powertower

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by powertower 16y ago
I think "innovation" and "creativity" are mostly empty terms used for marketing purposes and to boost one's image / feed the ego. Show me a "disruptive" business (google, facebook, etc) and I'll show you 10 that came before it. This method
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by powertower 16y ago
Assuming that the average computer user in those days (and even today) was capable of navigating to the cd drive letter, entering it, and double-clicking "setup.exe", "install.exe", or "app.exe" - via some type of an understanding of what t
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by powertower 16y ago
"copying" and "making use of" are not the same thing. Again, I don't see why it's an issue for Bing to analyze and make use of the behavior of Bing toolbar users that opted in. So what if their Google search behavior holds good weight as a
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by powertower 16y ago
I seem to be the only one that keeps scratching his head thinking ... what is the problem here? I have no issue whatsoever with Bing analyzing the data sent by opt-in users that is further processed to help increase its search relevancy r
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by powertower 16y ago
I started getting excited but then quickly realized that if I had to read a sci-fi novel about coding (or maintaining a codebase) I would throw up. I spend my days coding.
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by powertower 16y ago
From the author's text: > My app has a sharing feature: if you like the app, you can email your friends about it. Unless your software product has something similar (and is also priced low, and is also installed via something like an ap
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by powertower 16y ago
I went to an engineering school that is ranked high in that department. Many will disagree with me on this point, but I truly believe that "college education" is a scam. College was sold to me on the premises that 1) I would be taught my jo
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by powertower 16y ago
From my own experience building server and desktop applications (with C# & .NET) I've found that the codebase, the user/dev API, and the UI have to be built and evolved together ... as all three are dependent on each other in ways that
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by powertower 16y ago
My understanding is that peering agreements are usually done on a 1:1 to a 1:2 ratio. "Peering" is considered no-charge ... both parties are "partners". Anything else is considered transit and one party becomes a "customer". If L3 is now 5x
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by powertower 16y ago
Comcast is not filtering traffic. They are "peering" their servers with L3 servers at the datacenter to bypass regular networks. "Peering" is when you basically interconnect the servers directly (more or less). This saves on costs greatly a
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by powertower 16y ago
Another benchmark source... http://www.yiiframework.com/performance/ Take with a grain of salt.
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by powertower 16y ago
This is a good example of how projects turn out that are outsourced and get billed by a lines-of-code metric. (just as an example ... I'm aware that this is not the case here)