? This is a perfect example of distorting statistics to serve ones purpose. * Author has a small screen. * Author compares results space vs everythi
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by meritt 14y ago
Text-only version of article: https://raw.github.com/gist/3612652/132c74fbbfc50212f4f93d8e...
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by meritt 14y ago
I've been using Percona for a number of years now. Are there any solid comparisons between Percona and MariaDB?
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by meritt 14y ago
Relevant code for most of us without downloading a zip: http://labs.voronianski.com/media/js/jquery.avgrund.js http://labs.voronianski.com/jquery.avgrund.js/avgrund.css Is it really too complicated to simply link to a repo somewhere?
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by meritt 14y ago
Another excellent example of how NCLB is ruining our education system. Although racial problems are definitely an issue in US education, in this situation, race is minor player in a much larger issue.
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by meritt 14y ago
Exactly why is this an inappropriate article for HN? The number of upvotes shows the community disagrees with you.
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by meritt 14y ago
So between Sinatra's default error message giving away sensitive information and the suggested "params[..]" approach gets ALL input variables, regardless POST or GET. What other gotchas should be know about Sinatra development?
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by meritt 14y ago
Speaking as someone who has only casually heard of these products, they are exactly the same thing to the uninitiated. That's not being negative. Just saying both products provide a way to bring sanity through search, indexing and analysis
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by meritt 14y ago
Good to hear he's been assimilated into Microsoft culture so rapidly. He'll do great there.
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by meritt 14y ago
Oh I agree with you. I'm extremely ambivalent on the situation. Except for the abundance of "Share thoughts/messages/pictures/music with your significant other/close friends/social network/professional network/the world on our exclusive app
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by meritt 14y ago
While I absolutely applaud the effort and tenacity of this individual, at the same time, I feel a substantial amount of trepidation regarding the current state of the tech / start-up industry. Virtually every hot new startup I see on blogs,
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by meritt 14y ago
Just for a bit of context, Facebook makes approximately 2x Groupon's revenue yet their market cap is 12x. Groupon made a net income of $32M in Q2 2012 while Facebook saw a net loss of ($157M). Might want to adjust your shorts. Groupon doesn
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by meritt 14y ago
Quora is simply turning into ExpertsExchange. I haven't found anything terrible insightful on Quora that I can't find at the top of an HN, Reddit or StackOverflow thread. Never quite understood the hype centered around it.
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by meritt 14y ago
My guess is he's from the C++ camp who tend to always suggest RAII as a replacement for 'finally' and RAII relies upon destructors.
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by meritt 14y ago
You should talk to Bjarne about leaving it out of C++ :)
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by meritt 14y ago
SugarSync handles it just fine: http://d.pr/i/hluY
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by meritt 14y ago
Yeah, I understand ways to work around it.. it's more of why isn't it a feature? In SugarSync, Carbonite and Moxy I can quite literally do: right click -> Sync Folder (or some variation thereof) and it just works.
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by meritt 14y ago
Every time I see a Dropbox update I hope it is: * Added ability to sync arbitrary directories And I'm let down. Every single time.
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by meritt 14y ago
You'll find an existing discussion about this article located here: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4298100 (Lifehacker syndicated it from thoughtcatalog)
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by meritt 14y ago
When you're only using nginx as a CDN, then yes another CDN can replace it. nginx can do a lot more than serve static files.