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by necubi 15y ago
Appears to be back up, at least for us.
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EC2 US-East is down(twitter.com)
9 points by necubi 15y ago|3 comments
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by necubi 15y ago
[Disclaimer: I work for Twilio.] It's actually not future-proofing, in that today we have different version of the API: 2008-08-01 and 2010-04-01. Some sort of versioning is necessary so that we can improve our API without breaking current
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by necubi 15y ago
According to the article, this scheme was probably just a fabrication by a journalist who wanted a juicy story: "Here at last was a criminal brain worthy of the Mona Lisa. The only problem is that Decker almost certainly invented him. There
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by necubi 15y ago
My favorite new feature is the revamped FileVault. The old version of FV was a huge mess: it only encrypted your home directory, it didn't play nice with TimeMachine (since it saw your home directory as one giant encrypted file) and was gen
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The Future of Lighting(arstechnica.com)
74 points by necubi 15y ago|14 comments
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by necubi 15y ago
This is largely a technical problem resulting from Email's unpredictability and lack of any receipt verification mechanism. While this is true of other non-real time communication mediums (like snail mail), that doesn't mean we shouldn't tr
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Creating automatically memoized functions in Ruby with Hash.new(gist.github.com)
3 points by necubi 15y ago|0 comments
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by necubi 15y ago
It's true google hired many of those involved in the DARPA Urban challenge, and they are leading the effort. In particular, Sebastian Thrun, who appears to be in charge of Google's program, was the head of the winning Stanford team. However
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by necubi 15y ago
This actually is a feature of Google+. When in a "hangout" (the video chat service) anyone can push a youtube video to the group, which can then be watched by everybody together. Chat, audio and video continue underneath, so you can discuss
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by necubi 15y ago
I find I miss the simplicity of Facebook to a degree. With plus, it's not really clear who I'm sharing what with at any given time, or what the relationships I've set up are. Facebook has one kind of relationship (1-1) and one kind of shari
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by necubi 15y ago
Those are anecdotes that don't address my main point, which is that there will be no mass turn towards biking merely because it is made more pleasant. I offer as counterpoint Santa Cruz, CA, where I grew up. It's hard to imagine a more bike
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by necubi 15y ago
I have trouble believing that simply making cycling more attractive will be enough to deal with the massive transportation problems that suburbs (and more so exurbs) create. No matter how nice the trails are, most people will not communicat
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by necubi 15y ago
Here's an image showing the redditor's claims: http://imgur.com/lQuYT . There's really no logic behind this 'solution.' The 'i' 'c' part, for example, is certainly bogus, and the arrows are inconsistent. I'd bet money that if this is in fa
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by necubi 15y ago
For hardware based sorting, we can do even better using sorting networks[0]. Sorting networks are comprised of a system of wires, one for each input, and comparators between wires which always output the higher number on the bottom wire and
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by necubi 15y ago
It seems at this point it's more or less impossible for Apple to launch a new product using the iNoun naming scheme without stepping on somebody else's trademark. Even if Apple decided to convert their stores into delicious taquerias, they
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Can Ticketmaster’s Builder Now Unseat It?(nytimes.com)
1 points by necubi 15y ago|0 comments
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by necubi 15y ago
This was never true on the two dominant smart phone platforms, Palm OS and Windows Mobile. Development on the former required only Codewarrior while the latter VS.Net, which became free. Neither Palm nor Microsoft ever required you to pay t
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by necubi 15y ago
Articles title "Why I Hate Ruby" should not begin "let me preface this post by saying, I don’t actually hate Ruby." The title is clearly linkbait, and should be changed to something more appropriate. As for the content, his complaints (abou
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by necubi 15y ago
What does this mean for servers? Do we need to support both versions of the protocol for now? Is that even possible?
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by necubi 15y ago
Average karma is a very poor metric, and I found that my usage of HN changed drastically when pg started showing it more prominently. One optimizes for average karma by not commenting on stories that are older or less popular, as those are
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by necubi 15y ago
Note that this is not a database server , like Redis or Memcached. This is a database library , more along the lines of sqlite. In particular: "There is no client-server support builtin to the library. An application that needs such suppo
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by necubi 15y ago
It's still there in the Sprint version (Epic 4G), but you have to pay Sprint for the privilege. Alternatively, there are various 3rd-party firmwares which provide Wifi tethering for free. Ultimately these actions may drive free tethering a
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by necubi 15y ago
My mother was for many years an elementary school teacher in a district that was almost entirely Hispanic, where a large percentage of the students could barely speak English and where many were the children of migrant farm workers who neve
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by necubi 15y ago
You should try naming one company which relied on "contentious" spelling and failed. I'm pretty sure the sample either way is too small to be meaningful.
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by necubi 16y ago
The URL leads to a 404, but the press release is at just http://avos.com
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by necubi 16y ago
At the same time, user-defined functions solves a big pain-point with SASS at the moment. The older style of SASS functions were a very limited form of macros. They're useful for a lot of things, like applying a generic button style to a bu
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by necubi 16y ago
My favorite is the Maybe-monad-esque ? syntax. It lets you write expressions like this: obj.a?.b?.c?() which will execute normally if all those properties exist, but return null instead of failing if they don't.
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by necubi 16y ago
This is much appreciated. I made the mistake of deleting my XCode 3 installation when I installed 4, which ended up breaking GHC compilation. According to the changelog they've fixed that issue in this release.
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by necubi 16y ago
Engadget's review is also up: http://www.engadget.com/2011/04/13/blackberry-playbook-revie... . They liked it in general, but found the software immature, albeit improving.

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