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by prosa 16y ago
Did anyone else notice the that the chart, "Do People Love or Hate their Version Control System?" was horribly misleading? CVS gets 3.5 hearts, and SVN gets nearly 4. Meanwhile, far below on the page: "Only 11% of Subversion users sai
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by prosa 16y ago
The way uncapped convertible debt works, there is no valuation when the investment is made. That means that, when the agreement is inked, the investor can only guess at how much equity they are purchasing. Typically when the next round of
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by prosa 16y ago
I know the HN community has mixed feelings (at best) about Mahalo, but definitely watch the video! When I saw Mahalo in the title I almost skipped the article completely, but Jason provides a solid dissection of his company's evolution and
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by prosa 16y ago
Can you point us toward data that backs up your point that "the scalability story is more or less false"? Seems like FUD. There are several well-documented, major production deployments of MongoDB already, that seem to contradict your asse
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by prosa 16y ago
Aren't micro instances $15/month? (Plus EBS backing, unless you want to lose your DB on reboot.) Regardless, it's added complexity that you can avoid with MySQL early in your application's lifecycle. Even if it's not much more expensive,
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by prosa 16y ago
This is exciting. MongoDB (and the suite of libraries building up around it) has made prototyping web applications an order of magnitude easier than using SQL. Lack of single-server durability, however, is a showstopper in production, bef
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by prosa 16y ago
If you're wondering whether the story is true or not, it appears to be. All of the relevant facts are present in John Howland's (heavily cited) Wikipedia article. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Howland
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by prosa 16y ago
It's worth noting that the quoted "$0.50 a month" only applies for the first year, after which it will cost $0.02 an hour or ~$15 a month.
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by prosa 16y ago
Surely you could implement this search in at least O(n) time?
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by prosa 16y ago
Would you be willing to work 50% fewer hours, for 50% less pay? Most employers are willing to soak up the waste, in order to have access to their staff throughout the work day. And most employees are eager to get the extra pay, even if the
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by prosa 16y ago
Am I the only one who was surprised at how low that number was?
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by prosa 16y ago
OOC, did you draw this by hand, or is there an ASCII art chart maker out there?
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by prosa 16y ago
Can anyone track down a non-paywalled story?
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On Luck and Entrepreneurship(paul.rosania.org)
1 points by prosa 16y ago|1 comments
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by prosa 16y ago
I think that was just a poor choice of words. They mean proprietary in the sense of "we built one ourselves". You can download source from the links at the bottom of the page: http://www.returninfinity.com/pure64.html
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by prosa 16y ago
Come to think of it, the survivors are probably stuck on an island, lost in time. Someday they will be saved, and will return to society. This will seem like a cherished moment, but they will soon come to realize that they truly belong ba
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by prosa 16y ago
My thoughts exactly. I actually wasted a few minutes reading the story thinking there must be more nuance. The mention of "maneuvering erratically" and taking off without headlights seems to further advance the simplest explanation... but
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How I Use 'screen' (the Terminal Multiplexer)(jrmiii.com)
1 points by prosa 16y ago|0 comments
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One Sign That You've Made It: Money Looks for You(domainshane.com)
3 points by prosa 16y ago|0 comments
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Creating a "TheFunded" for Angel Investors(paul.rosania.org)
2 points by prosa 16y ago|0 comments
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How Ruby's Arrays Are Implemented(drmcawesome.com)
2 points by prosa 16y ago|0 comments
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by prosa 16y ago
Linkbait title, but I agree with the sentiment. It's the same phenomenon that occurs in the real world. Artists, entrepreneurs and other creatives create interesting cultural centers in low-rent areas, which leads to "trendiness" and gent
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Quick Hack to Make Your Boss (and you) More Productive(bothsidesofthetable.com)
38 points by prosa 16y ago|10 comments
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Hindenburg Omen (Occurred Twice this Month)(en.wikipedia.org)
40 points by prosa 16y ago|19 comments
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by prosa 16y ago
That's an interesting perspective. I would state it somewhat differently, though. I think Wave solved too many problems simultaneously, making it overly complex in some ways and hiding its true utility in others.
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by prosa 16y ago
All the protocols were open-sourced as part of the initiative. I think they envisioned a world in which inside-the-wall installations existed in the same way the companies have Exchange servers today.
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by prosa 16y ago
Given the "this is the future of communication" fanfare, I think some of us expected it to be a long term play.
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by prosa 16y ago
This is depressing to me. The interface still left a lot to be desired, but I was using it very successfully at my startup to collaborate on documents and interact with coworkers. It never experienced the explosive growth they were hoping
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Google Ceasing Development of Google Wave(techcrunch.com)
51 points by prosa 16y ago|8 comments
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Lessons Learned in Hiring(evanalyze.com)
2 points by prosa 16y ago|0 comments

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