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   by pdq 12y ago

   Howard Chu, the author of LMDB, gave a great presentation on LMDB: http://parleys.com/play/517f58f9e4b0c6dcd95464ae/chapter0/ab... He can also rock the violin.
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   How To Kill The Feature Creep Monster: Launch And Sell Early(blog.close.io)

   2 points by pdq 12y ago|0 comments
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   by pdq 12y ago

   It is protectionism for the dealerships. Historically Dealerships were mom and pop shops up in less-populated towns, employing a decent number of people. So they lobby the government that unless you protect us from the dealers, they will u
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   by pdq 12y ago

   Actually Tesla would have to pay you to own the stock, since they lost money (negative earnings).
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   by pdq 12y ago

   The other part that virtually no one talks about is how this would be regulated. Are we going to have "internet inspectors" from the FCC doing periodic surprise checks of every ISP? Will ISPs be required to have a neutrality lic
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   by pdq 12y ago

   I highly recommend investing in a decent pair of earphones or headphones. These will knock out a very high percentage of the ambient noise and let you concentrate almost as well as a quiet office.
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   by pdq 12y ago

   Rob Pike used coroutines for the Go Template implementation, instead of a standard lexer/parser: Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HxaD_trXwRE Slides: http://cuddle.googlecode.com/hg/talk&#x
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   by pdq 12y ago

   Have a look at Sentry: https://getsentry.com For more enterprise solutions, New Relic: http://newrelic.com
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   by pdq 12y ago

   When most merchants take bitcoin for a purchase, they immediately sell for dollars. This is ignoring the other side of the equation. For someone to spend bitcoins, they had to have bought them for cash. Bitcoin has declined late
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    by pdq 12y ago

    The purpose of the deposit is to prove the customer actually will buy the product. This binds both parties to the transaction, whereas just agreeing to "if you build it we will buy" has no binding. The refund policy is mostly for
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    How To Charge Money For Things That Don't Exist Yet(blog.close.io)

    2 points by pdq 12y ago|4 comments
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    by pdq 12y ago

    Well said. My biggest problem with ORMs in the past boils down to them being "leaky abstractions". They work fine for simple create/update/deletes, but get into trouble with foreign keys, indexes, "group by",
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    by pdq 12y ago

    Google made more profits last year than Amazon has made in its history. They have scaled well and are in a high margin business, and Amazon is not. It's just that simple.
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    by pdq 12y ago

    Thanks, fixed. 0.3% is hardly a profit. Anyone can make more money holding CD's.
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    by pdq 12y ago

    Amazon is mature as well; maybe not as mature, but 20 years is an old company. And Walmart has been making profits for decades, while their revenue has grown dramatically, and while they have been building extremely expensive stores and wa
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    by pdq 12y ago

    http://finance.yahoo.com/q/is?s=AMZN+Income+Statement&annual Year Revenue Net Profit % --------------------------------- 2013 $74B $275MM 0.3% 2012 $61B $-39MM -0.6% 2011 $48B
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    by pdq 12y ago

    > I don't really follow your logic. The point isn't to 'earn money' now. It is to build the economies of scale, over time, so that no one else can hope to compete with them on price in the future. That is when the mon
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    by pdq 12y ago

    Good list, but it hasn't been updated in a year.
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    by pdq 12y ago

    My favorite example of a solopreneur game development is Chris Sawyer writing RollerCoaster Tycoon in x86 assembly language in 1999 [1]. The game series (along with Transport Tycoon) sold an estimated $180 million worth of copies. [1] http
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    by pdq 12y ago

    Unfortunately that's more of a defense of YC's funding of the Immunity Project than a defense of the Immunity Project itself.
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    by pdq 12y ago

    Here's the Go 1.3 Release Notes: http://tip.golang.org/doc/go1.3
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    by pdq 12y ago

    The CSS looks pretty, except the landing page is a terrible UI. Tip: click the dots in the center of the page to see what's trending.
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    by pdq 12y ago

    This is excellent: GCC 4.9 provides a complete implementation of the Go 1.2.1 release.
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    Find the Integer Bug(blog.regehr.org)

    1 points by pdq 12y ago|0 comments
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    by pdq 13y ago

    For history, UVM (the Universal Verification Methodology -- gee that's original) is basically the same as OVM, which was a SystemVerilog port of eRM (aka Specman). VMM is the SystemVerilog equivalent of RVM (from Vera). I loved workin
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    by pdq 13y ago

    It's based on survival. If you have survived two years, there's a much better chance you will survive for the next two years, than the chance of two additional years of survival after only the first 6 months. The longer you have
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    by pdq 13y ago

    Winner. Thank you. I also found more links at: http://www.jwz.org/blog/2011/01/cathode-vintage-terminal-emu...
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    by pdq 13y ago

    Any idea what app or library they used to make the retro green-screen terminal video?
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    by pdq 13y ago

    Here is DigitalOcean's $5/month plan: CPU model: QEMU Virtual CPU version 1.0 Number of cores: 1 CPU frequency: 2299.998 MHz Total amount of RAM: 491 MB Total amount of swap: 0 MB System uptime: 276 days, 5:04,
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    by pdq 13y ago

    Here's a competitor: http://url2png.com