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by mpk 17y ago
Internal memos appear on publicly accessible blogs all the time :) But in this case they put it on the official company blog, and that makes it PR.
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by mpk 17y ago
First of all, I still think Google is a cool company and contributing a lot to the open source ecosystem. But Google advocating openness and doing so by talking about data, protocols and software is disingenuous. Google's core business is p
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by mpk 17y ago
I actually had to go and google the person in question. After about five or so newsgroup messages from him badmouthing other people I gave up. Still no idea who he is.
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by mpk 17y ago
Could someone post some meaningful numbers of the percentage of users that browse the web with extensions like AdBlock and/or NoScript? I know a lot of people that run AdBlock, but outside the hardcore techie crowd I know very few who run N
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by mpk 17y ago
I'll tell you what VCs look for : zero risk and a short to mid-term ROI of several thousand percent. You, on the other hand, are looking for bags of cash with no risk and no strings attached. Going with a VC means entering a relationship. I
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by mpk 17y ago
I used to use svn, but these days I use git for maintaining static websites. Maybe I missed something in this article, but the key to static websites (as far as I see it) is using a templating system. Put your templates, content and configu
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by mpk 17y ago
Given enough exposure, everyone looks like a dick.
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by mpk 17y ago
I have only the foggiest idea of what's going on here (this is a tablet PC running a web OS, right?), but this whole thing smacks of desperation. ChromeOS just went public, Apple may or may not do some tablet thing, Arrington is somehow inv
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by mpk 17y ago
Don't broadcast development intentions. That never works well.
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by mpk 17y ago
Ever since Google announced Android I predicted that it would become a dominant mobile environment. We're not there yet, but it's becoming increasingly evident that Android is here to stay. It shares a lot of similarities with linux. That l
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by mpk 17y ago
I'm assuming that Facebook would use data gathered from people being tagged in images to optimize their own shape recognition software. People tagging themselves as furniture must really mess that up :)
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by mpk 17y ago
On a similar note, I remember reading a comment somewhere requesting a search interface for reality 'so I can find my damn keys when I lose them'.
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by mpk 17y ago
Second that LinkedIn API request.
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by mpk 17y ago
Microsoft's efforts towards (de facto or de jure) standards compliance are dismal. I've been working on a client-side app since before IE7 came out. The much hyped IE7 release gave us some performance benefits, but apart from that it just a
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by mpk 17y ago
So .. how much is a themed Google logo worth, other than 'quite a bit'?
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by mpk 17y ago
Thank you psranga for being the only one in here to make a technical comment. Leak profiling in JS is a pain . I wasn't really expecting Google to provide an answer here because all their apps contribute to wasted heap space too. Google's
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by mpk 17y ago
Which would be really bad for business, because there's a surprising amount of stuff hosted in the EU. Broadly speaking, if your primary markets are not America or Asia and you are the type of company that buys racks of space in datacenters
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by mpk 17y ago
Anybody have information on the details of the acquisition? How many shares did that 6 million investment buy? Is the 30m buying price all cash or are there stocks/shares involved? Will Gizmo5 keep its current management? Are there incentiv
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by mpk 17y ago
This is going to make a lot of people very upset. But really, news like this becomes a lot easier to swallow once you simply accept that Apple is a proprietary platform that works really hard at vendor lock-in.
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by mpk 17y ago
So is this link.
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by mpk 17y ago
Not to be a total prick, but it's entirely possible Knuth started work on that paper weeks before and just did the final paragraph that night or morning.
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by mpk 17y ago
Tsk, tsk, tsk. Notice that the author refers to him as "Sir Berners-Lee". The title goes with the first name so it should be "Sir Timothy".
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by mpk 17y ago
Someone's having a bad day.
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by mpk 17y ago
No offense, but the same can be said of Dojo, Prototype, Mootools, etc. They all are rock solid cross-browser JS toolkits.
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by mpk 17y ago
What you're missing here is that Google has built its own network with large global reach using dark fiber. Almost everybody will peer with a party like Google if they pop up at the local exchange. By doing this Google can skip most of the
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by mpk 17y ago
Perks are a really bad way of measuring the workplace. Me, I wake up on Monday morning and think 'cool, there's work to do!' - and most of my coworkers feel the same way. For me, that's the measure of a good job.
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by mpk 17y ago
I usually refrain from making 'me too' comments, but sheesh, really, what a lousy remark to make.
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by mpk 17y ago
Don't even try. Find a name that isn't taken and then register all the variations. That's a fraction of the price and none of the hassle.
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by mpk 17y ago
I'm pleasantly surprised by this article. TC generally doesn't write nice things about dreamers. Because we all know that the first public release of Wave is going to be fraught with problems. Come on, we all know that. Even Google has ackn
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by mpk 17y ago
Plus, terminal green has that lovely retro feel to it. Though I haven't been able to find some (CSS) colours that give a terminal the green glow that I remember on today's high definition video displays.

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