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by newhouseb 17y ago
Slightly related: the HTML5 'Audio' element is also effectively unusable. I was building choreographi.es ( http://choreographi.es ) a while back and was using the JPlayer plugin for JQuery, which attempts to use HTML5 audio and then falls b
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by newhouseb 17y ago
that was me. thanks :)
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by newhouseb 17y ago
I don't how much attribution the marketing of PageRank vs the actual effectiveness of PageRank (and undoubtedly other things never made public) deserves in the overall success of Google. I can't really think of a way in which we could easi
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by newhouseb 17y ago
I fall largely into the bucket of "if you can give away your idea in one sentence, then you're toast" but I personally break down my projects into three parts: 1. The idea itself in the way you'd present it to the layman 2. The engineering
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by newhouseb 17y ago
Not much, if any (in my experience). I have a background in network programming though - which lends itself very well to high speed trading.
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by newhouseb 17y ago
Not sure I follow - in our case, MySQL performs well, but also scales to the volumes both us and Digg need?
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by newhouseb 17y ago
While the first and third are legitimate the second point regarding Digg isn't so clear. The Digg example could have used MySQL without modification had they added the correct indexes. And if they didn't want to do that, they could have he
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by newhouseb 17y ago
I think you're looking for scribe: http://developers.facebook.com/scribe/
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by newhouseb 18y ago
There's Silicon Valley Geek Breakfast at 8am on Friday in Sunnyvale. See: http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=194749365592
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by newhouseb 18y ago
"The most likely scenario is (1) that no government will successfully establish a startup hub" Take a look at HaiDian/ZhongGuanCun in Beijing, chock full of startups big and small. From my understanding, the reason entrepreneurs flocked th
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by newhouseb 18y ago
Just for reference for anyone else, the Palo Alto equivalent of Red Rock is Coupa Cafe. It's smaller than RR, but it's packed with startuppy types either brainstorming or just coding. Incidentally, I'll probably be there coding up our pro
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by newhouseb 18y ago
Not the current product iteration. I talked to Trevor today and he said that they've been doing research on bipeds etc for years but decided for the market they were pursuing (essentially mobile video conferencing), a Segway-like solution