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781.
by mtw 18y ago
wrong title imho; seems to me it's a list of monitoring & testing tools than tools which actually decrease website load times. (i was expecting thing like gzip, use of cdns, memcache, js compressors etc)
782.
by mtw 18y ago
i like the approach; intridea's socialspring has the same architecture
783.
by mtw 18y ago
i don't get why this is on hn. and to take the article example, if there is a chemical plant producing critical / dangerous products, it should be taxed by the government accordingly; with the taxes spent on security
784.
by mtw 18y ago
hope the Apple app store is opening up next, when they see that more innovative apps coming up to Android
785.
by mtw 18y ago
would you provide a way to process|program|re-use the "files"? (i guess my question is, since you are doing a file explorer, can users run scripts on the "files" ?)
786.
by mtw 18y ago
i can't believe they put Facebook's COO in the list instead of Mark Zuckerberg
787.
by mtw 18y ago
I'm not sure about the point of having a car I'd drive only 10 days in a year. Why not creating a company that leases Tesla cars? and the company would also have a racing circuit nearby. Now, that would be fun.
788.
by mtw 18y ago
"Isn't it time to make room for the people who got it right and have the kind of global vision necessary to lead during such a crisis ?" I don't see any other country doing that apart from the United States. Maybe power is going to shift a
789.
by mtw 18y ago
research in space travel, terraform Mars, build cheaper space shuttles
790.
by mtw 18y ago
i beg to differ. here are "serious" websites that doesn't do user authentication: - google.com (the original search engine) - techmeme.com - wikipedia (the original version) - tinyurl I could probably find dozens of examples, but those are
791.
by mtw 18y ago
white_list is a better option, imho
792.
by mtw 18y ago
not every rails application needs authentication.
793.
by mtw 18y ago
"Their products are soulless and lack innovation" this is a culture thing. i'm sure there's innovation, but having worked with indians, i know they prefer to present their product in an classical and conservative way, and that they frown up
794.
by mtw 18y ago
at their level, it's like you worrying how many meg your apache server is taking. I understood in the post that they have an auto-scaling tool that starts, mounts and ends (when appropriate) databases servers
795.
by mtw 18y ago
$85billion!!! where do the Reserve get the money? do they print it? gold reserves? next year's taxes? asia?
796.
by mtw 18y ago
I am trying to imagine what a conversation between him and Leonardo da Vinci would be like. also wondering how he got the funds to dedicate his life to science. was he a heir? or he was sponsored by kings and sultans?
797.
by mtw 18y ago
the finance industry has a very short-term memory though... in less than 5 years, you will see them again inventing all sorts of financial schemes and create billions of wealth magically out of nowhere
798.
by mtw 18y ago
Wamu (washington mutual) is also feared to be next
799.
by mtw 18y ago
and we'll see a wave of laid off finance guys going early to MBA programs or law school this year.
800.
by mtw 18y ago
way to go, Leila!
801.
by mtw 18y ago
for ruby people, there's also the commercial project http://zencoder.tv/ , also the open source version http://rvideo.rubyforge.org/ but I prefer pandastream, seems a more viable solution imo
802.
by mtw 18y ago
depends also on what you do. i work with many companies and many entrepreneurs so that's where twitter is useful. solo-entrepreneurs, consultants, bloggers might also find very it useful. also, if you go to local programming/hacker meetups,
803.
by mtw 18y ago
half of my updates on twitter are replies to friends or coworkers, so it's mostly about communication about current projects, discussing news, etc. and I only follow people that I've met irl
804.
by mtw 18y ago
akoha
805.
by mtw 18y ago
someone knows btw if there is an alternative to google adwords for web startups? for instance, what ad platform would suit Hacker News?
806.
by mtw 18y ago
can somebody say why this is necessary? what would happen if the gov. wouldn't have taken over? would the fed. gov bail out general motors, boeing or google if those are in the verge of bankrupting?
807.
by mtw 18y ago
great idea i saw the sample study about assembla.com. smart comments. however, what i'd really need, as a web app developer, is more substantial advices on how to significantly improve the usability of my web app. maybe you need to post onl
808.
by mtw 18y ago
Playing devil's advocate: "... the same effect of refusing a license, which (one could argue) would interfere with the progress of science and useful arts." So does that mean that Google or Coca-Cola should (must?) license their algorithm/r
809.
by mtw 18y ago
pretty much the standards: you need a collaboration suite (such as basecamp) I advise git for the vcs. It's fast, good for your team's setup, and powerful. Setup a test suite for your application.(unit tests, functional tests and integratio
810.
by mtw 18y ago
what's the use case for this? are you using it for aiderss?

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