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by metajack 17y ago
Because for venture-backed companies, becoming wildly profitable is only one of several possible exits. Acquisition, IPO, and bankruptcy are the most common other exits.
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by metajack 17y ago
Tree style tabs is pretty much the only thing preventing me from switching to Chrome. I suspect it will never get such a thing.
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by metajack 17y ago
Having recently used an N900, I had to laugh at this comment. The screen was awful. The fact that it isn't capacitive makes it feel like sad, old technology. Maemo is nice, and the built in XMPP support was quite good. The screen's resoluti
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by metajack 17y ago
You'd be surprised what you'd get just by asking politely. Find people you think can help you and that would be good teachers and just ask.
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by metajack 17y ago
Self-driving cars don't have to be safe in an absolute sense, just safer than human drivers. I think in some ways that is not a very high bar.
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by metajack 17y ago
Mozilla has not poured any money into Theora that I know of. The primary developers are all working on it in their spare time or as part of their jobs with other companies. For example, Monty is employed at RedHat. The fact that Theora is c
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by metajack 17y ago
A second point I forgot to mention is that I do not know of Adobe suing anyone over standard PDF/PostScript features, but there is a long history of Thompson and all the other audio/video patent holders being very litigious and threatening.
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by metajack 17y ago
RedHat did this, and I was very happy about it at the time, being involved with the Xiph.org projects. The users hated it, but I don't see how to educate users about this any other way.
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by metajack 17y ago
How are these comprable? Adobe has a patent agreement that says it won't sue you if you are implementing PDF or PostScript. Sure, it's maybe not absolute freedom, but it is markedly better than the situation with any of the encumbered audio
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by metajack 17y ago
I've heard of it, but have no direct experience. Everyone I've met who has direct experience just shudders whenever it is mentioned. My understanding is that it is extremely complex and difficult to implement.
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by metajack 17y ago
Even with a binary format, you'd be sending data out of band in XMPP. XMPP is designed for interchanging _small_ bits of data. Large data blocks destroy latency, so they are usually sent out of band. Plenty of large data blocks occur withou
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by metajack 17y ago
I wish computer music wasn't so expensive in the US. It's over $100/yr to subscribe from here.
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by metajack 17y ago
We don't go that far, but we did choose the data center that had the faster machines. It had upgraded hardware that the others didn't. It won't be the fastest forever, but you can certainly shop around internally to find faster machines.
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by metajack 17y ago
Maybe. I know when we migrated Chesspark from native machines to EC2, the postgresql database performance was at least an order of magnitude worse, and we spent two weeks doing caching and index hunting that we never had to worry about bef
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by metajack 17y ago
There is also another Python one called Igor: http://github.com/aconbere/igor
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by metajack 17y ago
There are decades of research in information retrieval that can easily be applied to this problem. Before Google showed up with PageRank, many algorithms were based on properties of a given document and the historical properties of the set
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by metajack 17y ago
An old English teacher of mine tried to convince us that you couldn't be bored if you didn't know the word "bored". You certainly can. There are no words for the feelings many people have. We have a whole system of literature for this, whi
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by metajack 17y ago
Power users can still use power tools; not all such tools are taken down by craigslist, and even if they were, there is still a gap between tool creation and takedown big enough for exploitation. I have loved and used craigslist for years,
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by metajack 17y ago
There are a number of them: * trend spotting, analysis * finance * brand management * entertainment * faster news information * weather, disasters There are a lot of possibilities, and even more arise when you enable the feedback loop.
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by metajack 17y ago
We actually have quite a bit of data in there besides Twitter, and we're adding more sources all the time. It does take some time as we must convince publishers of the value of pushing their data out. Some of the result set you get depend
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by metajack 17y ago
It's not yet fine tuned for that kind of speed. The real site will have these issues addressed.
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by metajack 17y ago
JSConf was an excellent conference, and this was just one of the great presentations. I was much more impressed with the guitar hero clone :)
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by metajack 18y ago
That's exactly what I always do, and is easily done in both Mac OS X and in most Linux distributions.
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by metajack 18y ago
I switched my blog over to Jekyll last week. It feels much better to be using Git and Emacs to manage the blog instead of random Web apps and crappy text editors. Since then the number of jekyll forks on GitHub has exploded. I've added ta
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by metajack 18y ago
The interview was basic, but I enjoyed it. CouchDB is one of my favorite projects, and we've been using it on a few different things.
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by metajack 18y ago
README.Debian in /usr/share/doc/PACKAGE-NAME usually has this information. Of course, some package maintainers aren't as nice as others in this regard. The problem is much simpler with Ruby packages since they have only one interface. Deb
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by metajack 18y ago
Speaking of Adium, they will bend over backwards to support a proprietary chat system from a huge site like Facebook, but they are not going to add support for arbitrary startup's creations. Using XMPP allows your users flexibility in how
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by metajack 18y ago
I seem to recall that Google Talk had an embeddable IM product as well, aside from their Google Apps for Domains Gtalk service offering.
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by metajack 18y ago
Full disclosure: I'm the CEO of Chesspark and a board and council member of the XSF (the standards organization behind XMPP). I highly recommend XMPP. You get a lot of functionality for free: contact lists, presence, access to a huge and d
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by metajack 18y ago
If you believe in your idea, keep going. While they may have hit first, you can adjust your strategy now that their hand has been played. This sort of thing happens all the time; few ideas are truly original.

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