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by mik3y 13y ago
imgur becoming a credible threat to reddit's eyeballs (and ad dollars) does not require them to have feature parity. See: Facebook vs Instagram.
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by mik3y 13y ago
The problem I see is reddit isn't an aggregator in the strict sense. Look at the front page, it's riddled with imgur links. How many of them (advice animals, original content, etc) were posted there just for reddit? I'll j
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by mik3y 13y ago
> Why would Reddit spend money they don't have to? To keep traffic "on premises", ie thwart competition. Just look at imgur: now it's sort of a micro reddit, with its own commenting system, categories, and so on.
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by mik3y 13y ago
Semi-OT, but: Considering how much reddit seems to depend on imgur and image hosting in general, how long will it be until reddit handles the image hosting themselves? Sure it would add a ton of new costs and headaches (takedowns, etc), but
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by mik3y 13y ago
I've done some dreadful things in PHP. And Java. And Python. And C. And more.. The problem has never been the language, but rather the software's organization and architecture (or the lack thereof). You can make mistakes in any l
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by mik3y 13y ago
Very good summary, though let me throw in some doubt: > it might just be possible to force a > reset of the bogus chip when a lockup is > detected [..] There's usually a GPIO for > that (if they wired it..
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by mik3y 13y ago
The Courthouse News Service article [1] is a little more detailed. What stood out to me was the following bit: > The business sued [..] and subpoenaed Yelp to learn the identities of the anonymous reviewers. Yelp repeatedly refused to re
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by mik3y 13y ago
Random, non-target-customer opinion: The slider is nice. However, it's not obvious how the venue size it selects (and the corresponding pricing tiers) affect the service offered. For example, what happens if I'm dishonest? It see
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by mik3y 13y ago
So now might be as good a time as any to ask: any happy GCE-using EC2 refugees that have tools/tips to share after making the jump? I saw someone tried to add GCE support to boto a while back [1], but after some discussion it seems the
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by mik3y 13y ago
You're right; to be clear, I also strongly don't believe that APIs should be copyrightable. But I'm nervous that there are at least a few ways to make the argument , to a layperson (like a judge or jury), and that Oracle mig
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by mik3y 13y ago
I'm really torn on the topic of API copyrightability, and watching this nervously. On one hand, haven't we all worked with (or built) APIs which seem remarkable in their structure and simplicity? The best of the best seem like una
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by mik3y 13y ago
My best guess is that it was something of a gimmick for Google I/O. They never seemed well-supported by Google. An alternative to ADK is the Android USB Host driver support. It's like libusb: for phones with the right USB controll
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by mik3y 13y ago
If you read the post, he's responding to that article: "So I was excited to see that First Round Capital featured a blog post by Andy Rachleff on this topic yesterday.."
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by mik3y 13y ago
Wallaby is a passive/proxy card, routing to a BIN range controlled by them. Cheaper to produce (it's just dumb plastic), more expensive to run (since they're sitting in the middle of each transaction) -- but that's also
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by mik3y 13y ago
In light of this incident with GA, do either/any of the alternative support "export" of the underlying secrets, for instance to migrate to a new app?
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by mik3y 13y ago
Good advice. Indeed it looks like changes to the open source Google Authenticator app dried up in late 2011: https://code.google.com/p/google-authenticator/source/list Doesn't necessarily mean the proj
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by mik3y 13y ago
> Why do you think that third situation unlikely? Using a non-Intel architecture for general-purpose compute slices seems like, at minimum, a huge toolchain investment. Things are probably better now than they were five years ago
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by mik3y 13y ago
Title is misleading, nothing suggests they are making an SoC. It's a job req for a systems engineer. Some possibilities: - FB is designing some non-compute datacenter ARM devices. For example, environment monitoring, or a control
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by mik3y 13y ago
Nicely done, requested an invite. The github firehose is a bit crazy, though quite amusing for a few minutes. I could see myself using this for much lower frequency events, like customer conversion or sizeof(shopping_cart).
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by mik3y 13y ago
What I find interesting is Icahn filed a press release yesterday , basically telegraphing his intention to post juicy bits like this to Twitter: NEW YORK, Aug. 12, 2013 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) [..] Our Chairman, Carl C. Icahn, intends to
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by mik3y 13y ago
Little more background for the HN Django crowd: This was inspired from an older HN discussion here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4270003 I wanted to take a Django app not designed for multitenancy and serve several
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Show HN: django-db-multitenant: multiple tenants in a single Django app server(github.com)
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by mik3y 13y ago
First, put out the fires. Next, look for ways to simplify your stack. You're flying solo, so consider SaaS services where you pay a premium for having someone else handle the ops. For instance, dodgy email stack: have you tried somethi
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by mik3y 13y ago
I try to do this, too, for the same reasons. (Well, it's far from 100%, but I at least make a point to politely decline the higher-quality recruiting mails, like those that reference my work and get into specifics of the position. So f
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by mik3y 13y ago
I was referring to the StreetView Skyhook-like program that did exist, and yes, it was shut down after it was discovered to be collecting more than just SSIDs: http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2010/05/wifi-data-colle
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by mik3y 13y ago
I look at the money. In a cyber-war, how much would the Kremlin pay to disrupt every Chinese WiFi network to which an Android device has a current password? Do you think Larry Page can be bought? I'm serious: You need t
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by mik3y 13y ago
It's even easier to see how handy millions of wifi passwords might come in handy if you already have the information about the wifi networks you got from war-driving (street view). Do you have any idea what you're t
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by mik3y 13y ago
I would suggest you talk to someone about this in person. I'm guessing you have many friends and family that are proud of and would dream to have your level accomplishments. I've got a bit of savings but didn't co-found Insta
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by mik3y 13y ago
Think of it as an optimization: Previously, each request meant a new db connection had to be opened. Now a prior connection can be reused.
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by mik3y 13y ago
I conducted hundreds of interviews at Google and never once asked (or saw someone else on my slate ask) a brainteaser such as these. Urban legend.

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