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691.
by paul 18y ago
Patents are unreadable anyway, and in fact reading them is legally dangerous because then you may be knowingly infringing, which triggers triple damages, as I recall. The latest style is to use a mix of patents and trade secrets anyway, mea
692.
by paul 18y ago
That's unfortunate. Any idea why it's blocked? Do they block by hostname, or ip? You can try http://ff.im/e/0268007b-db20-4e2c-822f-7028a98016e4/How-long...
693.
by paul 18y ago
Not necessarily. The iPhone, for example, probably had very few users prior to launching. (though the handful of users that it did have, such as Steve Jobs, probably provided a lot of critical feedback)
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by paul 18y ago
Yes, I agree. Ship early and ship often, but understand that it probably won't be "good" for some time. Back when Microsoft shipped, the joke was that it took 3 versions to get any good at all (Windows being the perfect example).
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How long does it take to develop a "good" product?(friendfeed.com)
18 points by paul 18y ago|18 comments
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by paul 18y ago
Not really. FTP is an awful protocol, and as he mentions it doesn't really even have a spec. HTTP works quite well and has proven to be surprisingly flexible.
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by paul 18y ago
I had a script like this at Google. Every day it would email me all the changes to the employee db. I could see who was quitting, getting hired, changing titles, etc. It was very interesting, though I eventually had to filter out the people
698.
by paul 18y ago
FSM
699.
by paul 18y ago
Your concept of how Google works is way off. These blog posts are not off-the-cuff remarks by random employees -- a whole team of people put together that policy and statement as part of some other legal battle.
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by paul 18y ago
They are guilty of harming privacy, which is the topic here.
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by paul 18y ago
What exactly constitutes "personally identifiable" is a very complex issue -- almost anything can be personally identifiable with enough data processing or in combination with other data sources. The judge and Viacom are the guilty parties
702.
by paul 18y ago
The problem is with the law and the legal system. Not using Gmail, etc won't fix that problem. If you think your home computer is somehow safe, you are wrong.
703.
by paul 18y ago
I don't know all the specifics, but I doubt that was a "successful" exit.
704.
by paul 18y ago
Anything is possible, but so far the flying car and parallel programming startups have all failed :). (Moller and Peakstream come to mind)
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by paul 18y ago
If you could design and build a flying car that runs on tap water, that would be even better. Unfortunately, that's easier said than done. Competing with Intel, AMD, etc in the processor market is also not easy -- many have tried, and gener
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by paul 18y ago
Twitter is no harder to partition/shard than Google is. (your search is against the entire web, not just one part of it) Batching has nothing to do with this issue.
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by paul 18y ago
Parallel programming tools may make for interesting research, but that doesn't mean that it will be a good business. In general, tools startups haven't been terribly successful.
708.
by paul 18y ago
There are very few newspapers or magazines that don't rely on advertising revenue, why shouldn't websites? Advertising isn't something that was invented on the web.
709.
by paul 18y ago
How many 1.5 million user email systems have you operated? You don't just "throw up a few servers and be done with it."
710.
by paul 18y ago
His screenshot clearly shows that he's accessing Gmail over HTTP http://neosmart.net/blog/wp-content/uploads/gmailsecuritylea...
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by paul 18y ago
It sounds like a bad proxy cache is serving someone else's content to him. I'm just guessing, but I've seen it happen before (with both Gmail and FriendFeed).
712.
by paul 18y ago
Where would I see it? Disqus seems to be on half the blogs I read, but I've never even heard of haloscan. (or was your comment sarcastic?)
713.
by paul 18y ago
Guaranteed in what sense? I think I'd be pretty unhappy to get random invites over sms, actually.
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by paul 18y ago
Those other comment systems must be dominating in a very subtle way -- I've never once seen them. On the other hand, I encounter Disqus comments every day.
715.
by paul 18y ago
It depends how you count. If I send a tweet to 100 followers, is that 100 messages, or one? 3 million is low if the former, and high if the latter. I think Twitter does closer to 1M unique tweets per day.
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by paul 18y ago
Perhaps you've never used SMS? (or at least not in the US) They are frequently late or dropped. (and we pay $0.30/sms for the privilege)
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by paul 18y ago
I like both Javascript and jQuery. In what way is jQuery not "javascript"? To me, it feels as though jQuery really embraces js much more so than some other libs that try to pretend that it's java or some other lang.
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by paul 18y ago
Thinking of these things as "perks" is the first mistake. Is having a chair and a good computer a "perk"? For some jobs perhaps, but for people writing software they are a lot more important (though I'm sure someone will dispute that chairs
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by paul 18y ago
He's wrong though -- many of those things were around early on. Charlie (the chef) was hired in 1999, long before Google was the dominant anything. The notion that treating your employees well isn't "scalable" is nonsense.
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Damnit…FriendFeed Gets Even More Useful With An Interestingness Filter(techcrunch.com)
13 points by paul 18y ago|3 comments

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