moon_of_moon

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by moon_of_moon 17y ago
The philosophy of Steve Jobs is a healthy one: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cCvLTlQWT6A&feature=relat... (They speak about startups and devices a few minutes later)
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by moon_of_moon 17y ago
<i>I suspect you will find that if you are not capable of making this a PR issue for Google ... </i> Although op's PR skills in the social news aggregation space appear to be remarkably good. But the arguments still hold tha
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by moon_of_moon 17y ago
Amusing thread.
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by moon_of_moon 17y ago
First to summarize what he says: It used to be short life expectancies led to people having more children. Not anymore, as most countries are in the high life expectancy group. Basically better family planning, womens rights, and health ca
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by moon_of_moon 17y ago
bravo.
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by moon_of_moon 17y ago
This story is a precursor to the book and movie deal. Pity about the sentencing.
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by moon_of_moon 17y ago
Feature point #1, "spare user interface" should be "sparse user interface"?
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by moon_of_moon 17y ago
Sorry this article is borderline ridiculous. Comparing for example, Amazon S3 to NTFS is like comparing an online storage platform used for building web services on top of, to a local file system used for storing files on desktops. Oh wait.
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by moon_of_moon 17y ago
I think your comment should have been : oh crap here come the 4chan wannabes. Lets urgently start looking for a new aggregator to frequent.
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by moon_of_moon 17y ago
Agreed. Dont it let it degrade to that level please.
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by moon_of_moon 17y ago
From the Guidelines for this forum: "Off-Topic: Most stories about politics,..." Please don't turn this into a place for politics, instant support groups, lolcats, and recycled memes from 4chan. That place is called reddit.
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An alternative for Wikipedia founder, Jimmy Wales
5 points by moon_of_moon 17y ago|2 comments
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History of Erlang (from the horses mouth)(scribd.com)
5 points by moon_of_moon 17y ago|0 comments
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Is the software that runs hacker news open source?
1 points by moon_of_moon 17y ago|2 comments
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by moon_of_moon 17y ago
Yes. I meant if you're not behind a NAT they can correlate your IP with your gmail cookie when you do a search and thereby link a record of the sites you are visiting to your profile to serve you more targeted ads. Apologies for the ambigui
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by moon_of_moon 17y ago
No, you are assuming that 20 MB number is all heap. Wrong assumption. Anyway this article is flawed about the number of MB each process uses because I think hes using PS to get the numbers and that shows shared libraries too. Shared, as in
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by moon_of_moon 17y ago
Assume you are logged in or you have a gmail cookie, hell yeah they know.
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by moon_of_moon 17y ago
More like record every URL you visit, and use the content of those websites to determine intent, and then target ads accordingly.
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by moon_of_moon 17y ago
Apache has pluggable concurrency modules (MPM's) and you can switch to a multiple-threads per process MPM if you choose. When the limit is hit, it will fork a new process. Each new thread stack is not more than an MB or two, so based on you
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by moon_of_moon 17y ago
Think about why it is you do this. I'm guessing you either grew up in a family where money was tight and you're determined as hell to make it, or there was something else you need to prove a point about. There's nothing wrong with that. Onc
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by moon_of_moon 17y ago
Nonsense. I've worked with several venture funded startups, all entirely satisfying experiences, and twice for large corporations. The big places were both good for the first six months, and then you ask yourself repeatedly 'what kind of fu