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by mtkd 14y ago
Leadership doesn't happen overnight - it comes from trying, failing and learning. This was a few Rubyists trying to do something for their community - not interviewing for McKinsey.
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I'm using OSX as things just work on it and the last thing I need is friction working with my OS - but every day I'm finding it harder to justify my relationship with Apple. It's hard to believe with so many big players around that the choi
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by mtkd 14y ago
Microsoft tried to compete in every technology market simultaneously - spreading the inhouse talent too thin becoming nothing to anyone. The few really good products they had (SQL Server, OneNote etc.) got lost in the noise. Everything beca
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There is a lot of good numbers in that release. Motorola down to be expected. PPC yields -15% is concerning but the soon to come monetization of Shopping is going to reverse that. The p/e is 20 vs FB at 66. Google are still the strongest an
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These are bots. Too many comments here trying to justify that they are not - too many vested interests on HN. I spoke to an SEO guy 2+ years ago who was building them. He didn't know why at the time, but he knew having 1000s of identities w
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by mtkd 14y ago
There was a conversation in a ruby channel about this recently. I mentioned that if 15 years ago you had suggested that in 2012 you would need HTML, CSS (and probably LESS), JS (and probably JQuery + CoffeeScript + Backbone), SQL or Mongo a
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Nokia won't get back what it paid for Navteq (Apr 2012)(forbes.com)
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by mtkd 14y ago
This is the latest in a long line of negative posts on MongoDB based solely on first impressions because either: 1) it does not behave exactly like SQL 2) the user didn't read any more than a Quickstart Guide 3) the user fundamentally misun
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by mtkd 14y ago
You can normally fix bad code - fixing bad data structures is not usually easy or even possible. It's why I've still not fully bought in to 'release early release often'. I prefer to defer releasing for production use until really satisfied
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"Rails is great for JSON APIs" Rails is good for simple APIs (especially adding an API to an existing HTML site). However, if you want to do more than that, elegantly - it isn't great yet. You quickly end up with some fairly messy serializa
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These were kicking around some time after it happened. I remember reading the first Cantor network failure messages then - they brought the tragedy home to me more than the TV images and statistics had. They made it human - I could imagine
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Anything that takes you away from the problem will help. Take a shower if you don't have long. I recommend walking before taking on a big problem - even if you're not stuck. A 1h walk means you are unable to code your first solution, by the
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Steve Wozniak on patents (April 11 2012)(afr.com)
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What makes me rage about this more than anything is that there is no viable alt (for me) to OSX right now - for what I do. My next phone is an S3 though. Must be painful for Woz to watch.
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by mtkd 14y ago
The problems with early rev SQL servers were similar (in inconvenience) but, with feedback from users and hard work from developers, they soon moved beyond MVP. I'm willing to suck up some inconvenience with MongoDB, it's one of the most in
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by mtkd 14y ago
1) The aggregation of marginal gains - most enterprise software is crap, most enterprise teams are lazy - if you consistently and repeatedly improve the worst aspects of your app you quickly end up with something that outperforms competitor
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Isn't the issue that the 'walled gardens' would need to pull the data in? - what is the benefit for them to this? Maybe app.net will be part of the solution, but I've not seen any promise from app.net to not be acquired. The borg eventually
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by mtkd 14y ago
Love that so many startups are looking at hardware innovation - like this, Square, Ouya, Pebble etc. Even if this isn't a mass-market product in it's own right - only good things can come from building it.
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What about sourcing all known \Program Files\ paths out of search engine indexes which meet the criteria and brute forcing. Microsoft exception reporting must have a list of all apps ever seen too?
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The comment wasn't really in the spirit of HN, but it touches on an important point that gets little visibility. Much of the current and next wave of new apps are aimed at enterprise (as startups move to markets where the money is). There i
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The single biggest drag on page speed for the user right now is social buttons (which act more like tracking tags) from G, FB and T - and tags for 3rd party payment systems or affiliate tracking. The payloads on these tags can be enormous.
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My first reaction to seeing Rails BITD was to think 'wow this would be so fast done in C++'. Then about 2 years later, when I began to really understand Ruby and some of the community had shamed the C++isms out of me, it became clear why it
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I have this - and I had reason to call it recently due to a technical issue. In short: I'd advanced paid for a 1 year Apps account a month before the monthly billing came in to place. My credit card expired with 11 months of the contract le
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"He and Gawker’s Scott Kidder then got on the phone with contacts at Google and Twitter trying to help me put the brakes on." Of all the issues surrounding this event, this one concerns me most. Most users would not be able to escalate like
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I can see this scenario working - local event, targeted adverts, non-commodity product. The concern with FB (and other social platform advertising) is around 'intent' and whether you can viably sell commodity product to visitors not activel
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I don't get the negativity on HN for this project. This team is trying to disrupt a truly oligopolist market - I really hope they do it. Give them a break on marketing announcement dissection at least until you see what they build.
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I really respect the hard work going in to the evolution of Rails, but it does feel like some new features should be considered as Gems. The hardest part of managing mature software is keeping it lean.
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Another article referencing 'Sir Tim Berners-Lee, founder of the Internet' - expect better from Techcrunch. Internet != World Wide Web
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With the exception of whistleblowing it is wrong to publish internal communications that were clearly meant to stay internal. How would Kara feel if her email was compromised and someone decided to choose which emails should be made public
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I'm stunned they've banned UK visitors from that page. They give license payer funded content out internationally, but commercially funded is restricted to everyone but license payers? The few links on HN to BBC site are the only value I ge

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