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by ntoshev 18y ago
Does anyone use dutch auctions in practice? They are more complicated, and if you have small increments there is no difference from what I suggested (a 31st-price auction). With big increments there is just rounding error. Or do I miss some
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by ntoshev 18y ago
The economically fair way to do it would be to auction all seats at once, on a blind auction. Have the top 30 offers win, everyone paying the price of the 31st offer (the first that doesn't win). You could probably do it in an open auction
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by ntoshev 18y ago
GAE is not suitable for porting existing programs to it regardless of the language: the architecture is too different.
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by ntoshev 18y ago
This is accidental complexity that is solvable by standardization. The essential complexity is in managing program state.
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by ntoshev 18y ago
~0.05% closer.
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by ntoshev 18y ago
It doesn't make sense to use CLR for a browser plug-in. It is a whole layer of abstraction you don't need. I've done this, using VC 6 and ATL as a way to implement COM interfaces.
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by ntoshev 18y ago
Clay Shirky is a very insightful thinker about the technology impact on society, and his presentations are top notch too. If you want the essence of the insights he has to offer, see his TED talk: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sPQViNNOAkw
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by ntoshev 18y ago
Do you have a reference/data about this global overcapacity? I also think all-electric cars can't win big anytime soon. On the other hand, the Chevrolet Volt concept seems really good to me. It would also provide incremdntal incentives for
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by ntoshev 18y ago
This is how Facebook achieves scale without sustaining damage from trolls.
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by ntoshev 18y ago
It's not a typical case, but e.g. Talkinator is cheap to run and potentially reaching millions of people. http://mailinator.blogspot.com/2008/08/benchmarking-talkinat... "In my benchmarks now, on my quad-core desktop the talkinator server
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Should Amazon EC2 follow Moore’s Law?(itknowledgeexchange.techtarget.com)
3 points by ntoshev 18y ago|1 comments
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by ntoshev 18y ago
You can define your market however you like, but as long as you fight over the same customers in the same context, you compete with each other. Of course, there is nothing wrong with that.
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by ntoshev 18y ago
Whoever Dave Ramsey is, his integrity is not Hacker News. That's why the comments here tend to focus on his point, not on his celebrity status.
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by ntoshev 18y ago
I don't think "cartelization" at all. Businesses have to honour the values of the society where they operate; if they don't their customers get hostile against them. Big corporations in general are not flexible enough to fit well in every l
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by ntoshev 18y ago
What are some examples of companies cannibalizing their own business and suffering because of that? Has it ever happened?
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The Cult of the Product(20bits.com)
28 points by ntoshev 18y ago|10 comments
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by ntoshev 18y ago
There are many reasons for a young person interested in technology to go to Silicon Valley. Jobs in Bulgaria disconnect you from the result of your work much more than an average job in US. This can spoil your potential.
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by ntoshev 18y ago
Then you should probably install MySQL on an EC2 instance with EBS attached. You need some rewriting even when you port to another relational db vendor. Amazon is definitely not headed towards administration-free experience, it aims for fle
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by ntoshev 18y ago
There is a reason cloud services do not support full SQL - relational storage doesn't scale.
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by ntoshev 18y ago
Browsers don't send the referrer header if the referrer URL is HTTPS and the destination is HTTP.
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by ntoshev 18y ago
Yeah, maybe. Can't say without reliable data.
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by ntoshev 18y ago
You can use a web console to the Google App Engine: http://con.appspot.com/ You can have that console in your own app (i.e. having your data and domain logic available).
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by ntoshev 18y ago
Only if you have a scientific mindset. Otherwise it might be just inspiring ;) A lot of rich people didn't theorize much about how to get rich. They just followed their gut feeling about how to execute, and they did it with confidence. Mayb
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by ntoshev 18y ago
I know you are not attacking me, but I wish you were attacking my argument :) or author's arguments, for that matter :)
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by ntoshev 18y ago
To me it is not newsworthy because of who wrote it: the name of the author is just a predictor of quality. If the predictor is wrong in this particular case, tell me about it, and then I'll be willing to hear why it is wrong in general. He
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by ntoshev 18y ago
Maybe we pay attention because... they have interesting things to say? Why discuss an ad hominem argument here?
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by ntoshev 18y ago
There is fragmentation, but social capital also seems to change its manifestation. Communicating with your other friends via Facebook adds to social capital.
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by ntoshev 18y ago
It is not part of their recommended way to do things. They do not provide support and they may close this opportunity at any time, even involuntarily.
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by ntoshev 18y ago
It doesn't make sense to base your production system on a hack of your provider's platform. 64bit OS was the reason I ditched Slicehost too, although I knew about this hack.
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by ntoshev 18y ago
I like this! Can be circumvented, of course, but anything can, and the defaults matter.

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