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by mnutt 15y ago
I want to scale my app on modern, multi-core computers. I know, I'll write everything so that it all runs in a single thread! This is the same fallacy that gets repeated every time node is mentioned. If you're scaling up past a single ma
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by mnutt 15y ago
Cool, maybe consider adding a screenshot?
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by mnutt 15y ago
That also assumes that throwing more developers on the stability team would fix the problem.
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by mnutt 15y ago
Earlier I'm pretty sure I saw a 797-day old post on the front page about Github switching to Unicorn. I figured it was some kind of coordinated practical joke by people who were upvoting it.
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by mnutt 15y ago
I don't understand your argument that the software is being supported by SF and Github. Github and SF didn't spend a cent to develop any of those projects; they were created and then hosted there. If I hosted my open source software on my
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by mnutt 15y ago
Yeah, Rails gives beginners a big advantage by generating a huge scaffolding. It clears up a lot of ambiguities about where things go, and as a beginner it lets you explore different things that you can do in Rails.
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by mnutt 15y ago
I don't have any experience withdrawing money from paypal, but perhaps there is a way to make small automated withdrawals constantly? Though who knows, they may flag that behavior as fraudulent as well.
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by mnutt 15y ago
Just like amount invested in a company is tenuously related to the returns you'll make. From the government's perspective, they make a blanket investment in everybody in the form of providing education and services. Some people end up payi
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by mnutt 15y ago
Is it not a pain when someone starts spamming as you on Reddit and Engadget? You have either go back through a third of the sites you've ever signed up for and change them, or just write them off. I think the latter is somewhat irresponsi
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by mnutt 15y ago
Along the same lines, url2png has a really nice API: http://url2png.com/
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by mnutt 15y ago
I see this as a classic case of "look, I took your billion lines of awful code and turned it into 4 lines of beautiful code!" but the new code does a tiny subset of the original, and isn't extendable in any of the original ways. Edit: which
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by mnutt 15y ago
I was referring to the software on Github and Sourceforge, not Github and Sourceforge themselves. Some software costs someone money. Lots of it is built for the sake of building it though. You could argue that time people spend building s
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by mnutt 15y ago
I believe that the merchant accounts require merchants to charge the same price. It seems like it's mostly a tax on those who pay in cash.
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by mnutt 15y ago
Interesting, but demonstrably false. Take a look through Github or Sourceforge. Many, many of the projects are people scratching an itch or just building something for fun. We can argue about the exact percentage, but it's definitely more
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by mnutt 15y ago
It sounds extremely challenging, but could someone use image detection to process the existing camera angles and use the field markers to recreate an overhead view of the game? If it worked, you could probably use that to do some interestin
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by mnutt 15y ago
Set up an A record and point it directly at the IP address. Edit: on EC2, much better to set up an elastic IP as described below.
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by mnutt 15y ago
It would be a technical challenge, but they could MITM your entire browsing experience. Fullscreen to canvas, then show what looks like a browser. When someone types something in the URL bar the attacker's backend proxies a request to the
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by mnutt 15y ago
Regarding "Web sites are deemed unsafe, even if Facebook monitors them", wouldn't it be worse if Facebook deemed websites that it monitored 'safe'? Then Facebook would be saying: "use Facebook services on your site, or we'll scare all of y
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by mnutt 15y ago
One thing I've always been curious about: Why not just have a large option pool, with the condition that in a liquidity event all unused equity in the option pool goes back to the common stockholders?
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by mnutt 15y ago
He gives a fairly reasonable explanation in the next sentence: The reason they allow themselves to get bought via talent acquisition is to be able to easily raise money in the future.
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by mnutt 15y ago
Maybe check out Sencha. I'm personally not a fan of it, but I think it's a little closer to Flex than most javascript frameworks.
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by mnutt 15y ago
Sadly Siri doesn't know "What planes are overhead?", though it figures it out if you say "Search wolfram alpha for planes overhead."
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by mnutt 15y ago
Also: make it work for shreds at any angle and overlapping, as if you dumped the pieces on a flatbed scanner and hit 'scan'.
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by mnutt 15y ago
Our current method uses the content-type multipart/x-mixed-replace. (Remember http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/5.03/ff_push.html ? Good times...) When the request starts you specify a boundary string; then every time the browser sees th
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by mnutt 15y ago
The person sending the emails creates a dynamic web page. It can use all of the latest and greatest web technologies. (AJAX, WebSockets, CSS3, SVG, etc) Then they create a Web Crop in our dashboard, and we give them an HTML embed code. Wh
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by mnutt 15y ago
Hello, Movable Ink co-founder here. You raise valid points, in that dynamic emails challenge users' perceptions of what is static and dynamic. It'll take some time to see what resonates well with users. I'm not aware of anyone else doing
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Movable Ink Launches Service To Stream Live Content In Emails(techcrunch.com)
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by mnutt 15y ago
For site videos, if your users are loading them a lot I'd recommend setting far-future expires headers. But what you probably want in this case is a CDN. Amazon's Cloudfront is easy to set up, but there are many to choose from and they eac
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by mnutt 15y ago
I think most people think of data loss as data that is gone forever. That doesn't excuse a large bug like this from existing, but it doesn't contradict his assertion.
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by mnutt 15y ago
I have both an iPhone 4s and a Nexus S. The first thing I did when I got the iPhone was to play with Siri for an hour. Only tonight did I realize that Android also has voice recognition, and it's pretty good. But the threat of Siri is ver

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