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by mtkd 13y ago
Would be really useful to get more background before/after and a lot more detail on the structures, the clustering and the queries required - and any perf improvements that were attempted previously successful or not - and any lessons
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by mtkd 13y ago
There are a lot of hidden costs to the inflexibility of running local hardware. With hosted you get: - 24h availability of mixed skills sets (e.g. Cisco at 4am) - ability to expand if under load/attack - costs in proportion to revenue
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by mtkd 13y ago
In one of the previous threads on this there was some lack of sympathy for people who get compromised because of this 'feature not flaw'. Do bear in mind that your private information is often secured by other parties. For instanc
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by mtkd 13y ago
You hope it is the comment dupe that disappears and not the field you want.
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by mtkd 13y ago
Why do they have to be? Just because a person isn't 100% 'team player' material doesn't mean they are not capable of massive step-change contributions to a team activity. If you hire all 'team players' or all P
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by mtkd 13y ago
Nokia started out as a tyre manufacturer: http://www.nokiantyres.com/history-in-brief 1898 The Finnish Rubber Works is founded 1904 Factory set up in the town of Nokia 1967 Nokia Corporation established - Rubber, Cable and
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by mtkd 13y ago
I see a lot of SaaS marketed directly at 'users' e.g. developers etc. In 'enterprise' the person you need to be pitching is the CFO/FD - when finance teams see SaaS they love it - even if net it costs more than exis
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by mtkd 13y ago
It's a surprise that there hasn't been more exploits through major extensions - or maybe they've just not been discovered yet - either by a malicious developer or a repo being compromised. I keep them mostly disabled - just c
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by mtkd 13y ago
The emergency services have to safely get to the incident, possibly using the extra entrances for that purpose. Aircraft full of passengers landing at the same time as emergency vehicles trying to get to an incident of potentially unknown s
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by mtkd 13y ago
Thanks, it's worth full price - but I'm finding more and more upgrades that are offering very little concession to users that have supported them from the start.
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by mtkd 13y ago
No discount for 2 users?
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by mtkd 13y ago
Good things rarely come from making radical changes at the last minute. If you see any failures in the days after upgrading you have a new variable to consider on the cause. Look at what the best/worst outcomes are from making the chan
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by mtkd 13y ago
Using Go is a constant temptation and for small APIs it's probably a good choice. Ruby (esp. Rails), for me, is worth the performance trade-off - even though that stings me coming from a C/assembler background originally. With Rai
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by mtkd 13y ago
"The whole point of the DRM switch from disc based to cloud based is to kill disc swapping ... bringing discs to friends house, trade-ins" Makes me sad that execs actually sat round a table listed those as objectives.
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by mtkd 13y ago
Microsoft thought they had a dominant market position and tried to stretch a little. They miscalculated. Sony were concerned they were heading towards irrelevance - they upped their game to win share back. I'd say it was a perfectly ef
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by mtkd 13y ago
The monthly costs on personal 'tools' are a material issue. There are a tools like CodeClimate or Creative Cloud that I think people are not using personally because the costs are too high. I believe, with tools like that, that if you make
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by mtkd 13y ago
Aaron Sorkin from last year - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hwvilfPWHYI - 'there are some screwups heading your way'
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by mtkd 13y ago
Isn't this just a density issue - like (for lack of a better analogy) being gay in a small town? I can understand it's difficult when you are too young to choose geographic location - but once you can - the marginalisation is quickly solved
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Happy Easter Startup Dads(youtube.com)
2 points by mtkd 14y ago|0 comments
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by mtkd 14y ago
Unfortunately you may find out you're one of those people that can't slow down - all you do is swap one all-consuming obsession for another.
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Ask HN: Why are all main helpdesk services $30+/agent/month?
1 points by mtkd 14y ago|1 comments
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by mtkd 14y ago
Quite coincidentally - I've just come back from the butchers, who shared with me his opinion that 3am was the optimal time to wake up and 'get stuff done before people start getting in the way'.
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by mtkd 14y ago
A new API to see what people build before acquiring first couple of apps and throttling access? Being able to weight my Google results with demographic or social graph attributes would be more useful for me - especially with purchases. 'res
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by mtkd 14y ago
A business model based 100% on a 3rd party social graph API is not a business model. I hope they can pivot the work they've done to something more standalone.
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by mtkd 14y ago
Has potential. Could you add an "ICE" button on the device to scroll key information - e.g. contact details, medical conditions etc. without having to plug it in. Also inclusion of personal attack alarm could be additional benefit (e.g. pre
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by mtkd 14y ago
It was a poorly worded joke. US, irony etc. That book was a first step for many of the devs that build many of the technologies that support everything we do online today.
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by mtkd 14y ago
This book introduced me to modern languages, from my previous experience coding in assembler. It inspired the millions of lines of code I've written since. I now understand why my subsequent programs, and those of many in my generation, hav
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by mtkd 14y ago
DHH vexes me on a few issues but I respect his passion for what he believes Rails should be. The conventions being enforced result in existing Rails code being easier to penetrate for new team members and more maintainable over time than wa
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by mtkd 14y ago
D3 and R
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by mtkd 14y ago
This is huge for business uptake and could, in a few months, start leading enterprises to specify Android only. Will open up a lot more opportunities for mobile business app startups too. Mobile in enterprise is often seen as lagging behind

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