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by owyn 16y ago
The SOP is definitely to get away with anything until you get caught but everyone was looking at what everyone else was doing as an example of what could be done. I worked (past tense) for a much smaller FB game company. The two complianc
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by owyn 16y ago
Kudos. The presentation is pretty good. I've had a similar idea rattling around in my head for a few years, but haven't had the time to build it... There's a major problem with all these sites that has yet to be solved. What that is is le
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by owyn 16y ago
A former employer (and this is one of the many reasons I don't work there any more) was well aware of this and took advantage of it all the time. Just to give one example, their 404 error was a page of ads...
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by owyn 16y ago
Cool idea. I think it should block for a day, then automatically unblock...
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by owyn 16y ago
Old school! Back in the 90's I worked with someone who still used NEWS as his desktop window manager (it was written in postscript...)
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by owyn 16y ago
I'm sure they use a CDN for delivery of the flash assets. The flash is still most likely updated several times a day. We used to batch commands in the client and submit every 6 seconds. It was still a crazy number of writes, because basic
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by owyn 16y ago
Thanks for the link, this was a great read!
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by owyn 16y ago
FWIW, I don't use zipcar, but this blog post is 18 months old... The plural of anecdote is not research.
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by owyn 16y ago
Yeah, srsly. Decent indie effort but check out the Epic Citadel iphone demo for what can be done on a small scale and ANY pc game made in the last year or so for what can be done by a real game developer for real customers who actually spen
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by owyn 16y ago
It was no fun when I REALLY learned how to program, it was pure panic. I was half way through a CS degree and got a summer job, and I just had get it done no matter what so I beat my head against the problems and solved them. After that,
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by owyn 16y ago
That's a great story. I'm not sure how many people can say they got a hard sell like that from both Bill Gates and Steve Jobs for one piece of software...
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by owyn 16y ago
And if you are on a mac, you can do something like this instead of the xdotool line: silent !osascript ~/.vim/refresh.scpt Where refresh.scpt looks like this: tell application "Safari" activate set rURL to URL of current tab of front
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by owyn 16y ago
I stumbled across this paper a while ago on HN and found it interesting: http://www.cs.bham.ac.uk/~wbl/biblio/gp-html/Dempster_2000_Q...
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by owyn 16y ago
Indeed. The title should probably be "better measurements prove Einstein is still right", but that's not link-bait.
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by owyn 16y ago
These guys have a startup that is exploring this area: http://www.supercoolschool.com/
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by owyn 16y ago
I haven't watched the talk yet, but it's quite possible that having more sysadmins is what allows them to use 40 servers. One guy might have needed 80 servers to accomplish the same work because he's too busy to optimize anything. :)
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by owyn 16y ago
i think that's a new record. flame war from the first post.
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by owyn 16y ago
The redis source code is very nice to look at. And it compiles without configure, just make...
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by owyn 17y ago
Good find. Relevance ++! This will be good reading on the bus tomorrow as I ride off to the coding salt mines (where crappy programmers go to die).
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by owyn 17y ago
My comments were mostly "meta". There has been a rash of entrepreneur bs here lately and I'm sick of it. I much prefer the NoSQL posts. However. To get to the meat of your post, I have personally (meaning, in my personal life) encounter
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by owyn 17y ago
hahaha. touche. :)
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by owyn 17y ago
If financial success isn't your goal in doing what you do then I'm wrong and I apologize. My career is about code. My life "beyond it" is not about "business" and it's quite happy, thank you very much. That's the last thing I care about
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by owyn 17y ago
Yeah. I am tired of the get rich quick crowd. The best way to get rich on the internet is to sell 'how to get rich on the internet' advice to people who want to get rich on the internet. I've been a software developer at internet startups
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by owyn 17y ago
I'm only 35, and I have grey hair. Crap!
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by owyn 17y ago
"(EC2 is basically a really complicated way of charging for electricity.)" That's the takeaway. I do agree with this basic premise though. That said, it's not just charging for electricity, but electricity + profit for them. I do think it
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by owyn 17y ago
I was a CS major but I didn't _really_ learn how to write code until I got a job at a dot com startup in the mid 90's. I think school seemed too easy, and I didn't work that hard to get decent grades, although now I regret not taking advan
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by owyn 17y ago
just wanted to say: porcupine tree++. i do listen to a lot of post rock (mogwai of course, kinski, explosions in the sky, and post-metal like isis, neurosis, cult of luna). i'm probably one of the rare developers who listens to a lot of de
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by owyn 17y ago
No info here. Just a random assortment of pop culture references. Don't bother. I think this article was written by an artificial stupidity (aka, a random article generator).
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by owyn 17y ago
Oh man. I'm so glad I am still up and drunk posting on HN at midnight. Hold on! So... the (sexy) lead-in is that some performer thought her "career" in the porn industry would last forever. Ha. Enough said about that. Sad but not really
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by owyn 17y ago
To summarize for those who have less spare time than I: Some firefox developer had a Very Bad (tm) idea to seed a random number generator by scanning the Windows Temp folders, which is now causing a 30 secs to over a minute pause in start u

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