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by mtkd 15y ago
They should be hiring him.
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by mtkd 15y ago
Interesting that it has less velocity than Rails did at inception. Less of a revolution?
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by mtkd 15y ago
I'm not sure the community is self critical enough to fix the issues. The maintainers are highly opinionated and have shown very little concern about the bloat up to now - mitigating it by targeted optimisations not by removal of bloat itse
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by mtkd 15y ago
Rails is very suited to big API projects now - but there is no escaping the fact that all the action is moving clientside. The Rails learning curve is now very steep for new users and the accusation that it has become all it set out to solv
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by mtkd 15y ago
Thinking about it - in last couple of months I've done this with every long article I've come across. My Instapaper has a week of reading.
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Google adding gamified check-ins to G+?(thenextweb.com)
9 points by mtkd 15y ago|2 comments
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Judicial precedent of WWI deserters used in quest to pardon Alan Turing(menmedia.co.uk)
2 points by mtkd 15y ago|0 comments
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by mtkd 15y ago
Thank you Ilya for sharing this today - a small oasis of information in a desert of SOPA spam.
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by mtkd 15y ago
It's a cycle. 1) Someone builds a product 2) Feature creep 3) Next gen comes along and builds a simple variant with only critical features 4) Feature creep 5) back to 3 It's human nature to want to 'improve' something. With software that in
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by mtkd 15y ago
I found the icons a bit challenging at first (as a heavy user) but through that now. It's really awesome to use in comparison with any other client I've worked with. If I could change one thing it would be the unread/read background contras
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by mtkd 15y ago
It does seem to have slow uptake, but it has a long-game feel to it - doing it right slowly is probably the right move. They should just buy Twitter and merge it in by allowing aliases. I'm really warming to Google - very impressed with the
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by mtkd 15y ago
Stories like this reduce the value of stock for all companies who issue it - most with good intentions - and leave our community morally poorer. So what if a chef in an early stage team made out with $20M later - an army marches on it's sto
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by mtkd 15y ago
Looking at HN today - it's full of hate and negativity. Kudos to the developers that rise above this, often working for nothing, to build the awesome tools that future generations will use to build awesome apps.
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by mtkd 15y ago
Anyone using Mongo currently has to be aware there are likely to be some teething issues as it is very new technology. I haven't used it in production (yet), but I would have no fear of using it today. I would run regular consistency monito
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by mtkd 15y ago
We've all done it. I'm happy with the occasional step back when the pace of change is as fast and progressive as Google have accomplished this year. Keep it up guys.
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by mtkd 15y ago
It's becoming a tenet that digital identity and influence is everything going forwards. What if the opposite happens? - it becomes fashionably alternative for kids to renounce social, always connected devices and online generally - and comp
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by mtkd 15y ago
26% of the iPhone 4 was manufactured by Samsung: http://www.economist.com/node/21525685 Samsung have for a long time been a bigger player in the smartphone market than they look from their device sales alone.
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by mtkd 15y ago
Congrats on Google getting it out this week. There was quite a bit of cynicism after the announcement last week. I've been holding off joining until my personal Apps domain was enabled as I've still not finished migrating all my docs from G
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Confessions of an iPhone user who switched to Android(businessinsider.com)
3 points by mtkd 15y ago|0 comments
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by mtkd 15y ago
Headline is a little sensational. I'm not big fan of FB but this is just an artefact of the recommendation algos they're using. Any contributor to HN shouldn't be surprised that a web app is using every possible bit of personal information
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by mtkd 15y ago
It's like a bad dream, I used it daily to filter results. Why would they obsolete that?
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by mtkd 15y ago
Still doesn't work for Google Apps users - many of most prolific social contributors have migrated everything to Apps.
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by mtkd 15y ago
I suspect this just as much driven by Google building tools it can't be sued for later
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by mtkd 15y ago
If you're using it for a start-up - it's much more important to deliver usable software than quality code - you can always go back and clean up the code - but if you don't get traction it's all over. Also - consider buying code reviews from
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by mtkd 15y ago
There is still an exclusion for Apps users. The intersection of Apps users and most prolific contributors on existing social networks should not be underestimated.
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by mtkd 15y ago
The fact that he enforces quality and innovation in every part of his organisation (hardware, software, purchasing experience) is why the company is so successful. The mistake everyone else makes is believing only the tip of the iceberg mat
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Hurricane visualisation on weather.com(weather.com)
1 points by mtkd 15y ago|0 comments
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by mtkd 15y ago
... or Google takes a gun to the knife fight on patents - http://www.informationweek.com/news/mobility/business/231400...
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by mtkd 15y ago
It's a good communication from Amazon - maybe a little too long - could use a summary block at top. The compensation looks generous too.
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by mtkd 15y ago
"Your knowledge of assembly language will help you write better programs, even when using HLLs." Assembly was the first real coding I did after learning BASIC. It taught me: 1) How to build and structure an application - from intrinsics lik

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