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by paulftw 10y ago
One forum post, nine different sentences saying the same thing: "Comodo invented 90 day free certificate". To me this sounds quite similar to the ownership of the rectangle with rounded corners (I am actually not sure whose side I
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by paulftw 10y ago
Think how you would do that with session cookies - you either issue a fresh cookie or ask for login/password. Same with JWT - your client-server API wrapper can add a renewed token to a response when needed. There are many other reason
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by paulftw 10y ago
Amazon has Echo, Google has Nest and now Home. What could Apple's Project Titan be if not a smart home device?
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by paulftw 10y ago
I think median Software Engineer Salary also followed hockey stick graph over last couple of years, as well as CA real estate prices, so it isn't that clear that Apple grew headcount at all. When iPhone came out there was no app store
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by paulftw 10y ago
A year ago one of the reasons to leave Python was poor MongoDB & JSON support, 12 months later the same author complains about the lack of a decent SQL ORM library in js <scratching my head/> while JS is far from perfect, his
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by paulftw 11y ago
Sergey got bored with his new robot toy and chucked it into the same bin as google glass, wave, internet balloon and some other stuff that got cancelled before public announcement.
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by paulftw 11y ago
Cloudflare does that when you are hitting it from a suspicious VPN IP address. There may be other reasons why it doesn't like your IP.
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by paulftw 11y ago
So it's 125 million SQL queries or 6 million page loads per machine per day. It also seems like average query is 1.2ms - am I missing something?
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by paulftw 11y ago
speaking of web design - did smartphones ruin that blog's design?
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by paulftw 11y ago
Most of these reasons can be applied to modern cars, apartment complexes, smart TVs, etc. Title should be "why I don't like this century"
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by paulftw 11y ago
He was CTO, why would infrastructure guy ever be held responsible for poor overall performance? It's not rocket science, nor F1 team
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by paulftw 11y ago
Twitter - where most of these rejected people ended up?..
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by paulftw 11y ago
> Perhaps they get around that valuation with 100M/year in patent licensing. Patents expire after 25 years, so at 100M p.a. deal for investors is spend 1B to get $2.5B back, two decades later. I'm not sure that even beats fixed
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by paulftw 11y ago
Make a payment to see "we are fully booked till next year"? I think using callbacks to trigger stripe's checkout.js is not that hard, unless you hate your users.
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by paulftw 11y ago
maybe a camera drone would see the one in front as an obstacle and constantly try to turn away from it :)
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by paulftw 11y ago
So they expected major frameworks to switch to an unfinished spec without a clear ETA for approval and that didn't work out? I think this is a major blow to web performance. We are bound to perform O(every object on page) computations
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by paulftw 11y ago
Dude! Do you really think that KS is a quick and easy pile of cash, or let alone has anything to do with freedom? Have you talked to anyone who got funded that way, or maybe read a postmortem on a failed hardware campaign?
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by paulftw 11y ago
After I stopped using Windows I've revisited my definition of "works well". Not trying to troll or bash Microsoft here and perhaps you have strong reasons to stay on it, but sometimes people try to treat symptom not the probl
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by paulftw 11y ago
That's a shame. Hammer is an awesome little lib, I think I started using it back in 2013, have only good things to say about it.
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by paulftw 11y ago
> didn't help them one iota but caused a lot of fire. Yes, I was referring to the relationship with customers. The result would likely be the same, but it wouldn't end with personal attacks and attempts to uncover a fraud.
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by paulftw 11y ago
Very vocal minority makes all backers seem mad and aggressive, basically a couple of trolls set the tone. maybe if everyone who felt the other way would be as proactive in expressing their opinions to founders it would change at least the
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by paulftw 11y ago
Did you notice how things went downhill once they entered the stealth mode? What kind of startup consultant would suggest that and for what reason?
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by paulftw 12y ago
"Move fast and break things", there's no time for deep thoughts and too much uncertainty for carefully planned architectures.
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by paulftw 12y ago
Good to see microsoft products on top of at least one comparison against opensource alternatives.
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by paulftw 12y ago
PHP was also very easy to understand. Maybe sometimes, as a professional you have to spend few weeks grasping a complex paradigm, if that is going to boost your productivity for a couple of years afterwards.
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by paulftw 12y ago
OK, so they've analyzed 4.9 million moves. How many double blunders did they find in the set? If the hypothesis of independent events is true there should be about (4.9e6 / 10,000) = 490 doubles in the data set. An obvious way to
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by paulftw 12y ago
While not sure about this particular business model, it is the first good use case for container hotel rooms I've ever seen. Standardized rooms all over the world, run as a network of independent providers adhering to the international
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by paulftw 12y ago
Great idea, but all the marketing speak on the landing page just didn't make sense to me. Things immediately fell into places when I saw the diagram in the"About" page. Pushpin is a proxy server that adds websockets to existi
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by paulftw 12y ago
Suppose you got $40-100k from one of the dozens of accelerators and the cost of running an online business shrinks every year. Is your next raise still counted as seed or series A? Are successful kickstarter campaigns counted as seed deals?
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by paulftw 12y ago
I didn't know that. Is that a law, or just the way it's currently done?

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