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by pothibo 14y ago
I'm not sure what's the point comparing benchmarks this way. Choosing a database is not only about performance, it's about the type of application you are building, the stage it's in (prototype product doesn't have the same need as a produc
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by pothibo 14y ago
"Gonzalez stole real money, I'm sure causing many people a great deal of trouble and distress." I don't think I'll ever agree with this. I have seen this argument brought up times and times again and every time I feel that we miss the point
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by pothibo 14y ago
Yeah. Compare clicks on a WYSIWYG and LOC. Makes perfect sense.
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by pothibo 14y ago
I understand what you are saying. I do agree that Chef [and RightScale? Never used it) makes it easy to spawn new instances and through load balancing average your load. I was talking in term of tradeoff in the first few weeks of a new serv
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by pothibo 14y ago
That's why I like to use Heroku/EC-2 for launching new webservice. If shits hit the fan, you can jack up the processing power/database/RAM/whatever to scale to your demand. Once you have a good idea of the traffic it generates, you can then
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by pothibo 14y ago
I would submit to you that the reason why Apple is what it is today is because software & hardware are intertwined.
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by pothibo 14y ago
A few things that would get me excited: A geological proof that earth and Mars was the same body x million years ago. High concentration of oxygen or water in the soil. Fertile soil? I guess anything that would make human's visit to Mars le
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by pothibo 14y ago
I just read all the myths' title and none of them are the reason why I'm using Ruby on rails. You like asp.NET? Good on you. It probably has interesting concepts. I have a feeling that a large percentage of the people choosing a framework b
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by pothibo 14y ago
Are you referring to Morgan Freeman's comment as colorblindness?
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by pothibo 14y ago
Morgan Freeman nails it. Stop talking about it: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I3cGfrExozQ&feature=relat...
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by pothibo 14y ago
Shipping isn't a small task, and since it will only begins in a month, it's a fair assumption to think that they still have much to do. If the shipping was 50% done, I would agree but this isn't the case here
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by pothibo 14y ago
What scares me is that they are starting a new kickstarter project when they didn't even finish the first one. I was backing this project but just ask for refund. This actually makes me wonder: If one would want to scam Kickstarters, one co
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by pothibo 14y ago
Maybe you should build your house yourself while you're at it. Kickstarter is for people who wants to test their idea in a market.
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by pothibo 14y ago
Maybe for you, but the general public expect the same feature set. They can be presented in a different matter, but in the end they need to match. Look at the comment here, some people are complaining about lack of feature on the current ap
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by pothibo 14y ago
The main problem with native development is how you are not as flexible as your HTML counterpart. Even with the massive amount of capital that Facebook has, a full native app would always be behind. Obviously, I don't work at Facebook so I
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by pothibo 14y ago
Yeah, english isn't my primary language and I haven't spoken it in a long time so sorry if I can't make my point across :) I'm not ashamed for being wrong. If that'd be the case I would have been ashamed my whole life heh. When I said consi
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by pothibo 14y ago
I do have a question however. I just read about 8b/10b encoding and I think we can agree that 8b/10b has around 20-25% overhead. This means that for the same throughput (29k/sec) we have 21.75k/sec of data. Since TMDS is a superset of 8b10b
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by pothibo 14y ago
At first, I wouldn't have thought that they would use encoding to maximize efficiency. But now that I think about it, their goal isn't efficiency but rather consistency. So yeah I was wrong. Maybe I thought this was more primitive than what
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by pothibo 14y ago
We're not talking about your average data. We're talking about optimized data. Of course there's an overhead. EDIT: removed specific type of data
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by pothibo 14y ago
This kinda raises question. I for one would not use encryption just to maximize bandwith efficiency. Deep space program are no where close to being a tactical advantage over another country. I wouldn't see why someone would like to screw it
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by pothibo 14y ago
Accent in foreign language is a very complex thing. Germanic languages shared same tone. So I would agree that an english speaker could _manage_ the german accent and vice-versa. The #1 problem with accent is that in order to master a forei
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by pothibo 14y ago
I'm always irritated when people talk about how good they are in [xyz] language. Here in Québec City, I hear all the time how this person is fluent in english and everything. I spent 1 year in New Zealand when I was 17, I learned the langua
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by pothibo 15y ago
Pissing contest?
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by pothibo 15y ago
If you consider the conclusion of this post, it means that indie game developers that create a 1-hitter over 10 years of hard labor to finally end up being acquired and rich is a waste of time. And I'm fine with that conclusion
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by pothibo 15y ago
I fully agree with Youtube faking data. However, I reckon they are faking a bit too much. Many times I would see 2000 likes and the video having 1700 views (Viral videos that is). I knew the view counter wasn't propagated but the likes were
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by pothibo 15y ago
What a stupid statement. I'm nowhere close of being a hispter but this remark is so stupid and useless that I don't understand how you had the guts to press Enter
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by pothibo 15y ago
Alright, so whenever we bring up fact to you, they fall under "suppression" facts while yours are indisputable. Clever reasoning, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fallacy
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by pothibo 15y ago
You might want to read a bit about the Federal Reserve Bank system: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federal_Reserve_System To quote: "The U.S. Government receives all of the system's annual profits, after a statutory dividend of 6% on member
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by pothibo 15y ago
For Facebook, it shows Joe Hewitt. I know he created Three20 but he isn't at Facebook anymore.
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by pothibo 15y ago
Also, for all those minutes used, how many of them are used by Facebook, Maps, and other service that started has a web service first

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